Cravings

It has been a long time coming but I think....I am starting to get cravings. Sadly they are not for the healthy, baby-friendly foods I ought to eat like these

No, it is now for certain. I have a raging sweet tooth. I really really appreciate a good baked good or ice cream. Yeesh. These are the foods my taste buds cry for

Oh boy.

I think there are two mindsets the pregnant lady can take on throughout the time, a) you're preggers, deal with it and eat or b) lets try to maintain similar eating patterns and be health concious most of the time. I would say I subscribe to the second mindset (most of the time). 

I have always grazed throughout the day so my eating patterns haven't changed much, I still feel like I accumulate a good amount of food over the 24 hours. Most of which I would categorize as healthy. And yes, the pounds have slowly been accumulating. I kind of had an idea of the total weight gain I would like to see, but realizing I've never been here before I was, and am, willing to be flexible with myself. I just feel better having a range to try to stick to. While on bedrest in the hospital I was sure the poundage would overtake me as there was no way to move about. So I was a little surprised to step on the scale at my docs yesterday and still register where I had aimed to be at 30. *during the hospital stay they weighed me twice and I weighed a full 8 lbs more due to all those liquids and fluid retention!

I do realize weight gain shouldn't take center stage during pregnancy, and I promise I'm not being a total freak about it. But now that I find myself drawn to the sweet stuff I'm a little more wary of what this might lead to, gulp. For now I try to tell myself what comes up will go down (please!) and to be happy that my leg seems to be on the mend and my mobility is slowly improving with every day. However I might have to re-work my year's list and push back the marathon attempt one more year....:)