I feel an aversion to all foods right now. Will it ever go away? What foods helped you stay healthy and were easy to go down during your first trimester?
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I ate a lot of plain pasta (no sauce, or a maybe sometimes butter and Parm cheese), and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches...which was pretty much all I could stomach.
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I'm sorry to say that I lived off of cheese on toast and spaghettios for a good six weeks!! I had a very strong aversion to root vegetables but could manage things like peppers, tomatoes and spinach.
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I ate a lot of eggs (which are usually people's aversions, but not mine!), and cheese on crackers were always a safe bet. Always gatorade/sparkling water, and i always wanted asian or mexican food. So i guess, strong flavors. I just sorta ate what sounded decent and wasn't overly heavy to the point it made me feel sick. I also ate a lot of fruit or a smoothie because sometimes i didn't want to "eat" but drinking a meal was fine. It's a stage that passed for me--the hard part is breaking the bad food habits once you DO feel ok.
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I had hyperemesis so I definitely lost weight and I was in the hospital twice to control the hyperemesis and get an IV for fluids.
I have a list of foods that a good for hyperemesis. Let me know if you need it.
The foods that I liked was toast, crackers, pretzels, graham crackers, chicken broth and plain noodles. Sometimes I would add the noodles to the chicken broth to make an easy soup.
I'm 14 weeks and I was told to try foods with more protein. Peanut butter on toast is good. I bought some cereal bars with protein in it. I should try a smoothie with added protein.
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You will feel better again! I'm 14 weeks and just ate a veggie filled kale salad. That would have made me hurl a few weeks ago. I lived off bagels, plain white toast (maybe some avocado or egg), crackers and last minute take out of whatever sounded remotely appealing at the moment.
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I lived on French fries and burger king chicken sandwiches my first trimester. My doc was fine with it! It went away by 14 or 15 weeks. don't worry too much, just eat what you can!
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I'm glad I'm not the only one. I have been eating mostly toast and plain noodles and I worry I'm not getting enough nutrients. My Dr. told me to eat more protein, but most proteins are turning my stomach.
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I ate peanut butter bagels 2-3 a day
I had horrible food aversion
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@Keybee: can you do a Greek yogurt ?
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I think for me it was starting most meals with a few sips of Sprite or Ginger Ale to calm my stomach a little and then very small portions. I tried to have the most nutritious food possible since I knew I would only be eating a small plateful.
Cheese & crackers was a good snack. Or peanut butter cracker packs. I would try to eat one cracker when I started to feel super nauseous.
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@Keybee: I did feel better when I ate more protein, but it was hard to find ones that sounded good. Meatball subs were good for some reason, or really processed chicken (like frozen chicken tenders were ok, homemade chicken cutlets- nope). Just realized I pretty much ate like my toddler.
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@Foodnerd81: Meatballs sound good right now.
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cheese and crackers, brothy soup, bagels with cream cheese...those usually sounded good to me.
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@bluestriped bee: the guy who owned the pizza shop where I got the meatball subs was the first person to ask me if I was pregnant.
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struggling right now with what to eat, I think its plain pasta with cheese for me tonight. I thought some rice with chicken was a good idea last night, but I hurled like an absolute animal. French fries.... mmmmm......
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Plain bagels, pasta, and crackers were my staples.
Nothing helped.
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I really like making a homemade chicken dumpling soup. The salty broth is kind of soothing and the buttery dumpling convince me to down the chicken, sweet potato and kale. For me it is a non gross way to get everything I should in a day!
At my sickest I ate a lot of little Caesar's cheese pizza. And danishes. Whatever works!
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It does get better! And thank goodness I went through this once already because my aversions are so much worse this time around! I'm living off of pasta, Mac n cheese, pizza, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I can also handle berries and grapes.
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I've had major aversions to salad greens - but good luck with cottage cheese and fruit. At least I feel like I'm getting some protein! Good luck, hang in there.
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I felt the same way. I ate lots of Pasta Roni and crackers. I started feeling better around 12 weeks and my appetite is mostly normal at 15. I can eat veggies and proteins again! I wouldn't worry yourself too much. Just eat what you can.
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@akcd: same here - lettuce gives me heartburn and makes my stomach churn, same as white bread.
Hubby just called to see if I wanted any lunch.... french fries and nuggets it is.
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Bagels, fruit, cereal, soup, ramen
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There weren't many! I liked drinking smoothies - they were fast-digesting... Most fruits were okay too - bananas and strawberries particularly were easy on my stomach.
I remember oatmeal was an awful trigger food. I couldn't eat it for two years because of the association!
Almost everything made me sick - even pasta. And I was sick from the moment I woke up before I even ate anything. Oh, and my prenatal pills made me even worse - so I hate to say there were several days I went without them - because they'd just be coming up again anyway
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Thank you for the smoothie suggestions, I had one this morning and I feel better then usual.
Fries and pizza go down pretty well and I don't know why, but I am so glad to hear it's not just me. I can't wait until I can eat normally again. Thank you for all of the responses!
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A lot of plain bagels. Kraft mac&cheese in the blue box. Sometimes chicken nuggets... toddler food basically! Really salty stuff like soup was gross to me and so was really sweet food (I usually love sweets - like fruit snacks). I really couldn't eat much protein. Sometimes a plain cheeseburger from McDonald's.
If you like fries, maybe try a plain baked potato with a little butter or shredded cheese. That's a little more nutritious.
I just ate whatever I felt like I could handle! I would not stress about it too much - now I'm 22 weeks, starving all the time and eating lots of fruits and veggies (and cookies and hamburgers, LOL).
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I did a lot of cereal and bagels.
I'm sad to say at almost 26 weeks I'm not feeling much better.
I had horrible food aversion
Nothing helped.
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