{Week 9 & 10.. all caught up}
The infamous pregnancy craving. We have all heard about it. Ice cream and pickles or Cheetos and ketchup. At this moment in my pregnancy I am highly disappointed to have no such cravings. In fact, it got me thinking, what exactly is a craving. Well kids, the dictionary defines a craving as:
The infamous pregnancy craving. We have all heard about it. Ice cream and pickles or Cheetos and ketchup. At this moment in my pregnancy I am highly disappointed to have no such cravings. In fact, it got me thinking, what exactly is a craving. Well kids, the dictionary defines a craving as:
Confirmed. I have had no such thing. Could this change in the next 7 months, let's hope so! But for now, I have created my own definition of a craving...
When all food sounds disgusting,
your stomach is eating itself from hunger,
and one item pops in your head as sounding edible.
Of course this changes on any given day, so I guess abnormal and urgent could qualify as part of the new definition as well. There are, however, many items at this point, that are always on my aversions list. To name just a few:
1. Anything green & leafy. (i.e. I miss salads)
2. Chicken (unless completely disguised as something else)
3. Anything with a lot of smell, even if it tastes ok.
4. Please hold the onion and garlic. Really anything with lots of herbs or seasonings, so no Indian, Thai, or Pho anytime soon. Even sitting at Pei Wei while Chris ate one afternoon was a little torturous.
5. Fish. Gross. It better be smothered or fried to pass #3.
6. Rice. Not sure why. I have tried it several times, can't do it.
7. Peanut butter (this one is tricky~ PBJ is ok, but smelling peanut butter alone gives me an instant gag reflex).
And in case you were wondering how this is affecting my diet... I have actually lost 1 pound since becoming pregnant, oh yeah, and I have given up my 1 hour/day workouts for 30 minute walks... hmmm. I know I shouldn't be piling away the pounds here, but something tells me I am a little off track. Anybody else go through this? Will it get better soon? I am seriously missing food right now.
Hang in there girl! The whole 2nd tri talk is true. You will notice almost immediately that you will oddly enough start to enjoy some of those things again :) Meat and veggies were on my list big time, but now they are back in my life (well for the most part - I still think of that boiled chicken smell while/after making a gumbo in my 9th week - sorry if I made you gag!):) Just eat what you can and know that in a few more weeks you will most likely feel much different. Yeah for a growing baby Carr!
ReplyDeleteThanks Steph for the encourging words! I truly hope there is an appetite on the horizon.
ReplyDeleteLOL! When I was pregnant with Sammy, for the first 6 months all I could eat was plain steel-cut oatmeal (no butter or anything) and peanut butter with a spoon from the jar with saltines. I could not even be in the same room with beef or pork. As for Sophia, all I could eat with her was the Lipton "Noodles and Sauce" packets. It does get better, and seriously, take the Zofran BEFORE you start feeling sick. I felt a lot better when I took it regularly instead of waiting to feel the first wave of nastiness.
ReplyDeleteThinking of you, and I enjoy reading your updates!