The One Thing You Should Eat Every Day If You're Trying To Get Pregnant

Your digestive system has it tough. It has take all that good food you eat — and all the junk too — and turn it into the nutrients that fuel your body and keep you running in top form. It’s those nutrients that nourish your maturing eggs, keep your hormones balanced, build your uterine lining, and, eventually, will help build a whole new person inside you. That’s a big ask!

When we don’t eat the cleanest food, our digestion and metabolism are damaged and they don’t perform as well. This means that we have a harder time converting food into energy and the building blocks that our body needs. Environmental toxins and chemicals in our food can also damage digestion. It’s like putting dirty gas in your car’s engine — it’s not going to burn hot and clean, and you’re not going to get very far.

That’s why we really believe that you’re not just what you eat. Instead, you are what you digest.

For many women, this is why you can eat a perfect diet but you still feel fatigued, bloated, and gain weight — your digestive system is damaged and it can’t handle the fuel you’re giving it. The solution: reviving digestive function and revitalizing your metabolism.

One fantastic way to tune up your digestive system is by eating congee. Do not skip this recommendation. It can make a HUGE difference in your digestion, energy, sweet cravings and healthy weight management.

Congee

Congee is a particularly digestive-friendly way to start your morning. Congee is similar to oatmeal except you use brown rice and slow cook it for 8 to 10 hours. The prolonged cooking time allows the fiber of the rice to break down more completely (your crock pot is doing some of the hard digestive work for you).  Eating congee improves metabolism and boosts digestion activity. This breakfast will warm your digestive organs while removing excess fluids and providing therapeutic value. Plus since you can make a week’s worth at a time, it cuts down morning stress and ensures that you have a healthy start every day.

Making Congee

Before going to bed, place 1 cup organic brown rice, 8 cups of water, a big pinch of salt and a handful of dried apricots into a crockpot. Cook on low overnight — you should have a watery porridge in the morning. Now use a hand blender to whirl it into a delicious apricot, rice cream! If you don’t have an immersion blender that’s fine, you can leave it unblended, but blending improves the texture and makes it even more digestible.

Scoop out your desired amount for the morning, and add in an ingredient or two listed below. Save the rest of the congee in the fridge and reheat a portion each morning for the rest of the week. Viola!

Make it even better!

If you want a little extra flavor, top your morning portion of Congee with some of these.  Be sure to choose at least one tablespoon of fat as it really helps stabilize your metabolism.

• Butter (use real, grass-fed or organic butter)
• Coconut or flax oil
• Blackstrap molasses
• Granola (without added sugar)
• Cardamom or cinnamon (only after ovulation)
• Almond slivers, dried cherries, or dried blueberries (cook in the congee with the apricots the night before)

Many people notice that they are hungry shortly after eating congee and need to eat again before lunchtime. This is an excellent sign that congee is stimulating your metabolism.  Plan to eat a healthy, high protein mid-morning snack (green smoothie, nuts, yogurt, hummus) every day to ward off hunger and keep that metabolism burning hot!

Give congee a try today and let us know what you think in the comments below!