by Lyndzie » Thu Dec 14, 2017 5:09 pm
Hi Ras! I'm in Indianapolis, IN. It's been in the 30-ish degrees range this past week, and for some reason I'm sooooo cold all the time. I asked for slippers for Christmas, and my husband accidentally sent me the confirmation email, so I'm pretty pumped for warm toes in a couple weeks. (I also ordered myself a globe for the girls to wrap, and will take them to Ikea next week so they can get me the spice rack I want.)
I am 14 weeks pregnant as of yesterday, officially in the second trimester. Fetus is 3.5 inches long. I had my midwife appointment, and I got to tell you, home birth midwives are AMAZING. My appointments last an hour, and she is so thorough. This past Tuesday I had an appointment, and she had a student. I always have to pee on a test strip, and then she'll go through the whole thing and talk about what that is off (I need to drink more water, because my specific gravity and pH were way off, and I had a little protein, but that didn't concern her). She also was showing the student how to feel for the baby, and then showed me. It was incredible! I haven't felt the baby kick yet, so it was really neat to feel it in there. (At the last appointment, she taught me how to take blood pressure. Now I know what the numbers mean!)
I made the lentils to make the Vegan 8 BBQ lentil loaf. The BBQ sauce recipe included in the recipe is gross, but the rest of the recipe is solid, so I just use store bought sauce. We'll probably have lentil loaf with green beans and mashed potatoes tomorrow night.
Today we had a huge grocery run to our international grocery store, and it had EVERYTHING on our list. Last month we went to a vegan Thanksgiving pitch-in, and someone brought vegan deviled eggs. My 5 year old requested them last week, and I googled the recipe and came across an amazingly simple recipe (on the Lagusta Luscious blog) that just required two unique ingredients that were surprisingly cheap. I ordered silicon egg molds on Amazon, and we're going to whip up a batch and see what happens. Fingers crossed they work out, because I'm going to take them to Christmas with the fam and also my next WFPB pitch in. I also came across mushroom powder, which I hear is amazing to had that umami flavor to foods.
We had lunch at my favorite Ethiopean restaurant, and they have a vegetarian sampler plate (it's actually vegan), and they whole experience reminded me of the CRAM circuit lecture by Doug Lisle that I just watched. The idea that the full stomach of rich food is the conditioned response for more eating is exactly what happened after lunch. I ate a bit past the point of satiation (it's soooo good!), then next thing you know I'm thinking I need more food, maybe chocolate, maybe a milk shake. I didn't have any, but man I sure did think about it. And, the whole extinction curve with sponatious recovery really is my behavior model - I'll do great for a period of time, then WHAM I'm off the deep end. If you haven't watched it yet, it's totally worth the time.