I am officially in the second trimester, 13 weeks today! It's a good feeling. My pgal brain comes and goes, but it's definitely going more often than it's coming.
Next Saturday I have to go for a three hour glucose test. Ugh. So on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday I have to eat 150 carbs or more each day. The nurse said to eat a fast food meal each day, but I think I'll just try to eat like normal and just add to it if I need more carbs, since I am trying to eat better. I forsee three days of fast food putting me on a bad track again. Then Friday night I can't eat or drink anything except water from 8:30pm and on since my appt is at 8:30 am on Saturday.
So when I get to the lab, I have to drink this sugary drink, and I think get bloodwork done then, then wait an hour and more bloodwork, and so on for three + hours. The worst part is I have to stay there the entire time. Well, I don't know if it is worse, it's about 10-15 minutes to and from the lab, so if I went home I could only be home for half an hour and then go back again three times. That would suck more I think.
So I'll take my Nook, and I have netflix on my phone so I can watch TV. I don't think the time will be so bad since there will be like a countdown, I'll have to get up and get my blood drawn each hour so it's not like I will be sitting there waiting for that three hours to pass. But I am worried about the hunger. Since I'll have to stop eating at 8:30 the night before, I likely won't get to eat anything again until about noon that day. I am thinking I'll be hitting a drive thru on the way home.
So my effort to be healthier has begun. I worked out last night, I did the prenatal video that I just bought. I liked it, it wasn't horribly hard to do or anything but man am I sore today, so it was definitely working some muscles. I plan to work out every other day, so my next day to work out is tomorrow so I will either walk on the treadmill, or I'll go to the gym and do the treadmill and the bike. I can't do my bike at home right now, it's a spin bike....even on no resistance, the weight of the wheel is too much for me now. Even when I wasn't pregnant that thing killed me and I could only do about 5-10 minutes, but I am not even going to attempt it now.
I'm also back to using weight watchers. I have it set to lose weight, since the doctor said even losing right now would be ok for me. I just can't keep gaining at this speed. Last week the scale said I gained 3....knowing what I know about weight gain, I figured it was mostly water weight from eating bad, but couldn't possibly all be fat. Well, this week the scale says I gained ANOTHER 3 pounds. What!!!? I know I haven't been eating well, but I've never packed on weight this quickly. And the baby only weighs about 2 ounces so it isn't from that, even taking into consideration fluid and the placenta.....um yeah, it ain't all from being pregnant. So whatever it is from, there is no reason I can't work out for 40 minutes every other day.
In addition to not gaining too much weight, I will just feel better. They say women who have worked out steadily through out their pregnancy have an easier time with delivery and with post partum, so I need to do this. And I definitely need to eat better, baby doesn't need pizza and burgers, baby needs fruit and veggies.
However that being said, since Fridays are my cheat day, I enjoyed some Taco Bell today. Yesterday and today I kept craving bean dip, like the 7 layer kind that people bring to parties. So I checked Taco Bell and discovered the 7 layer burrito. Mmm, it was good. A bean dip with some tortilla chips would have been better, but since I wasn't about to go home and make one just for myself, the burrito did just fine. But I am still logging everything for today so I know how many of my weekly points I still have available.
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