Aha! So original! A post dedicated to New Year’s Eve – the year gone by and the year to come. Sometimes my originality surprises even me.
I was going to post about my maternity pants adventure & the fact that I have now joined the grown-up-women-league by purchasing my first ever bottle of foundation + blush. ZOMG. But I have been either busy or recuperating from being busy. Because yeah, everything makes me feel winded/tired. Haha. I am teh granny at the moment. So by the time I get round to even thinking about taking pictures, it is too dark. So hopefully I will do so tomorrow! What could I possibly do tomorrow, right?
2009
… was our first year of marriage.
… saw me go from avid non-runner to avid runner & accomplish a goal I would never have fathomed: run a 10 mile race.
… I enrolled in a new post-grad course.
… I had my last holiday in my gran’s house, as it was sold in July. Lots of memories there…
… we went on our 3 week honeymoon, to Greece.
… we decided to buy a house and actually found one within the first month of searching.
… I got knocked up!
2010
… shall hopefully bring a healthy, beautiful baby.
…. I’ll finish my first year at uni and also start my second year (whilst being a mommy & working!).
… I’ll pick up running again and at least train for a half marathon (possibly run one, although that might not be until 2011).
… we’ll move into our new house.
Current mental & physical status
Sooo I’m almost out of the first trimester and I’ve gone from 136.7 lbs to 142.9 lbs. Total gainage of 6.2 lbs. Not bad, and I’m not even at the heaviest I’ve been (147 lbs). Which is weird, and pretty awesome: it means I haven’t really been overeating A LOT. I mean, I’ve done the “gain 10 lbs in a month” thing plenty of times before, and all I was growing then was a food baby!
The maternity pants are a godsend. When I tried them on I was like “wow, I have legs! Hello legs! I didn’t know I’d been missing you so!” (repeat twirling in the H&M fitting room for about 10 minutes, looking with amazement at legs & ass!). Apparently, living in your fat pants for 3 months is not the best for your body image.
Yet, I haven’t really exercised (as I usually would) and eaten home cooked meals either. So that combined with the fat pants wearing, and now my waning morning sickness, has left me feeling a little *blegh*. Suddenly I am looking at skinny pop stars & videos and workout people and getting all antsy.
I kind of thought being pregnant and all, I would be immune. I’d be happily stuffing my face with cupcakes (as all pregnant women do, blissfully. No, I’m not over-generalizing, why would you think that?). I mean, before I actually got pregnant, I thought I’d be this work-out pregnant maniac, but haha, that bubble quickly got busted. But noooooo and it makes sense: imagine being (pre-)menstrual and multiply the hormones – what do you have? Yah. That’s what I’m talking about.
Luckily, there is no emotional eating going on. But I don’t always make the healthiest choices (fries? Anyone? Nutritioussy fries?) and now I’m starting to realize 6 months is a pretty long time. So, as nausea is no longer a real excuse anymore, I am getting back into the groove! I’m going to be cooking (vegan risotto this evening & Maroccan Tagine with Spring Vegetables on Friday), I’m going to eat healthy snacks (raw nuts, pB&J whole wheat sammies, hummus, etc.) AND I’m going to exercise.
So there we are, I said it. Expect pregnancy pants report & exercise plan tomorrow! You know, if I’m not recuperating from an evening of food, movies, and keeping the dog calm (we have fireworks on NYE in Holland, and our neighbourhood has illegal fireworks. Just so ya know.)
Have a great evening everyone and see you in the new year!
PS: I promise to visit your blogs more often now that pics of food no longer make me feel queasy.