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Off my food - what do you eat?

19 replies

Topofthehills · 13/01/2019 17:53

I'm 7+2 (and saw the heartbeat on an early scan today!).

I've not actually been sick, but the nausea is tough. I've been transformed from a foodie into someone who has to be reminded to eat. I just don't fancy anything, and don't feel hungry. Things like cheese and eggs just turn my stomach.

I've lost a couple of pounds, and I'm determined to try to eat better. What are some good foods to try? What has worked for you?

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Endofrelationship · 13/01/2019 17:56

I ate when I fancied and what I fancied. Which was very little. I lost a stone between week 7 and 20 but regained it after that. Baby takes what they need.

mynameiscalypso · 13/01/2019 17:59

I know what you mean totally. The nausea is relentless. I don't really fancy eating anything but bland carbs seem to be the easiest to cope with (bread/pasta etc). I was trying to be healthy last night with some roasted cauliflower and broccoli and it was a struggle. I'm just going with it for now - yoghurt and granola is a staple plus bread. I've pretty much gone off chocolate but biscuits and the occasional ice lolly seem to be okay. Eating does make me feel better though so trying to do it regularly.

Blackboot · 13/01/2019 18:00

I pretty much survived on white toast and folic acid tablets for a few weeks.

lljkk · 13/01/2019 18:00

chocolate, certain flavours of crisps, soda. The few things that stayed down. Turned out I went lactose intolerant so had to avoid all those foods until 7months. garlicky foods (humus, avocado) were good in 3/4 pregnancies but disaster in other one. Pffft. I kind of gave up eating, if I'm honest.

burritofan · 13/01/2019 18:06

I ate whatever I could cope with and left the nutrition to my prenatal vitamin. Things that were good for me were reconstituted potato crisps rather than real ones (think plain Hula Hoops, Pringles, Skips, etc), toast, McDonald's hamburgers daily for about two weeks then I went off them, Coco-Pops, macaroni cheese.

I threw up until 22 weeks and could not handle fruit, veg, fish, home-cooked proper food, yoghurt, anything. I would google other people's food lists and eat whatever on there sounded good.

Chocolate45 · 13/01/2019 18:09

Just eat what you want when you want. I lost two stone and I am yet to put much of it back on. The baby will get what they need, don’t worry. Just ensure you drink loads of water. I’m only just getting my appetite back at 17 weeks and there’s still days I don’t feel like anything. I found plain toast and berry’s to be my go to foods. On good days I’d manage a ham sandwich. Cereal was a saviour too. It does eventually pass.

Topofthehills · 13/01/2019 18:11

Thanks everyone, it does help to hear from you, and get some food ideas. Quite fancy some hula-hoops now...

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Sunny1990 · 13/01/2019 18:15

From being a proper foodie with a home cooked meal every night and a really balanced diet, I never thought I’d spend 3 months living off beige, but it’s all I could eat 🙈 It has worn off though, I promise.

I had a lot of toast, crumpets, I could handle beans, biscuits, cereal, fresh juices...I think that was about it.

I hope you’re feeling better soon, it really is horrible!

Notquiteagandt · 13/01/2019 18:16

I have hyperemesis so still struggle to keep food down at 34wk.

I have survived on soup, mash&gravey, jelly, ice cream, cereal, cucumber and melon to get fluids in me.

They are my safe foods.

Tiredismymiddlename85 · 13/01/2019 18:20

All I fancied at this point was pasta or chips (chippy chips). Just go with it as your appetite will return.

Bakingabean · 13/01/2019 20:20

I'm a foodie too and I completely went off most things! I'm 11 and a bit weeks now and I'm just starting to want to eat proper food. Still struggling with green (broccoli etc) foods but for the last 2 days I've actually not felt nauseous thinking about food. Just made and eaten a lasagne- bliss!

Foods that I managed for 8 weeks-Bagels and Philadelphia, Ham sandwiches (supermarket shite ones) Rice, Cereal and milk or yogurt
Satsumas and the odd apple.

I hoping that this is the start of the end of the nausea! So it does pass, but as others have said eat what and when you want and make sure you take folic acid/vitamins. Hope you feel better soon!

Topofthehills · 13/01/2019 20:49

@bakingabean
Thanks! Congrats on your lasagne!

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Dimsumlosesum · 13/01/2019 20:54

I could barely eat anything with any of my pregnancies. Never had the food cravings people talk about. The first thing I could mnageto eat a whole portion of with the first was nachos. Otherwise it was just thin soups for all three pregnancies for most of it.

Hollypink · 13/01/2019 20:58

I lost a lot of weight when pregnant and still have a 8lb 10 baby Grin I lived off blueberry muffins and milk just picked at every meal I had for 9 months. Congratulations good luck with everything

Babymamamama · 13/01/2019 21:00

I could only eat things that were white at your stage of pregnancy. So just soft white rolls with sliced chicken. And glass of milk. That was it.

Tiredismymiddlename85 · 13/01/2019 21:08

@Bakingabean - Philadelphia sandwiches were my work staple during the first 20 odd weeks!

Spargle · 13/01/2019 23:12

The word “beige” makes me feel ill now, after a few weeks only eating food which could be described thus!

I would recommend half a chicken (or maybe vegetable) stock cube dissolved in boiling water, for when you have to eat, but can’t stomach anything. Chicken cup-a-soup (I’m on Heinz) is a step up from this - when you can manage a tiny bit of food. Or you can microwave rice noodles in stock cube water.

Tinned fruit, such as pears or maybe peaches, can be tolerable.

Cheap vanilla ice cream, or sorbet, can be good.

I had some success with peppers and cucumber dipped in hummus (not the caramelised onion one!!).

Cheese triangles on crispbread got me through some difficult times. As did plain crackers. I also really fancied some Primula, but the urge left me between deciding this and obtaining it.

I have given myself some rules (now that I can eat more normally, I’m being a bit more relaxed about them, but still applying them loosely). If I felt like eating a thing I was allowed to eat, and it was possible to obtain that food, I would obtain it and eat it, even if it was expensive. If I felt like stopping eating a food, or didn’t feel like starting it, I didn’t eat it, even if this meant food was wasted. DH is very good at letting me steal food from his plate (chips, mostly), and eating the food I can’t manage, which was incredibly helpful when this was at its worst.

He’s also been amazing at preparing me food at a moment’s notice (and, one time, preparing exactly the same food a second time, but somehow with different water, from the same tap, because the water tasted wrong and I couldn’t consume the food he’d just gone out of his way to prepare. I’d recommend having a husband like mine!)

Mrsmummy90 · 13/01/2019 23:36

In my last pregnancy I mostly ate pasta as I couldn't keep anything down.
In this one, I can eat most things but have totally gone off beef, hot drinks, chocolate and cakes.
I've lost 9lbs!

Lexyness · 14/01/2019 15:00

Glad it’s not just me! I literally don’t fancy anything and yet I also seem to need to eat something every 2 hours or the nausea is far worse! Gone off chocolate 😱 and can’t bare coffee which I’m convinced is making me even more exhausted as I’m usually a coffee lover! However by the time it comes to evening meal I feel full 🙈
I still seem to have piled the pounds on though 😢

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