Pregnancy edition - what have you eaten today?

[lustforlife]

I love reading these kinds of threads but they make me feel guilty because I'm eating so much at the minute! (32 weeks pregnant). I'm just constantly hungry and craving sweet food particularly.

I find I have to have a two course breakfast or else I feel faint and lightheaded. Haven't been weighing myself but I'm worried I'm putting on excess weight, was a healthy weight pre-pregnancy. I'm trying to cut back on my snacking (chocolate, normally) and instead eating little and often but with healthier foods. My measurements jumped up lots at my midwife appointment last week so I'm slightly paranoid about my eating habits.

Today I've eaten:
Breakfast - 3x weetabix with milk and some sugar and then a yoghurt drink
Lunch: 6 (!) crackers with smoked salmon and light Philadelphia
Dinner: pesto pasta and chicken breast

Snacks:
Greek yoghurt with banana and blueberries
Apple
3 lines of mint aero (craving this so much at the minute!)
Bag of hula hoops

Will probably have some hummous later on

Anyone else constantly hungry?!

Me! But I'm only 16 weeks! 🙈

Breakfast - 2 and a half weetabix with a bit of sugar

Snack -apple

Lunch-pasta with tomatoes and other veggies

Snack - crisps(few too many out of a sharer bag)

Dinner- lasagne

And now snacking on dairy milk but will have an orange later

Also constantly hungry all the time 😂

7 weeks.

08.00 - Ginger Buscuit
10.00 - Slice of seeded toast with Jam
13.00 - small slice Chicken & Ham pie left over from last night's dinner
19.00 - small bowl of homemade chicken curry

Snack: white chocolate and cookie Magnum.

2 Glasses of Orange Juice 1 Litre water throughout the day

@biscuit13 glad it's not just me!

Seems like me you have some chocolate and then 'balance' it out with some fruit I definitely feel less guilty if I've taken my vitamins and had some of my 5 a day!

Everything. I literally ate everything today. 10 weeks, nausea and an awful taste in my mouth mean im constantly eating.

@WindsorBlues you're doing well to eat as balanced as you are. At 7 weeks all I could stomach was toast and cheese sandwiches!

@Hatepickinganame
my first trimester eating habits were terrible!

23 weeks.

Muesli with blueberries and yoghurt

Ham and prawn cocktail crisp sandwich

Thai red curry with rice and a fruit corner.

I'm supposed to be eating little and often and cutting down on sugar and carbs due to gestational diabetes last time. But so busy with work from home and childcare I don't have time to think about it.

Last time round I ate jam with everything until I late gestational diabetes diagnosis. Not sure if that was the cause or the effect!

My baby is measuring really big so I’m to be as healthy as pos but I love sugar and it’s so hard. I’m 36 weeks.

Breakfast -2 slices of whole meal and 2 boiled eggs

Snack-wedge if cheese

Lunch-asparagus and spinach soup with 4 crackers and lots of cheese

Snack-quite a few handfuls of crisps (somehow I justify crisps because I’m less addicted to salt than sugar!)

Dinner-chicken, garlic, potatoes, carrots and broccoli
Pudding -natural yogurt with berries

Today Cereal and milk for breakfast- followed by a slice of granary toast at 10am. Lunch was tomato soup and bread roll and butter. Dinner homemade curry and rice. Meals quite carby!
Snacks - BIG PROBLEM, 2 apples, strawberries,various bits of chocolate, breadsticks, crisps and tonight two cookies!
Some days are better than others but a lot of snacking and desire for sweet stuff is crazy!

17 weeks
Breakfast : 2 croissants with jam and a decaf tea

lunch: chicken noodle soup and a satsuma and a glass of tropical smoothie

dinner: shepherds pie

snacks: a breakfast muffin with butter and jam
a satsuma
I ll probably have a handful of crisps before bed with my salt cravings.

16 weeks:
Breakfast - ready brek
Lunch- Greek said with tuna
Snack- rice cake
Dinner- half a pizza, 4 chips and salad
Dessert: slice of Victoria sponge

Greek salad, not Greek said!!

15 weeks... still need to eat every 2 - 3 hours to feel ok

Breakfast: porridge with protein powder and a bit of granola

Lunch: falafel wrap with babaghanoush and tabbouleh

Dinner: roast potato and cauliflower with cheese

Snacks: carrots, mini magnum, a flapjack, more babaghanoush and flatbread

My diet has been atrocious as everything makes me 🤢

14 weeks today. And I did well actually

Toast and dairy leave light for breakfast 1 slice

Ice poles (stop me puking)

One toastie for lunch with onion and sweetcorn

Baked potato with philly light, leftover bbq steak, salad and a corn on the cob.

Piece of bday cake!

Snacking this evening on raw veg with philly light and breadsticks.

I think the raw veg has cracked it for me. I was eating almost none as cooked was 🤢. Raw seems to be fine. Carrots, broccoli and cauliflower.

Had a lot of takeaway up till now!

