Been terrible today. Woke up shockingly bad tempered and hormonal (poor DH bore the brunt of it), work hasn't been fab and so I've blown out with some really unhealthy comfort foods.
Tomorrow is a new day.
Been terrible today. Woke up shockingly bad tempered and hormonal (poor DH bore the brunt of it), work hasn't been fab and so I've blown out with some really unhealthy comfort foods.
Tomorrow is a new day.
OK. I have to come clean. I was ssoooo desperate for something sugary last night, and I don't keep junk food in the house (and all the kids were asleep in bed so I couldn't go out and buy something) - sssooooo I got a spoon and the packet of icing sugar and sat down and ate some. :redface:
I still tracked it all in my food journal, and managed to stay within my allowance - but it is still a bit shameful.
I am going well today, Having only eaten healthy and filling foods. FX i stay on track tonight. No idea what I am going to do for dinner. I don't feel like cooking, and take-away isn't very apealling or very healthy. Any suggestions for something not too bad which take NO prepration on my part? Feeling seriously lazy at the moment.
Hi girls,
Thought Id join this thread if thats ok!
Ive just gone 5 weeks and this is my 2nd pregnancy. My first was IVF and this one was natural :dance: which came as a BIG surprise!
I gained lots during IVF and my first pregnancy. I then got back down to 100kgs but it slowly crept back up again. I finally decided that this is it and in January this year I joined Jenny Craig. Lost 10 kgs with them which was GREAT but then I found the food to get a bit monotonous so decided to try BodyTrim which is a high protein/low carb diet. I lost another 2 kgs on that before falling pregnant. So Im now weighing in at
102 kgs and Im only 5ft 3 so not very tall!
I had high blood pressure last pregnancy and ended up on medication. I am DESPERATELY trying not to gain much weight this time around as I found it really difficult last time with all the extra, extra weight.
After having my son, my ob told me that he would "ideally" like me to be 85kgs if I fell pregnant again...oops! This pregnancy wasnt planned and I did hope to lose some more weight but things happen and Im WRAPPED to have fallen pregnant naturally when the odds were against me :D
I too am trying to eat healthily and have made home-made soups the last 2 weeks which I have been eating for lunch. For brekky I generally eat 2 pieces of toast with either vegemite or make a toasted sandwich with ham and cheese. I try to eat a piece of fruit for morning and afternoon tea and dinner, well thats whatever I can be bothered cooking, lol. No...Ive been trying to eat plenty of veggies with some sort of protein for dinner. With all the diets I have been on, I know what the healthy options are and its just a matter of choosing them and sticking to it!
Im not good with drinking water and know I need to increase my intake and need to do some regular exercise too.
Its nice to have other girls to share this with. :D
Last night wound up having tom yum soup for dinner. Was pretty tasty actually, and since my innards are mostly squashed I was full after entree size.
Having vegemite cravings today, so vegemite toast for breakfast and a vegemite/cheese roll for lunch.
No prep, healthy and tasty? Hmmm, tough call unless you can hook up with a good thai place that does a fresh chicken stir-fry. Something like ginger chicken or chicken lemongrass is really yum, and it's all veggies/meat (and a little rice if you like, but some days I skip that) with soy based sauces rather than oils. Hmmm, come to think of it, I could go with that for dinner myself if I can be bothered digging out my wok.
Hi Miss Magpie - congrats on the pregnancy! More than welcome to join us.
i'm not having a good day today. cake for morning tea.:wall:
burger this arvo and half the chips
now pizza. whats happening to me today :boohoo:
hi all,
Sorry I havent checked in in a while, jut being a tad too busy!
So my diet is all over the place. Thankfully chocolate and most sweets still make me sick which is helping, but my diet is still very limited. I still cant do meat, pasta and rice are out and so are most cooked foods.
But generally
breakfast is weetbix, with milk and brown sugar.
lunch is a sandwich or rice cakes, depending on how Im feeling,
and dinner has been yoghurt with fruit.
Snacks are normally fruit or some cheese.
So all in all Im not doing to bad, thankfully the census work is keeping me pretty busy so Im getting heaps of exercise. So far Ive lost 4kgs, which is 2kgs off my starting weight with dd2. :D
But Im over being sick, and right now I confess Im sitting here enjoying a rather large glass of lemonade. Its the first time this pregnancy that I have being able to stomach the taste and I felt like something special..
