Help me out with food

[whiterock]

Now that I'm pregnant - I'm way off my routine and need to fix this before I gain anymore weight (I'm only 5-6 weeks).

I used to have a coffee and banana every morning before working out. Can't have coffee any more (for now). But I'm finding that I need a full or bigger breakfast before hitting the gym because I'm so hungry when I wake up. But the problem is I want to eat another breakfast after the gym (I'm doing like 40 min light cardio and an hour light lifting). Then, my downfall has been hitting the candy jar mid morning because I'm hungry again. So should I make my lunch salad at 10:45 and then have another mini meal, like an Amy's frozen meal, around 2?

Right now IF I get hungry then I'm reaching for the wrong type of snacks even though I have the right kind available. Help please!

[hannahb]

As another pregnant chick who just downed like an entire bag of trail mix I too wonder how people kept their eating under control. I've been bad the whole time!

[grk2012]

A salad and frozen entree don't sound like very filling options to me. If you are hungry, eat. But make it real solid foods not frozen stuff and candy jar fodder. Before a workout I'd do toast w/pb and coffee (though it tasted gross to me during the first trimester), then something like yogurt and granola, or cereal and milk, or bagel and chocolate milk afterward as a snack. My lunch would be completely separate from all of that.

[runblondie26]

That sounds like a good plan. Try to keep healthy snacks close at hand to make the choice easy.

Honestly, I wouldn't be to freaked out right now though. I was STARVING weeks 4-6 of both my pregnancies. By week 7 the morning sickness set-in, and it was a struggle to find anything appealing to eat until well into the second tri-master. And by that point your stomach is so compressed by the baby, you can't eat much anyway.