Yummy, yummy food

During the last couple of months of my pregnancy, food has suddenly turned into this amazing experience that had you attempted to explain to me during my first trimester, I would have never believed.  I remember very early on my mom mentioning food cravings and me really not comprehending the idea.  Spending the first 14 weeks or so with my arms wrapped around the toilet bowl, head hanging off the side, I thought I would never make it to that magical moment when food started tasting good again.  Water was the only thing I could list as a possible craving.  “I’ll just have water” I would say most days.

Now is the time where I’m making up for the lack of weight gain in that trimester.  Here is where I make up for all the great dinners that I skipped, for all the cookies I didn’t eat and the juice I went without.  (I love juice, loved it before and loved it after, but that first trimester it made me want to vomit.)


I have paid my dues and for that was rewarded with an enormous sweet tooth – something I’ve never had before.  My kind of treats have always been chips, popcorn, skittles and other fruity things.  Now, I’m head-over-heals for chocolate.  Chocolate cookies, ice cream, brownies, candy bars, WHATEVER.  Food has become a different sort of experience now and instead of eating out of hunger, I eat out of hunger AND because eating a brownie just sounds delicious.  Now, I never over stuff myself, but after I’ve ate, I am quickly planning the next snack.   Sometimes I even set a time – you can’t have your next snack for 55 more minutes. 

I am not at all a fan of people who have nasty things to say about women who succumb to their pregnancy cravings.  There is a reason for these cravings and it’s something that isn’t controlled by me.  There is no other justifiable time to eat what you want like there is during pregnancy.  I don’t plan on gaining an excessive amount of weight or eating 4 bowls of ice cream in an hour, but if I want a candy bar?  I’m eating it.  And loving it.