Modified diet and eating better

Pic of me at 27 weeks:

The slowed down intestines and all the ramifications are driving me nuts, so I've gone on a rampage to have a better diet to help.

So last night, I cooked a wonderful pan seared salmon, in a honey balsamic glaze, served over spinach salad with red onions, garlic, artichoke hearts and sundried tomatoes. It looked a little minimal on a plate, so I thought Mark might scoff at it, but he LOVED it! He said that the salad was a perfect compliment to salmon since it's so rich and fatty on its own.

I ate a banana today (trying to help keep more potassium in me and maybe help the leg cramps some), am aiming to eat an apple or an orange a day. I bought some benefiber, soluble liquid fiber and (thanks Kenya) it's amazing. It's not all metamucil thick and disgusting, it really just disappears. I had it in some berry tea this morning and it was untraceable. Had a bran muffin (still yuck!) and some nuts and a boiled egg for breakfast. Boiled eggs are my morning staple. I have this rice steamer that does a great job of boiling eggs with no effort whatsoever and it's quick protein to start my day, which is important for the preggers.

I'm also going to try to have a salad a day, so I have 3 types of lettuce in the fridge and bought some slawish mix that I'm going to use today to have a chinese salad for lunch. Since I'm being so healthy and domestic today, I started dinner this morning in the crockpot - curry beef and vegetables. Mark's going to be shocked when he gets home and all the food's already cooked, house perfumed with the aroma of home cooked meal.

I already drink tons of water, and the fridge w/the auto water dispenser helps, but the growing belly makes you feel full like you don't have room for more water and the having to pee every 20 minutes is so annoying that it's tempting to do the wrong thing and not drink as much water. But hydration is SUPER important for the babe, so I've kept it up. I did yield to the temptation to stop taking iron temporarily. It sort of made me sick, I'd belch iron supplement for the next four hours and it definitely doesn't help with constipation. And when I learned that it's not hurting the baby (he's gonna get his, by any means necessary) it's just hurting me, I stopped for a couple of weeks. Then we got some other routine tests and my iron level went down to 10, so I sucked it up and now I take the iron, in addition to the iron already in the multivitamin which I've been great about taking. In general, the baby gets its nutrition - your body is dedicated to feeding it. It's you who suffers if you don't get enough of the right stuff. A lot of women half teeth problems or lose teeth during pregnancy because the baby takes all of their calcium and leaves none for the mommy. Needless to say, I make sure to get enough calcium!

But it takes a lot of discipline to eat well. And this trimester is all about the baby's brain growth (more Omega 3's and fish) and fattening him up. So I've got to be extra on top of it. It's funny, I don't eat a lot, am not hungry that much and haven't had cravings since the middle of the second trimester. So I'm not even that food motivated anymore. But, I have taken to Jack in the Box strawberry shakes and cherry Slurpee. I have a slight increase in the need for sugar, but other than that, same old me.