Healthy out the window

[starfish79]

When we found out I was pg at wk 5, the first thing I did (I swear to you) was go out and eat a big organic kale salad and was on healthy Japanese food for about a week.  I followed that by purchasing the Complete Organic Pregnancy book, stopped eating refined sugar, stopped drinking caffeine, lessened consumption of chicken (the only "meat" besides fish I eat)....

Fast forward 2-3 wks and now at 9 wks, and the only way to keep my nausea at bay seems to be salt and fat.  Pizza, Greek food, Indian food, Mexican food, chicken burritos, tikka masala, BBQ chicken pizza, kabobs, mazo ball soup.... and I'm back to allowing myself one cup of coffee in the morning.

It's weird, I only seem to feel better when I'm eating (as in actively shoveling food in my mouth), immediately after I stop chewing, I'm back to feeling icky.... But the salty/ kind of greasy food makes the nausea go away at least temporarily.  And when the hunger hits, I'm ravenous and it's all I can think about and focus on until I eat.

Anyway, I just think it's kind of funny that you can have such good intentions (and normally I do eat really healthy and love kale salads) but then you just do what it takes to survive.

Obviously I'd like to get back to healthier eating-- much better for baby-- but I'm taking it one day at a time.

Thanks for listening.  We're not telling anyone yet, so I need to put this out there to SOMEone!

[mannah]

I experienced similar--the first weeks weeks I was all "raw veggies!" And then the thought of raw veggies made me want to die and I was all "Mac and cheese from the hot bar!" You do what you gotta do.

[jackie011]

I kind of feel like all bets are off during pregnancy. Yah, you know you should be eating all of these super healthy, beneficial foods, but it's just so damn hard to eat anything most of the time. I had a hard time at first, and then after 5+ months of pregnancy I started losing weight and my doctor pretty much said EAT EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING as I was losing weight and that's not what you should be doing at that point in the pregnancy. I'm interested to see what happens here when he's born and I (hopefully) start to lose weight- I'm going to have a big old wakeup call that I'll have to get back into healthier eating habits.

[speyedr]

I normally have a big sweet tooth and when I found out I was pg all I craved for most of my first tri was chicken salad. I ate A LOT of salad! While healthy, I had no intentions of only eating salad for 12 weeks! It's so funny what our bodies want.

[aqualuv]

I experienced the same exact thing. I was going to the gym and doing T25 six days a week. I was eating good and thought I could continue into my first trimester. Not! LOL All the healthy foods immediately came back up. The only thing I could keep down was bad carbs. Now I'm able to eat clean again but I had all these intentions on being super healthy and active.

I had to realize I was no longer in control and I had to listen to my body. I make the best choices with whatever I'm craving. I do prenatal yoga three times a week and I spin twice a week. I will add in long walks once the weather breaks. Doing these things beginning the second trimester has made me feel so much better.

Don't feel bad at all, I think a lot of women experience this in the first trimester.

[sillygoosegirl]

Me too. All the books say I need to be eating better than I used to (though I ate very healthy before), yet it suddenly feels almost impossible to calm my stomach any other way. My nausea isn't bad at all so long as I keep eating, but if I stop, my stomach hurts almost immediately. I am supposed to gain only like 2 lbs in the first trimester, but I'm gonna blow up like a balloon. I'm not even enjoying most of what I'm eating. The constancy of it (or something) is making even the palatable things not enjoyable. Ugh. This sucks.

I'm also so exhausted all the time. I was telling my concerns to DH about needing to eat all the time, and he was all, like, "you should get some more exercise." What a jerk. I'm not sure where I am supposed to find the energy for that. My 2 mile bike ride to work that used to feel like nothing is now KICKING MY ASS.

[Odonata]

I feel ya.

I'm FIANLLY out of the puking all the time stage and have started to eat better.

Before getting pregnant, and because I was dealing with IF, I was on a VERY healthy diet: No refined sugar, PALEO (so basically gluten free, tons of veggies, small portions of lean meat). I was eating that way for almost 2 years.

For the past few weeks it's been pasta, pizza, potatoes, crackers, sugar, sugar from fruit juices (since water was not going to stay down it was the only way to get liquids. Also, because I felt so sick I was not active at all. I literally sat around all day - and being on break at work was not help to the inactivity.

Now? My belly is so huge (due to my hormones any weight gain goes right to my front belly) that people are saying "wow! can't believe you're showing already!). I went up TWO pant sizes. I'm not showing, of course, it's just what carbs do to me and it's depressing. (sorry, that's my vent, I'm really upset about it).

At any rate, I'm assuming it is normal (given all the responses!) and once you have some control of your digestive track again, you can get back on track. I've started, now that veggies are palatable again, and now that my energy has (somewhat) returned I'm exercising more and am more active.

[robinsbff]

DH has nicknamed the baby queso and noodle because of the cheese and noodles i've been eating. ramen, egg noodles, buttered pasta, mac and cheese, if it's got a noodle i'm all over it!

[Bonita]

Add me to the list...I usually eat pretty healthy, but then for a few days I didn't really want anything so I ended up eating cereal for every meal :-P

Now all I can think about is not healthy food...pizza, pasta, cupcakes, donuts, waffles, burgers, etc.

I really hope this passes soon!!

[Odonata]

Mar 29, 2014 11:01:09 GMT -5 robinsbff said:

DH has nicknamed the baby queso and noodle because of the cheese and noodles i've been eating. ramen, egg noodles, buttered pasta, mac and cheese, if it's got a noodle i'm all over it!

Mine said I'm going to give birth to a gnocchi because that's all I ate.  

[mrspost08]

Sounds about right! I am 15 weeks & still feel sick except when I'm eating. I'm trying to be better with food now. It doesn't matter if I eat junk or good food I feel nauseous.

Hopefully you start to feel better.

[magdala]

The OB nurses told that the first trimester is about survival and keep nutrients down. If you are temporarily eating unhealthy, don't stress about it but when you are feeling better start eating healthy again. For two weeks, the only thing I could keep down was peanut butter sandwiches and glasses of ice cold milk. If it wasn't ice cold, I couldn't drink it.

[anna7602]

There's always the second trimester!

[rugbywife]

Before I got pregnant I was essentially eating paleo, essentially no sugar, no grains, etc…anyways, 1st trimester ruined me. My only regret is that I didn't start eating better when the m/s subsided but apparently I decided that my pregnancy was an excuse to eat like I used to when I was really unhealthy…I have gained 55lbs, which is fine, w/e, but I still wish I hadn't 'fed my baby' so much fast food and sugar, even though I know that isn't really how it works. It's just that once I eat carbs and sugar, well, downward spiral.

[starfish79]

You all make me smile and tear up... thank you so much for the reassurance.

It's almost like food aversions to everything BUT whatever salty, greasy thing it is I'm craving for that meal. Like around 9:30am (after a relatively healthy peanut butter on whole wheat toast for breakfast), I immediately started thinking about/feeling what I wanted for my next meal: Korean bibimbop. Nothing else would do.

Now I'm getting ravenously hungry again and I want spaghetti with zesty tomato sauce. Ay yay yay. Just had a little peanut/chocolate granola bar to stave off the hunger but it's useless! Spaghetti for early dinner it is! (DH is out of town)