The Updating of Things

Okay so things have changed - obviously.  This is no longer going to be my kick-behind-and-lose-60lbs-in-6-months-blog its going to be more of a survive-my-first-pregnancy-while-trying-to-stay-healthy-and-not-gain-60lbs-in-6-months blog.  Unfortunately I'm already behind as I'm pretty sure I have gained 10lbs in the past two weeks.

(If you have or have ever had Smith as your last name... I KNOW... I'm working on it.)

So with this new type of blog comes a new set of goals to go by.  Interestingly enough they almost match up with the dates of the last set of goals.

Goal 1: Get to May 17
       - May 17 will be 8 weeks of pregnancy and I have had several friends miscarry at this point so I am still very wary of that date and I just want to make it past that healthy and with child.

Goal 2: Get to June 17
      - June 17 will be the day I enter into my second trimester which is when the risk of miscarriage plummets drastically - crossing my fingers to get to this day! 

Goal 3: Eat Healthier
      - I had been eating about 1230 calories a day on my diet but I wasn't necessarily eating "healthy" so my goal is to now start eating more veggies, fruits, chicken, and fish.  This is going to be a challenge for me especially since for the past two weeks I have not only fallen off the wagon but I have fallen into a deep dark pit of eating everything within reach as long as it isn't in anyway good for me!

Goal 4: Not to look like a hippo for Jaren's wedding.
      - Looking cute and pregnant is one thing... gaining like 1000 pounds and looking like a creature from the Nile is another!  I want to look like I'm hiding a basketball in my dress... not 30 year old twins.

Of course I have all of the other pregnancy goals but I'm sure you guys don't want to hear all about those.  The cool thing however is that we should be able to hear the heartbeat around Kennith's birthday and find out the gender around my birthday.  Naturally I want a boy and Kennith wants a girl so this should be very interesting!

So in order to stay in somewhat decent shape while pregnant I have ordered two new workout DVDs.  The first, with the recommendation of Jaren, Total Body Sculpt Plus with Gilad and a Pregnancy Yoga workout off of Beachbody.com.  I have the Total Body Sculpt DVDs and my plan is to start them tonight.  I am assuming since I was able to survive P90X then I should be able to survive this.  We shall see.

I know that they say in pregnancy that you should be able to continue whatever workouts you were doing when you got pregnant as long as you don't start anything your body is not used to, so I'm sure some of you are wondering why the change.  Well as I mentioned before I'm still in the first trimester which is the riskiest one and two I've already had a few scares in the past few weeks so I'm really trying to take it easy.  The good news however is that my hormone levels keep going up and up and the past few ultrasounds haven't shown anything really concerning!  This of course makes me feel much better but I'm still holding my breath until I see my little guy.

Okay so I need to find some yummy ways to eat strawberries.  Does anyone have any good/healthy ways to fix strawberries?  I am really trying hard to like fruit but I'm not being very chipper about the whole process! Of course I haven't been so chipper about a lot of things the past few days... Between migraines, mood swings, bouts of random tears, and being tired every minute of every day, I haven't found a whole lot of time to be perky and sweet.  Something else I need to work on I suppose ~ yuck.

Happy Fruit - Oh how I loathe thee...

Well, off I go.  For the thousandth time I'm going to assure you I'm going to start eating healthy.  What I really need is a live in cook that only lets me eat healthy things!  How lovely would it be to have someone there that cooks yummy healthy meals and all I have to do is sit down and enjoy the low calorie super foods that will help grow a baby genius inside of me that will invent something great and thus allow my son to sponsor my frequent trips around the world.  sigh ~

Well send me your healthy recipes and snacks so I can once again try to get back on track.  Also I'm accepting all pregnancy advice at Texas_Ginger23@yahoo.com.  I'm looking for the tricks of the trade so to speak on how to survive the next several months!  Any other workout recommendations?