anyone else wondering if/when they'll enjoy food again?

[sotough]

food used to be one of my great pleasures but now it just feels like something i have to eat.
i'm nearly 17 weeks pg and thought i'd be feeling more normal now but in the evenings there's barely anything i feel like eating and for much of the day i have that horrible metallic taste in my mouth. some days i feel like any food i've eaten is stuck half way down my gullet, where it stays for hours and hours.
none of this is painful, or massively distressing; all of it is a small price to pay for a desperately wanted baby; but i do miss actually enjoying food! i'm beginning to wonder
if it's going to be like this the whole way through, in which case, i won't be piling on too much weight!
i can go round an entire supermarket and not fancy anything Anyone else still like this in second trimester?

31 weeks tomorrow and still not eating, everything I eat makes me feel sick and it's been like it since week 6! have only put on 14lbs whereas with DD1 I ate myself a whole 4 1/2 stone!!!
It does get a bit depressing (I love my food too) but I am trying to focus on my post birth meal and just eat what I can manage. Hope you feel better soon

I was like that the whole way through with DD2, my daughter was a healthy 8.6lb but I was a stone lighter after she was born! The only consolation is food tastes fastastic afterwards!!

I was about 19/20 weeks when I started feeling like food again. Still not perfect but so much better than I was. Hope it's the same for you :)

Me too, ate very plain carbs for the first part of my pregnancy- a lot of toast! Knew I had to eat or I'd feel awful but didn't enjoy it at all and I love food.

Improved by about 18 weeks but still don't have the appetite I had and I'm 36 weeks. Have had terrible heartburn once the nausea finished and now my stomach just doesn't have much room. If I do eat too much/something rich/ or after about 7 at night I usually vomit it all back up again within a couple of hours :(. I do feel sad at times that I don't enjoy food like I did and don't know how people go through their whole lives not enjoying what they eat!

On the plus side I lost 8Kgs in the first trimester and have put nothing back on. When I had my first I vomitted through all of my labour and I was bought a ham sandwich about an hour after DS was born, it was the best thing I had ever tasted and I didn't have any heartburn once I'd eaten it so just look forward to eating totally normally again once the baby is born!

I am in the same boat. I am 14+6 and the nausea is lessening, but I just hardly ever fancy anything anymore.

The evening meal is the worst time, I usually feel a bit icky and I can only eat a quarter of my meal due to feeling full after about three forkfuls.

Then when I go to bed I get bloody heartburn, food seems to be the enemy now. Luckily the horrible taste in my mouth has gone, it only comes back occasionally. I miss enjoying a good meal. :(

me me me! I've got a swanky dinner out next week too, and am dreading it. I can only manage bland food and a few forkfuls at most... i used to LOVE eating out, cooking big meals etc. Now i even gag watching masterchef! haha

snap to all of the above but you girls are making me sad!!! I'm only 10 weeks and by the sounds of it there's a possibility there is no light at the end of the tunnel until baby born...oh help haven't eaten more than child size ikea plate since about 5 weeks!!

Take comfort from the fact that it's not the same for everyone, sam26oscar, you might not experience the aversion to food as much as others despite you feeling no light at the end of the tunnel. When I was pregnant, I couldn't even go into a supermarket or go past a McD's without heaving.

Hey sam, I felt like this until tuesday (14 +6). Now the only problem I have is that food does not come quickly enough when I snap my fingers. I need to eat eat EAT.

Me too! 15 + 2 and where as I was just nauseaus all the time, I now have boughts of full on throwing up and I hate it!

Am living on crisps and nuts at the moment, and the most fruit and veg I have eaten is maybe an apple or an apricot per day (if that)

I used to love my food, could eat for England, used to make home made meals all the time.

I think since week 7 the oven has been switched on twice and I can't remember when I last opened the fridge door and trips to the supermarket are the most depressing times in the world!

And if I hear one more person say "it should have passed by now ..... "