my solution to fight nausea and vomiting - eating 6 or 7 small meals a day. here is a sample
8:30am - thin toast with fried egg and fried pancetta or thin toast with 2-3 boiled eggs and soy sauce (love the yolk and not so much of the whites)
10:30am - fresh turkey sandwich (half) from Lee's or pesto chicken half sandwich from sellers market
12:30pm - Naan with chicken tika masala (i love naan and something spicy) or rice with steamed cod fish
3pm - other half of the sandwich or tacos or sth
4pm - nap (an hour or so) I am always exhausted by this time and nauseous, so sleeping helps a bit
5:30pm - eat some snack - left overs or sth
7pm - eat light dinner (anything with meat and starch - not too into seafood or veggies)
9pm - sometimes will eat a little instant noodles with a egg yolk. just a little to be full enough to sleep
9:45pm - asleep
Between 3pm and 9pm is the worst time, usually sour stomach or nausea - my taste buds these days are completely shot. for someone who really enjoy food, this is a slow torture that I am just accepting now as a temporary thing - about 4.5 weeks more :-(. I am using work and TV to distract me. At my co-working space, no one knows I am pregnant so I have to act normal and focus my mind on work when I eat and sometimes plans lunch dates so I can distract myself. I usually get home at 4pm to nap and then eat while watching a good show helps me just shove food down. Some people don't eat at all in first trimester. I can't do that. If I don't eat, I am more likely to vomit and then it is really painful because there is nothing there to throw up - I don't recommend it. I rather eat and throw up - more productive haha. I have to laugh to get through.
Well, this six meal diet has been working - no vomiting for 5 days straight. wow. pretty awesome. Still counting the days when I can taste food again.
- Lei
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