By the looks of things everyone seems to be doing well overall. Afterall we all have oopsy days! :lol:
not too bad today.
an up'n'go for brekky with a small banana (pricey, but worth it!) then half a sandwich and some soup and juice for lunch, a naughty custard scroll for arvo tea, and sausages with salad for dinner.
bedtime for me. The m/s is so heavily reduced if I pack in a good 9-10 hours per nigh ...
but for healthy and minimal effort, can you stomach those lean cuisine type meals? not the greatest, but the thai curry ones for eg is only 3 points or something... as is the cottage pie WW one...?
i really felt sick all day yesterday and hardly ate anything. half my lunch and half a small bowl of chicken and veggie soup for dinner. just felt sick all day and even untill 12.30 this morning i was awake feeling sick ?!
i had a nice breaky though as i am feeling ebtter this morning. chicken sausages with tomato, mushroom and egg. i hope i keep feeling good today.
I am going off track again... sigh. Weekends are not my friend, nor is a messy house and a lack of motivation.
DH gets home late sunday night (so really, monday morning), so FX things are easier again once he is home and can pick up a bit of the slcak with the kids. He has next week off work - so I plan on letting him do everything for the week; I need a holiday, pity we cann't afford for me to actually go anywhere at the moment.
misty: yeah for a break, i am sure it'll be just what you need. btw i loved your thing about getting into the icing sugar. lol . so cute and funny. but as you said it's another day so keep moving forward.
afm: well i have been good ! can you believe it ?!. but i made some yummy chicken brest snitzels with stem veg last night. still not leating much only ate half my dinner but i figure why eat when i am not hungry ?
still getting sick most days
:-(
i also made some exra yummy tassie salmon dip. it's cooked salmon and i use low fat phyllie cheese also and have it with rice crackers. mmmmmmmmmmmmmm so so yum and healthy.
keep up the good work guys.
chat soon
Hi everone,
Blahh... I look forward to DH coming home, and yet now he is here, I am still just as exhausted and now I am annoyed and cranky at DH. Seriously, it is like he is going out of his way to irriatate me (although I know it is unintentional), and I am feeling like I have somehow gained an extra child to nag! What is the point in him being there if I heave to tell him to do every single little thing, and usally have to repeat myself at least three times before he actually does it! Gah. He just doesn't think before he does stuff (like stirring up the kids so that the get in trouble, or waking me up for a cuddle because he is awake - forget that I am exhausted and need sleep; and of course when I get grumpy at him for it, I am the mean one, because he just wanted to cuddle!). I could go on and on, but I won't. It is just super frustrating, because I am at the end of my rope, and he is usually (mostly) very good at taking the pressure off and giving me a break. But it is like he has 'forgotten' how to do everything (and how not to do everything).
And he has gone way off track with his eating - and despite waking up every morning and saying he is going to count points today, he somehow doesn't and eats crap, and makes poor choices, and that makes it just that much harder for myself to do the right thing.
I am glad to have him back, but I wish he would realise that just because he is not at work, does not mean he is on holiday.
Hello everyone!
I had my weigh in with my ob today. Very happy, I have overall maintained for the past 4 weeks (500g loss today from my weigh in 4 weeks ago). Of course I have celebrated with licking the cake bowl and having Turkish for dinner. :lol: And tomorrw is my DS2 birthday, so we are having a big family dinner at the Italian place tomorrow night. But aside from that I have still been making healthy choices - and I will be completely back on track with sticking to my ProPoints allowance as of Saturday morning.
My next weigh in is 2.5 weeks away, so I my goal is to simply look at the next 2.5weeks and again maintain for that period. :)
Week has actually been pretty decent for me - been off work on leave just having a break, so have been eating a lot better. Been having a thing for salad the last couple of days, which doesn't hurt either :)
Next appt with my ob is next week, so will have to see how I've gone.
i have been good and i got some preg bathers today so i will be starting aqua next week. i have to take it easy after my little bleed a few weeks ago but the midwife said this would be great for me to do.
i have been eating well. need to do a weigh in tomorrow.
good luck to all
Hi ladies,
Ive been pretty good.. Well its hard to be bad when anything naughty makes me sick!
