Lifestyle

Now that I’ve hit 17 weeks, I think I’m onto back to eating normal & healthy. I quit dairy again and its helped so much with my zit problem, so I’m off the ramen train! I wanted to quickly share the things I’ve been eating during pregnancy. Everyday is a little different. I eat a lot and now that I’m working out, I need EVEN MORE. So I’m just going to walk through my day with you and give you some easy recipes to quickly throw together that are healthy for you and the baby!

First things first, I have a cup of coffee and froth my almond milk, sweet leaf peppermint sweet drops, cinnamon and a little peppermint mocha creamer. Normally I just have that and I’m off to the gym, but I can’t work out on an empty stomach during pregnancy. I’ll either eat a piece of toast with grassfed butter, or 1/2 cup oatmeal with peanut butter or nuts, and raspberries.

When I get home from the gym I’ll do my celery juice, I blend with the Blendtec & do 1-1/2 cup waters, 7 celery stalks and then strain it. Then I’ll eat my official breakfast.

Ginger berry smoothie with 3 eggs and 2 yolks with 1/3 avocado!

Blend 1 cup water, handful of spinach, sliver of ginger, 1 cup frozen berries (I get mine at costco) & thats it! Super simple. I like to keep everything I make very easy, but healthy.

SNACK

So after I usually wait at least 2 hours before eating the next thing, but it just really depends. Sometimes I’m onto the next thing an hour later. But in this case it was 2 hours later.

PEANUT BUTTER OATMEAL

1/2 cup gluten free oats
1/2 cup water or more
warm up for 1 min
add in 1 tbsp peanut butter and mix around
Top with raspberries

LUNCH

QUINOA EGG BOWL

I prep my quinoa every week, so I’ll do it for TJ and I for the whole week. I’ll make 2 cups with 4 cups chicken broth and cook in my Aroma Pot. That way I can throw in bowls very quickly all week long. Here is the recipe.

1/2 cup of Better Body Foods Quinoa
Splash of Better Body Foods Avocado Oil
Some pink salt
3 over easy eggs with 1 yolk
1/2 avocado

DIRECTIONS

Cook your eggs how you like. Add 1/2 cup quiona, avocado oil and pink salt to a bowl. Mix around. Then top with the eggs & avocado!

Now, before this I had a few bits of nuts, but I didn’t post that. This is a shake I just love!

PEANUT BUTTER BANANA PROTEIN SHAKE

2 scoops better body foods protein
1/2 banana
1 almond milk
1 tbsp peanut butter
5 ice cubes

BLEND IT ALL UP!

DINNER

Before this dinner I had a piece of aspen mills wheat toast with grassfed butter! Gotta always keep something in my stomach at all times!

VEGGIE STIR FRY (MAKES FOR 2)

1 cup Better Body Foods cooked quinoa
1 zuchinni (cut up)
1 yellow squash (cut up)
1/2 diced onion
1 tbsp Better Body Foods Avocado Oil
2 tbsp amino acids or reduced sodium soy sauce

FOR TOPPINGS

3 eggs, 1 yolk (over easy or how you prefer) & 1/3 avocado

DIRECTIONS

Heat up oil, and add onions. Cook until translucent on high.
Add veggies and reduce heat to medium. Sautee then cover for a couple minutes, coming back to stir again. Do this until the veggies are cooked through.
Add your cooked quinoa, then add soy sauce and let the quinoa heat up for a couple minutes. Mix around and dish!
Top with your eggs and avocado!

Let me know if you have any questions! The whole purpose to share this post was to show you what kinds of things I’m eating now that I feel better and ready to eat all the good stuff. All of these recipes have killed my heartburn and acid reflux! I’m happy to report I have none! So hopefully this will give you an idea of what foods to help you with heartburn and just overall feeling better. I avoid dairy for the most part because thats what I noticed makes my acid reflux worse.

Hope you have a good day!

xoxo,

SARA LYNN

This gender reveal was so unbelievably shocking! I mean, you can see it all over our faces. This whole time I felt like it was a boy, I don’t know why I just felt like I was having two boys. Of course we wanted a girl because we may be done after this one, and having one of each was ideal, although having another boy would’ve been so great too! I love boys.

Another reason why this reveal was SUCH A SHOCK, is this story right here.

So rewind a week. I went to my ultrasound tech who just so happens to be my neighbor. He’s been doing it 8+ years. He told me he can see the gender at 13 weeks and he’s only ever been wrong 1 time out of those 8 years, so I figured… why not! Lets do it. So I went in and the baby was measuring at 12.2 weeks, so he wanted to wait another week because he told me he was only 75% sure what it was. He said you’d be amazed at what a week can do.

So a week later I went to my appointment that morning to get the gender. Every time I looked at the screen, I swear I saw the little wiener, but it’s so hard to tell obviously that early and I’m no a professional. Every time he told me to look away, I’d look away to not see the gender, but I could’ve sworn thats what I saw. Right when he saw the baby he’s like “yep still the same as last week” I know the gender. So he printed the ultrasound and I put it in a envelope. SO ANXIOUS and wanted to just look but I never did. I left it in my car in the glove box all day, until about 4pm. Oaks and I went to partyland and got their black gender reveal balloons that have questions marks on them. They are specifically for reveals and even say “gender reveal” on the box as you pick them out. So Oaks and I shopped around while she put the color inside the balloons.

I grabbed pink balloons and blue balloons to have her blow up. To hold down the balloons like you see in the photo, I got a pink holder and blue holder for each set. So we got the balloons and left. I was SOOOO careful putting them in the car and taking them out. I was so nervous one of them would pop and it’d be ruined haha. So obviously that never happened. Party was at 6:30. I had a few family over to watch and Paige took the photos, while I set up my phone on a tripod to video the whole thing.

I waited about one hour for everyones arrival, just the most anxious. During that time, I found two long pieces of blue on my floor….. what looked like confetti, what looked EXACTLY like what could be in the balloons. I thought to myself “welp, its a boy! I knew it… and I found out that way?!” bummer. I also thought why the hell didn’t that girl make sure there wasn’t any confetti sticking to the bouquet of balloons before handing them to me!? I never told TJ because I wanted for him to at least have the moment of feeling surprised, even though we just kinda already felt it was a boy!

So, everyone shows up and we’re all set up to pop them! AND BAM… its a GIRL!? WHAAAAATTTT!! You guys have seen the video on my feed, but click this HERE to watch it if you haven’t. We’re CLEARLY IN SHOCK. So thrilled and so happy that we got our girl!! We both got so teary eyed as you can see in the photo. Tj has both a boy and girl from his previous marriage, and he so badly wanted another girl too like I did. If Oaks was a girl, I would want a boy! We just wanted both is all, not that we have anything against having another boy! I think it’s pretty normal to want both for yourself.

You guys have been so sweet, from your messages on Instagram! I appreciate all of you!