By Guest Blogger on July 14, 2010

Regaining Energy During Pregnancy

As many of you know, I love adding E3Live to my green smoothies for an extra boost! I pour the bottle into ice trays and throw a few cubes into the blender with my favorite smoothie ingredients. Today, Evita shares her experience with E3Live and describes how adding it to her diet helped her maintain energy and vibrancy during her pregnancy. Thanks, Evita! Peace & veggies- Kris Carr

Ever since I healed myself of ovarian cancer in 2000 by natural means, I’ve been promoting a holistic lifestyle in media. It was my little private health-awareness campaign. I gave interviews in media and my before and after photos appeared in magazines. In my before photos, I was 180 pounds, sad and chronically depressed. In my after photos, I was slim, joyful, youthful and full of energy. On radio and tv, I shared about cleansing, healing and weight-loss on a physical and spiritual level. Shedding the toxic kilos and fleecing toxic beliefs, I underwent a major cleanse in the kitchen and in the Mind.

However, all this was tested when I conceived a child. The swing of hormones is unbelievable. A woman’s body suddenly shifts 180 degrees and becomes a baby incubator producing brain cells, bone cells, muscles, eyes and ears. You can hear the heart beating like a choo-choo train speeding to deliver on time, and it all happens inside you with one heck of a Divine Intelligence.

I felt dizzy, sleepy, craved all sorts of weird foods and woke up each morning bigger than the day before. I felt heavy like a whale and vulnerable. Nothing was familiar in that state. It felt as if I was traveling to a foreign land. I craved cooked food and carbohydrates, so I started to eat those again. I was looking for guidance and listened to advice that was given. I was told I needed to take prenatal vitamins, so I did. They were supposed to increase my blood iron, not that it was low in the first place, but just in case. All they did was make me constipated, sleepier than ever, and more nauseous.

I missed that feeling of beaming energy I used to have before I got pregnant. I drank coffee to get my mind clear. A doctor told me that one cup a day was okay. Well, I felt worse and worse. I was vomiting a couple times a day. I was told it was normal, but I knew something was wrong. Radically wrong.

In the mean time, my husband (a filmmaker) took his camera and we interviewed many holistic experts: midwives, doulas, ob/gyns, chiropractor, acupuncturist, watsu therapist, hypnobirthing, etc. They all do amazing things for pregnant moms, helping in alternative ways to create a great experience for a mom and her baby preparing for natural birth. Besides filming them giving us sessions, we organized events with hundreds of pregnant and nursing moms in attendance with our experts as guest speakers. It all required my mind to be clear and focused. I was working 14 hours a day, to pull it all together.

Obviously, it would not have been possible, if I stayed in that foggy, dizzy state of mind. It was so unlike me that I had to do something. I wanted to go back to raw, but I didn’t know how to do it during pregnancy. Every time I drank a veggie juice, it would be in the toilet within the next 15 minutes. I ate a salad and threw up. I prepared a green drink and threw up. “What’s the point!?” I asked myself. Perhaps my body needed the carbs I craved? They tell you to EAT when you are expecting, even though your stomach is getting smaller as the belly grows. You need to EAT and EAT to produce a healthy baby, and when you look at what is recommended your hair shivers – the Standard American Diet times four! You are told to eat meat, poultry, eggs, cheese, pasta, milk and yogurt. And if you wonder about your sugar cravings, the doctor will just say, “When you are pregnant, you can eat whatever you want.” I just couldn’t buy it.

I called Jinjee Talifero, a raw vegan mom of four, and asked her, “How did you do this?” She recommended, “Stay on raw for three days and go through this. You will be feeling nauseous. On days four and five, you’ll be feeling better and better.” And so I did. And it would not be possible without E3Live. Ever since then, I would wake up, make a veggie juice with kale or beets and have a shot of E3Live Enhanced with BrainOn. That woke me up! My energy shot right through the roof! Way better than coffee, and GREEN! I would also have a shot of ginger juice and that definitely kept me from feeling the dizziness again. On the contrary, I felt clear and powerful like never before. Responding to e-mails, handling phone calls from all the vendors in the maternity industry, coordinating video interviews and events. I worked even in the ninth month of my pregnancy, fully alert, raw and vegan. Crazy, sexy and alive!

We interviewed moms about their birth experience and diet. Some of my pregnant girlfriends felt like whales all through their pregnancy. They could hardly walk in the sixth or seventh month. Their legs would swell and sugar cravings would not cease. Those moms who went raw through pregnancy usually had an easy delivery, and the babies seemed calm and peaceful. They told us about E3Live. I followed the inspiration they gave me and gave birth to a healthy baby boy, who immediately gained weight after the delivery by drinking his mama’s milk.

Soon we’re going to start feeding our baby, Jonathon. Guess what’s going to be his first food? If nature created algae as one of the first forms of life on the Earth, it would seem logical to give this food first to the baby before anything else. What could be better for his brain development than the blue-green algae that first created oxygen on the planet? It will be fun to see people’s faces in the park when we add E3Live to the bottle. The milk is going to turn GREEN!

Evita Ramparte is a European wellness reporter, holistic coach and motivational speaker. In 2000, she healed her ovarian cancer through natural means. Ever since then she’s been promoting healthy lifestyle in media. Today, she’s a launching TigerMama.com – empowering moms to rule the world!

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