This because I am endlessly starving and my solution was to eat cookies. And, muffins. And, brownies. Yummy. So, even though breastfeeding is said to make the pounds melt off, my weight had started to creep up and up again. I was nearing what I weighed when Lily was born. The advice given by other women in the same situation was to cut out the grains and sugar. Forget that!
Eventually, I got a cavity (from all the nights of choosing to fall asleep with the baby instead of uncomfortably making time to brush multiple times per day) and decided that while I was waiting for my appointment, I was going to try to heal my tooth a little. That would require me to stop feeding the bacteria with grains, sugar, and starches. This as well as reinstating a couple of supplements and foods into my diet, such as vitamin D and bone broth.
So, I stopped eating as much grain and sugar at the beginning of the week. The weight has already started to come off a little bit, which is good. We don't want it to come off too fast while breastfeeding, as I've read that can lead to toxins entering the breastmilk. I am still grumbling about not getting to eat that brownie I really want. Grumble. Grumble. Grumble. I had the idea today to look up some paleo recipes for desserts, because those should be low in sugar and made with whole foods.
An unintended effect of cutting back on the grains and sugar is that inflammation in my hip aggrivated by cosleeping has completely disappeared.
It's better that I don't eat as much grain. It's so difficult to get non-GMO corn anymore, and wheat is up there with GMO junk. And, I was kidding myself that cane sugar was good for me. In reality, ODing on sugar in any form isn't good. While it's better than HFCS, I've read studies that found that lots of cane sugar can also lead to long term health problems.
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