But I had an ob appt this week and for once in my life I love the scales!!! For a while there I was getting frustrated with my weightloss, according to my scales I hadnt lost any weight in weeks, and in fact I had put on a kilo... But at the ob's I had actually lost weight, and I am now at the same weight I was at before I got pregnant with DD2!!!!! Which also means that in 5 weeks I have lost 6 kilos!!!!!
But on the downside, Im ony allowed to gain 4 kilos this pregnancy, but Im positive I can do that! :D
BeansBeans - WooHoo!!!! that is excellent! Good on you! :) You can definitely stay within that 4kgs over your pregnancy if you work at it. Just don't look at the long term so much as breacking it up into smaller goals. I make each goeal between midwives / doctors appointments - and just focus on maintaining / loosing for that time period. Worry about the next block of time when it comes up.
JBM - Yay on the pregnant bathers. I have a pair from my second pregnancy, but unfortunately they are a size 10 - so I have no hope of fitting in them, and cann't justify going out and getting more when I only have 8 weeks left, and this is my last pregnancy.
Cranky Kitten good to hear you have had a good week.
AFM - I have already stuffed up today. I woke up and had a HUGE bowl of just right (11ProPoints by the time I added milk!) - not that bad, I could still work with that. But then I saw the left over birthday cake from my DS2's birthday yesterday, and I am ashamed to say, I had not one, but TWO very VERY large peices. And now I feel sick from overeating crappy junk food. 20 ProPoints blown on cake. Blah. What was I thinking?!?!? I am suppose to be eating about 35ProPoints worth of food in an entire day!!!! And here I have eaten 31 already, and it isn't even 11o'clock! Bummer to have to use up all my extra weekly ProPoints on the first day of my tracking week. :( On the bright side, at least I have all those weekly ProPoints there to use, otherwise I would be screwed.
Well, girls I think I should be joining you. only just pg (haven't got GP referral to obs yet) and I'm already about 6kgs over what I was when I fell pg with DS (I was 94ish then now 100ish) :redface: I know I'm classed as obese for my height (160cm). I've been using my pedometer (aim for 9000 a day atm) and tracking this online (great site walking with attitude - has walking challenges) so that I can try and be stable/lose weight. I was intending to lose more before falling pg but ... hey we are pg now so going to have to manage. I'm hoping that I'll manage not to put too much on this time. Last time round I lost all the weight I put on in the first couple of weeks after birth but I'm hoping that I won't need to be losing too much afterwards this time round.
Food choices for me are not that good always; main problem is I don't do salads - I can't stand the crunch (and taste) of salad veges. Last pg I could barely stand crunchy stirfry veg :rolleyes: Hoping to not have that problem this time round. I also need to work on portion control. Be back later but need to try to get DS to sleep so I can finish writing job applications that are due on Monday/early next week...
Hello Leckert. :) Not liking crunchy vege could certainly make things more difficult, but not impossible. Maybe you could do some warm salads, where the vege is cooked first, or just get you vege intake from cooked vege at mealtimes and fill up with fruit at other times of the day. Good luck with it all. :)
misty: we all have slip ups every now and then. another day and you can keep moving forward. :-)
AFM: well i have been sort of good. i did have bread today with homemade chick and corn soup, the bread was low GI but i had 2 slices. i had 2 eggs and half an apple for breaky this morn so that was good.
i will be doing my aqua on thur so i'll get some extra exercise then. and pregnastics on friday to work out my legs an importantly my pelvic floor. so off to a good week.
chat soon
good luck to all. this is a new week. we can be good. :-)
Well yesterday I was fabulous (even if I do say so myself) and I now feel back on track and in control. I made DH give the rest of the birthday cake to the dogs last night. :lol: I was so tempted by it, and knew if it was still there I would cave at somepoint, so I told DH to give it to the dogs, and OMG he didn't even hesitate, he just threw it all out in the backyard! Is it sad to admit that even though I was the one to tell him to do it, I was still a little sad to see it happen. Gosh, the silly emotional attahcments we form with food, hey?
