I had an elaborate plan to eat healthy during pregnancy. I created excel spreadsheets with food diets calculating every calorie my body would take in on a daily basis, making sure I was monitoring my fresh fruit and vegetables and getting an adequate amount of protein. During the first trimester, you are only supposed to consume approximately 100 extra calories a day. That is equivalent to an apple, a handful of carrots, or 8 crackers.
Well suffice it to say, that plan flew out the window when the nausea set in. I am no longer in charge of what my body wants. Food does not taste the same and there are a lot of things that I loved that make me want to hurl as well as a lot of things I don't care for, that my body is craving. Let's take meat for example. I do not eat red meat, but I do eat poultry and fish. In the past 12 weeks, turkey meat nauseates me, chicken is grody and forget fish. I don't even want eggs anymore, and I LOVE eggs. All the things that I would eat, shrimp, crab, and tuna, I am only allowed once per week due to high mercury levels.
So I have reverted to an almost vegetarian diet. My meals consist of a lot of Amy's organic frozen food. I am also craving a bunch of crap like pasta, bread, soda, and ice cream. If they made an all you can eat buffet for pregnant women, this is all I would eat from the buffet. I would wash it down with a tall glass of milk, because I can't get enough of it.
When nothing sounds good and nothing tastes good, cooking is not fun either. To say that I dislike cooking right now would be an understatement. Our dinners are like eating at a bachelor pad. Hmm, we have pasta, some cheese and throw on a few salty crumbled potato chips and voila a meal. I've eaten chips for dinner several nights in the past few weeks. This can't possible be healthy. But really, it's what the baby wants.
Labels: pregnancy, pregnant
