There Goes the Fun Food

So one of the things I let happen while I have been pregnant is that I've done away with my food allergy diet. I mean, if I'm craving something, I'm assuming the baby is in need of something in that food. I haven't gotten a lot of cravings, but I have changed my diet since being pregnant. I started eating cheese again (me, the dairy-free person). And wheat. And more sweets - not not like cupcakes or bad things like that, just sweeter type juices or syrup every now and then or cereal. All things I tend to stay away from because the sugar content is high. Well, for 5 months now, everything was going fine - even eating all these "allergy" foods of mine. Until recently. I noticed last week that no matter what I ate, I felt awful. I've hit that before (in times of cheating on my diet), so I decided maybe my days of allergy-free eating were over. I started behaving again - cutting out the cheese, and wheat, and sugar. Things started getting better. But one of my rules was always "cheat on the weekends". I mean, you have to feel human!

So last night, not very hungry for dinner, I decided to have a bowl of cereal. The cereal was wheat-free, and I used rice milk, so it's not as bad as it sounds. But about 4 hours later (after falling asleep in front of the TV), I woke up in a huge sweat. It was just dripping off of me. I threw the blanket off thinking I had just overheated while sleeping. But then I realized I was also shaking. Oh no! It's the darn sugar. Even though I had such "good for you cereal", my body didn't have enough protein and my low-bloodsugar problems were kicking in. I got up clumsily and grabbed the cashews in the kitchen and just kept eating handfuls of them. Let me tell you how fun it is to fill your belly when you aren't hungry (or drunk) at 1:30 in the morning. It took about 15 minutes or so, but the shaking went away, the sweating went away, and I was gaining my strength back.

If you've ever been hit with a food allergy, or a blood sugar problem, you know that it is unpleasant. Fortunately for me, neither are extreme and I can always control them with diet. But my carefree living of eating cheese and wheat and all the other fun stuff in a typical American diet are gone again. It appears Peanut is either following in Mom's footsteps, or on his own and leaving me back to my own problems.

As for this weekend, I don't think I'm going to cheat so much. Last night was an awful start that I wish not to repeat!