Day by Day…

I went to the doctor FINALLY!!  My first appointment was on Monday the 14th.  We had an ultrasound done and saw the baby!!!  It was sooo cool.  A little creepy looking in 4D!  It’s so bizarre to think I have a baby growing inside me.  I’ve gained 12 pounds so far.  I also found out I’m farther along than I thought.  On Monday I was 12 weeks.  Right now I’m in week 13.  I guess technically I’m 12 weeks and 3 days along.  Not much farther till the second trimester.  I’m due January 26, 2009!

I still feel pretty good.  My heartburn is getting better, but still present.  There has still been no morning sickness.  I do require more sleep now and I frequently pee!  At the doctor’s office they did a urine culture and found I have a bladder infection.  I’m on antibiotics now.  I didn’t even realize anything was wrong.  Another obstacle right now is finding clothes to wear!!  All my regular clothes are too tight and maternity clothes are too big.  I don’t want to invest in clothes that are regular sizes but just a few sizes larger than what I wear.  I don’t know what I’ll do.  I’ve found a few consignment shops with maternity clothes.  Maybe I can find something to fit me for the next few weeks. 

I was in Savannah, GA last week with the Junior High youth on mission trip.  That was exhausting!!  Sunday I leave for Chicago, IL on the Senior High mission trip.   Can you tell I planned these trips BEFORE I knew I was pregnant??  Being away from home for 2 weeks out of July is killing me!

In several books I’ve read they suggest taking one last vacation before the baby comes.  I think they called it a babymoon!!  So now that the second trimester is quickly approaching my DH suggested a trip!  His only stipulations were no disney world or new york city.  He thinks I go to both of those places too much!  We are trying to think of somewhere new that neither of us have been to before.  Right now, with the doctor’s permission, we’re leaning to an all inclusive resort in the Caribbean.  Hopefully we’ll be able to find a trip in our price range and find a good time to go that won’t interfere with our time with my step son.

Remember, any advice during this adventure is welcome! 

Thanks for the post. I went back and read part of your blog after you found out you were pregnant. Your story sounds so similar to mine right now!! I don’t have a blogspot blog, so I can’t post on your blog, but I hope this will work!! Maybe if I link to your blog, you will get a notice that I wrote you back!! Please keep in touch and offer any advice you may have! I particularly enjoyed your old post on whether to do WW while pregnant!! I’ve wondered the same thing…

Thanks again!!
Bessie 

Today I started week 9.  Apparently the baby is the size of a raspberry now.  Unfortunately, I don’t feel like eating raspberries or anything else that is healthy for me!  All I crave now is fatty foods- especially Whoppers from BK and Blizzards from DQ.  Maybe that will pass.  Once again though, I’m just glad I can keep food down and not vomit!! Thoughts I’ve had:

•  I need to exercise.  Period.  Right now I’ve gained 9 pounds.  That’s a pound a week.  I’m not “showing” I’m just fluffy at this point.  I can tell I’m just getting fat and not gaining baby weight.  I’ve had to upgrade my clothes… I went to Old Navy and Target today and bought cotton skirts that have elastic waist bands and draw strings.  Those should hold me through summer.
• I don’t want to get fat.  I guess at this rate of 1 pound a week, I’ll gain 40 pounds.  I think that’s “normal”- whatever that word means!!
• Every time I go to the bathroom I check to see if I’m bleeding.  I guess that’s normal.  I’m not worried about having a miscarriage, but the thought is always in the back of my mind.  I guess it’s my age.  I’m not too old, but I’m no spring chicken either!!  I turned 34 last week and  will be 4 months shy of being 35 once the baby is here.
• If the secretary at work (whom I don’t particularly care for) gives me one more pregnancy tip or shares something about her daughters pregnancy I’m gonna punch her in the face.  Worst case… I can blame the rage on my hormones!
• Speaking of hormones, I haven’t been too “off” yet.  Honestly, this pregnancy thing has been pretty easy so far.  I get tired after work around 4:30.  When I wake up in the morning I feel a tad queezy, but I get over it pretty quick.  My boobs are swollen and my prenatal pills are making my hair and nails grow like CRAZY!!!  I may need to get my hair colored every 2-2.5 weeks instead of 4 now!!
• I’m anxious to see my OBGYN.  I won’t see her until July 14.  That’s almost 12 weeks into this adventure!  I have a few questions to ask, but not a whole lot.  I’m reading a lot from “What to Expect When You Are Expecting.”  That book answers a lot of my questions… it’s like my new bible!

