What do you eat on a normal day?

kgeiges

i have gained almost 12 pounds and feel terrible about it!! What does your daily menu look like?! I need some inspiration!

ainverso

Breakfast is a piece of fuit and oatmeal or a breakfast sandwich (English muffin. Egg, cheese and ham). I snack a lot during day (cheese stick, apples and peanut butter, carrots, fruit, cottage cheese, pb crackers, ect). Lunch is usually sandwich with fruit and yogurt or salad with lots of toppings or soup with crackers and veggies with hummus. Dinner is a meat, carb and lots of veggies , sometimes fruit. I drink lots of water a day and sometimes have a snack at night. I have not gained any weight. I think the key is snack little heathy snacks all day and make sure ur choices are heathy and filling and high in protein.

MissMheMhe

I usually scramble two eggs and pack some peanut butter toast for breakfast, which I eat as soon as I get to work. Then I pack some sort of carb and veggies for lunch. Recently I've been in a spaghetti kick so I made some pasta sauce full of veggies in the crock pot last weekend. For snacks, I have cheese, wheat thins with cheese, cereal of some kind, yogurt, jello, and a quaker chewy bar. I've gained 2.5 pounds at 11 weeks, so I feel this is working for me  
Now that I type it out, it seems like a lot!! lol I am always hungry for dinner, too!

CaraBoonie

I think it depends on the person...I've been eating nothing but crap (all I seem to be able to stomach) and haven't gained anything yet, even though normally I would have gained 10lbs in 1 week if I ate what I've been eating. I've basically been living on carbs, with the occasional smoothie, and have decided to give zero f***s until out of the 1st trimester. If I tried to eat any semblance of a balanced meal I'd start gagging, my body just wants nothing to do with it right now, and if you look on other threads this is fairly common for the 1st trimester!

dc072175

Everything is organic, non-GMO: I have a organic, non-GMO green drink for breakfast, Greek yogurt and cottage cheese for a snack, an apple and cheddar cheese, grapes or trail mix, dinner is usually a protein and veggies. I've been craving carbs like crazy so a few times I've just had a sandwich for dinner. One night I felt horrible and just had sourdough bread toasted with butter. I keep it simple, with long days at work I need easy foods, and these do the trick!

jem8407

I am generally a quite healthy eater but this has been a tough first trimester with food aversions. I am 12 weeks tomorrow and have gained three pounds.
When I am not nauseous or having a major food aversions I go for the healthiest choice possible knowing what I might not be able to stomach later.

katemariesf

I feel your pain! I've gained some weight too and have been eating TERRIBLE. I'm used to eating quinoa and kale and nutritious vegetables daily, but ever since month 2 all I want are pizza and cheeseburgers. I've never eaten so unhealthy. I always pictured myself being really careful with everything I eat while pregnant to get the proper nutrition. I'm hoping in the second trimester the foods I used to eat will be more appealing. My body feels disgusting from all of this junk food, but it's all I can stomach at the moment.

babybluu

I eat what sounds good and what I can stomach. Which isn't much so I've been losing weight but I'm ready to have an appetite again! 12+3 and still nauseous!

lrayas

I've been eating mostly carbs and the occasional fruit. I'm 9w 2d and have gained 4 pounds. I thought I'd be the conscious health-nut I was pre-pregnancy but this baby just wants junk. I was ok with it at the beginning and eating pizza for dinner daily but I'm trying to eat a bit like my former self now that I'm feeling better. I have hope that in a week or two, I will once again love veggies. You're not alone!

narissa2013

First, try and not compare yourself too much to others. I'll provide my approach in hopes to give you some ideas.
I asked my doc for daily caloric recomendation to make sure i stay within that and i loosely track. Its easy for me cause i pack breakfast, lunch, and two snacks for work.
I do some dry cereal or fiber bar for bfast and a banana or apple as morning snack. I have a lunch salad with some sort of beans, cheese, grain, nut, etc. i usually have a peach or some cherries or berries for afternoon snack with a square of dark chocolate. Dinner tends to be my biggest meal (im least sick at night) and i tend to eat a carb, a protein and veggies. I often have some yogurt later in the evening as a snack.
Im 10weeks and have gained no weight so far.

somewhereinafrica

I'm 11w 3d I think I have gained 4 pounds ish but not exactly sure until I visit the doctor again next week as I don't have scales! I was slim and a healthy eater before but struggled with just eating especially vegetables, eggs, fish! Things I usually live off of l.

Breakfast is either a fruit smoothie with a possible veg thrown in to get some in me or toast on bad mornings where I am super nauseas or porridge with cinnamon and raisins sometimes. Or banana pancakes with peanut Butter and passion fruit. I have a hibiscus tea usually with that too.

Lunch is usually chapati with salad or beans. Pretty typical Swahili food mostly. Or if out ill eat samosas or pizza until that made me throw up so kind gone off that pizza which isn't a bad thing.

