Week 13- the weight game!

So from one website to another information is different. In my handy dandy calendar of Pregnancy symptoms it says week 13 is the beginning of the 2nd trimester. Online it floats between 12 and 14... so for sanity sake let's just say I am approaching the beginning of the 2nd trimester.

So far so good though the nausea has not subsided yet. Just when I think it is leaving me for good I get a second wave. Thank God for sparkling water (w/o sodium when available) and green apples go figure. I have to say I will be happy when it leaves me as I love to eat but this is making it quite difficult.

Unlike the common saying you're eating for two the daily increase in calories is only 100 until I reach the 2nd trimester where it then jumps up to 300 per day. Not a whole lot when you think about it. To help visualize the increase it is, a 100 calorie increase equals 1 cup of skim or 1% milk, 300 would be 1 1/2 cups of milk, 1 fruit and 10 almonds not a whole lot when you think of it. Yet a lot of us use pregnancy as an excuse to over eat and then wonder... why is it so hard to lose the weight after baby.... the more unnecessary weight we put on during pregnancy the harder it will be to return to our pre-pregnancy weight.
The first two pregnancies I made the mistake of eating for two and it took me over 5 years to shed the weight, and I was breastfeeding for 4 of those years. This time I vow to gain only the weight necessary for the babies health. I am reading Leslie Beck's nutrition guide to a healthy Pregnancy on top of Feeding baby green by Dr. Greene. Both books concentrate on how to eat properly for pregnancy, one concentrates on the importance of whole foods etc. the other goes to talk about how refined sugars or condensed sugars affect the unborn child from birth through adulthood. Quite interested studies done to prove Dr. Greene's findings.

Anyway on to the next stage the 2nd trimester let's hope for a worry and stress free pregnancy!