There She Goes!

Pregnancy is uncharted territory for me. I have no idea what I'm doing. Eating gluten-free is also uncharted territory for me. I barely have an idea of what I'm doing with that. In the light of the little weight loss I had and the close of my first trimester looming (which indicates that I must start gaining weight soon), I started realizing that I need to eat more but I can barely eat a full meal. If I can barely eat a meal, I guess I'm supposed to snack continually all day. I do know that I'm supposed to eat 300 calories more than I did pre-pregnancy. Yet, I have no idea how many calories I was eating in the first place. I don't even know how many calories anything has! I guess the ideal calorie intake per day for 2nd trimester is about 2300 calories and something like 2400 or 2500 in third trimester.

I don't think pregnancy is carte-blanche to eat everything in sight. I want to eat healthy and get enough for the baby. I've eaten more potatoes lately but it's a high glycemic food and starchy and I don't want my blood sugar spiking too much and too often that I'll end up getting diabetes or something. Being on a gluten-free diet kind of drives me crazy because it leaves me at a loss for something to eat at times. I'd love to have half of a bagel with peanut butter for breakfast this morning but noooooo.....I have a wheat allergy. I'd love to have a bowl of cereal or yogurt for breakfast but noooo, the baby doesn't like dairy in the mornings.

Nothing appealed for breakfast this morning except leftover mashed potatoes from last night. I had about a cup of mashed potatoes and I looked up the calories on the internet and it's about 237 calories. I did 30 minutes on an exercise bike at the school gym and burned 88 calories (or so the bike told me). Then I had a bag of fat free popcorn which is about 240 calories. So far, I've eaten 477 calories and burned off 88 calories and it left me with 389 calories today. It's only lunch time right now. I'm supposed to eat 2000 more calories today and the day is already halfway through. Where am I going to get that??

I'll start with an apple and go from there.