Getting a D in nutrition or Reason #27 why I won't be Valedictorian of Pregnancy

So, I realize I am just getting out of the 1st trimester and all of the fun with eating that has come with it. Whenever I tell anyone how sick I've been they always say reassuring things like "Oh it doesn't matter, just eat whatever you can keep down. You have plenty of time to get good nutrition in over the next 6 months" and "Don't worry about what you've been eating, I mean you're taking your prenatal, right? You'll have time for eating healthy when you're feeling better". Which is very kind and comforting. But I haven't been eating just kind of bad. It's not like I've just not quite been getting in my 6 serving of fruits and veggies a day...I am eating like crap. I kid you not, I really think the only green thing that has entered my body this week was the lettuce that was on my BLT last night. And yesterday my big healthy choice was to get lunch at Jamba Juice, you know the place where they make fruit smoothies with lime sherbet. My sister-in-law called it the White trash pregnancy diet and I think that honestly about sums it up. I apparently can only eat things that are fried or are made out of highly processed, bleached flour.

I know I still have a chance to turn things around, but I have fear in my bad habits. Because, despite the eating like crap, I still have been sick more and have so far lost a tiny bit of weight since finding out I was pregnant. So I don't even have the negative reinforcement of my terrible eating choices to guide me. Plus, with Will I had a secret, awesome weapon in my effort to be a healthy, earthy baby-carrying vessel. A secret weapon named Shelley.

Seriously, that girl is the only reason I didn't put on 50 pounds when I was pregnant with Will (and if we're being totally honest, one of the only reasons I stayed sane 50+ hours a week between working in a crazy ass industry and a raptor growing inside me). In the morning when I would start to think "Hmm, I'm feeling kind of nauseous and a little hungry...maybe I'll just run to the gas station and get some Hostess Donettes to feel better" she would come around the corner in our purple palace of an office with a Vans Heart healthy multi-grain waffle topped with fresh fruit "because she had extra" and I would eat that instead. And then at lunch when I was thinking "Mmmm, greasy McDonald's" she would come over and entice me to come with her to the best healthy grocery store in town and we would pick out awesome healthy organic frozen lunches and extra frozen veggies to add to them to "bulk them up". That's not to say that we didn't eat the occasional bag of Maui Hawaiian chips (worst breath ever!) or get a slice cake once a week, but nothing like that crap I am pulling now.

So, I am trying to institute a WWSD (What Would Shelley Do) approach to my diet as I'm starting to feel better...I even brought a blender to work and plan on stopping by the store for some frozen fruit and good fruit/veggie juice blends to make smoothies. Until then, I think there's a cookie calling my name somewhere...