I didn't use fasting while I was pregnant. Actually my diet
was incredibly awful, and I was having (unknown to me)
complications from celiac. But one of the side effects was
that I was always insanely hungry, and nothing I could eat
would fill me up. Except milk. I hate milk, is the thing, so
I would add lots of chocolate to it to disguise the taste (or
have decaf latte's).
After I had the kids though, the "hungries" remained.
I went gluten and casein free, and that helped a lot, but
it was still the case I *had* to eat every 3 hours or I'd crash.
Intermittent eating stopped that -- it was a different version
than Fast-5, but it worked. I like the Fast-5 ethos better,
but the idea is basically the same: eat during a small
window of time. Somehow that resets the appestat, near
as I can tell. When I go off it, the hungries come back
quickly.
I don't think anyone wants to experiment on pregnant
women, me included. But following the "rules" didn't
work for me or for my kids either ... I dutifully ate those saltines
to get rid of "morning sickness" ... which was likely caused
by wheat. And I drank the milk I hated to get calcium and
to fill me up. Lots of cheese too. All the stuff on the food
pyramid, spaced throughout the day. My health got
really, really bad, which could not have been good
for the babies. (Both of them were born with poorly
developed baby teeth, though their teeth are getting better
on a better diet.)
Today, 15 years later, I'm healthier than I was when they
were born, and eating a lot less. No dairy, but my bones
are stronger and I'm the only member of my family to
NOT have very weak bones. No migraines. Arthritis
symptoms very rarely (after the kids were born I could
barely walk). No nausea (the "morning sickness" didn't
go away after the kids were born). Intermittent eating
has been VERY GOOD for my body. I expect if I were
to do it again, I'd go on a version of Fast-5, listening to
my body carefully, taking cal/mag/D/K supplements
instead of dairy, eating plenty of low-mercury fish
or something else for Omega-3's, and avoid wheat like
the plague (wheat gliadin can mess up digestion even
if you aren't allergic to it: and when you are pregnant,
your digestion is already pretty messed up). I don't think
there are any studies on spacing out meals for pregnant
people, but eating several meals a day is a really new
phenomenon and IF is more the "historical" eating pattern.
I do hope more studies are done on this though. There
is evidence now that what the mother eats during
pregancy is actually changing the food tastes and probably
changing which genes turn on in the child. Ditto for
breast-feeding. But there really isn't a "standard diet"
for humans -- the way there is for, say, chickens or cows
or cougars in a zoo -- that can tell you what we
really would ideally be eating. Lots of people arguing
the point, but no consensus.
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:41 PM, claudiamb13 <no_reply@yahoogroup
> Hi Heather,
> Kind of an "off topic" question but, you mention that milk would calm "the hungries" when you were prego. Did you use fasting during pregnancy or just to keep from overeating?
>
> Claudia
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