“When I'm pregnant I will....."

lydiabrent

Ok, as I sit at 32 weeks, unable to move once the clock strikes 8pm, I have vague recollections of what I thought pregnancy would look like for me.....here is a sample....

1) I will eat boiled chicken over rice and vegetables each night for dinner (this is serious, I dont even know what I was thinking, or why I thought this was a reasonable plan?!)

2) I will continue running as long as I can.....

3) I will not complain

Needless to say, number one didn't make it past week one....
The only place I run is to the bathroom, and number three is just ridiculous.

How did you think your pregnancy would look?!

rodriyessi94

I said I will not have coffee. lol I have my sip here and there

lydiabrent

At least that makes sense! I stopped taking sugar in my (hot) tea....I mean, kept drinking the caffeine filled tea, but stopped the sugar?!?!? Was back on it after a week

AmyCee

I will work out almost daily and keep up with my gym routine. Complications and constant cramping put a damper in that plan week 9!

obryana6219

I will not have any caffeine. I've had a coke here or there. Coffee makes me gag still.

HoosOnFirst

I said I would avoid fast food and do prenatal yoga. Meanwhile no yoga, and I have the worst pregnancy diet of all time! Oh well.

paige0704

Biggest ones was i said i would work out everyday and not eat unhealthy snacks....yeaaa okayy lol

lovethatcolosun

I will not gain as much weight as my first pregnancy, so far so good, but I do have about 9 weeks to go.

I will exercise more this time around. Yeah...that has not happened. Unless you count chasing around a two year old as exercise.

Westypet

I will prance around in cute outfits, belly out, and eat everything in the world...

Haha. Yeah right. Hyperemesis Gravidarum changed that pretty quickly!

aj1327

Mine is pretty much the same as everyone else's. I will eat healthy and keep up with working out. Neither of these happened the way I thought.

karaelaine1991

lovethatcolosun said:

I will not gain as much weight as my first pregnancy, so far so good, but I do have about 9 weeks to go.

I will exercise more this time around. Yeah...that has not happened. Unless you count chasing around a two year old as exercise.

If your 2 year old is anything like the 2 year olds who come to the library where I intern, that definitely counts!  

alexam2012

AmyCee said:

I will work out almost daily and keep up with my gym routine. Complications and constant cramping put a damper in that plan week 9!

Me too! I wanted to do yoga (even bought a DVD with separate workouts for each trimester) but I went from threatened miscarriage to constant nausea to anemia to modified bed rest. Haven't exercised since 4 weeks!

allicat300

Lol yoga!!! I have cleaned up my eating a SMIDGE but its mainly by what i am craving. However i also said i would get my sons room in check and ready to share.... Here at 32 weeks we havr his loft bed up but uhm.... It looks like a tornado threw up in there

KonaCoffeeBean

Not that I would have admitted it to anyone, but I did harbor fantasies that I would magically get my shit together once I was pregnant.

dancegurl1118

I always thought I would eat really healthy and organic. Yet the first 10 weeks I knew of my pregnancy I could barely eat so when I did it was fast food...didn't get back to cooking until like 26 weeks. Still not eating a stitch of organic HA.

BabyHarris15

The yoga thing is still on my list, but I can tell its not going to happen... nope!!! Too tired!

mvargas12

If you go by my bank statement, I was actively at the gym for the past few months. If you check the gym's system, I went like twice a month.... And then stopped for a milkshake on my way home once or twice... Or more

JessHeppell

i never had an "when im pregnant i will.." mine is more of an "i thought by this point i.."
i thought i would have been skinnier, gotten down to a lower weight, had more money saved up, lived in a house that we were either renting or buying, and maybe have a young dog running around. not living in an apartment at my normal weight with what feels like no money. :$

lydiabrent

Lol....it's funny how similar we all are! The distant sound of alarm bells were sounding in the shower this morning though, as I realised that my idealistic list of better eating and excersize etc is pretty much the same for AFTER the baby is born! Ah well, whatever gets you through!!!

MrsWiggleWaggle

JessHeppell said:

i never had an "when im pregnant i will.." mine is more of an "i thought by this point i.."
i thought i would have been skinnier, gotten down to a lower weight, had more money saved up, lived in a house that we were either renting or buying, and maybe have a young dog running around. not living in an apartment at my normal weight with what feels like no money. :$

This is kind of where I am. I had this fantasy of who I would be as I started my family. Thin well compensated for my high powered career living in a prestigious place. Nope, house wife of middling to large size with a half empty place I can't fill.

mghershkowitz

I will have nothing but healthy food. That idea went out the door the first week. :-<

virginiaunicorn11

I had lots of bad pregnancy role models (the whole "eating for two", gaining excessive weight thing), so I am actually pleased that pregnancy has seen me eating waaay healthier and being way more active than I anticipated...

...but that has not included one single prenatal yoga class (thought that would be at least twice weekly!) or one single home exercise session (my mama is a physical therapist and created a workout program for me in the first trimester)... oops. Oh well.

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Westypet

I thought we'd be in a new home and I'd be setting up a nursery by this point. Still on the market and we have 8 weeks left...

KaLikeAWind

I never even ever imagined myself pregnant. So, everybody on this thread is doing much better than I at this point, lol

Erinrhea77

That I would enjoy this, my last pregnancy, and not complain the whole time. Yeah, did not happen.

LolaMarley23

-I would eat healthy

-Work out all the time 

-Have a full time job in my career. 

Turns out my biggest craving is chips so I eat those like it's my job, I am too exhausted to even do the laundry let alone work out, and I am year and a half out of college and still no full time job... Oh well, that's life!

Emilywooddesign

Westypet said:

I thought we'd be in a new home and I'd be setting up a nursery by this point. Still on the market and we have 8 weeks left...

THIS!! Although we have bought a new house and sold our house. We don't move in until July and then we are renovating for a month bc I'm crazy.

Also the healthy eating and working out kick- my movement these days consist of rolling off the couch or rolling out of bed while huffing and puffing. Moooooooo