39 week bump date!

39 weeks huh? Whew it has been a long ride LOL. Time has literally just STOPPED and I feel like every minute is an hour and every hour is a day ha ha. I am ready to meet my baby but not ready to get her out! You would think that after having 2 kids previously I would be ready for this well no. I would love to be a first time mother because then......well, you don't know what to expect now that I have done this two times I know what to expect, what is the worst and how frankly I don't want to do it again LOL. Such is life right?

How Far Along: 39 and 1 day.

Total Weight Gain/Loss: 42 pounds womp womp :( 2 lbs over my max weight gain that I wanted :(

Food Aversions (and "no nos"): Paleo is still going well for me but I find that I have to keep a packed pantry because when I run out of food is when I reach for the grains and lunch has been a pain and the ONLY meal I have grains with so after going through this for 2-3 weeks now I can see where the pitfalls are and how/where I can change things. I don't have any aversions though.

Cravings: COLD things!

How I Feel: I have officially turned into a bag of buttholes! I can't walk for longer than 20 minutes. I went on the elliptical yesterday and I got lighting crotch for about an hour and had really sharp pains above my  pubic bones there were NOT contractions. Swelling has begun! UGH I have cankles the size of TEXAS seriously I am glad that I only have 1-2 more weeks of being pregnant LOL. It has been a blessing, with my other two I swelled at like 20 weeks so we will call this a win LOL. 

Maternity Clothes: Yup. I am pretty much wearing the same three outfits so laundry has increased to twice a week now so I can have something clean. My son told me that my shirts weren't fitting me anymore and started laughing at me LOL so I guess it's time to hibernate until after the baby gets here right?

Movement: She is everywhere and everywhere all the time. She is more into rolling now and that is how I feel her movements now. Mostly though she moves when I am super relaxed.

Sleep: I am sleeping but the doc put me on sleep rest. She said that I had to rest more so I got a doctors note for a few days of sleep :)

What I Miss: Running. I am seriously missing running this week. Runners are EVERYWHERE and I "hate" them all LOL. I just want to be me again :) 

What I'm Looking Forward To: Seeing what this baby looks like. In the short term though we have a special trip planned for our little to go on a 2 hour train ride! I am SO excited it has taken EVERYTHING to keep my mouth shut about it! 

Favorite Moment of the Week: Hmmmm lets see.........getting through my sons graduation! No baby came and I was praying really hard for her not to come. She is now free to come whenever but I have the strangest feeling that I am going to be over due and I hate that for myself LOL. 

 

Clean eating while pregnant

Eating clean while pregnant has been a serious struggle for me. This pregnancy has turned me into a carb loving machine. I am talking pancakes, French toast, potatoes, rice, pasta. I love it all and if I could bathe in it I would….kidding! I have a plan to eat more REAL food and less stuff that comes from a package!

So I have made the conscious decision THIS week to start eating cleaner and letting my old carb ways fall to the wayside. I am not going to give up carbs, that would be silly but I am going to try to portion them out better instead of having meals consisting of nothing but carbs! I am also going to incorporate vegetables into our daily meals.

So this week I will post my meal plan and what I plan on eating so that you can catch a glimpse into what it is that I eat. I try to K.I.S.S (Keep it simple stupid) but there are times when I crave flavor and umph (Top Chef style cooking) and chicken broccoli and brown rice is JUST not cutting it. It’s bland and it is “diet” food if I must say so myself. 

When I was losing the baby weight after I had my son chicken, broccoli, and brown rice was a staple in my home as well as

*baked chicken with sweet potatoes and green beans

*foil wrapped tilapia with broccoli and spray butter

*baked chicken with a salad.

It worked and it did the job but damn was my palette craving more. Especially now that I am pregnant my body just wants an explosion of flavor and I am not going to skimp on that. Granted, when I first gave birth to my son was when I was REALLY unknowledgeable about health and nutrition so I ate the easiest things but they weren’t always tasty. Actually my husband now refuses to eat chicken brown rice and broccoli ever again. Not to mention my husband kind of hates chicken because we ate it so much LOL. I digress.

I have started drinking green smoothies lately because my vegetable intake is really low. I mean I went from eating the stuff every day to maybe eating a vegetable once a week…..sad I know. How I have been able to keep my weight down is a mystery to me, I will say that we can thank the workout gods for that one.

I am also going to start packing my lunches. In the beginning of my pregnancy I could not tell you what I wanted to eat so my husband and I spent a ton of money on eating sandwiches and Chinese food because I clearly had no idea what I wanted to eat. Now that I am okay and not so sick anymore packing a lunch seems more attainable than it did before. Part of me can’t wait to be “normal” again.

My meal plan for the week:

Grilled steak with green beans and a chimichurri sauce

Grilled chicken with balsamic roasted kale

Turkey sausage with peppers and potatoes

Breakfast for dinner

“Chipotle” steak bowl with rice, beans, lettuce, salsa, and guacamole.