Here I am at 12.5 weeks. Maybe it's 13.5...I don't know, I've done this a few times now so whatever! I have been on the up and up now for about a week as far as the blaaahhhh (picture me making a sick face and sticking my tongue out...only way I can describe it!) feelings of the beginning of pregnancy go, so before I'm in the this-is-the-best-I've-ever-felt-in-my-life feeling kicks in (also known as the approximately two week long period where you feel great since you've been feeling blaaaahh for the past three months and before the I'm-so-big-and-uncomfortable-I-just-want-to-lay-on-the-couch-and-watch-tv-while-eating-icecream-with-someone-rubbing-my-feet period which will last for the next approximately six months), I wanted to record what this feeling has been like this time around.
I. Need. To. Eat. That pretty much sums most of it up. In the morning I eat usually cereal. And while I'm eating I feel great. But then I get done and realize it was too sweet. Yuck. Can't be having anything too sweet these days. That includes chocolate. I normally love chocolate. If I'm feeling aversions to chocolate something has to be up. In this case it is a fetus also known as a tiny crazy monster out to make eating food a major and unending chore. Gil got a chocolate mousse cheesecake a few weeks ago and I could only take one bite. He didn't mind...
Ok. Breakfast done. 10 am arrives. I'm STARVING!!! Like I must have forgotten to eat the last five meals or something hungry. I begin each pregnancy with this optimistic thought: "This time I will only gain 25 pounds and will have self-control." "Hahahaha," says tiny crazy monster living in my uterus, We'll see about that! EAT!" So what can I do? I open the bag of potato chips and chow down. Tiny crazy monster prefers lots of sodium! Luckily the monster will tolerate sweets as long as they come from fruit. So yeah, healthy option! It's just that cutting an apple and opening chip bag are not on the same level of difficulty! Peanuts and peanut butter have been a favorite this time. This week I've been hooked on ants on a log...YUM! Food-food is also delicious and meal time is chow down time! This might mean that I've been cooking better, like as in more real meals, not healthier ones.
I have also been more indulgent this time. Like forget about the 25 pound rule. I don't care. Bring it on. I need to eat and right now and potato oles and a smoothie is the only thing that will do so I will drive there and buy that for myself right now thank.you.very.much!
Here are some yums:
motzerella sticks
anything blueberry (for each pregnancy, weird!)
peanuts/peanut butter
apples (especially with caramel), any fruit really
orange juice
sausage
lasagna
salad (varying dressings depending on the moment)
Oh, I had shrimp and lobster alfredo from a restaurant last week. Double YUM!
chips, especially potato sour cream and onion
Gatorade
Pizza
potato oles
Yogurt smoothies
Chinese
Here are some yucks:
Chocolate
...see mostly cravings!
Well, here's to not gaining 100 pounds this time around:) Cheers! (I'm gonna go have a snack...it's two thirty and I'm SOOOO HUNGRY!).