Dinner is the hardest! I often have a really hard time stomaching much. I love mash potatoes for dinner with gravy and I try and hide some veg in there but have managed more than a few bites. Soups can work but dinner is my hardest meal!

Snacks yoghurt and honey is a favorite! Toast with marmite ( I'm English and I couldn't live without the stuff I made my MIL bring me a huge jar out when she came to visit!) Chocolate I could eat bars of it.. And often do! And I have the biggest ice cream craving... But can't buy ice cream locally so a friend gave me a recipe to try but man I crave ice cream! So I have a bit of a diary thing going on clearly! And passion fruits! It's my new love. So is orange juice

Somedays I eat badly and feel terrible for it others I do good! But trying not to be too judgmental of myself because this first trimester is tough for feeling ill, so I just try and do as best as I can on any given day and sown days that's just eating an apple and munching bread! I intend to do better as soon as I stop the serious nausea

beckface

Double check that hibiscus tea, I read you shouldn't have in pregnancy?

somewhereinafrica

Really that's so weird where I live they tell pregnant women to drink it .. But hey not every wives tale I hear in East Africa believe so I will have a look into ... Thanks for the advice @beckface

euromom

Breakfast - High Fiber Cereal (helps with the constipation) with milk or Greek Yogurt and fruit, or cottage cheese and fruit

Lunch - A salad that I make myself and bring to work (lettuce, veggies, shredded cheese, chicken or shrimp (sometimes buffalo), sometimes corn, beans, etc) or a small sandwich (usually egg salad with bacon - YUM) with fruit or something from the cafeteria at work, like rice chicken and veggies

Dinner - we have been doing HelloFresh, and I LOVE it. they deliver you food for 3 or 5 meals once a week, it consists of lots of fresh veggies, meat etc. and the recipes to make the meals. We do 3x per week, there is always one meat meal, one fish meal, and one vegetarian meal (usually pasta or soup).  I love it because I don't have to plan many meals, and they are always healthy.  

I'm feeling pretty lazy and tired and don't always feel like cooking so some nights we  order pizza or something else.  I've definitely been craving junk food,

For snack I try to keep alot of fruit on hand, or eat nuts, and if I'm still hungry after dinner I have a small dessert like pudding.

mcrane8

My doctor will tell you that if you're having stomach issues in the first trimester, to do what he calls "eating to survive".  Whatever you can stomach, whenever, as long as it's not BAD for you (don't eat rocks).  For that reason, I try and get in my "healthy" food in the morning, since my sickness hits in the late afternoon.  Just making a couple hard boiled eggs the night before helps me.  Oh, and I eat two breakfasts every morning.  I start work really early so that's what I've always done.  Eggs at 6 AM, maybe some raisin bran at 10.  I've also been craving carbs, so we try to use our spiralizer (machine that makes veggies into fake pasta) a lot.  It's like 30 bucks on amazon.  It's usually able to trick me into thinking I'm eating pasta, but I can't say I've been 100% successful.  Ha!  Plus, I can pig out on toppings if I'm forgoing the pasta carbs, right?

The biggest thing with food for me, is energy.  If I don't well, I feel sluggish.  We're all so busy with work, school, some have young kids (god bless you.) so energy is key!  

However, sometimes jelly beans are just good for the soul.  

JandJ62914

Are you trying to stay active too? I think this has been the only thing saving me because my normally healthy eating habits have gone to shit in the first trimester lol.  Carbs are my best friend and protein? For the most part it all makes me GAG.  I just had frozen hash browns for breakfast! 

I'm still exercising though. I used to workout about 5-6 days a week, now I'm only working out about 3-5, but it must be helping because I haven't gained any weight yet.  (Even though I look and feel like I have gained about 10 pounds with all this bloat!) I try to do my normal cardio and some light weight training at least every other day. If I'm feeling crappy I at the very least drag my butt out for a walk!

SummerOH

Honestly, I wouldn't worry too much about it. It doesn't really matter how much you gain per week or trimester as long as it evens out over the entire 9 months. You will probably feel better during second tri and may gain very little. Also, like a PP said, you can't compare yourself. A woman at work and I were pregnant at the same time. She gained 50 pounds and lost it all within 3 months after birth. I gained 25 and had 10 that hung around until I weaned my son. Your body will do what it's gonna do. Try to be healthier when you can, but don't worry too much.

danasphillips

SummerOH said:

Honestly, I wouldn't worry too much about it. It doesn't really matter how much you gain per week or trimester as long as it evens out over the entire 9 months. You will probably feel better during second tri and may gain very little. Also, like a PP said, you can't compare yourself. A woman at work and I were pregnant at the same time. She gained 50 pounds and lost it all within 3 months after birth. I gained 25 and had 10 that hung around until I weaned my son. Your body will do what it's gonna do. Try to be healthier when you can, but don't worry too much.

