Danielle Brown
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first heard Feb 2025
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Yes. Because a lot of doctors, if you tell them, if you tell your OB, hey, I'm vegan, they'll be like, you need to eat red meat while you're pregnant. Exactly. Which is an outdated line of thinking. OK. Because their concern is that you're going to become anemic. One third of pregnant women become anemic. So you have to make sure that you're getting enough iron, whether that's in
spinach, lentils, tofu. So I just had to make sure I was eating a lot of plant based sources of iron. And also I had an iron supplement as well that I added into my diet. So but he was healthy. I had a wonderful pregnancy. He was always there like he's measuring two weeks ahead. He's going to be a big baby. So it is possible to be vegan when pregnant. It again just has to be well planned.
what is considered a protein as a vegetable or a fat or all of that like besides i guess a google search every time you eat i think that you just learn and once you just start doing it because you know now okay you are living as a non-vegan so you know that chicken is your protein you know that rice is a carb like you just know that because of how you've been eating so you substitute so you know that
your carb is it can still be rice it can be pasta i like doing like um a protein pasta just to add an extra protein barilla has a protein pasta that tastes just like white pasta you would never know i'm like a little bit of a purist too like i i love those like regular pasta
So you're saying instead of a processed item, like a gluten-free pasta versus a quinoa. Yeah. Of course, no matter what diet you're doing, you're always better off with a non-processed option. But totally fine. Imagine you have some beautiful broccoli that you make, and then gluten-free pasta, and some grilled tofu.
I eat pasta four days a week. Oh, do you really? Yes. I love pasta. That's a lot of pasta.
What brand do you like? So the Barilla one that I was mentioning, they have an amazing protein pasta that's made with chickpeas and lentils. Oh, that sounds good. And it literally tastes like white pasta.
I see all the pastas there. There are thousands of them. It's in a yellow box. It's delicious. I also love this brand. It might be pronounced goodles. Goodles or goodles. Okay. And it's a hot pink cute box, but it's protein pasta. So it has a ton of protein and they add all these vitamins and there's like mushrooms in it and broccoli. No, you'd have no idea. That's what my son eats.
So instead of like a white pasta that kids normally like, I just sub it with the protein pasta. He has no idea. Right.
It can seem daunting to hear five servings of vegetables. And then you go back and recount your day and you're like, do I even have two servings of vegetables? I mean, five seems like a lot. But it can be as simple as, again, like we were talking about adding spinach to a smoothie. There, that's one.
Your lunch, maybe you have a salad as your base with protein on top and do like bell pepper, tomato, cucumber. And then your dinner, maybe you add a broccoli. Right. Like there. I think breaking it up over the course of the day instead of getting to dinner and being like, I didn't have my five servings of vegetables and trying to squeeze them in.
I know for me, once I became plant-based and once I started including more vegetables, I felt so much more clear. I used to have really bad heartburn. I used to be super fatigued. This is when I was like 17, 18 years old. And I was having symptoms as if I was older. And I felt so tired, I had to nap three hours a day. Yeah. So freshman year of college. I relate. Yeah. I would go to class.
I would sleep then for three hours because I was so fatigued. The food I was eating wasn't healthy for me. I was barely eating any fruits and vegetables. And I went to Michigan State University, and they're known for their dining halls. Picture a mall food court on steroids.
Ice cream on every corner. Make your own pasta bar. Make your own pizza bar. Make your own omelet stations. They had everything. And it was so fun. I didn't have my parents there. I was unsupervised. I could have whatever I wanted. But I was eating a lot of dairy, very little vegetables.
It didn't agree with me. And I was eating super unhealthy. In the morning, I had a bagel and cream cheese, which sounds normal, but there's no nutrients. We're eating white bread and dairy. That isn't giving me anything in the morning. Lunch, I'd maybe grab a Caesar salad, which again, romaine lettuce isn't giving me much.
But I really was feeling so sick from not having enough plants and too much dairy. Like dinner, I'd have a big plate of Alfredo pasta after dinner.
I used to like this dinner. but it's no good it destroyed your stock they had soft serve machines on every corner in this dining hall so twice a day lunch dinner i'd get a cone and then i'd i'd be so sick at the end of the day and i was like i really need to make a change because i don't like this path i'm going down so i decided to go plant-based in my dorm with no money and no car, no kitchen.
I had a mini fridge and a microwave.
But I decided to go for it. And I was like microwaving sweet potatoes in my dorm room. I would get those microwave quinoa and brown rice packets and I would microwave that the dining hall. I like finally noticed the salad bar and I would make they had unlimited salad.
And it was like four months of eating plant-based when I really noticed a change. I think some people will eat healthy for three days and be like, well, I didn't lose any weight and I don't feel any different.
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