Food Aversion

[gonnabeamom]

It's not just that I am am nauseous, though I am, it's that I don't like hearing about, thinking about or choosing food.

Eating it is a toss up. I can usually eat okay if I can get myself in front of something, but sometimes I almost have to force myself.

Thanks godess everything stays down, because the idea of having to replace things that didn't is too much to bear.

My food aversion is general, no food so far does it more than any other food. However it does seem to leave me more vunerable to cravings-not because I have any strong desire to have something, but because if it doesn't sound repulsive in it goes. So not only chocolate, but jelly beans, tootsie rolls in candy jars, and I want ice cream alot-which I do't eat because I don't do dairy or tolerate cold well. I've had more potato chis is 3 weeks than the 3 months previous. I was such a careful eater when TTC!

Anybody else going through this./

[jecaly]

um. yes.

basically, though, if it isn't green or too herby and has some kind of substance to it, i can eat it. in my normal life i eat pretty well, lots of salads and saute greens, whole carbs, etc. right now, i'm mostly subsisting on bread and cheese and meat and sweet potatoes. i have a superfood or other green drink occasionally to get something green in me, but every time i try to eat a salad, or spinach, or broccoli, i have to force it down and then i feel awful later. i figure there's a reason, and that i just need to hang on until the normal appetite returns.

between that and my rapidly changing body, it takes some getting used to! i just keep checking in to see if vegetables and fish sound good yet, and i loaded up with green stuff at the beginning of this process, knowing this part was coming, so--i guess this is what the creature needs. go figure.

to complicate matters, i have to eat about every 2 hours, and not too much, or i'll suffer for it. it makes for an existence consisting almost solely of the constant thought: "what can i eat now?"

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[gonnabeamom]

I think I'd be much better off if I did eat every two hours. If I was an organized person I'd be getting up in the mornings, and fixing 4 or five things during the brief period when I can think about food without being revolted.

I'm not. So each time I know it would be a good time to eat, I have to push past the yuck, and find something to eat. Usually whatever I have to think about least.

[AmandasMom]

Apples are the only thing I can eat and keep down at this point. Everything smells so bad, inside and outside, I try not to even go near the kitchen.

[stanya]

I'm having a hard time with the food thing too. Was eating well just weeks ago. Now I mainly want oranges and salad, greek to be specific. I wish I could handle more protein, but all the meats and fishes and poultry gross me out. This is a cruel irony, since I hear that protein crubs nausea, and that the reason I'm craving oranges and sweets is possibly because my body is really craving protein. Trying not to worry too much... but definately frustrated!

[Seeking Refuge]

It is weird, I was eating well for awhile and now nothing sounds good. I am too tired to think about food and things that tasted so good to me a week or two ago don't even tempt me right now.

What is wrong with us?

[momsgotmilk4two]

yes, I've been having that too! Nothing greasy sounds good to me, and by 4pm NOTHING sounds good. The thought of food just makes me naseous. I do eat because I'm hungry and it all stays down, but it doesn't taste as good as it usually would. In the afternoons on the other hand, I can't stay away from the candy I did so well on WW losing 30lbs and I'm worried about sabotaging myself with all of this candy. I really need to be more careful.

[babycarrier]

Anyone know what my body might be craving that would be healthy for me? All I want are sweets. And I'm doing a pretty ok job in not giving in too often but I always want something sweet.

[laurata]

farmlife3, could you be needing more protein? I've read that sweets cravings can mask a protein deficiency.

[gonnabeamom]

I've heard the same thing about the protein sweets craving thing. Sweets is your body saying I need energy now!! Which theorectically if you had eaten protein your blood sugar wouldn't spike.

Non-animal proteins for those currently grossed out by animal protein-soy milk, hummus, or garbanzo beans sprinked on salads, peanut butter and cheese. I also like some of the season tofus you can get at Whole Paycheck.

I gotta get organized and make my food choices during the brief period in the morning when I'm not sick.

[Seeking Refuge]

You can also try those soy protein powders. I know they aren't the most natural thing but they really do help. I make a smoothy out of some rice milk, soy powder, rasberries, and a tablespoon of wheat germ that I was drinking before I got really sick and it did help before I got too sick to choke them down. I suppose I just need to force myself to do it.

[Friendlymama]

Can't stand sweets!

It blows me away how different this pregnancy is from my first. I loved sweets and ate them regularly, especially baked goods. But not this time. Starches and carbs, I like. But not sweet stuff.

[MonkeyPrincess]

Oh, me too! Celery, green peppers and apples I know I can eat. But I could just gag (and I do!) eating anything else!

Although, I just read in someone else's post they can eat sweet potatoes, and that sounds kinda good...