Friday, August 17, 2007

How pregnancy affects fooding


You might be wondering what fooding is. Well, this is what my husband calls a "Mandaism". He tells me I have "Manda-speak" which is basically my own vocabulary that has lots of changes to normal words or words I make up. So, fooding, for me, involves deciding what to eat, getting said food, and/or eating said food. It's the whole process of eating hence fooding.

Anyways, pregnancy has affected what I eat and what I want to eat in ways I don't begin to understand. Right now, I hate chicken. It smells disgusting and I don't want to eat it in any form. This is weird for me, as I normally eat chicken 4-5 times a week. I buy boneless, skinless chicken by the 10 to 15 pound batches, then freeze them for a later date. Now, I have massive amounts of chicken in the freezer and no desire to eat it. Meat is good, fish is usually good, even turkey is okay. BUT NO CHICKEN!!

This distresses my husband. He's gotten used to lots of chicken. He likes chicken. It's gotten to the point that he usually orders chicken when we go out to eat. And this man is a hard-core meat and potatoes, put it on the barbeque, gimme a chili-cheese dog kinda guy. He likes meat. But, lately, he misses chicken.

Another weird thing, I love milk now. I drink big glasses of it. And I don't like milk normally. I had surgery when I was three-weeks-old, after I had been upchucking all my formula. In addition, I also developed a slight allergy to milk as a child, which I outgrew. I think these two things led me to a lack of desire to ever have milk. Now, my body craves it. I love milk. Milk tastes good. I think it's weird.

So, pregnancy does weird things to your body, more than just make your stomach, ankles, boobs, butt, etc. bigger. And so, I digress.

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