Cravings: 1, Discipline: 0

[beetiger]

For the first time in quite a few years, I’m not finishing the Passover fast. I do it for personal reasons: I find the intentionality of it a good meditative tool, and find that it really reconnects me to my blood heritage, even if I’m no longer theologically Jewish. I find it unaesthetic not to keep a semblance of the rest of the Kosher laws when I’m doing it – shrimp salad on matzoh is just wrong – so between that and the things I’m avoiding during pregnancy (caffeine, sushi, sweeteners, smoked foods), it’s a pretty restrictive diet.

I was whiny by lunchtime today. Now, this is the time in the holiday week when one generally does get really whiny, but this time it was bad. I was eating a lot of chocolate, because I wanted pasta. I wasn't focusing on my work, I was daydreaming about macaroni and cheese. And I got worried that maybe my body was trying to tell me something, and that this discipline, right now, wasn’t feeling good. It was feeling silly. Even Jewish law lets pregnant women off the hook on this kind of stuff.

So, I’m eating chicken parmasan and pasta and a cookie, and feeling both incredibly satisfied and rather disappointed with myself.

Comments

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

Well, I think it's better to listen to your body on this. I had one friend (recently relieved of her sprog, much to her joy and his independent living) who, around her third or fourth month in, walked from her apartment to work in the morning, having eaten only a bagel with lox before heading out. She ended up passing out on the BU Bridge, got helped across by a kind student, and then was dazed and confused for the next half hour or so before someone noticed that she wasn't coherent and called the company nurse. The conclusion at the hospital was that she hadn't eaten enough.

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Don't sweat it, you're eating for two! As they say.

[blither.livejournal.com]

It's a powerful state you're in, I say sit back and enjoy it!

For me the cravings were for tomatoes, California Roll from a specific restaurant and Entenmann's low fat raspberry twist (the full fat version wasn't in the least edible) I still can't see that box at the store without smiling fondly and I've not eaten it again since giving birth the last time. Meat was nearly out of the question, most of the time.

And by now I'm sure you're experiencing another pregnancy phenomenon: everyone telling you all about their pregnancies and birth stories. =D

Enjoy lots of pasta!