My health journey

It’s no secret that all my pregnancy has always been problematic. My first two always ending up to a hospital confinement during my first trimester. Those were the toughest months for me and when I got pregnant the third time during the pandemic, no hospital could accommodate my case and I had to take matter into my own hands.

So it’s true that you’ll still be the one who can determine what your body needs. At that time, I was throwing up almost everything I eat or drink. Unless I eat too little and don’t move up to 1 hour (which is impossible when you have 2 kids), I’ll be lucky to keep those food without coming back out and I realized that the culprit was due to the type of foods I was in taking. I have been eating cooked foods. You could say the oil or the processed foods is just too much for me at that time so I had to eat raw or uncooked.

Salad – vegetable without the dressing and fruits!

I was fortunate enough to be a fruit lover so having pineapples for breakfast was like a treating I am always excited to wake up in the morning for. I slowly introduced nuts and had binatog during lunch time as that’s the peddler’s schedule. I always ask him to bring me P20-worth. And all this 9 months of eating raw and unprocessed food has lead me to become vegetarian.

Fast forward after I delivered (water birth – will share in a blog post!) my last kid (last because our baby-making factory is officially closed – another blog post idea!), I never turned back to eating meat except for those events with the family that I was too shy to bring my own food – I ate some but I was a nasty feeling of having those things again on my mouth. I regretfully didn’t enjoy what is supposedly a festive experience due to the now foreign taste this meat has brought to me. Nevertheless, it was a lesson for me to always be ready with a plant-based baon. (I went vegan but would rather identify being plant-based since I cook for a vegetarian anad plant-based household).

Follow my plant based journeys and feel free to drop a comment if you need help to get started.