I think that’s it for now.  I know this is my “weight loss blog”, but now it’ll be my weight gain blog!!!  Wish me luck!!

I’ve been MIA for a while now.  At first I was just lazy and didn’t want to “point” or watch my food intake.  Then I think I was a tad down or sad because I couldn’t get pregnant, so I just ate my feelings.  My thought was “well, if I get pregnant, I’ll just gain weight anyway, so why not start now by eating the foods I love??”  Then it happened…

I’M PREGNANT!!!

Right now I’m in my 8th week.  We told our parents and my step son this weekend.  Everyone is excited and anxious!!  I’ve gained almost 6 pounds already.  I know that’s probably more than I should have gained at this point, but I’m just glad I can keep food down and I’m not puking!!

I know there is a WW plan for nursing mom’s, but I think doing WW while pregnant is frowned upon.  So, I’m just going to enjoy the next 8 or so months and face the consequences once the baby is here.

This is my first baby, so any advice will be welcome!! 

I started yet another WW blog!  Maybe this will get me off my a$$ and start paying more attention to my body, what I eat, how I feel and how i care… because right now I don’t seem to care AT ALL! I’ll keep posting on both sites, I think. I like how this blog lets me creat different pages- I can keep one for recipes, one for fitness, one for progress, etc. We’ll see if I become as attached to the new one as i am with this one!!

View my page on Blog to Lose

“Is Dieting Anti- Feminist?”  WHAT???  This was a comment I received tonight on one of my posts.  I didn’t approve it, because I figured it was spam.  First…

1. Anti-Feminist- someone who does not believe in the social or economic or political equality of men and women
2. Feminist- A person whose beliefs and behavior are based on feminism.  
3. Feminism- 1. the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.  2. (sometimes initial capital letter) an organized movement for the attainment of such rights for women. 3. feminine character

Whoever posted this comment doesn’t know the definition of “antifeminist.”  How can loosing weight, taking care of your body and developing healthier habits equate to someone who does not believe in equality of men and women??  Maybe he meant “antifeminine”??? But antifeminine isn’t a word!! Still, that doesn’t make sense to me.  Feminine means having qualities traditionally ascribed to women.  A heterosexual man is antifeminine!!  A woman is a woman no matter her size.  You can be 120 pounds and as healthy as can be or you can be 500 pounds and not very healthy at all and you are still a women.  You still have qualities ascribed to women- beauty, gentleness, sensitivity, etc.  Women are feminine.  Period.  In my mind anyway. 

I wonder what he was trying to get at?  What was his point in making that comment?  Was he trying to say that women are too concerned about weight and being thin (like models) and that is messing up our societies view of feminism?  Was he saying the definition of feminism is changing to “be thin?”

I do believe that there are many girls and women who “diet” who shouldn’t or who don’t need to.  There are many women who are so focused on dieting it becomes a disorder.  But, our society is getting larger and it’s time we, as a society, make some changes. I don’t think that women who diet are “anti feminist!”  I think women who diet (and need to diet) are trying to get their life and body back to a healthy state.

I also think the word diet has a negative impact for a lot of people.  That’s why I like how Weight Watchers calls it a lifestyle.  That’s what it is.  It’s a lifestyle change, not a diet.

So, after all my rambling (which probably doesn’t make sense or even flow right) I’ve come to the decision that dieting is not anti-feminist!  I think dieting, or a lifestyle change, shows that a women (or a man) is ready to make changes and take charge of their life.  They are ready to commit to a healthier lifestyle, take control of their eating habits and vow to reach a certain goal.  Sometimes that is easy.  Sometimes it’s hard.  Sometimes it takes a long time and sometimes it only takes a few months.  Sometimes we have to backtrack and refocus.  Sometimes we have to ask for help from others.  Sometimes we have to redirect our lifestyle, habits and goals.  In my opinion, that is very feminine… or masculine!!

