Bad Eating! rant!

BunintheOven311

HELP!  It seems like all I want to eat is bad food...chips, ice cream, fast food.  I've been munching on sweets all morning and I have no desire to eat veggies or fruits but I feel like I've had one orange soda too many today and I am fed up with myself.  I usually eat pretty healthy...now I like to indulge from time to time...but i am worried that I am not doing my baby any service by feeding myself and him/her all this junk food.  Now it's probably not as bad as I am portraying it to be but I am hoping to purge my house of all christmas cookies and chips this evening and I've already made a nice healthy grocery list.  I feel like I've been lazy lately which has led to me grabbing convienient foods.  Hoping to pick up some granola bars so I can grab them instead of cookies.  Anyone else feel like they are over indulging...maybe it's just the holidays making me feel like this but I really want to start eating healthier and getting healthier snacks...I feel hungry all the time and I am sure it has something to do with all the sugar I am snacking on.  Any recs for some quick healthy snacks that will fill me up?  I dont have much longer to go and I want to feel as good as possible these last 10 weeks!

BillysGrl27

I have been the same way, and since well before the holidays! I crave french fries like no other, my husband is out picking me up some at least 2-3 times a week. I also eat ice cream on a daily basis but that is because I have not gained any weight at over 19 weeks...I guess my metabolism is much faster than I ever imagined possible!

I agree with what you said at the end, buy some healthy snacks (I got trail mix, almonds, etc) to grab. I even keep something to munch in my purse so I can get my food fix w/o the drive thru.  If you are working and have a fridge, keep some pre-sliced apples, oranges, or baby carrots in there to grab too. I basically keep food everywhere...my desk, purse, the fridge at work. But sometimes the cravings are just too strong!!!

 

GL, you are almost there!

mrs. remy

I know the feeling. I craved all kinds of calorie-dense foods while I was PG.....especially McD's breakfast (), pizza, and chick-fil-A. I seriously ate like a trucker. One thing I made myself do was I had to eat my daily quota of fruits/veggies before I could have a bowl of icecream/cookies/whatever. In the end I got a very healthy baby so I guess I did something right!

KathrynMD

I just tried to keep healthy-ish snacks around so they were easy to snack on and got rid of junk as much as I could.  I also tried to think of what nutrient was in the junk food that I was craving that maybe I could find a healthier delivery system for it - so if I was craving chips, maybe my body needed salt/sodium, so I would have cheese, a salty but healthier food than chips.

mrs. remy

BunintheOven311:

Any recs for some quick healthy snacks that will fill me up?  I dont have much longer to go and I want to feel as good as possible these last 10 weeks!

oh as far as recs for healthy snacks....I got those 200 calorie packs of almonds from Trader Joes. they really hold you over for a while. also things like clementines are really good, easy and portable (and in stores everywhere right now). You can also eat those sunsweet individually wrapped prunes.....hehehe.....for obvious reasons but I found them very tasty.

KathrynMD

I had grapes, cherries, almonds, wheat thins, cheese sticks, and cheese and PB crackers around all the time.  I also drank apple juice almost every day as a "sweet".  I found eating regularly - like every hour or so, even just 4 or 5 plain crackers - kept me for getting hungry for junk too.  I ate regular meals too, but keepign my stomach full and my mouth busy on a regular basis made it less tempting to eat some kind of junk.

weezie825

Have you tried the FiberOne + Antioxidant bars.  The Chocolate Peanutbutter one tastes like a candy bar.  I ate them a lot while pregnant because it satisfied my chocolate/sweet cravings and had a lot of vitamins.

ThePastor'sWife

We all have those weeks in pregnancy... hell, I spent half of first tri eating nothing but crispy chicken sandwiches from McD's, Wendy's, BK, Chick Fil A, etc.  Poor DH was convinced LO was going to come out breaded and fried.   The only way I felt better about eating crap like that for dinner was b/c I made myself eat a yogurt parfait every morning for breakfast (Greek yogurt, frozen mixed berries, lowfat granola), so I felt like I was getting some healthy dairy and fruit in there.  My second and third tris, I craved fruit like nobody's business, so I was good to go on that front... I ate any and every kind of fruit I could get my hands on.  I also kept almonds, cheese sticks, pretzels, and Fiber One bars around to snack on during the day, and healthier cereals (Special K, etc.) as a snack for the evening.

jcsntms06

I'm not even pregnant, but I noticed that I've been pigging out lately. Although I'll just blame that on my period. I seem to become a garbage can during this time of the month. But mostly I try and eat healthy snacks.

 

Cooper81

KathrynMD:

I just tried to keep healthy-ish snacks around so they were easy to snack on and got rid of junk as much as I could.  I also tried to think of what nutrient was in the junk food that I was craving that maybe I could find a healthier delivery system for it - so if I was craving chips, maybe my body needed salt/sodium, so I would have cheese, a salty but healthier food than chips.

this was me too.  Although I did indulge in a bowl of ice cream every night, it has calcuium right?  I actually regrett it, I'm still 15 lbs heavier now than I was when I went in for my 12 week appointment (found out at my annual OB appt this week)