Yep, I am perhaps the only pregnant woman to ever say she is sick and tired of eating. I feel like I eat all the time and I'm tired of it. I'm not even gaining weight! I've gained 7lbs total this pregnancy - 28lbs to go - as per my midwife's instruction to gain 35lbs! How the hell am I going to do that??!!
I've never been a big eater. I've never had an eating disorder, just never had a love relationship with food. For me food has always been something I eat when I'm hungry, and only when I'm hungry. And I've never loved junk food or had much of a sweet tooth. Don't get me wrong, I can enjoy good meals. There's nothing I like more than sitting down to a huge plate of Indian food (my favourite). But eating just for eating's sake...not my thing.
With my new eating habits I feel full all the time and I don't enjoy it. I'm even eating things I wouldn't normally eat just to try and pack on some pounds. Ice cream, chocolate cake, cupcakes, grilled cheese sandwiches on - ack! - white bread and sweet potato fries. My poor body probably doesn't know what to do with all this unfamiliar food.
Instead of a soup/salad combo for lunch I had cheese tortellini and garlic bread the other day. That's a huge meal for me to eat midday. I now eat breakfast at home and then come to the office and eat more breakfast. I don't know where all these extra calories are going. It's not like I'm burning them off exercising - because I don't have the energy to do any of the activities I used to do. I used to go for long walks at lunch time. I used to take the stairs, now I take escalators. I used to clean my house like a mad woman, now I'm embarrased at the dust bunnies under my furniture.
Hmmm...perhaps these extra food calories are simply replacing the calories I used to consume in drinking wine ;)
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