[BOOTS]

FIRST OFF GUYS JUST SORRY I HAVENT BEEN AROUND ALOT LATELY JUST TIRED, BUSY AND WHEN I SEE THE BOARDS I FEEL SO OVERWHELMED BECAUSE THERE ARE SOO MANY POSTS LATELY. WHICH IS A GOOD THING BECAUSE IT MEANS YOU ARE ALL GETTING YOUR FEELINGS OUT AND DOING WELL AND IT ALSO MEANS THERE ARE SOOOOO MANY NEWBIES ONBOARD!


WELL SINCE YOU ASKED KIM, LOL LOL. I WILL TELL YOU ALL HOW IM DOING

WELL I HAVE TO SAY GUYS, THIS HAS TO BE THE ULTIMATE CHALLENGE. I HAVE BEEN REALLY STRESSED THE PAST COUPLE DAYS WITH TRYING TO EAT MORE AND JUST TRYING TO DO THE RIGHT THING AND ALSO FINDING A REPLACEMENT TO CRYSTAL LITE. BECAUSE CRYSTAL LITE IS NOT SAFE FOR ME TO DRINK RIGH NOW. I AM ONLY ALLOWED TO HAVE THINGS WITH SPLENDA. WELL AFTER SEARCHING AND EXPERIMENTING I HAVE FINALLY FOUND SOMTHING ITS 4C BERRY TO GO's. I WAS REALLY GETTING UPSET CAUSE I HATE WATER AND EVERYTHING ELSE!!! OH AND THANK GOD IM STILL ALLOWED TO DRINK MY ACHIEV ONES BUT ONLY 1 A DAY SINCE IT HAS CAFFINE. BUT IT IS MADE WITH SPLENDA AND MY NUT WAS SO IMPRESSED WITH THE TASTE ( I BROUGHT ONE FOR HER TO TRY) AND ALL THE HIGH VITAMINS AND FOLIC ACID IN IT.

I WENT TO SEE MY NUTRITIONIST (i love her! she is also like a therapist!!) AND SHE HAD TOLD ME TO TRY AND UP MY CALORIES TO AT LEAST 1200 WHICH IS REALLY HARD. THE BEST I CAN DO IS 1100 AND I DONT ALWAYS SUCCEED!!!! BECAUSE MY APPETITIE LIKE WITH THE FIRST PREGNANCY IS GETTING SMALLER. ALSO TO ALTER MY DIET AND DO LOTS OF HIGH FIBER FOODS SINCE THEY CONTAIN ALOT OF FOLIC ACID WHICH I NEED!!! I HAVE FOUND THIS BLACK BEAN SALAD I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!! BUT EVEN THOUGH I AM TRYING TO EAT MORE WHICH IS SO DAM HARD AND STRESSFUL SO I JUST TAKE IT DAY BY DAY AND I DONT SWEAT IT IF I CANT EAT THAT MUCH THAT DAY. IM STILL LOSING WEIGHT WHICH IS PROBABLY DUE TO MY METABOLISM IS STARTING TO SPEED UP NOW THAT IM PREGNANT. SO I WILL FIND OUT FROM MY DOC IN 2 WKS HOW MUCH I CAN AFFORD TO LOSE AND STILL BE HEALTHY FOR ME AND THE BABY BECAUSE NO MATTER WHAT I DO LATELY IM LOSING POUNDS AND STILL INCHES. AND WITH MY 1ST PREGNANCY I HAD LOST 30LBS JUST FROM NO APPIETITE AND BEING GESTATIONAL DIABETIC. NEVER SICK THOUGH OF COURSE I WAS HEAVY AND WAS ABLE TO LOST 30LBS WITH NO CONCERNS WHILE PREGNANT. BUT I REALLY CANT AFFORD TO LOSE 30 WHILE IM PREGNANT THIS TIME OR AT LEAST I DONT THINK I CAN SO I WILL TALK TO THE DOC

I AM WEARING A PAIR OF JEANS I BOUGHT 2 WKS AGO THAT WERE REAL SNUG AND ARE NOW VERY VERY LOOSE!!!

I DO GET SAD AT TIMES BECAUSE IM SOOOOOOOOOOOOO AFRAID THAT AFTER I HAVE THE BABY I WONT BE ABLE TO LOSE MORE AND GO PAST MY GOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!

I HAVE TO SAY NOW A DAYS I GET SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO TIRED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! MY GOODNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ONE THING I HAVE DISCOVERED ABOUT MYSELF IN THIS NEW JOURNEY OF MINE IS WHEN THE NUTRITIONIST TOLD ME TO START EATING MORE I FELT SOOOO STRESSED, ANGRY, UPSET AND FELT MYSELF FIGHTING IT. ALSO I EAT ALOT OF LOW CARB, LOW CALORIE AND LOW FAT ITEMS WELL SHE WANTS ME TO START TRYING TO BUY REGULAR WHICH THREW ME BIG TIME!!!!!!!!!! I JUST CANT I TOLD HER!!! ITS SUCH A MENTAL THING WITH ME I JUST CANT EXPLAIN IT. SO AFTER TLKING WITH HER I WENT TO THE STORE TO FIND SOME NEW THINGS TO EAT AND REGULAR FOOD ITEMS. WELL IN THE STORE I FELT LIKE I WAS GOING TO HAVE A BREAK DOWN I JUST COULDNT DO IT!! BUT I COMPRIMSED WITH CHEESE AND BOUGHT A REGUALR MUNSTER CHEESE INSTEAD OF LOW FAT OR FAT FREE BUT EVERYTHING ELSE I STILL BOUGHT LOW IN EVERYTHING. I FIGURED ONE STEP AT A TIME. WELL I ATE SOME OF THE CHEESE BUT FIND MYSELF BACK TO THE FATFREE. I DONT LIKE THE REGULAR AND JUST FELT ANIEXTY WHEN I DID EAT IT. SO I CALLED HER AND TOLD HER HOW IM FEELING SO SHE SAID OK JUST TRY TO UP YOUR CALORIES AND WE WILL SEE HOW THINGS GO.

