I'm hoping they stick around too! So far it's been green veg and plenty of protein, plus lots of milk. Trying not to go overboard with the milk though, sticking to one glass a day. I am trying to increase my red meat intake a bit as I've gone right off it lately and having more chicken, but that's probably not so great for my iron levels.
I am thinking about a physio led aquanatal class to try and get some more exercise happening, but not really sure how that'd go with SPD?
CK - I think gentle swimming of aqua areobics should be alright with my SPD, but the problem is getting there - I cann't make any of the classes that are available, because I don't have anywhere to dump the kids when they are on. I have thought about just going to the pool myself and doing gental exercises - but haven't been able to fit it in with DH working late hours and he is dissapearing for 3 weeks at the end of this week. Walking has always been my exercise of choice. Pre-pregnancy it wasn't unusual for me to walk about 15kms each day. But I definitely cann't match even close to that at the moment.
Peanutter - the more the merrier. It is so hard to find support sometimes - I definitely need some people I can be completely honest with about how I am going and how I am feeling about my weight. So much of my weight issues are due to emotional eating, and when I am pregnant I am definitely more emotional then normal.
I had a similar problem before it all went wrong. Overweight with SPD. The thing about eating is to have the nutrients for 2 not the volume. So that meant no junk food, reducing refined sugar and wheat foods and increasing things like brown rice, quinoa (high protein & calcium), fresh vegies etc. I used the Brewer diet for tips on what to eat as well. Good nutrition is essential for placenta health as well and the Brewer diet is good for that. There are some great 'superfoods' like chia and quinoa that can be added to porridge etc. A good book on pregnancy nutrition is Feeding the Bump.
Wrt exercise, sitting on a fitball using hand weights, clinical pilates & aqua mums classes, all adjusted for having SPD. At the end of my pregnancy with DS1 they only thing I could cope with was gentle hydro sessions. I gained a total of 8kg for that whole pregnancy.
Just wanted to let you know that with my second pregnancy I managed to weigh exactly the same at full term as what I did when I fell pregnant and it was wholy attributed to the fact that I got gestational diabetes and had to follow a low GI diet. I had 5 small low GI meals per day. So maybe it's worth sticking to a Low GI diet. Your hospy should be able to give you a booklet about low GI eating (the ones they give to the GDM mums).
Not too shabby really - having cravings for vegemite at the moment, so wholemeal muffins have been keeping that at bay without resorting to white bread, which wound up counting for both breakfast and lunch cause that was all I felt like eating.
Dinner is going to be chicken with a little mashed potato and steamed veggies.
just updating how i am going with my weight.
I am writing doen everything i am eating, still wearing my pedometer,^6000 steps per day min. started pregnastics ( exercise classes for pregnant ladies at the hospital run by the physio dept) also trying to walk more, parking furthur away etc and getting a few extra steps in each day.
I was so good today as i so so wanted a bag of lollies but i got come chcken and i am making apricot chicken for dinner, it's in the slow cooker now. mmmmmmmmmmmm. i felt so good to make a good choice and i got no junk, no chips, no choc bics, i was strong.
i have been eating less and trying to be better with some psyllium husks and chia seeds to help me be more regular and fill me up more. i have halved my sugar ( half teaspoon) in my herbal tea and cutting out milk milo.
so i think i step in the right direction.
JBM - WooHoo on skipping the lollies!! It can be soooo hard sometimes cann't it. (especially if you are anything like me and get to thinking "I deserve it.")- you sound like you have things under control at the moment.
CK - I Looovvee vegemite, but I try to avoid bread more often nowdays because I tend to eat too much once I get started (unless it is the very very grainy stuff), I like my vegemite on 9-Grain Vitawheat. Yummy.
Peanutter - Hate the heartburn. I only ever get it when I am pregnant. I constantly have a pack of rennie tablets on me. But (surprise, surprise) I find when I mostly stick to the healthy fresh produce (ie, fresh fruit vege and meat) then I don't get it as often. My guilty indulgance that sets off the heartburn horribly (but I am so bad at saying 'no' too) is this walnut and capsicum dip from the local turkish place. Very oily. And the heartburn is horrendous.
I went to check out Costco today with my dad who is a member (it has recently opened here in Canberra), and I have decided I definitely have to get myself membership. Only I am definitely going to have to avoid the lollie aisle! OMG!!! I could go crazy in there, and everything is bulk - so if you buy a packet of lollies it is a HUGE packet of lollies.
Poo - I'm running out of my lovely macadamia muesli that I sprinkle on top of my porridge in the morning. Going to have to get some more, because it keeps me full, tastes delicious and prevents me from adding skads of sugar
Milo is one of my other little indulgences, but I do try to restrict myself to one glass per day of low fat milk plus the little bit for my breakfast. Am otherwise going nuts for cherries at the moment, thank goodness for winter season produce meaning I can have them and not pay an arm and a leg
I love milo, but we don't buy it in this house because my DH cann't stop himself from eating it all. He will get a glass three quarters full of milo and one quarter full of milk.
Registered User
Reply With Quote
Bookmarks