I feel so guilty compared to you ladies
24 week

Breakfast- 3 slices white toast cheese spread and a yoghurt
Snack- a banana and a box of strawberries
Dinner- chicken and gravy pie packet of crisps 2 chocolate biscuits and a piece of cheesecake
Snack- half a pack of cookies
Tea- chicken and mushroom carbonara, half a 12 inch garlic bread
Snack- last piece of cheesecake a dairylea dunker and share bar of Cadbury fruit and nut 😂

Sweet tooth, and god knows how still a healthy weight haha

Breakfast: Cocopops (I know, I'm a child)
Lunch: Pasta with a creamy sauce for lunch
Snacks: Sesame seed bagel with lots of butter, little bit of chocolate, handful of Popchips
Dinner: Battered sausage and chips from the chippy

My god I am going to be colossal by the end of this.

13 weeks pregnant and craving chocolate all the time (I've had the least amount of chocolate in a long time today!). Since coming into my 10th week where my nausea eased up, I've been a total gannet. I just eat soooo many carbs and I am expanding by the second.

30 weeks
Breakfast - yoghurt with a small handful of granola
Snack - 3 digestive biscuits, an apple
Lunch - 3 wholewheat crackers with cheese, tomato, cucumber
Snack - Cadbury caramel bar
Dinner - salmon fillet with Cajun spice, sooonful rice, grilled peppers and a big salad
Desert - a 99 with raspberry sauce (couldn’t resist as ice cream van literally parked outside our house!)
Then before bed I had an orange ice lolly too!

Today has been a particularly bad day sugar wise, I’m craving sweet stuff so much!

Breakfast - 50grams of porridge with fresh strawberries

Lunch - chopped tomatoes and mozzarella on half a ciabatta and a small fruit salad

Dinner - Chicken and pepper homemade BBQ skewers with a salad

Snacks - a hand full of hummus crisps and a hand full of reduced sugar randoms..I need my daily sugary cravings haha!!

Drinks - one cup of caffeine tea in the morning then water all day

You're all making me hungry! Now I'm craving croissants and ice lollies in all seriousness, I'm getting quite paranoid about gestational diabetes, do all pg women get tested for this? I'm 32 weeks and haven't had a test for this, just have my wee dipped each appointment. Really need to work on cutting the sugar out of my diet. Hard to do when that's all I'm craving...

@Bekka94 I'm just as bad. Lost count of how many mint aero share bars I've eaten throughout this pregnancy

Breakfast - nothing as still feeling sick in mornings

Lunch - two big squares dark choc with handful of peanut M&MS, two large carrots with half a pot of hummus, bowl of dry granola.

Supper - crispy kale and baked eggs in spicy tomato sauce with chorizo

Snack - more dry granola, more chocolate & peanut M&Ms

What haven’t I eaten?!! Not even sorry! Ha ha!!

I’ve done an awful lot of gardening all day and I tend to need to eat a lot to avoid feeling dizzy or ravenously hungry but I tend to eat and then burn the calories off really as I’m very active, even at 30 weeks’ pregnant.
I eat proper meals and then have probably six snacks on top of that. E.g a hot cross bun, toast, chocolate, ice lolly, crackers, cake, yogurt with berries, fruit, etc. I do eat a fair bit of sweet stuff as I’ve got a shocking sweet tooth during pregnancy but I’ve come off a fit and active lifestyle and I know I’ll go back to my old ways of eating well and working out regularly - so I’m just going with the flow in the meantime. Have stopped weighing myself because the number was staggering but I haven’t really gained weight anywhere other than bust, bump and bum!

One thing I’m struggling with is waking up at 4am each morning feeling ravenously hungry and having to get up for a snack because I can’t get back to sleep otherwise. It’s not much fun. But probably good practice for waking through the night!!

17 weeks
Breakfast - Bran flakes with kefir and strawberries
Snack - a couple of dried apricots
Lunch - Baked Camembert with 1/4 of a baguette
Tea- Lasagne with salad
Drinks - decaf coffee x2, 1 latte, 1 cherry kefir drink, 1 glass of tropical fruit juice, 1 glass of rhubarb sparkling water, water

Oooh this is so interesting!

17 weeks today, 2nd pregnancy. started with a BMI of 22 but gaining weight rather quickly, lucky baby!

Breakfast- cup of tea, still full from late night snacks

Lunch - full ploughman’s; loads Of cheeses, Loads bread, pate, salad, apple

Teatime: banana cake AND a chocolate muffin, 1 milky coffee

Snack: few crisps & satsuma

Dinner: Trout fillets, potatoes, salad, aubergine
Pudding: 3 flapjacks!!!

Plus 1 x no-alcohol beer, and lots of water all day

@PoodlesAreMySpiritAnimal you sound like me! I've started to get stretch marks on my bum - the only place I've got them so far  also feeling the extreme hunger early in the mornings, I've never been so excited to eat weetabix in my life!

@Gerdticker ooooh banana cake and flapjack! Adding those to my shopping list

@lustforlife I think some hospitals do a routine gestational diabetes screening test at 28 weeks which is sort of a mini less intense version of the full two hour GTT. If you fail that then you have to take the full test. Having said that I also know lots of hospitals that don’t do the screening test on women unless there is a concern-eg big baby, higher BMI before pregnancy, older maternal age, certain ethnic background.... At my hospital they screen everyone -I passed that but a few weeks later my babies belly was off the scale so I had to do the full GTT.