eating like crap in 1st tri

[CloudBee]

I'm rotating between eating things like fresh blueberries, to easy mac or ramen.

I think I'm getting a pretty good variety of food in me, but when I don't feel like eating, or feel sick, I can almost always stomach a serving of easy mac or ramen, probably due to the high salt content.

I'm basically just looking to hear other experiences with junk food cravings in the 1st tri when you couldn't keep much down.

[ijack]

I don't think I ate any veggies or meat in the first tri with either of my girls and they are wonderful

[Brie]

It's survival mode. Eat what you can.

I survived first tri on sugary cereal, McDonald's breakfasts, tortilla chips, and mac and cheese. It gets better and my eating habits are back to normal for the most part now.

[sewpinkgal]

I was not the model of healthy eating for much of my pregnancy. LOL Especially in the first tri, if it sounded good, I ate it. Meat sounded yuck to me as did things I normally loved like greek yogurt and string cheese. So, I ate what I could. I had a healthy pregnancy, lost the weight by 9m pp and my kid is a peanut. Go figure.

[CloudBee]

Don't get me started about chicken. I can't even look at it! lol

[sewpinkgal]

Aug 8, 2012 11:10:27 GMT -5 Brie said:

I survived first tri on sugary cereal, McDonald's breakfasts, tortilla chips, and mac and cheese. It gets better and my eating habits are back to normal for the most part now.

I forgot how much I was addicted to Burger King breakfast croissants. Good grief, I hadn't had one in years and then I had it like once a week for a couple of months there.

And Round Table pizza. Mmmmm! Totally obsessed with it during my pregnancy.

[MadamePresident]

Yeah, you just have to eat what you can. Once you start feeling better it will be much easier to make more healthly food options.

[Ashley&Scott]

Carbs were my best friend in the first tri. There were a few weeks where I ate potatoes at almost every meal. (mashed, baked, french fries, hashbrowns...it didn't matter) I also had Panera blueberry muffins for breakfast quite often.

[jr009j]

I pretty much only ate bagels with plain cream cheese and lays potato chips in the first trimester. Once it awhile something else sounded good, but it was rare.

[h]

When I was pregnant with DS1 I was staffed on a terrible project where I was trapped in a client's office 20 hours a day (as in we were literally not allowed to leave) and all our meals were catered in. 9 times out of 10 the food that the caterer prepared did not appeal to me at all. I survived mostly off Pellegrino, bananas, and the contents of client's snack drawer. Sometimes I would eat 4 or 5 snack packs of Cheeze-Its a day because they had the highest protein content of anything in the snack drawer. DS1 is totally fine.

[kittycatlove]

I could only eat carbs, fried food and pretty much everything terrible for you. I had terrible food aversions. I really couldn't eat meat my whole pregnancy, it was rough. Especially not chicken.

[CloudBee]

What is it with fried food. Salt & vinegar chips are my crack right now.

[londoncalling]

I was so sick that if something sounded good then I ate it. When the nausea subsided I went back to better eating habits.

I couldn't be in the room with raw meat let alone try to prepare it, cook it, then eat it. Just the thought of chicken was enough to make me heave.

[Jem]

I was big into breakfast sandwiches. I also kept a bag of mini-bagels on me at all times and whenever I would feel nauseous I would eat one. Mini-bagels always seemed to do the trick. I have a hard time eating mini-bagels now.

[karinothing]

I am still bitter that I had no junk food cravings in pregnancy. I spent the year up to pregnancy eating healthy and losing weight and was so excited that I could have some guilt free splurges and I didn't even want fast food once!

[CloudBee]

Aug 8, 2012 11:41:28 GMT -5 Jem said:

I was big into breakfast sandwiches. I also kept a bag of mini-bagels on me at all times and whenever I would feel nauseous I would eat one. Mini-bagels always seemed to do the trick. I have a hard time eating mini-bagels now.

This made me laugh.

[iheartbanjos]

I'm 8 weeks tomorrow, and I'm in carb-only mode.

[kangaroo11]

Bagels and cream cheese, pasta, and Chex are still the best things for me to eat. I'm slowly adding in stuff I used to eat, like I managed a salmon pasta last night, or spaghetti and marinara, or chicken Marsala with pasta. lol I still have a theme to my eating!

[dragonfly08]

With DD #2, I had horrible nausea pretty much 24/7 from weeks 6-13. All I could eat were clear broth soups, and carbs, so I basically lived on chicken noodle soup, plain bagels, muffins, and doughnuts. Gained almost half the weight I put on in the entire pregnancy during the first tri alone.

My OB was fine with it. She said eating something was better than eating nothing, and I should just do the best I could until I felt up to making better choices. Despite the crappy first tri eating, I was still in better shape and weighed less when #2 was born than when I delivered #1, even though I'd eaten far better during the course of that first pregnancy.

[mie]

I ate whatever I could stomach because I was nauseous until week 14-15.

[cherry1111]

I ate way too much fast food because I could barely eat food, not to mention look at it to prepare it.

My OB said first tri what you eat isn't such a big deal. She stressed how important drinking water, gatorade, etc is though.

[Deleted]

I lived off french fries, potato chips, mac and cheese.

[ejpint]

All I can eat is fruit and carbs. It's bad. I'm at least trying to balance things out, but the most appealing meal to me is plain pasta with a little butter. I haven't been truly sick yet, but I have major food aversions.

[nonsenseabound]

I agree that first semester is survival mode! I ate my weight in carbs.

[jenn248]

I ate a lot of crap in my first tri, too. I could manage some fruit (usually in the form of a smoothie) but most veggies made me gag. As pps have said, just eat what you can.

Now that I am in my second tri, I want to eat everything, all of the time.

[pugz]

pretty sure all I ate in first tri was pretzels

[hannamaren]

While I did eat a lot of carbs, My craving was fruit. That is probably because I normally eat very little fruit. For you, you probably lack salt or something.

[darnkatz]

I've been getting cravings for high salt processed junk, but I've just been trying to drink water and eat something that isn't so bad (usually a Clif bar or an Uber Lara Bar). I find that I feel worse later on if I give into the terrible salt cravings. Yesterday, I ate angel hair Pasta Roni and felt so sick and nauseous after.

My first pregnancy, I ate whatever I wanted and felt like shit for my entire first trimester. I survived off of sour gummy worms, Squirt soda and canned soup. I've been trying to do a much better job this time around, but my appetite has been a lot better. I think that is because I am so active now (not the case the first time). I'm feeling considerably better than I did with the first kiddo.

I've also been consuming mass amounts of food :-| For breakfast, I had a small iced chai tea, 2 slices of turkey bacon, 1 scrambled egg with spinach and a whole wheat pancake with strawberry honey Greek yogurt. For lunch, I had a huge bowl of brown rice with stir fried veggies (radish, water chestnut, carrot, mushroom, red onion, zucchini), half a slice of sausage flat bread, and 4 strawberries. I feel like a bottomless pit. I will have an apple turnover Uber Larabar here in a little bit.

[Deleted]

There was one night I asked DH to make me plain pasta with butter and a side of rice.

Thankfully I only had about 10 days of really crappy eating. After that, I could handle meals fine, but had to jam goldfish or animal crackers in my mouth every hour or so...

[dancingirl21]

Pretty much all I want is carbs. Pasta, bread, and lately I've been living on oyster crackers. I try to get in fruits/veggies where I can. I'm not totally turned off by meat yet, so I'm still eating it while I can. I'm just about at 7 weeks and am waiting for the "real" m/s to kick in, not just the little bit of nausea that I've been having.