{"id":4671,"date":"2011-03-17T09:49:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T13:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/2011\/03\/17\/odd-eating-during-the-first-trimester\/"},"modified":"2016-05-23T06:08:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T10:08:51","slug":"odd-eating-during-the-first-trimester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/odd-eating-during-the-first-trimester\/","title":{"rendered":"Odd Eating during the First Trimester"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finally\u2026 I can explain why my recipes have been limited for the past 3 months!<\/p>\n

I actually had a fairly easy trimester.\u00a0 I only threw up once, and I think that was because I took my prenatal vitamin on an empty stomach (Rookie mistake<\/em>).\u00a0 I never experienced any (TMI ALERT<\/span><\/strong>!) constipation.\u00a0 I never felt too nauseous, and when I did get queasy, it was only in the evenings, which made it easy for me to stay productive during the day.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not to say that things weren\u2019t different<\/span><\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n

I LOVE vegetables.\u00a0 Usually.\u00a0 I enjoy eating veggies, hummus, beans, fish and all sorts of healthy food\u2026 usually<\/em>.\u00a0 By week 7-8, this completely changed!<\/p>\n

There is no way to describe it besides I didn\u2019t feel like myself.\u00a0 The thought of broccoli made me want to gag.\u00a0 In fact, anything that wasn\u2019t a straight up carbohydrate wasn\u2019t getting anywhere near my mouth.\u00a0 And my taste buds were specific.<\/p>\n

I wanted bagels.<\/strong> But only bagels from NY Deli, toasted, with their vegetable cream cheese. (I know, no veggies, but only wanted vegetable cream cheese? I didn\u2019t say my hormones were logical<\/span><\/em>\u2026)\u00a0 If it wasn\u2019t that exact bagel, yuck, I didn\u2019t want it.\u00a0 The lovely people now know me by name.<\/p>\n

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I lost all desire to cook. <\/strong>This actually made me so sad.\u00a0 I really enjoy getting into the kitchen and whipping up dinner, but I just didn\u2019t want to anymore.\u00a0 I figure it was a combo of being tired and not having my usual adventurous appetite, but it was so strange.\u00a0 We ended up eating a lot of take out.\u00a0 Hot and sour soup (quite often), baked potatoes from Wendys or vegetable subs from the grocery store (because no deli meat allowed!).<\/p>\n

I had to eat every 2 hours.<\/strong> I kept reading posts on the What To Expect forum about how people never wanted to eat and kept losing weight.\u00a0 Whaaaat<\/em>?? I wanted to eat ALL THE TIME.\u00a0 I actually think this kept me from ever getting queasy.\u00a0 But my snacks weren\u2019t normal.\u00a0 In between my bagels and baked potatoes, I craved spicy and salty.\u00a0 One time I ate a whole jar of pepperoncinis in one sitting. Oh yes, I did<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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I also enjoyed popcorn smothered in Texas Pete and jars of my Nannie\u2019s homemade pickles.\u00a0 I know, sodium OVERLOAD, but baby wanted salt!<\/p>\n

Oh, and cottage cheese.\u00a0 I LOVE cottage cheese right now.<\/p>\n

Soda water kept me sane.<\/strong> Soda water with lemon and La Croix\u2019s were wonderful.\u00a0 Something about the bubbles made me feel good.\u00a0 Sometimes, I even tried to fancy it up\u2026<\/p>\n

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Jolly Ranchers. <\/strong>I am not a big candy person, but when the night time headaches and queasiness arrived, Jolly Ranchers saved the day! Sucking on these (watermelon was my favorite) kept the queasiness under control.\u00a0 I highly suggest you buy a jumbo bag as soon as\u00a0 you get pregnant!<\/p>\n

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On top of all the changes in appetite, I was reading about all the things I should be abstaining from for the next 9 months.\u00a0 So here are some other changes I\u2019ve made:<\/p>\n