This. Some days I can handle fruits and veggies and others all I can tolerate is breadsticks. I'm 5'5 and 130lbs and have gained a couple pounds so far, but last pregnancy I had gained about 10lbs by now and then only gained 30 the whole pregnancy. Everyone is different (and I'm not really sure why people are sharing how much weight they've gained without giving any sort of reference to how much they weighed before and how tall they are, as that is going to make a HUGE difference) so try not to stress about it.

KaraEpp16

I don't think I've had a normal day for the last three months. Eating or otherwise. That's a toughy. I eat what appeals to me. I keep track of what I eat and supplement when I need to. I feel like my body lets me know what I need.

KaraEpp16

CaraBoonie said:

I think it depends on the person...I've been eating nothing but crap (all I seem to be able to stomach) and haven't gained anything yet, even though normally I would have gained 10lbs in 1 week if I ate what I've been eating. I've basically been living on carbs, with the occasional smoothie, and have decided to give zero f***s until out of the 1st trimester. If I tried to eat any semblance of a balanced meal I'd start gagging, my body just wants nothing to do with it right now, and if you look on other threads this is fairly common for the 1st trimester!

Yessss @Caraboonie ZERO F+++S. We're all just trying to get out of this first tri.

thepanicos

I lost 5 pounds in the first trimester... And I'm quite bummed about it.. For breakfast I have a bowl of Special K cereal, a cup of orange juice or V8 splash. For lunch I bring what I made for dinner the night before, usually roasted chicken or pork chop. Today is a Healthy Choice dinner. Then for supper I made whatever I usually want. Today it's turkey chili. For snacks, which I eat all day is either pretzels, cheddar cheese is one of my favorites right now, almonds, apricots, pears or popcorn. A lot of drinking. Fresca has been my best friend

fashionlover123

Blah blah blah this is baby number 2 And what I've learned in first trimester misery is as long as you can hold it down it is worth something. The clean, organic diet is a dream. If you can do it more power to you. As for me, right now I am lucky that I don't puke everything right back up. So go with the flow and what your body is telling you. If it's healthy great, if it's not don't beat yourself up about it.

3820204

Has anyone done any protein shakes to supplement only eating carbs?
Are there particular ones that are safe for pregancy?
I was thinking about buying some insurer or something...
I've got to eat something!
An order of fries, 4 pieces of breaded chicken nuggets, and jello is all I could take yesterday.

Blueyedsky

Um... chips, crackers, cheese, pizza, lemonade, the occasional doughnut...

Ok, ok, I've also been eating greek yogurt, sandwiches, peanut butter with celery, hummus, healthy chicken salad, grapes, apples, cheese sticks, and more healthy stuff. It's about 25% junk and 75% healthy for me right now. Now that I'm feeling a little better I can do more healthy stuff and keep it down, but I was fighting the battle all last week and needed high calorie snacks so I could eat small portions and still have energy.

Haven't gained any weight yet but my blump sure is convinced I have.

Blueyedsky

3820204 said:

Has anyone done any protein shakes to supplement only eating carbs? Are there particular ones that are safe for pregancy? I was thinking about buying some insurer or something... I've got to eat something! An order of fries, 4 pieces of breaded chicken nuggets, and jello is all I could take yesterday.

YES. Have Isagenix shakes, and they are awesome. Expensive, but they are full meal replacement and are packed with vitamins etc that are GREAT for pregnancy. All are bioavailable. My MIL sells them and has hooked me up. They don't taste fantastic (ok, just not delish) so sometimes I'm bad and add hot cocoa powder to them hehe. But it's good for baby so who cares!

spinosa1329

I do Arbonne shakes... LOVE them. Vegan protein, easy to digest & my doctor said it's 100% safe. I use unsweetened coconut milk & throw some frozen fruit in there. If I feel like switching it up, I will do the powder, coconut milk, frozen banana & then add sone peanut butter. Tasty! Hits the spot in the morning.

leahabattle

I feel ok in the mornings, but as the day goes on I get worse.  I haven't gained any weight yet, and I'm 12 weeks.  Below is probably an example of "What not to do"

Breakfast: Breakfast sandwich

Lunch: Baked potato with veggies/cheese quesadilla/salad

Dinner: Spaghetti/Chick Fil-A/Pizza/Pick off the toddlers leftovers

The one thing I try to do is drink a lot of water...and I also try to get in a real fruit juice or a smoothie.

3820204

I actually have some Arbonne! I just wasn't sure if it was safe!
I haven't back to the doctor since this total unpleasant hating all good thing started!

Thanks!

MrsYoung9311

Typically I eat what the baby asks for and that could be different everyday. The baby loves mangoes, Greek salad, and tuna from Subway. I discovered a new fav today, Mexican rice and black beans with fresh salsa... SO GOOD. I occasionally want a burger or a cupcake, but when I get them it turns out to be a bad idea.

I wasn't a healthy eater before at ALL, but the baby seems to have better instincts LOL.