The first four months of my pregnancy I was completely blown away by the fact that I was not having any cravings for particular foods.  If you know me pretty well than you realize how completely un-Kristy-like this is!  The not pregnant Kristy gets the ice cream, smoothie, Thai food, pasta, sweet/salt craving thing all the time!  I have been known to send Bill out for a pint of ice cream or Smoothie King trip at odd hours of the day before (thanks Bill xo).  Something about the pregnancy hormones balanced out these cravings for quite some time – I continued to enjoy food but didn’t seem to care much about what I ate.

Enter month five. Now the cravings have returned, and in full-force.  It’s not quite how I imagined (no desire for pickles with ice cream yet), but for two days this week I could not stop thinking about eating a piece of sheet cake.  On Thursday my entire body was so invested in this food that I literally spent a half hour thinking about what specific kind of sheet cake I wanted (white with vanilla frosting), where I should get it from, and planning my entire evening schedule and meal around this little piece of cake (which I wound up not getting).

And don’t even think about opening a can of Diet Pepsi (or any soda for that matter) in front of me!  I stopped drinking soda when I started doing Bikram Yoga over a year ago.  It wasn’t easy by any means but I have been successful at substituting water and juice.  Recently, however, if I get even a whiff of soda I have an insatiable thirst for the item that takes hours to dissipate.  Most doctors say it’s perfectly fine to have a glass of soda or coffee once a day.  But a glass?  Are you kidding me?  I don’t do ‘a glass’ of Diet Pepsi – I want the entire 2-liter!  So, alas, it will have to wait…

  • Top Cravings: Diet Pepsi; Sheet Cake; Fruit
  • Foods I enjoy the most and eat regularly: Cinnamon Raisin Toast with Peanut Butter (my prenatal yoga teacher calls it “pregnant” butter); Macaroni & Cheese