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What I eat!

I have been trying to figure out what in the world I could do to get motivated to eat better this pregnancy. I was so much better at eating healthy with Tucker, it wasn't even hard, I craved fruit and loved all the healthy food. This time around is completely different, and I don't know if it's because I am more stressed (which means for me that I will eat my feelings...bad, bad, bad) and that makes me want to indulge more, but basically there has been no healthy eating over here. I haven't even given myself boundaries when it comes to the amount of sweets I eat. I think it's good to have a plan in motion everyday, for instance my plan for the last 5 months seems to be "DRINK MORE WATER" I do not like water lately, I used to drink it religiously but tend to want soda, pepsi in particular, I've somehow got it in my head that I need the caffeine. If you are not normally a soda drinker and then start drinking it (like me) you know you don't get anything from it but a bloated stomach. I also have the tendency to crave what I choose to eat, so when I drink a soda I want it all the time. So my point is, I want to hold myself accountable. I tried to keep a food diary which I never got around to, I would write in it for one meal a day but since no one would see it I didn't feel motivated. An idea popped into my head, and I originally thought it would be neat to vlog my attempt to eat better, and vlog absolutely everything I ate in a day and post it to youtube and then thought better, I am too camera shy, it would look ridiculous. (I may eventually do that, but baby steps are better to start with) So then I thought how much I love to take pictures of my food, so I will be putting a post up every Thursday called What I ate Wednesday, maybe more often later but just one day a week for now, with pictures of the food I ate Wednesday. I mean every morsel I put in my body. That may be the only day I eat better, or maybe I won't eat better this is just an experiment, but maybe it will hold me accountable and make me want to eat pretty, healthy, colorful things. Wish me luck and look for my post. :)

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