I haven’t disappeared, drowned in a murky lake, or slipped into a world of fast food and cupcakes! I’ve been very busy since Dec 25th. I’ve been growing a little baby boy! I am 21 weeks pregnant as of yesterday and it has been quite a ride so far. I found out I was pregnant on Christmas Day, not even four weeks pregnant yet. Shortly after, I developed a severe case of morning sickness (also called hyperemesis gravidarum) that put my world in a spin. January, Feb, and March were three of the most difficult months of my life. I really thought I wasn’t going to ever start feeling better but thanks to prescription medication, self care, many, many hours of sick leave, love, and rest I’m doing SO much better! I still wake up sick every morning but by lunch time it’s mostly resolved and it’s at a level I can tolerate at work.
Unfortunately during this time healthy eating and fitness have really taken a back seat. Exercise is nearly impossible with HG, as is eating the way I would normally eat. Vegetables sounded absolutely revolting until week 16 or so. I managed fruit, only barely. In the last three weeks I’ve returned to an almost normal level of healthy eating. Modified slightly for heartburn. I’ve also started trying to exercise at least three days a week. It’s amazing how quickly my ideals about how exercise and pregnancy went out the window when I got sick! Most days my goal was to try and eat SOMETHING! Anything! To get in at least 1000 calories and enough fluids to keep me off an IV.
I am a person motivated by goals and so my pregnancy goals now are to exercise three times per week for 30 minutes and get at least 4-6 servings of fruit and veggies/day. The diet goals are fairly easy, it’s the exercise that has been a challenge. If it doesn’t happen before 5pm, it’s highly unlikely that it’s going to happen. So it’s ending up that I’m doing two fast-paced walks (“waddles”) during the work week at lunch and one weekend workout, typically another walk or swim.
Next week I’m adding in a goal to do yoga 1x/week as well. Things are starting to stiffen up with the added weight, water weight and increased sitting!
I’m calling this is the Waddle Challenge.
I’m thinking about the direction I’d like this blog to take with this huge change in my life. I’ve concluded that I really love the health, fitness, and recipe portion. I really don’t want to make this a baby blog, of course I would love to mention my little on occasionally but that’s not the focus. I want to share my journey through pregnancy from a health and fitness standpoint and as a get back to fighting strength after baby is born.
I’m also hoping to update my recipe section with some new ones and categorize them in a more user-friendly way.
For now, here I am with my wee little bump at 13 weeks (I’m considerably larger now!)
13 Weeks
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