Today's Food.

I keep trying to keep track of all my food on my Caloriecounter app but since I cook often, inputting every single ingredient is becoming very annoying. Since I have pregnancy patience now and the purpose of that app was so that I could physically see (and remember) what I’ve had to ensure I’m eating enough/what I need, I’ve decided it’d be much easier to keep up with my food here instead!

Breakfast #1: Strawberry Banana Smoothie

· 1 banana

· 5 frozen strawberries

· 1 cup 2% milk

· 1 ½ tbsp. light strawberry cream cheese

· 1 container vanilla greek yogurt

Breakfast #2: 1 English muffin topped with 2 tbsp of nutella + a hot cup of tea (my caffeine for the day)

Lunch: leftover carbanada pasta with meatballs + 3 carrots + sparkling ice orange mango

Snack: 1 cup of cottage cheese

Dinner: 3 slices of pizza (I know, but it’s a craving!) + 1 sliced red pepper

Snack: TBD depending on if I’m hungry or not but I’m thinking a glass of milk is in my future!

Plus lots of water consumed throughout the day, 4 bottles at work I believe and 2 glasses at home.

In other news, after work today Philip and I toured a new gym that offers childcare and is really family oriented and we absolutely loved it! We’ll definitely be making the switch, we just aren’t sure if we’ll make it soon or after the baby is born.

Pregnancy Bras

I’m pretty sure that most people know growing boobs is a side effect of pregnancy (if you can call it a “side effect” because I would call it an “awesome added bonus”). For some reason, I didn’t realize how much I was growing until one day; my boobs were literally spilling out of my bra. I’ve been pretty against buying a lot of things that I will not be able to use afterwards. But over the weekend, I decided it was time to invest in new bras. Prior to becoming pregnancy I was a 34DD and after trying on a few, I found that I was now a 34E, no wonder they’ve been hurting!

I discovered Wacoal bras and it was love at first try on.

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They’re incredibly supportive, a little pricey but no more than a VS bra and come in a large variety of sizes. Plus, I found them for buy 1 get 1 50% off.  Score!

Sunday was the first day that I wore one and I could tell a huge difference, my back felt better and my boobs weren’t hurting anymore!  I’m now a very firm believer that investing a little really does go a long way, especially when it comes to comfort during pregnancy.  

Listening to your body during pregnancy

I think one of the hardest parts about being pregnant has been learning to “listen” to my body and stop doing things that would typically feel easy to me. Today at the gym, my body was telling me to not do very easy sets that I use to crank out with no problem. For the most part, my workouts have been the same but only with MUCH less weight and today it just wasn’t meant to be a long workout. Since I did listen and cut my strength training short, my workout ended up looking like this:

When I first decided that I would stop and go bike the remainder of our time at the gym, I felt like I didn’t complete much and that it was a pointless workout but then I remembered something I heard on one of Tracy Anderson’s DVD’s  “You have to give up some of your results so that the baby is given the proper nutrition it needs”. This quote made me remember that I can’t push myself hard like I use to be able to or complete as many sets like I could before and that is perfectly okay because it’s better for my baby.

Pregnancy is definitely a huge adjustment but very worth it!

CarbaNada Pasta

I’ve been reading about CarbaNada pasta for a long time but tonight was the first time I’ve actually tried it. I was a little skeptical because on Amazon it’s around $4 which seemed like a lot for pasta and it’s not sold anywhere in stores near me, but I splurged and ordered it a week or so ago. I was surprised when I got the bag, it’s pretty big and I only cooked half of it tonight so that $4 isn’t seeming so bad anymore!

I didn’t let Philip in on what it was until after he was already eating it and he said it tasted exactly like normal pasta. With half the carbs and double the protein, I’ll take it!

Meatballs. Prego sauce. Lowfat Ricotta Cheese. CarbaNada noodles.

Definitely an easy dinner since you cook the noodles the same way you’d cook regular noodles. I just cooked the meatballs in a separate pan and added some ricotta cheese to the noodles while they were still warm.

Lookin’ completely normal here ;)

These will definitely be my go-to noodles when I’m craving pasta after the baby is here and I’m trying to lose the weight!

Pancakes just got healthy.

I'm loving pancakes lately and I'm also loving trying to eat healthy for my baby's sake!

Today, I decided to try out a new pancake recipe and hope for the best. They turned out wonderful, the taste was no different than regular pancakes!

Oatmeal Pancakes 

Normal lookin' 'cakes

What you need: 

• 3/4 cup oatmeal 
• 3/4 cup cottage cheese 
• 1 1/2 tbsp cinnamon 
• 1 tbsp light brown sugar
• 3 egg whites 

What  you do: 

1. Combine all ingredients in a food processor (or blender) until you have a "batter-like" consistency 
2. Pour onto griddle (or pan) using a 1/4 cup measuring cup 
3. Cook for 2 mins (approx) and flip before removing from griddle and enjoying! 

**These do not bubble like normal pancakes so try to over cook them.

To me, they look and taste 100% normal. I also added in a tbsp of melted peanut butter before making Philip's and he said they were really good.

Week 17

Fun Facts: "My how your baby has grown! She's about the size of your palm, weighs about five ounces, and is developing some body fat (join the club, baby!). Her heart is now regulated by her brain (no more random beats) to beat 140 to 150 times per minute — about twice as fast as yours! What else is up? She’s practicing the survival skills she’ll need at birth — like sucking and swallowing"

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Weight Gained: To date, 1lb. Probably only because I was down a good bit in the beginning from being sick.
 
Symptoms: I’m over my sickness (thank goodness I only had 2 weeks of it) but now I’m feeling movement. It’s VERY cool!

Food Cravings:  

Food Aversions:

This one is weird for me, I normally LOVE coffee AND chocolate. Coffee was the only smell that really made me sick during that phase.

Sleep: LIKE A BABY! I fall asleep so quick, it’s great. I do wake up at least once a date but I fall back asleep within seconds.

Stretch Marks?: Not a one and I hope it stays that way! I’ve been using lotions like crazy to try to prevent them, let’s hope they work.

New Baby Item?: Not this week. I’m sure I’ll go crazy when I find out the sex on the 26th!!


Exercise: I’ve actually been doing pretty good. Well, kind of good. I did decide not to go today but, I’ve been going with Philip like normal but just lifting MUCH less.