Healthy Pregnancy

[belfie]

this whole thread is just cracking me up - there's too many funnies to repeat them all... but just

Well my new achievements for today - got back to a proper 30 min walk & felt fine. Actually ate a whole dinner, also felt fine. Had my first "normal" #2 in a week (you needed to know that ) and felt fine. Ate some chocolate - FELT FINE! Woo hoo I love eating food again. Had a lovely healthy salad sandwich for lunch (ignore the KFC chips at shops before - but felt fine!)

So now I've just gotta remember to be healthy. I wanna make Cherished's biccies next, just gotta wait for my bananas to ripen.

Tomorrow I'm thinking - walk, porridge with blueberries, salad sandwich, le rice for a snack. Yum yum.

Dr. Tal - omg DH's family geez you poor thing!

[Cupcake]

Morning all you yummy mummies (to be..)

So you will all be extremely proud of me..DP took the car to work yesterday and i had a craving for curry so i WALKED the 2km to the shops & back to get the ingredients i needed...over hills and all...almost died but i did it!

I know 4km isnt much but from the nothing i have been doing to that..woah! LOL

Am off to get my GD test now...be good!

[Dr. Tal]

Belfie - DH's mother and sister are complete nut cases. That's probably the nicest thing that I could say about them. His father is absolutely lovely (probably the reason that the two of them are now divorced) but we don't get to see him anywhere near as much as either one of us would like.

Also WOOHOOO at the feeling fine! Although I have to say tsk tsk about you mentioning the KFC chips....now you've started me craving them....and there is a shop just down the road from work. It is going to take some serious will power now not to detour through there on my daily fruit run to the supermarket!

Kirsten - I think what they actually said was "Pumkin cake??!! Are you kidding me. You made a pumpkin birthday cake. What a load of C#$P. You don't actually expect us to like this do you" (insert the om nom nom eating sounds of the two of them stuffing their faces with my pumpkin cake here) "this is the most gross and disgustingly horribly birhday cake we've ever had" (insert more om nom nom eating sounds here followed by more insults I couldn't understand because they had too much cake stuffed in their mouths while saying them to hear clearly)

You keep making my mouth wate with all this talk of ice cream! I SO NEED to buy a thermomix!

[Kirsten]

Ammaki: oh yuk! I hated the GD test! Hope it goes ok for you. And 4kms is impressive - good on you!!!

Belfie: excellent work on the eating and walking and (sneaking in KFC chips)

Dr Tal: Oh my F#%@*g gawd! did they honestly say that, how can they be real people?????? Who would give insults to someone who had gone to the effort of making them a delicious pumpkin cake! Surely they are characters from a tv show about how horrible people would be if you surgically removed their manners and tact!! I would be feeding them dog poo cake from now on!!!....and locking them in a cage when they come over.....and poking them with sticks while they are in the cage...grrrrrr

and yes, you NEED a thermomix

[Cupcake]

Ammaki: oh yuk! I hated the GD test! Hope it goes ok for you. And 4kms is impressive - good on you!!!

I jsut read somewhere else that its gross too i cant drink gross things..i will vomit. Literally. Ahh this should be fun...

[Dr. Tal]

Ammaki - You must have posted while I was writing mine up.

WOOHOO for your walk! And 4km is quite a bit, especially considering you hadn't been doing any walking before that.

Good luck with your GD test. The stuff you have to drink is REALLY and I do mean REALLY sweet. I like my sweets but I just found it almost sickly!

Kirst - yes, they actually did say that. And a lot of other choice things too. Realistically I only tolerate them becasue of my DH. For whatever reason he's not ready yet to cut the ties and they know all the strings to pull to make him feel horrible and put the guilt trip on him, so I pull out all the strings and whistels so they can't make him feel guilty....although I have to give them credit, they certainly put in a good effort trying. I really enjoy cooking, so at least it wasn't too much of an impost to cook what I did. But it took me most of the day and I know DH was less them impressed with the way they insulted my food after all the time and effort I put in preparing it (which meant they weren't able to make him feel guilty ) I made all her favourite foods which included a lamb roast and both DH and I HATE lamb so they couldn't say that I only cooked it becasue one of us wanted it. I just look at it as they digging their own grave, so to speak. DH is finally seeing them for who they are, and the more they insult, act out and show their real colours the more they keep pushing him away. He might be able to take a lot, but everyone has a breaking point and they'll find his eventually.

[Cupcake]

Arg..how much of it is there?

[Dr. Tal]

Pretty sure it's about 300ml or so. I didn't find the taste bad. It just got too sweet for me. At fisrt it was okay, but by the end it was just really sweet. They give you about 10 minutes to drink it all though, so as long as you pace yourself you should be ok.

I coulnd't beleive how many calories it had either it was probably more then double the calories that are in a can of soft drink!

[Kirsten]

Ammaki: the drink was not toooooo bad itself, it was sweet and I don't really like sweet things. The place I went to gave it to me VERY cold, so some of the sweet edge was taken off. I didn't feel lovely after drinking it, it's like a massive sugar high and then afterwards I got the sugar come down, I didn't like it at all.

