I'm about 7 weeks pregnant. I have been feeling really exhausted and sick (as expected) and in the last few days I've been unable to stomach certain meals. I couldn't eat my stir fry last night but ate all the beef. I couldn't eat my pasta tonight and have decided to do steak and chips instead which I really fancy (with loads of vinegar and Ketchup ). We had roast beef on Sunday so it seems like I'm craving red meat. I would usually be careful not to have red meat very often because I know it's not great for you too much. But as I'm pregnant...do I just go with it!?
I can't remember having cravings with my first I just lost my appetite altogether for 16 weeks and basically just ate crackers the whole time!
What does everyone else do to try and be healthy when you've gone off vegetables and other healthy things and just want meat and chips?!
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cravings - go with them or try to eat as normal?
foxessocks · 12/01/2016 17:04
Go with whatever you can keep down! Obviously try to eat as balanced a diet as you can, but honestly, they say that the baby takes what it needs from what you put in (within reason of course), so just do your best.
My baby was about 80% fuelled by broccoli for a while, as I had really visceral cravings for it. Now it's cake 
Swings and roundabouts!
Steak was amongst my cravings in my last pregnancy too. I also think it's your body's way of telling you what it needs at any given time not sure how this works with the haagen daz and pick'n'mix cravings I also had, but I ran with them too. Go for it unless it's a non-food item (tarmac, bleach... you know, stuff that'll poison you 
).
Also, as CityMole says, if you've otherwise been feeling sick and this is something you can keep down, you'd be daft not to!
I'm desperate for cheddar - don't really care if it's decebt stuff it not, I just can't get enough. I guess I must need the calcium or something.. Lady time I was obsessed by wotsits. Cannot begin to imagine what my body was craving - bright orange chemicals?!
I found my cravings changed anyway. I went through a red meat phase, then a fruit phase (frozen grapes, and pineapple), and spent the last 4 months craving ice cubes.
Just go with it.
I was sick for about 29 weeks 
at the start, I could only keep ready salted crisps down! I was worried about all the fat and salt, but my midwife said my blood pressure was very low, so my body was probably craving salt to help raise my blood pressure....maybe your body wants something that's in red meat?
I would go with it there's lots of things much worse that you could be eating!
My switch in food taste was what made me get a pregnancy test! Breakfast was usually a small steak, egg, spinach and avocado, lunch was chicken and veg, tea was usually chicken veg and sweet potato. Then suddenly woke up unable to stomach anything but toast...for lunch just wanted ham sandwich and ready salted crisps...same for tea...same the next day. Still can only face bland carbs, managing to get fruit in but anything with a weird texture or strong flavour just makes me heave. Feel so unhealthy at the moment but am doing my best. Hoping it will pass after the first trimester...
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