I am officially 2 months pregnant as of yesterday and I have to say, pregnancy has not been fun so far. I have had days of eating too much, back pain, and cramps.
As for the eating, I decided to stop weighing, but continue to count calories. They say you need 300 more calories per day when you are pregnant. Say what? That woudl bring me to 1800 per day. That sounds so crazy to be because I lost weight when I first started JC on 1700! I realize now that most all bets are off when it comes to diet as I knew it pre-pregnancy. I am tracking my calories every day still and seem to be somewhere between 1500 - 1800 per day. It's been difficult to get into a slightly different mindset about food after the past 2 1/2 years of diet and exercising.
Oh, that's the other things, so far my dreams of being Mz. fit and pregnant are slightly fading. Because of my back pain and cramping, I have been told, and quickly figured out, that I need to chill much more than I anticipated. Here we go - y et another lesson in things I can't control.
I supposed this really is preperation for motherhood. Go with the flow.
Fortunately, the time I spend pregnant in my overall lifetime is a tiny speck. I know I will have plenty of time to get back into my weights, etc. post baby born.
At the organic health food store yesterday, which I should visit more often because it's cool, I found some HEALTH VALLEY NO SALT ADDED lentil soup! I bought it at a higher price, but I can't wait to try it!
I would say JC food and stuff is in the middle of the continuium. Meaning, before JC my eating habits were atrocious now they are pretty good - no pretty darn good - but making the move to organic and fresh would be the opposite side of where I started. It seems like a natural progression.
Yesterday I picked up some organic dark chocolate cherries - YUMMO! DH loved them! I also got some ground flaxseed (health Omega 3) to begin incorporating in my yogurt and stuff.
Oh yeah -and on a kinda similar note DH & I are taking out long term insurance. That's what kicks in if you need any kind of custodial care, home health care - all the stuff the most regular insurance does NOT pay for. It feels good to take control of our future and give ourselves more choices and because we are 35 - the rates are so cheap! We are living longer and our government is not designed to take care of us - MEDICAD is a paydown system designed so that the poorest of us can get nursing home care - but there really isn't anything for the average joe. We have to take care of this. I am also impressed that it doesn't have to kick in at a certain age. OK - off soapbox!
Well, I allowed my extrapounds super subscription to expire. No big deal.
I finally tried the new Jenny Craig cajun chicken and rice (aka jambalya). It was pretty darn good! I am hooked on those store bought soups like Healthy Choice and Campbells Healthy Select. Question: How much sodium is acceptable in these soups? I would seem to be that anything over 1,000mg is too much? Does anyone have a number they try to keep their canned soups under? I would appreciate it! Thanks!
JC has a new slammin' website. I like the videos. Videos rock on the success stories. It kinda doesn't matter to me how someone loses weight, I just like hearing about it because for the most part it sucks and it's nice to know I am not alone. I know that may sound negative, but I prefer - realistic.
This week has been wierd. I have a family member again and in the hospital and it's time to start thinking of skilled nursing care. It's not easy and I find myself thinking about food and wanting to be down and crappy. I am helping DH today make phone calls and organize things but I am making a conscious effort to not take this stressor out on myself. It's just a choice to sit with the ickiness. Hopefully I can do some TIVO'd yoga today. I did that this weekend and I had forgotten how just a little tiny bit of yoga (20 minutes) changes my attitude.
Because after all, our attitude determines our altitiude.
Yesterday the weather was my favorite: sunny and cold.
I dillgently counted calories yesterday, although the day before I didn't and had some Baskin Robbins ice cream. I am going site this am to see how much damage I did! UGH!
things I did well yesterday:
walked/jog in am and biked six miles in pm
had nuts, a green salad (with spinach), yogurt & dried fruit, sweet potato w/cinammin, healthy choice gumbo, jimmy dean d-lite turkey sausage biscuit and five bottles of water!
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I'm back with the BR news. First let me disclaim by saying I got my ice cream in a CUP, not cone AND I got a KID'S Scoop and the website only lists "1 scoop." I e-mailed them to find out the difference in calories. BUT - here's what I did people - and yes, it was freakin' awesome. But - I'm keeping it real:
1 scoop of:
peanut butter n chocolate: 320
mint chocolate chip: 270
icing on the cake: 290
TOTAL CALORIES (pending size of kid scoop) - 880
oh hell no! The good news is that if I get 1 scoop of something - I can definately work that in for the day - but three? Um....don't think so.
The real Stephanie, no matter what. I love and approve of myself.
The good news is that if I get 1 scoop of something - I can definately work that in for the day - but three? Um....don't think so.