I'm ravenous!!!

[limabean]

Oh my gosh, I've been such a pig the past two days! I'm appalled at the amount of food I've been eating. Today I had:

Breakfast:
Bagel & cream cheese
Tea

Mid-morning snack:
3 piroshki (yeah, that's a giant "snack")

Lunch:
Chicken sandwich
French fries
Veggies

Afternoon snack:
Banana w/ peanut butter

Dinner:
Chicken taco
Beans & rice

Evening snack:
Cream of wheat

And I'm STILL hungry!!! This is insane -- I've never felt like this in my life except for during this pregnancy. Luckily these bouts only last 2-3 days and then I have a more reasonable appetite, but when it happens it just astounds me -- I was embarassed yesterday because DH was home and saw how frequently I ate! Tomorrow I'm meeting my coworkers at an Indian restaurant for lunch, and I'm already so excited for the giant bowl of curry I'm going to order.

[Ironica]

Uh, you can still break it down into discrete meals/snacks... I just eat *constantly.* ;-)

Then again, when you're off of gluten, dairy, soy, corn, and canola, and you're basically low-carb too, you pretty much HAVE to eat constantly to get enough calories while pregnant!

[ChristyH]

Me too, unfortunately my eyes are bigger than my stomach...literally So I start eating and get a few bites in and have to stop.

[elleystar]

Oh man, me too! Me too!
Saturday night I ate a salad, an 18 oz ribeye steak, and garlic mashed potatoes. And I still wanted dessert afterward!
I did nothing but think about food all day today. And talk about it, of course! I knew something was up though when the amoxicillin capsules I counted this afternoon smelled like a restaurant...:

[mkmama]

i've thought about posting this thread this week so many times (even tried once but computer ate it...it was hungrier than me supposedly).

I HAVE BEEN STARVING...but nothing really sounds good, so i just eat cereal or nuts. i'm totally bored with my food choices and too lazy to think of anything new. But yeah, what is this? Big baby growth spurts? I've defietly grown the past week so i'm sure that it, baby plumping up for delivery. I'm SOOOO sick of being hungry 5 minutes after i eat all i can b/c there is no room! :

[2xshy]

oh add me to the list! I had heard that some women are less hungry and even lose a few ponds at the very end, well that is NOT me.
I'm hungry all the time but feel so full i'm uncomfortable. More full of baby then of food but the combination is no good.
I can't wait to not need to eat this much.

[celestialdreamer]

This seems to happen to me right as the baby goes through a growth spurt. I will eat constantly and be scared to see how much I've gained when I go see my MW. Then I've gained only a pound or two in a month and the baby has gone through a huge growth spurt So now I'm just listening to my body when it starts craving things as there must be a reason! I've been constantly hungry this past week and I guess my baby is stocking up on supplies before being born.

I'm absolutely astonished that I've only gained 8lbs at almost 39 weeks even though I'm constantly eating. I'm overweight so that gain is fine, but I seriously have no idea where all the food is going!

[tinyshoes]

me too!

on Sunday I came home from yoga hungry for a sandwich & chips, which dh made.....and I just had to pop open a can of tuna, which I proceeded to eat, plain, WITH the regular whole lunch.

non-pregnant people just don't do that.