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Proud of Myself! (food related)

mollyxcatemollyxcate member
in August 2012 Moms

So with my morning sickness, which has been anything but pleasant for about the last 4 weeks now, I've been giving in to just what my body wants, or as I like to say, what baby wants. Unfortunately, baby likes to eat like daddy likes to eat which is not good (though he magically stays in fantastic shape). So it's been lots of carbs, chicken nuggets, occasionally a steak, but mostly carbs. I wake up in the morning and I look in the mirror and it's like 'hey, I could still wear a bikini right now if I needed to, but by the end of the day I look a good 6 months pregnant.

I got on the scale this morning and in the last 2 weeks I've gained 2 lbs! I got a BFP at 146 lbs, dropped down to 144, and now I'm up to 148! I know this is too fast to be gaining weight, part of it might be my weight balancing out, but then I stopped to think if baby were here right now and baby were a toddler I wouldn't be letting him/her eat the foods I'm eating. While I have full control of what baby eats without too much of a fight (aside from nausea) I need to be eating things that are good for baby.

I haven't been eating all the 'super foods' but yesterday I made a huge step in the right direction. Instead of eating cookies, and toast, and potato chips, and bagels all day I made myself mashed potatoes and mixed veggies. I thought that it wouldn't last and baby might very strongly refuse, but to my surprise, even though they didn't 'look' that awesome to me as I was cooking them, when I ate them I felt SO much better.

I ate them in the afternoon and usually my morning sickness is worse all afternoon/evening and especially bad right before I go to bed and throughout the night. Last night I felt fine, this morning it wasn't nearly as bad.

I'm proud of myself for not giving into the temptation so much any more! I went to the grocery store and bought fresh meat and produce today and I'm going to start making myself make very healthy meals and today I'm going to actually start doing my prenatal yoga dvd.

I'm just very happy with myself right now. I'm glad that forcing myself to eat healthy makes me feel better while pregnant just the same as it does when I'm not pregnant. I hope all of you find the same sort of relief from morning sickness as I did!! (though it's not gone, it's about 50% better and that is 100% better than I hoped for! )

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  • AndreabksAndreabks member

    congrats on being able to eat better! i've tried to be so good, but its been hard with meat aversions.  I've been ok with nitrate free bacon and sausage, but not country pork ribs, chicken breast and TJ's nuggets but not thighs... and aparently no red meat for me anymore, as last weekends roast smelled amazing while cooking, but dog food the next morning.

    i brought stuff for a quesadilla and a spinnach salad to work today.  hoping it will last through class tonight.

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    congrats on being able to eat better! i've tried to be so good, but its been hard with meat aversions.  I've been ok with nitrate free bacon and sausage, but not country pork ribs, chicken breast and TJ's nuggets but not thighs... and aparently no red meat for me anymore, as last weekends roast smelled amazing while cooking, but dog food the next morning.

    i brought stuff for a quesadilla and a spinnach salad to work today.  hoping it will last through class tonight.

     Good luck! I have the same problem with something being amazing one day and absolutely awful the next. I have to buy/cook in small quantities! 

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  • Alyjane9Alyjane9
    Good for you! I'm going to take this as inspiration and try to do better. I know my husband thinks I should be eating better (more like my pre-pregnant self), but he's being good about keeping that to himself for the most part. Although the smell of food cooking is still gross to me now, I think I will request a few more veggie-full meals and hope I feel better with good food in me to. thanks for posting. :)
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  • mollyxcatemollyxcate member
    It's possible it's bloat, but from the way I've been eating I wouldn't be surprised if it's not. My weight has always been very finicky. I gain weight really easily.
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  • WestyMomWestyMom member
    Don't kick yourself too hard :) I've been the exact same way. I've gained 8 so far on the carb-o-holic diet. In the past week I've been able to tolerate more healthy foods and I've dropped back down 2 lbs. I ate very few processed carbs before the BFP, so my body had NO idea what to do with all that starch and gluten. It packed it all right away for a rainy day :) I'm hoping to cleanse some of it out and gain the good kind of baby-growing weight in a better way.
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