So I had my second child eight months ago and, like all new mums, I’m keen to get my body back. I was kidding myself massively that because my weight had almost returned to pre-baby, so had my figure. Hmmmmm, that was until my maternity leave was coming to an end and I had to buy some new work trousers and put my hospital tunic back on.
Pre-Amalie, I thought the tunics were fairly forgiving when I was bloated. I obviously wasn’t packing the current stomach I have!!
So it has forced me to start dieting – only a little bit so I can fit into my clothes properly again and feel good about myself. But it is proving tough as I am coeliac and cannot eat dairy.
I was going down the exercise route to start with, which I much prefer. But when juggling my hospital work, business and two kiddies (getting nursery bug after nursery bug and not sleeping), I’m finding myself too sleep deprived to be able to function after they’ve gone to bed or before they get up. So I’m reverting to my Weight Watchers ways and my memory of the points system, where points are assigned to foods based on their calorie and saturated fat content (this may well have been updated considerably as the last time I actually went was in 2006!).
While I was working out my first day’s allowance, I had a small meltdown – with my husband at the receiving end. I was like a stroppy teenager, “Martin it is just so unfair!!” (I can’t promise there were no expletives in there too… but the children were in bed at least.)
It was all because the teeny-tiny, dry, cardboard sandwich that I had made myself for lunch was an additional two points to a normal, nice, decent-sized sandwich – because of the gluten-free and lactose-free bread and butter.
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Now tell me that is not unfair?! Grrrr.
So what can I take into work for lunch that doesn’t require an enormous amount of effort and preparation?
Home-made soup or salad seem to be the two main options. I think rice is dangerous to reheat so I can’t take rice noodles in. We don’t have a toaster at the hospital. I sometimes take rice cakes and Lactofree soft cheese/hard cheese but, again, that is pretty heavily laden with points.
I have to make everything for tea from scratch and also take lots of food for the kids into nursery (they are both gluten free) so I haven’t got much time to do anything too labour intensive.
I would welcome any suggestions. Come on, tricky eaters, give me some inspiration…
By Karen Woodford, a disgruntled coeliac with lactose & fructose intolerance