AND SINCE IM NOT MUCH OF A DUMPER SHE ASKED ME TO EXPERIMENT WITH ORANGE JUICE (not watered down) ONE CUP A DAY CAN HELP YOU TO ABSORB FOLIC ACID FROM OTHER FOODS. WOW WHO KNEW. ANYWAYS I HAVE BEEN DRINKING IT FOR 2 DAYS AND I REALLY DONT DUMP THAT MUCH, I HAVE ONE CUP EVERY MORNING AND MY HEART RACES A LITTLE AND GET SHAKY BUT NOTHING TO BAD. SO I WILL GO WITH IT IF IT HELPS. IT HAS 22 GRAMS OF SUGAR!!!!!!! BUT WHEN I LOOKED AT THE LITE OJ IT HAD LESS VITAMINS, ETC SO I STAYED WITH THE REGULAR.

THERE WERE SOOOO MANY OTHER THINGS I WANTED TO SAY I JUST CANT THINK OF RIGHT NOW AND WILL JUST SAY LATER AS IT COMES TO MIND. BUT ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS THIS IS DEF A ROLLER COASTER OF AN EMOTIONAL JOURNEY AND REALLY REALLY REALLY HARD. I GUESS I JUST DIDNT EXPECT IT TO BE LIKE THIS. BUT IM AM HAPPY!!!

[sageemily2005]

give your self a chance sweety....you just found out about being pregnet not to long ago it will take time for you to make all the changes you must make so dont seat it to much try to relax {{{{hugs}}}}

[BOOTS]

Its Hard When You Have Been So Brainwashed On A New Way Of Eating And The Amounts, Etc To Even Change Your Way A Little Is Major For Me!!! So Major My Nut Even Said Wow You Are So Brainwashed. This Is A Challenge

[lvmyboys]

Hi there!! I am not a doc and I am a newbie but...seems like if you switched some things to regular now just to up your calories and stop from loosing too much that it might help you loose weight after the pregnancy by just switching back to low fat or fat free. Your body burns a lot of calories by supporting a growing baby. Making the change back to the low fat foods afterwards might just be what you need to jump start the weight loss and get you back in the groove after the baby. Just a thought!!

Congratulations by the way and good luck!!

[BOOTS]

Could Be True. Thanks!!! But I Also Hear Of Others Who Are So Far Out And Tring So Hard Having Problems Losing And Thats What Im Afraid Of.

Not So Easy For Me To Go To Regular Foods I Knwo Its Crazy But I Have Been So Brainwashed And So Obsessed With Gaining Wt That Its So Easy For Me To Eat The Regular Stuff. I Dont Want To Gain Much Wt While Im Preg Either. I Have Up My Calories From 700-800 To 1000-1100 On My Good Days.

When I Went Food Shopping That Day To Buy Regular Stuff I Just Got To Paranoid And Just Couldnt Do It!

ONCE I HAVE THE BABY I WILL GO BACK TO EATING LESS THOUGH

[lvmyboys]

that is true you could always go back to eating less but by just uping the calories by getting regular food you would not be training yourself to eat more. I am more worried about the size of my pouch stretching.

You will figure out what works best for you. You have had great success and so far!!

[BOOTS]

Good Point Hun! Very Good Point

Im Trying Everything To Experiment But Really Have Been Uping My Calories With Drinks Not Food. Lol I Will Never Stretch This Pouch No Way!!!!!!! Not With The Amount I Can Fit In Which Isnt Much. Whish Is What My Prob Is. So I Have Been Drinking My Juice In The Morning Wwhich Is Like 120 And My Protein Drink Which Is 120 There Is 240 Right There Extra. Lol

I Know I Have To Eat Food Not Drink Guys. I Know I Know. Lol

Baby Steps!!! Ya Know

[BOOTS]

Oh And I Eat Lots Of Beans Now Which Has Up My Carbs Which I Havent In The Past Because I Was So Paranoid With Carbs Even Though Beans Are A Good Carb To Me It Was Still A Carb. So I Am Making A Little Prgress. Lol

[lvmyboys]

You will do great. I am sure it is scary...non of us want to go back to where we were. You know whats right and how to use your tool and I am sure you have made so many heathly changes in your life that it will be cake to get back to loosing!

[beckamarie]

Edie I am sure you are very scared but excited at the same time, you will do just fine hun I know you will. I am so happy and excited for you, but I do understand the fear. Hang in there honey you know we are here for you