Fun (or something like that) with Pregnancy

Okay, I've decided that when you're pregnant you make a lot of enemies. Yep, you read right, you make enemies with ones that you once thought were your safe haven. For example, up until very recently my favorite food was chips and salsa. Last week they turned on me. Jerks. Now I can't even look at the salsa without going green. Another pregnancy enemy I've made - chocolate. This has been one of the worst culprits. A few days after finding out I was pregnant, I was hungry and decided to get a Twix from the vending machines at work. I love Twix. I used to get them all the time. Well, about half way through the second candy bar, I suddenly felt like I wanted to die, and I knew instantly that it wasn't caramel and it wasn't the cookie, it was the chocolate! So I threw the rest away and tried to stay away from chocolate since then. Of course I keep trying, because I LOVE chocolate. I tried eating an Andes Mint about a week or two after the Twix incident. These are another one of my favorites. I took very small bites to see if it would work, then eventually ate the whole thing. About 10 minutes later, my stomach was trying to kill me again. Even the other day, now over a month later, I made chocolate chip cookies for my parents when they came to visit, and ate a few not thinking about that devil ingredient, and what do you think happened? Yep, once again I was curled up on my bed all night wanting to die. Other items that have joined my enemy list are any and all fruit (including fruit flavored things), avocados/guacamole (my one time cravings for a whole week), Cafe Rio food, Club Crackers, Nilla Wafers, yogurt, some breads, turkey, most cheeses, pepperoni, marinara sauce, garlic, Panda Express, most types of chicken, pork, and probably more that I haven't discovered yet. Then of course there's things like driving and walking for any period of time that stir up the evil juices as well. Honey Nut Cheerios are still helping, they're my friends. Right now they are my best friends when it comes to neutralizing the enemies. Even my precious Filet Mignon steaks are feeling like they're going to turn south soon. I sure hope not.

Between being completely ravenous to the point of digressing to a wild animal and all of my favorite foods turning to poison, I'm starting to wonder how people do this more than once. I actually started yelling at a pot of water while trying to make Mac and Cheese because it wasn't boiling fast enough for me. Silly I know, but I seriously go crazy when it comes to eating time. Just a few more weeks, then I can forget about all of this fun just like everyone else...

Anyway, this is really just a rant, but I'm mostly just upset because I didn't think that all of my favorite foods would turn against me. Another one of those pregnancy symptoms that is either underplayed or I ignored when people would talk about them. :)