So! Its been a while. I didn't kick my chocolate habit and my other junk food habit until now. My gall bladder was telling me it wasn't very happy with me, I would get the shakes of a night time, and feel sick and usually have some sort of a tummy upset that woke me after I went to sleep.
So I knew what to do. It happened last pregnancy and I was kind of expecting it. Reduce my fat intake.
So all chocolate has gone. All good fats - gone (nuts, coconut oil, avocado etc).
I'm coping ok. The kids haven't noticed any different really, and I've been trying to eat low fat on the cheap as well so we are having baked beans once a week instead of every second or third week. I have kanga bangas instead of normal sausages. I compared the fat in a kanga banga the other night for Elf Man - I can have 2.5 kanga bangas for 2.5g of fat. I could have two normal beef sausages from woolies for 29.4g of fat. My daily intake has to be under 30 to keep it under control, the lower the better.
Tonight the kids wanted hot dogs. I could have hot dogs and have 16g of fat with just the hot dog, plus extra for cheese. So I've ended up with vegetarian hot dogs (8g of fat for two hot dogs) and allowed myself 25g of a new extra lite cheese thats out. It looks like plastic and it probably will taste like it too.
I've replaced chips with rice crackers. Chocolate with lollies (all basically 99% fat free so I have been going a bad wild with the lollies consumption!). Instead of ham and cheese on our weekly pizza I have sweet potato, onion and red capsicum with low fat ricotta.
Its not the same but I don't want to have an attack. They really suck and I hate throwing up. Like, really really hate it.
So I'm finally eating better but only because I have to - not because I want to. Hopefully I keep it up though and don't give in to temptation because one meal at maccas could have me on the toilet for a few hours. I have to remember that every single time I want to drive there and get something!
Wish me luck!
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