Help

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Registered: 08-31-2004
Help
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Thu, 01-27-2005 - 12:00pm
I am about to cheat and I need help. I have a seven month old who is not sleeping at night and it is really stressing me out! I know that I am an emotional eater and this is a hard time to be on a diet. Can anyone please give me advice?????????????
Community Leader
Registered: 10-08-2002
In reply to: astracke
Thu, 01-27-2005 - 12:13pm

Ohhhh, hang in there!

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iVillage Member
Registered: 04-01-2004
In reply to: astracke
Thu, 01-27-2005 - 12:19pm

Hi and welcome!


You can do it.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2003
In reply to: astracke
Thu, 01-27-2005 - 6:03pm

Oh gosh, how did I miss this post earlier? You're singin' a familiar song! My now 2 year old has been the worst sleeper ever since the day he was born. The only thing that would get me through the day without literally falling asleep on my feet (naps not possible with older kids in the house!) was to eat for energy. Unfortunately, I gained about 25 pounds AFTER he was born! Ugh.

My suggestion for you is to stick with the SBD way of eating because it will only help matters. If you need to eat, then eat. Choose good quality foods and snack as needed. Take some time on the weekend, or whenever you can get someone to help, to go to the grocery store (alone! -g-) and then cut up a bunch of celery, wash and tear up a head of lettuce, shred some cheese, precook some chicken breasts, etc. All things that you can grab and go during the week. Baby carrots and celery sticks are good to munch on when you just need to eat for stress -- having some protein with it will help balance it out. A yogurt sweetened with Splenda will get you through a sweet craving, as will a SF fudgsicle. Hard boiled eggs or cheese sticks are good to grab if you are starving and don't have time to make anything. I like to make egg salad and eat it with stalks of celery. That is something you could eat while feeding the baby.

Eating is the next best thing to sleeping, so there isn't much way around it until that baby lets you get some sleep. But at least you can make healthy choices! Are you nursing? Be sure you're eating enough for that too. Nothing will make you tireder than providing sustinance for the baby while not getting enough for yourself.

Take care of yourself! I feel your pain! :)

Leslie