Healthy eating in pregnancy?

[Adamsmama]

Is there already a thread or group for this? I would love some more ideas about how to eat healthy. I'm eating "whole foods" but I was wondering if I should be concerned with my fat/calorie/protein intake? I was using a program online called babyfit to track my nutrition & food and am realizing that I'm consuming a lot more fat than I thought (mostly good fats) and less protein than they suggest and far less calories than they suggest and slightly less carbs, too. So, I'm wondering if I should try to rearrange the types of foods I'm eating.

[cristeen]

Fat and protein are the two crucial components of your diet while pregnant. Beyond that being sure you get healthy amounts of (mostly green) vegetables. I do not agree with the general recommendation to concern yourself with carb intake, since most of your starches are not a good source of vitamins - they don't contain anything you can't get from the rest of your diet.

I usually recommend reading up at Blue Ribbon Baby. I don't agree with his recommendations for grains (as above), but the rest of his advice I do agree with. If you do want to include grains/starches in your diet, I highly recommend you fulfill the rest of your dietary requirements and then only if you're still hungry add in starches. Most people wind up filling up on starches/sugars and don't meet the rest of their dietary requirements.