Can't eat sweets

[StacieM]

Man - anyone who knows me knows I like my sweets. You know when they have those little fun surveys and ask favorite food, I always answer "ice cream." Well, this baby does NOT like sweets. I've been pretty good at not eating much sweets because they just don't really appeal to me right now which is rather strange. Then I notice that if I do give in and indulge, I get a tummy ache that just stinks. The indulgence is so not worth the stomach pain afterwards. I think that's part of why sweets have lost their appeal. None of my other pgs were like this. In fact with my youngest daughter I could finish a whole half gallon of ice cream by myself over the course of two days. With my oldest daughter I had a candy bar just about every single day (granted it was a "low fat" type, but still).

I ate about a 1/4 pint of ice cream today and now I'm paying for it. *sigh* - okay, baby, I get the idea - more healthy food and forget the junks. Here's to :

[Jilian]

I've been having an aversion to sweets too. They just don't appeal to me at all anymore. I've heard a few other mamas mention it here too.

[willoLevin]

chocolate? blah!

I haven't noticed a tummy ache from sweets, but my "normal" cravings for sweets have disappeared and I'm craving salty snacks that I never eat--I just "had to" buy two boxes of cheddar crackers (like Goldfish, only organic) when I was shopping this week.

My husband always goes 15 miles out of his way to get me the "best chocolate cake" I've ever had from a particular bakery for my birthday, and, since we conceived a few days before then, I haven't done my usual justice to the remains of the cake. I just threw it away after it sat there untouched for a week. (Just so I don't sound like a total pig, we have people over for my birthday and everyone eats cake. I often eat a piece a day until it is gone the week afterwards, though! It's a huge cake.)

--willo

[SarahJen]

I have the same aversion to chocolate which is really strange to me because I can normally not get through a day without at least a tiny piece. I tried some the other day just to see and it totally did not appeal to me whatsoever.

Then again, most things don't appeal to me right now, except for scrambled eggs : .

[StacieM]

I've heard others say that you tend to eat more sweets when carrying a girl. If only that were the case I'd be sure that I'm NOT carrying a girl. But of course, since we'd like to have another boy (we have 3 girls), that probably won't ring true. LOL

[wombatclay]

I'm having a tiny piece of dark chocolate each day (there was a wonderful study a few years ago showing that mamas who ate chocolate every day during pregnancy had children who were, in general, happier than other children...they think it had to do with the reduction in stress hormones or something caused by the chocolate...what a wonderful study!).

So I consider my daily square of super dark chocolate on par with my pre-natal.

But other sweets have really fallen by the wayside and I'm all about the salty snacks. Cheese-its and salty potato bits and salty noodles and...well...anything except the sugary stuff (and that includes healthy sugars too...too sweet fruit or jam turns me off now as well.)

[StacieM]

I heard about that study. I thought it was wonderful too!

[Girlo]

I'm the same way with sugar! It's not all sugar - soda is okay....honey is okay....Luna bars are okay. It's just the hard-core sugar - candy bars, donuts, cake, cookies, etc. I look at it and I remember how good it tastes, but when I think about eating it, it just doesn't seem so good anymore.

About a week ago, a girl at my work brought in some KK's. I had one because I LOVE donuts. Yikes! I paid for it all morning with a sour stomach.

I might try that little square of dark chocolate per day, though. Dark chocolate isn't so sweet and just a bite of that might sit okay......

[wombatclay]

A blurb on my favorite research study in the whole wide world.... some days I just love science.

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4854

[sally Z]

went totally off sweet stuff when pregnant with dd, then i went totally off food in general. I have a really sweet tooth but could not face sweets.

This time sweets are so far so good, but feeling a little more icky than before so it may still be coming

[Ks Mama]

So Weird!

I was just thinking about posting this same question! I am a huge fan of ice cream, pre-baby had an iced chai latte every day... now every time I eat sweets (had 4 birthdays in the last three weeks) I just feel really yucky afterwards - like I forced myself to eat it, because in theory it should have been yummy, but I just didn't enjoy it. I can't even drink my chai anymore as just the thought turns my stomach!!!

With DD's pregnancy, the only "craving" I had was ice cream.

Weirdness. I'm kinda bummed about it, actually!!

[saratchka]

Joining the sweets-are-yucky club! I usually like sweets a lot, and since DD was born, the nursing has made me crave them like never before, but in the last few weeks I just can't even stand the thought of sweets - especially chocolate! So weird!