So, to all my lifestyle changing friends… my glass is raised to you!!  CHEERS!

So, I try to do something good.  I mentioned yesterday that I bought a Nalgene bottle to do my part of cutting back on the number of plastic bottles I purchase, use and toss/ recycle.  I’m doing great on the “drink more water” front, but I didn’t do such a good job at choosing my new reusable plastic bottle…  I read a story online today about Nalgene  bottles in particular and it seems I’ll have to find a new bottle to use.

What type of reusable water bottles to you guys use? 

So much for goals this week.  I have barely had time to breath, much less shop for good food, exercise or stay within my points.  I haven’t eaten many veggies and fruits at all.  That sucks after last week.  I felt so much better last week.  It’s not easy working 2 jobs, keeping up a house and spending time with your family!  I don’t know how some people do it!  Maybe those people can function on less than 9 hours of sleep a night… I can’t.  Once this show is over tomorrow night, I’ll be back to a “normal” schedule.  that will be GREAT!

Tomorrow I am going to plan out my meals for next week (for me and the family) and go to the store to stock up.  Hopefully that will make things better.  One thing I have done right this week is to only drink water.  I’ve done that pretty consistently.  I was going through roughly 6 bottles of water a day and I thought that was a bit excessive.  Yesterday I bought a new Nalgene bottle and I’ve been drinking tap water the past 2 days.  It’s still water, it’s cheaper, and I’m not wasting all those plastic bottles!  I guess i wasn’t “wasting” since I was recycling them… but i do feel better using a reusable bottle rather than a recyclable bottle!

My past 2 days have been so out of whack I haven’t even kept up with what i’ve eaten.  It’s been the kind of days where I eat what I can, when I can, no matter what it is!  It’s been blucky and I feel yuck because of it, but that’s just how this week is.

Next week will be better!  Always is…  

I didn’t do good today on my fruits and veggies!  I guess I was making up for last week…

It’s been an uneventful past few weeks.  I guess that’s good.  My schedule will slow down ALOT in  a few weeks.  May is always a slow month.  I’m looking forward to that.  Pretty weather, spring time, empty schedule… YEA!  Then June hits.  that’s when youth ministry goes crazy.  We have so much planned for summer- mission days, youth week, 2 mission trips, a rafting trip, paintball,  regular scheduled Sunday night and Wednesday night studies… it’s a lot.  

One good thing about summer is that i LOVE the hot weather!  I’ll take the 90 degree days over the 40 degree days any day of the year.  Once this cold spell goes away I plan on getting back on the roads running.  Those of you from the north, don’t laugh at me for not liking this “cold spell!”  The past 2 days it’s been between 50-60.  I don’t like it!  It was last April when the warm weather hit that I got back to running and we decided to sign up for the Disney half marathon.  I won’t do anything as crazy as signing up for a half or full marathon, but I do want to get back running!  Hopefully I can get my big butt up off the couch or out of the bed soon and start doing it… I just have to convince myself to do it.

Daily Target					20
Tuesday Food				points	Countdown
B- plum				1	19
B- oatmeal				2	17
S- m&ms				5	8
S- godlfish crackers				4	4
L- turkey on wheat				6	-2
L- baked lays				2	0
L- pickles				0	0
S- triscuits				2	-2
D- chicken noodle soup				4	-6
D- peanut butter crackers				3	-9
Totals				29	-9
Day 2 in Week 9- Weekly flex Remaining: 26
Check off your waters √√√√√√√√√√
Activity Log
not a thing

I lost 3.7 pounds last week eating only fruits and veggies!  I didn’t exercise any- except for the house work stuff. 

My goals for exercise this week are not very high again.   I’ll be working at church each day until 4 then at the theatre from 5:30-10 each night.  Long week.

Goals:

1. continue to eat good fruits and veggies
2. stay within my points this week 
3. continue to only drink water
4. the hours I am home, spend quality time with the family- not stupid time on the computer or watching TV