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Why can't I stop eating junk?

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Dawnybabe · 09/10/2006 20:10

I have got a kitchen full of healthy options, yet came home at lunch today and had two packets of crisps and two iced buns! Then I wonder why I've felt like absolute s**t all day! It's not unusual either, I think it's been going on for weeks now. I don't think it's any kind of craving, I think it's me feeling tired and emotional and thinking 'I'll eat what I damn well like'! Then after I've stuffed myself with rubbish I feel lethargic, a bit sick and incredibly guilty that I'm not giving my baby a healthy diet. I'm six and a half months gone and I know that a good diet is essential now but I can't stop eating all the wrong things. I must be so selfish. What the hell is the matter with me?

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squishy · 09/10/2006 20:19

You're pregnant!! Don't beat yourself up about it, that can't help your stress levels.

Are you taking dietary supplements? They may help.....can you balance some healthy food with the stuff you like (am having a phase of lovely cheese with a healthy apple at the moment, but have also done healthy salad type lunch followed by a yummy starchy cake!)? And balance is the key, have kept eating meats and veg and stuff with the things that I fancy

Good luck, but give yourself a break from the guilr

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Dawnybabe · 09/10/2006 20:31

Cheers hun but I feel like I'm eating like this all the time. I really ought to go and make something healthy for dinner but I'm still bloated from all the crap I had for lunch. Am not really exercising either, but do finish work in a couple of weeks and hopefully will start swimming again. Don't think I've really put on a lot of weight though, but I'll bet the baby is getting fat. I'm mostly carrying up front as well.

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TheBlonde · 09/10/2006 20:32

I really want an iced bun now

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Dawnybabe · 09/10/2006 20:37

That's not funny

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TheBlonde · 09/10/2006 20:41

I may have to call my DH and ask him to get some on his way home
I'm only 17 weeks and ravenous

FloatingHeadOnTheMed · 09/10/2006 20:44

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shhhh · 09/10/2006 20:48

I know exactly where you are coming from and tbh was going to post about it tonight..!!

I'm 24 weeks and although I have breakfast and lunch, dinner seems to go astray and even lunch sometimes ends up as toast and crisps . I am still feeling sick which is why I don't fancy "meals" iykwim.

I have cooked dh a chill tonight and guess what I had...a bowl of special k and some carrot cake .

I know how you feel, you do this and then beat yourself up about it...I would rather have some chocolate than a sit down meal..

Must just be down to being pregnant as normally I am quite a healthy eater, eating fruit and veg/salads etc....In fact it was the sme with dd. The only way people know i was pregnant was due to the fact my lunch and snack diet went from healthy to crap..!

julezboo · 09/10/2006 20:54

Im the same! I made a lovely spag bol tonight, but half way through i didnt enjoy it so dp finished it and i stuffed my face on mini sausage rolls with kethcup with tescos belgian chocolate flake truffles for afters!

I am still taking pro natal vitamins and drinking lots of fruit juices so i think thats kinda balancing it out!

I wouldnt worry too much though tbh!

controlfreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaky2 · 09/10/2006 20:57

you'll regret it later (post birth) if not now.... self control woman, self control

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Dawnybabe · 09/10/2006 20:58

I'm taking pro natal vitamins and drinking lots of juice too, in the hope that it counts as one of my five a day, and I do eat the odd apple, but TBH I can't stand the sight or smell of a lot of veg etc so am not really helping myself here...

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julezboo · 09/10/2006 21:01

tbh I ate alot of crap when pg with ds, chips and curry most days from the chippy LOL didnt like veg back then cept for brocoli which i didnt very often had but roast pots and gravy was a regular meal too for me and I didnt end up huge after birth or during! so long as you keep active i dont think it will matter and with a new born baby active is all you can be!

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Dawnybabe · 09/10/2006 21:05

Self control? What's that? Is it edible?

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shhhh · 09/10/2006 21:12

lol..! Apparently it tastes devine with chocolate sauce, followed by Lindt chocolates.....Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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Dawnybabe · 09/10/2006 21:43

Sounds like my kind of meal. Seriously though, I have got to get a grip on this healthy eating or my baby's gonna come out ill. Thanks for everyone's vote of confidence. At least when I'm stuffing my face with a bag of crisps I know I'm not the only one who physically can't put them down!

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Baretoes · 10/10/2006 09:04

It's a nightmare isn't it?!?! I compromise by eating something decent and then have a treat afterwards - at least then you don't feel too sickly to get the vitamin rich food in in the first place. Also - try eating whole fruit rather than mainly drinking juice - it is higher in fibre and relatively lower in sugar. I'm not too hot on veggies at the mo but am fine with bananas, pre-prepared melon (either by me or the shop), pears etc. Grapes are very high in sugar so be warned! I am also finding it hard to eat a full meal in one go and am much happier grazing - this doesn't help!!!!!!!!!

squishy · 10/10/2006 11:25

ROFL at self-control being edible and Apparently it tastes devine with chocolate sauce, followed by Lindt chocolates.....Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm but, I think you forget the absolute must - drenching it in extra thick double cream....... makes everything taste EVEN better (sticky toffee pudding, treacle tart, chocolate cake - drooooooooool)

On the healthy side, keep looking lovingly at pineapples but trying to resist eating a whole one until a bit closer to due date - is that supersitious?!?!

Creena · 10/10/2006 11:45

This thread is making me hungry. Or should I say hungrier. I feel a trip to Sainsbury's coming on or, if I can't be arsed, the fridge!

KathyMCMLXXII · 10/10/2006 11:53

You're absolutely not being selfish, Dawnybabe - it's just totally random what cravings you get.
When I was pg with dd I could only eat junk food. Veg made me feel sick for nearly the whole 9 months and I lived on supernoodles (why?!!) Now I'm 7 months with ds I've gone to the other extreme and can't face the idea of the slightest additive in anything (so I'm refusing my poor dh's stir fries because he makes them with a bit of packet sauce). It's not me being unselfish - it's just luck.
Didn't do dd any harm at all, though - she's very healthy and a brilliant little eater. I would just eat whatever you want, take vit supplements if you're really worried, and not stress about it at all

shhhh · 10/10/2006 15:52

squishy, noooooo..stay away from the pineapples.. Did nowt for me when expecting dd BUT my neighbours ds came around 6 weeks early..thinks it was due to the whole pineapple she ate without realising....!!

zephyrcat · 10/10/2006 16:11

Do you know the sex of your baby?

zephyrcat · 10/10/2006 16:12

Purely because I was exactly like you with 2 of mine so was going to post 'Because you're having a __ ' but thought I'd better not!!!

squishy · 10/10/2006 17:20

shhh, think I will try the pineapple in about 2.5 weeks!!! And eat the whole lot (yummmmmmmmmmmmmm!)

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Dawnybabe · 11/10/2006 09:27

Zephyrcat, I've been told it's 'probably' a girl but as I know they quite often get that wrong, I'm still kinda not sure, although I keep refering to her as a girl so I'm gonna be a bit muddled up if it does come out a boy!

Wouldn't mind eating lots of pineapple though. I've said on a couple of other threads how she's due a week before Christmas and I'm praying she's on time or early cos I want to have her here for Christmas and not go through the festive season being heavily pregnant.....

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twinkle5 · 11/10/2006 11:15

I'm please it's not just me! Im usually quite a healthy eater- at least at meal times! However, since the onset of nausea last week I've just wanted crisps or laughing cow triangles

zephyrHellcat · 11/10/2006 11:21

I was going to say "It's because you're having a girl"

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