It tasted to me like a super charged lucozade. and is about 300mls as Dr Tal said.

Dr Tal: when your baby comes along, I think there might be opportunities for breaking points. Hopefully they keep pushing and being awful then. How awful for you to have to go through...I still think you need to install a cage for their visits!

[belfie]

Dr Tal - omg ILs from hell truly. I think Kirsten's remedy sounds excellent It does remind me of the time we cooked MIL brunch (mother's day) and she declared how BIL was so much a better cook and how it would have been better at his place... and I bothered why exactly?!?!?! I like your plan to let your DH slowly come to his senses, very smart.

Ammaki - GL with the test, i agree with the others - the drink is just sickly sweet but not that gross per se. I'll tell you what happened in mine AFTER you've had yours .

Well my porridge with cinnamon & blueberries was lovely, am planning my walk and lots of yummy great food today (and forget I ever mentioned that evil franchise food - it was disgusting and just tasted like stale fat)

[Cupcake]

Ok. Im back. Yep was 300ml tal. Tasted like lemonade to me although by the end of it i felt like i was going to vomit, then having to sit there for an hour..the aircon was broken so i was all hott and ew. Then a lady came in with her little baby and we got to chatting, so time went a bit quicker.

Probably didnt help all id eaten was a mandarine & apple. Am now eating wheetbix as i feel i need something to soak up the sugar LOL not sure if it will work but darn it im trying!

What happened to you belfie? Im glad you waited! Haha

[belfie]

haha Ammaki - glad it all went well. When I did the 2 hr fasting test, I sat there for an hour & a half then spewed the drink up EVERYWHERE in a waiting room full of ppl. I stuffed up the test. And then cos I felt so sick after fasting, I sat waiting for hubby in the waiting room full of ppl (with big gaps on either side of me) and promptly ate a muesli bar. The looks on their faces were priceless! She spewed and now she's eating MORE!!??!!

Then I ended up having BSL monitoring anyway (cos the results they managed to get weren't great) and turned out to have GD. My endocrinologist said he'd never had anyone spew so late in the test (apparently if you're not gonna tolerate it, you usually spew straight away, but that's not common). They think it's to do with my fructose malabsorption maybe too, so thank goodness they didn't make me do it again. I'm petrified of doing it this time lol!

Geez I do nothing but talk about vomiting! Ok gotta run, hope everyone's having a great day.

[Cupcake]

LOL i have to say i dont think i was far off vomiting! But how embarassing. I was scanning the room for somewhere to do it tho...it was either the garbage bin or a dash out the door to the garden!

[Kirsten]

Ammaki: sounds like you did ok, did you get all shaky and freaked out? I did! afterwards I ate a toasted cheese sandwich because I was starving and I wanted something not sweet to soak up sweetness too

Belfie: That sounds awful, are they going to try the test again on you this time? (tasted like stale fat because it is made from stale fat - gross!!) I like that you talk about vomiting - someone's gotta be the vomit talker, just like someone has to be the poo talker (usually me )

Well I went for an even bigger walk this morning, about an hour, and had 2 boiled eggs and home made bread and left over pumpkin soup for lunch, I am now all full and sleepy.

[Cupcake]

I only got shaky when the needles came out! Lol i hate having blood taken! I still cant shake the feeling of sick tho, so im eating a lot of carbs at the moment trying to soak up all the sweetness, is that crazy? made sense in my head!

[Kirsten]

It's exactly what I did with carbs! I hate needles too, I avoid them as much as I can!!!

[Dr. Tal]

Belfie - I'll join you on the vomit talk. I didn't say it before because I didn't want to scare Ammiki. I held it down long enough for them to take my bloods (1 hour) then made a made dash from the collection room and NEARLY made it to the bathroom. Nearly doesn't seem to count much when vomit is involved though. I managed to projectile it all over the door into the toilets and pretty much halfway down the hallway as well. I was very proud of myself for holding it in until after my blood test though (insert proud icon here) I have to say it was a rather impressive vomit as well....even for me! I've been getting a lot of practice with my M/S...which incidentally seems to have come on in full force today...haven't been able to keep a thing down for more then twenty minutes yet today

Ammaki - at you soaking up the sweetness with carbs

Kirst - I had left soup for lunch today as well, but mine was the sweet potato and garlic....yum! And I think I can add an extra yum vote to it becasue I got to eat it twice and it tasted the same going out as it did going in....which is quite a bonus. A good majority of my meals revolve around, not only what the food tastes like going in, but how horrible it ends up tasting on the inevitable exit. Curries are a DEFINITE no go...they turn SUPER SUPER acidic VERY VERY quickly. Banana mango smooties on the other hand...made with organic all natural yoghurt and sweetened with a bit of honey or maple syrup...YUM...both ways!

[Kirsten]

at tasting food going in and out I am so loving this thread 3 cheers for cherished Hip hip - HOORAY, hip hip HOORAY hip hip HOORAY!