Hhhhmmm.....soup. Yummmo. I should make a big batch myself in the slow cooker. I haven't made soup for at least a couple of months and have heaps of veges in the fridge that are starting to wilt a little.
Hello everyone,
I haven't been tracking for the past 2 days. Haven't gone completely crazy with what I am eating, but certainly have been much more lax then I should be. So I need to get back on track as of today. Which is kinda scary, because it is friday and tomorrow is the weekend - and I always struggle a bit more on the weekend. But I NEED to get back on track, because I am worried that I am starting to get complacent because I am getting so close to the end - but that is just even more reason to stick with it and be healthy; because I would hate to throw away all my good work and effort this close to the 'finish' line.
How is everyone else going? I hope you are all not checking in because you are doing fabulously and don't need support (not because you are like me and avoiding this thread because youfeel guilty).
Hey :)
We all get a little lax from time to time, and wow Misty, you're well and truly on the home stretch now! Best time to make sure you're eating healthily in these last few weeks so you've got plenty of energy stored up for the birth.
I've been pretty terrible this last week or so, not from over-eating (barely eating anything at the moment) but because what I do eat isn't particularly healthy. Looking for soft foods that aren't soup or overly saucy as I had a tooth pulled yesterday and the pain is still pretty bad. On the plus side, checked in with my ob on Wednesday just gone and still haven't gained any.
i am feeling fat today. really looking pregnant and feeling gross. i have been mostly good with eating. if i eat too much or junk i feel very sick which is stopping me from doing it again. prob a good thing hey.
good luck to all
I'm just making sure I get close to my 9000 steps a day (more likely to be in the 8000s though); had a bit of the niggling nausea too (the kind where you know it's there but not enough to hurl); feeling full quite easily too already so this could get interesting (particularly seeing that I'm only around 4/5 weeks I think).
I know that feeling, caught sight of myself in the mirror.. BLEGH. Not that I seem to have put on much weight but I've gone all jiggly and its gross. I haven't been weighing myself beucase my OB has never said 'you must be this weight' but still. GAH.:
I feel like a glowing potato mostly LOL
I'm still vomiting lots, and basically happy whenever I can manage to eat stuff ... but have managed to gain a kilo?? WTF??
Anyway, at the moment am mostly wanting meat and potato and orange juice ... but not always managing to keep it down.
lolpigs: yeah i have a weight that i can't go over but havn't weighedmyself for a couple of weeks. will do it asap. lol. yeah know how you feeling looking at self and thinking who is that woman with the extra big boobs and fat tummy ? LOL. good luck to you
peanut butter: hope the vomiting stops soon. eek.
AFM:
going to do weigh in this week i think i need to do it. i have strainedmy groin weeding soprob even less exercise this week . grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
trying to be good. x x o o
I'm sorry if this is too OT but I thought it was worth posting here instead of a new thread. I have been really good with food this pregnancy and have been lucky enough to lose weight as time has gone by - however I am noe having massive cravings for coke. I hate diet so it's not an option but might there be an explanation for why all of a sudden I am craving something I have detested most of this pregnancy!!??!! It's driving me mad and I am really trying to keep my weight under control for the remainder of my gestation.
Don't know really - they say the craving being the result of something you're lacking in your diet thing is a bit of a myth unless we're talking about pica (non-food stuff) which is an actual medical condition, but I tend to get random cravings for all kinds of weird things that I don't like that are only relieved by having a little of whatever I'm craving.
I don't like diet coke either, maybe coke zero might be ok? Otherwise keep it to a small bottle (390ml) and see if that takes the edge off?
Hi everyone,
I am not too keen on diet coke, but LOVE coke zero (tastes much more like 'real' coke. The funny thing is that I usually go completely off all caffinated drinks whilst pregnant - cann't tolerate the stuff for some reason. And whilst I was like that at the begining of this pregnancy, I am now craving the stuff - and not bottled / canned coke zero - but the syrup stuff you get from Macca's!!! (which I usually don't like). I have been buying one almost everyday! When usually I would be lucky to have one can of softdrink in a week while not pregnant. At least it isn't chocolate, or I would be even bigger, and I already feel the size of a blimp.
