Tue, May-12-09, 15:35
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Senior Member
Posts: 5,323
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Plan: food? what's food?
Stats: 234/185/165
BF:nothin' but wobble
Progress: 71%
Location: YAY! trees and grass!
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blenders & duchesse, i'm smack dab between the two of you... due december 4th/5th (depending on whose charts you use).
blenders, my first time around i had just lost 70lbs on low carb and kept it off for a year. when i got pregnant, i swore that i'd only gain 20lbs, no more, because pregnancy was not an acceptable excuse to eat anything i wanted anytime i wanted.
by 18 weeks i'd only gained 8lbs. then we found out it was twins and my midwife, doctor, and entire nursing staff freaked out. they threw the rules out the window as i gained 70 MORE pounds over the next 20 weeks. they were making sure the babies were growing and healthy, and since my blood labs kept coming back normal, they ignored my weight gain.
the good news is that the babies were born perfectly healthy and were well into normal singleton baby weight when i had them. the bad news was that i've never been able to fully lose all the weight i gained with them. for the sake of the children, the skinny jeans were lost.
this time around i'm not letting the same thing happen. my doctor is apparently a real stickler about weight (i have my first appointment with her in about 2 weeks... i had the preliminary visit with the NP), so my intent this time is to break even by the time i'm done. and fortunately, she's a big advocate of low-carbing even during pregnancy.
the challenge i'm running into is what my stomach is willing to handle. the nurse said to go for protein instead of carbs when nausea hits, but honestly i can't bring myself to get meat. everything tastes and smells off. it's becoming a case of my stomach dictating what i eat instead of my brain, and unfortunately the stomach is going to win every time.
so for now, i eat low-carb when i know my stomach can handle it (or at the very least when i'm not blatantly nauseous), but if the only thing that sounds even remotely edible is a cinnamon graham cracker or a bunch of ice-cold grapes or the pint of ben & jerry's cherry garcia or a couple of twizzlers, then for right now, so be it.
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