Hello, hello! I can’t believe it’s been 11 days since my last post. I went to Florida last week for a business trip, and it’s taken me a few days to get back into my normal routine. My husband went along too, and while most of it was all work for me, we did get in a little play in the evenings.
I sure love the beach. 
And as being on the coast goes, there was seafood a plenty to sample. We had several amazing meals of shrimp, crab legs and fresh fish. Just thinking about it is making my mouth water. Yum!
I may have indulged a little too much, because when I weighed in at my doctor’s appointment on Monday, I was up quite a bit from my visit a month ago. The nurse even did a double take with me when the dreaded number popped up on the scale. Let me tell you, that really does wonders for the old self esteem! Ha ha!
The nurse practitioner did make me feel a bit better, saying that my seemingly huge weight gain was likely because the baby just went through a big growth spurt. My uterus has grown about 7 centimeters since my last appointment. Whoa, baby!
I think it was good for me to get a bit of a reality check though, because I’ve been a lot more careful this week about watching what I eat. Sure, the baby may have had some to do with the weight gain, but I know at least a few pounds of that was my own fault. While I’ve been making good choices for the most part throughout my pregnancy, I think eating too much has had a big role in me packing on pounds.
While I’m still in the range of the recommended 25-35 pound pregnancy weight gain, I am bordering on going over that. And I still have 14 weeks left until my due date. I’m not getting too worked up about it, and neither is my doctor. All my labs look great and my blood pressure is fine, but I am refocusing on eating as well as possible and getting in good workouts every week.
So I’ve pulled the measuring cups back out, and we stocked up on all sorts of healthy eats for the week. Earthfare just opened in our area, and it is amazing! JD and I went in to look around and left with a whole cart full of organic goods. I could have spent my whole paycheck.
Breakfasts this week have included these old favorites:
Yogurt bowls! This morning’s “mess” was strawberry Chobani, about half a cup of organic blueberries and a cup of Kashi berry cereal. Fresh, filling and delish!
The husband also made us some awesome healthy smoothies with plain yogurt and lots of fruit for breakfast and as a quick snack. Liquid goodness can go a long way. Salads, sweet potatoes and fruit have been staples in my lunchbox the past few days.
It feels good to be cooking dinners again too. Eating out when your on a trip, even when you try to make good choices, can have a lot of hidden calories. Tonight’s meal was one of my favs — taco salad.
On a bed of iceberg lettuce was a half a cup of organic, grass-fed ground beef, a couple spoons of fat-free refried beans, a mix of corn, Rotel tomatoes, cilantro and purple onion, a sprinkle of shredded cheese, a few slices of avocado, a couple of small black olives and two tablespoons of lowfat plain yogurt. Plus a few dabs of salsa and a couple of organic blue corn chips for dipping.
Can’t wait to have this again for lunch!
After dinner, JD and I leashed up Tex and went for a 2-mile power walk. My legs were burning by the end of it, and it felt really good to get moving.
This post has taken me forever to write, due to the fact that I had to take a break because our cat rolled in mud, and we had to figure out how to wash her without getting ripped to shreds. My husband had to hold her by the scruff under the shower head while I wiped her down with a washcloth. (We were both wearing gloves, thankfully.) I wish I had a picture…Piper is fine, just pissy now! Ha ha!
I hope you all have a fantastic rest of the week. Anyone else have a 3-day weekend ahead?