JBM - I hope your injury gets better soon.
misty: thanks for that, it is just so frustrating when your body won't do what you want to do ?. lol hope your coke addiction gets better soon. lol.
crankykitten: yeah cravings ?, who really understands them ?. not me. i was wanting roast meat and vegies with gravy. i want savory stuff and i am normally a sweets person. and i got some cheesecake the other day ( my all time fav dessert) and i felt sick after eating it. then the next day couldn't even eat it and put it back in the fridge. DH said i must be "VERY "sick .good luck to you
AFM: well i had an egg with a mushroom and a little baked beans for breaky. still not done weigh in yet. maybe scared of what my scales might say ?. am starting to pop out more and DH said i look pregnant now. feeling it too.
still sore and walking hurts but trying to be good with eating.
i said tyring. not always perfect. LOL
chat soon and good luck to all.
hello!
I have been eating pretty badly today ...
2 slices of raisin toast with marg and an apple and OJ for brekky (not too bad) but have eaten 3 little packs of shapes for morning tea with mineral water ... keep on needing to munch on things to keep the m/s at bay!
am trying to have chamomille tea instead, and have 2 apples on my desk, but they don't look as appealing as the rest of the little packs of shapes hiding in my drawer ...
maybe I'll just have my lunch (beef & potato soup) early ...
I'm thinking I should definitely have lost a bit at my next checkup - I've barely been eating anything because of my sore mouth. And then when I have managed, it gets hit with m/s and I puke....*sigh*
Suggestions for healthy soft food that isn't soup?
do you like rice pudding, or stew?
chilli con carne (maybe very mild, if your mouth is sore) or pastabake or savoury mince with noodles...
soft healthy food that isn't soup..... rissotto? sorry pregnant brain, cann't really think of any.
Well I slurged a bit last night and got turkish for dinner - not that bad really, but I did eat more turkish bread and carrot dip then I should have. But it has all been tracked in my food journal and accounted for. I have been good today so far, but I am sooo exhausted and DH is at army reserves tonight, so I have to do school pick up and handle the kids myself tonight (ie, dinner, bath, bed). Fingers crossed the kids are well behaved - because when I am tired and stressed is when I tend to overeat; and there is still turkish bread and dip in the kitchen...
OK. So I have been naughty, and off track lately. And I am paying the price for it. I weigh in at the midwives on wed and I have gained 2kgs since my last weigh in (according to my scales), and because I have been eating junky packaged foods (with high salt content) rather then healthy fresh food, I have suddenly in the past 2 days been blown up with fluid. I hadn't had a problem with fluid rentention until now.
But I am back again, and determined to eat healthy once more. I am hoping this fluid will dissapear once I start eating better again - and hopefully some of the weight it brought with it. I'm not sure it will improve before my midwives appointment on wednesday, but I just feel so uncomfortable and swollen, I will just be happy if it goes down at all. Less then 6 weeks left to until my EDD. Keep me strong until then girls!
did a weigh in on weekend
and so far it is 4 kg i have gained
is that o.k ?
i feel very fat now and looking pregnant !!
chat soon to all
4kg sounds reasonable.
Did your doc or midwives give you an indication of how much you should be gaining for this pregnancy? Because it will vary depending on where you are starting from.
the doc said i can go up to 108 kg as that is just under BMI of 35 for my height and that gives me another 13 kg to go. i put on 14 kg with DS 1 about 16 kg with DS 2 and 19 kg with DS 3, so i thnk it is achievable. but all my babies are big and they don't take that into account. they were between 4 kg and 4.5 kg each and all early too. i'm trying to be in control of what i am eating and i am eating less than before preg so that must be good, but doing heaps less due to strains and pains and bleeding ? so prob evens out
Hello everyone,
How did we all handle fathers day?
I induldged a bit (some of DH's chocolates in the morning, and homemade lasanga for dinner - the lasanga wasn't that bad, because I made it and could control what was in it, but I did have a double helping ;) ). But I still managed to stay on track and just worked these induldgences into my eating plan. Very happy about that. :)
I weighed in this morning and have lost alot of the weight I had gained last week (retained alot of fluid last week, which seems to have mostly disappeared) - so things are going well on that front too. I have a midwives appointment on wednesday - soo no doubt they will weigh me in on their scales again, so I can see if there is any real difference.