2/27/08

I’m not dieting! I didn’t mean to give that impression. I was giving some consideration to eliminating the sweets for a week or so, and upping the veggie, fruit, grain and protein content in my diet to see if I could lower the calories I am taking in without lowering the nutritional content.  It’s hard to do that, because I do end up craving sweets so often, and sometimes so badly.  Mainly, I’m just trying to keep them out of the house.  But when I’m not buying ice cream, Jerry is! That is why I’m so glad to have the Valentine’s candy gone, because if it’s in front of me, I’ll eat it.
Anyway, for the time being, I’m just going to exercise anywhere from 20-40 minutes a day, which isn’t unreasonable.  I just don’t want/need to gain weight with this pregnancy.  If I start gaining 2-3 pounds a week now, I’m going to be in real trouble by the end of this thing!  Seriously!  I’m not really trying to lose, just to maintain.  I don’t know how the exercise factors into that, but it should help with the birth in any case.  I’ve always been a strong, as in physically strong, person.  Except for my weight, and perhaps in SPITE of my weight, I’ve always been very healthy.  I rarely get colds, when I do get a cold, I start taking vitamin C, and now Zicam, and within a day or two, it’s gone.  I’m not typically a "fix it with medicine" kind of person, though I have my moments, I admit!  I think the most debilitating thing I’ve ever had was a stomach flu that kept me pretty weak for awhile, and that was 10 years ago?  I’ve been sore during this pregnancy, but I understand that’s pretty normal for a third pregnancy.  Mainly my lower back and pelvic area ache when I walk.  Walking is really one of the best exercises you can do, prego or not.  And I’m only walking for 10 to 20 minutes at a time, and I am usually not even getting my heart rate up, which actually annoys me a bit.  I did last night (I did another 20 minutes on the treadmill after I posted my edit), but I was listening to music, and keeping up with it.  I ended up not being able to sleep, and I ended up finally taking 2 benadryl and eating an orange so I could go to sleep… sometimes, getting the blood sugars back up is helpful when trying to sleep.  I find that an odd dichotomy, but true all the same.  I would guess that I actually eat about every 3 hours, generally speaking.  It’s typically something small and "snacky" like a piece of fruit or a bagel dog I can stick in the microwave (talk about high calorie, I should probably quit eating those too… but they’re SOOO good.  They’re expensive though), or a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.  I’ve been eating raisin bran lately for breakfast, but OMG, that’s one thing that leaves me hungry just an hour after eating it!  I love raisin bran.  I want to get some fiber one to go with it.  Today my raisin bran had a banana topping it… and it STILL didn’t last very long.  I must have needed more milk or something, for the protein.  One thing I have not been eating is yogurt.  I can’t take the texture these days.  Scrambled eggs are bothering me too.  I like my eggs boiled.  I wish I had cheese so I could make a burrito… sour cream would be good too, though I probably don’t need those extra calories either (better those than the sweets though!)  

Anyway, those are the thoughts I PLAY with, and then end up just doing the same old thing (except for the exercise!)  I eat when I’m hungry.  If I crave sweets, I typically indulge them… though I DO try not to indulge TOO much.  I am trying to keep it in my head I’m NOT eating for two.  And I also try to keep it in my head that if I keep eating like this after the baby is born, I’m just going to end up gaining weight.  Sigh… weight is definitely a struggle for me…I like to eat.  There is so much temptation in pregnancy to just let yourself go and eat tons of chips and candy, and ice cream, because you’re "supposed to gain weight" and it’s a BAD mind set to get into.  It HAS crossed my mind that the weight gain is because of extra blood, extra fat (that’ll go away after the baby is born)… but yea, I was not a happy camper when I realized I was 3 pounds heavier, even as I’m questioning the fact that those three pounds were in the space of, what, three days?  It makes NO sense whatsoever, and maybe it’s just water weight?  That could easily be the reason why.  I mean, it would take a LOT of calories…except maybe it’s the Valentine’s candy come to bite me in the ass, lol, so to speak ;).  Eh… perhaps it’s time to stop obsessing about this!  Ya think?

I can’t find the cable for my iPod so I can plug it into the computer to charge it up.  I’ve GOT to quit being such a mess.  I know it was wrapped up around here somewhere, but it must be in a pile.  I can live without my iPod, but it’s been nice to have it for using with the treadmill.  Although, lol… awhile back, I did these Podfitness things, where you put together a list of music, and this web site gives  you a customized training (right!) based on your songs.  It fits together pretty well.  So I was doing the walking one… and the voice is saying "Now, you’re going to act like you’re jump roping"  And I think I literally said out loud, NO FREAKING WAY AM I DOING THAT PREGNANT!  Then they wanted lunges.  UH-UH!  No way.  So I just listened, and had to laugh.  I’m not that insane.  One thing I do miss being able to do (and as far as I can tell, theoretically, I OUGHT to be able to do this, except for the parts that have me jumping with both legs) is Dance Dance Revolution.  But it’s way too hard for me right now.  The kids were playing it one day, and I’ve gotten pretty good at it, so they wanted me to do a song with their friend.  Well, I went ahead and did it, to no real effect except that I was SO out of breath by the time I was done, it wasn’t funny.  The other day, I was running around the house trying to find a phone, the kids had "hidden" them in Jerry’s office, but I was checking each phone holder on my way there, and I was huffing and puffing like the doggone wolf in the pig story… but no way was I going to blow ANYTHING down.  LOL.   So that’s one thing I’m noticing, and need to be careful about.  However, it goes away after I sit for a bit, and I haven’t had to use my inhaler in what, a year or more?  I hate using that thing anyway, just because of how it makes me feel… oh, that reminds me.  Shabree was tattling on Sydni, saying her mom had given her an inhaler or something, and that Syd was using it, so need to talk to Syd about what is the real story there.  Actually, I’m going to wrap up while that’s in my head and go talk to Jerry about it.  That’s too important to forget about again… oh hey, I don’t know what’s causing it, but my brain has NOT been quite so sieve-ish lately, so yay for that ;).  Maybe it IS the bookworm.  Though it’s almost funny… when I go to bed at night, I make up words in my head, trying to think of ones that are mostly consonants.  That game has really gotten into me,I guess, lol.  I have really enjoyed the mind stretching that goes along with trying to find 4 and 5 and even 6 letter words in a jumble of letters that rarely make sense.  The game I have for the mac is easier… weird.