>I’m in the Mood for Food
>Three months ago, if you’d looked in my grocery cart, you would’ve seen lots of fresh fruit and vegetables, whole grain breads, orange juice, waters, milk and lean cuts of meat.
Yesterday, you would’ve seen Krispy Kreme donut holes, Rainbow Deluxe cookies, cheddar and mozzarella cheese twists, ice cream, Valentine’s Day chocolates, Sprites and chocolate milk. Oh and a carton of California rolls, to keep it “healthy.”
With only five weeks until my rendezvous with the maternity ward, junk food never tasted so good.
It’s like the guilt switch has been flipped off for just a little while and I’m not just free, but actually compelled to eat whatever I want. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup craving? Coffee with Creme Brulee-flavored cream? A slice of chocolate cake? Hell, yeah! Who am I to deny my unborn child’s needs?
And it’s not like this hasn’t happened before. The last time around, I was basically having an affair with Edy’s Grand Double Fudge Brownie Ice Cream for the entire ninth month of my pregnancy. That ice cream knew how to treat a girl right, let me tell you.
I didn’t have much time for Edy’s right after the baby was born, but one month post partum, I treated myself to a carton after having lost 30 pounds (don’t ask me how it happened- to this day, I’m mystified about how that 30 pounds escaped and where it went). Eagerly, I took a first bite, ready to reclaim what we’d once had. And it was…. okay.
I mean, it was ice cream. Good ice cream. But it wasn’t much better than any other ice cream I’d ever eaten. Edy and I never really got together again after that. We’d see each other in the grocery from time to time and make eye contact, but it was clear to both of us that the spark was gone.
This time around, I’ve played the field a little more. One week, it’s La Creme Yogurt. The next, it might be Chips Ahoy. I don’t want anyone looking for a long term commitment, you know? Hubs hasn’t seemed to mind. Instead, he’s let the image of me cramming McDonalds cheeseburgers down my throat inspire him to lose 17 pounds on the Atkins diet.
“If I can lose one more half-pound tonight,” he told me this morning, “then tomorrow morning, you’ll wake up with the man you married.”
I paused between bites of a breakfast burrito. Suddenly, it all became clear. Hubs must be trying to lose weight as I gain, hoping beyond hope that for one glorious moment in time, not only will we be soul mates, but we’ll also weigh exactly the same amount!
Funny, it’s not exactly the Valentine’s Day present I had in mind.
>I :::adore::: the creme brulee creamer! Truly a gift to the mortals from someone great.
>Enjoy your food! You deserve it!
>Five weeks and counting? I think that earns you a fair amount of junk food 😉
>FIVE WEEKS? Didn’t you just announce you were pregnant like yesterday or something???
>During both of my pregnancies I craved Sonic chocolate malts and Krispy Kremes. Mmmm. Pregnancy was the only time in my life that I let myself eat whatever, whenever I wanted, and it was fabulous! (And could be why I gained 55 lbs. each time.)Wow, I agree with the others, it seems like just yesterday you were announcing you’re PG!
>Enjoy those Krispy Kremes – now I’m hungry!I had a pink thing going when I was pregnant. One week it was raspberry sherbet, next week watermelon, then watermelon jello, followed by strawberry freezes. By the way, I had a boy, in spite on the pink.
>I have the misfortune of living a block away from a Dunkin Donuts. When I was pregnant with The Boy, I walked there everyday (Ok… sometimes I drove) to get a Boston Creme donut! And I also had the McDonald’s cravings… it’s like crack!Best of luck with the last 5 weeks. Around this point, I was bargaining with my unborn child to get him to come out!
>Happy Valentine’s Day to the hottest woman on the planet. May all your eating fantasies come true today.
>And now it’s Valentine’s Day and I can wish a happy day to the one person who just may eat a guilt-free pound of chocolate. Enjoy!
>Mine was Cold Stone Creamery…they put WHATEVER YOU WANT in your ice cream (me: marshmallows, chocolate pieces…sometimes cherries…ALWAYS brownies). I ate that at least three times a week…I had to BURN the first 30 pounds off and I’m left with 20. But, oh, that was some good ice cream! Perfect for a prego. I decided if I ever get pregnant again, I want it to be at Christmas time so I can eat all the cookies I want and my whole family will say “Honey, you’re not fat, you’re PREGNANT!”
>Yummy!By my 35 week of pregnancy, my husband and I weighed exactly the same.By week 36 I weighed more than him.By the time I gave birth in week 41, I was officially the big man on campus. He feared me and the smackdown I could lay on him.Thank goodness I shrank. Good luck chicka!
>I gained 43 pounds both times I was pregnant. I ate breakfast, lunch, snacks, and two plates of dinner. I didn’t have the urge to eat like that after I gave birth, either, and shrank back down to my skinny self.Anyone who says you’re not eating for two is nuts. It just happens.
>I have hyperemesis with my pregnancies so I am not able to eat much when I am pregnant as it all comes right back up. When pregnant I literally live off of the same 5-6 foods that I know will stay down. But, once that baby is born and the hyperemesis goes away I am like the human vaccuum cleaner. After my first son was born I ate everything I had missed for 9 months- I wouldn’t put the fork down. I ate junk and I ate really good food, it didn’t matter what it was as long as it looked and tasted good. This little eating binge went on from May to December and only stopped because none of my clothes would fit and I was starting to get dangerously close to the plus size zone. When I finally went to Weight Watchers in January I discovered that I gained 25lbs on top of the 30lbs I needed to lose before I got pregnant! It was so hard to lose my extra weight because no one informed me that a body starved for 9 months will hold on to every single stinking calorie it gets. Now that I am about to give birth to baby #2 (you can get here any day now kid) I decided to do things a bit smarter. I wrote out a big list of foods that I will eat in the first month of my baby’s life. Seriously, my list is hanging on my fridge just waiting to be put to use for after my delivery. The hardest thing to decide is what exactly I am going to eat first and do I eat it at the hospital or wait until I get home so I can have the leftovers too? After the first month of eating what I want then I am going back to the healthy eating plan I was on before I got pregnant with the second child. I normally love food but when I have it taken away from me I get even more obsessed and crazy about it.
>My husband did that to me with our second baby. I’m surprised we’re still married. Have fun with all that evil food!Laura, that’s why diets never work!
>I envy you. I am on the homestretch of my third pregnancy, and at this stage, my heartburn is too bad for me to enjoy most foods. Coffee, chocolate and coke are my enemy. The only upside is that alcohol does not even look tempting anymore.