10w5d - 30w1d to go!

Today I learned a valuable lesson.

When you're pregnant, you get HUNGRY. During my non-pregnant days, I could get hungry and put it on hold until it was convenient for me to go eat. It DOES NOT WORK THIS WAY WHEN YOU'RE PREGNANT.

I got hungry for lunch around 12 today, but decided to put it off, get a head start on my afternoon work, and wait until Danielle (my work friend) was ready to go. At about 12:45 we were both ready, and we headed to Whole Foods to hit the soup/salad bar.

Mind you, I had a fairly substantial breakfast. I had a nice big bowl of Kashi Cinnamon Harvest cereal with a cup of milk, and some apple juice. I also drank a nice big glass of water with a slice of lemon (my new "thing" this week). By all rights, I had covered my bases - carbs, protein, maybe a little high on the sugar (apple juice) but it should have stuck with me for awhile (I ate breakfast at 10 am).

So we go to Whole Foods, and get our food - I got a salad, some arroz con pollo (it was cooked in curry and smelled AMAZING), a couple cajun potatoes, a half piece of turkey lasagna, a half cup of chicken soup, and a small baguette (it sounds like a lot, but the hot foods were really just a "taste" - I filled 3/4 of that box with salad!).

Then we pay, and get in the car and I get to feeling downright nauseous. Not to the point where I thought I'd puke (I would have hated doing that in Danielle's truck!) but I just felt icky. When we got back to work, I cracked open the soup and unwrapped the baguette.

And that's when I noticed that I COULDN'T hold my hands still. I guess I waited way too long to eat and my blood sugar PLUMMETED. I dipped the bread in the soup and it was just splattering everywhere because my hands were so shaky.

So, I took it slow, and thankfully that bread (and it's yummy yummy carbs) brought my blood sugar back to a normal level.

Lesson learned here: PREGNANT LADIES MUST NOT WAIT TO EAT WHEN THEY FEEL HUNGRY.

Having said that - it's time to cook dinner before I re-live this lunch experience all over again.