Fit, Fabulous, and Pregnant-October 2011

I just wanted to share a recipe with you all. I made it last night and just ate it for lunch and it is very satisfying. I got it from someone here on MFP and actually logged the nutritional info, and for 1/6 of the recipe, only 375 cals, 29 carbs, 15 fat, 33 protein, 4 fiber, and 38% calcium. I did steal some of the ground turkey for my baked potato yesterday and adjusted so if you use the whole pound in your recipe, it will change slightly. I think I am going to use this method and make different kinds - chicken and veggie, etc. It is pretty easy and I am loving crock pot recipe these days for Sundays. I am writing from memory.

1. Saute 1 large onion, 1 (or 2) garlic cloves, and 1 pound ground turkey in a non stick pan untill turkey is cooked. Add 1 teaspoon oregano, and 1 teaspoon salt (I used less salt and actually added a little frozen pesto as well). Add 3 8oz. cans tomato sauce, 1 6oz can tomato paste, and 1 cup water. Satuee untill everything comes together.

2. In the meantime, combine 2 cups low fat cottage cheese, 2 cups shredded mozzerella (I used a little less), and about 1/3 - 1/4 cup of parmesean cheese in separate bowl.

3. Put 1/4 of meat, sauce mixture in bottom of crock pot. Add wheat noodles, breaking up to cover (I used about 2 noodles per layer). Spread 1/3 cheese mixture. Top with 1/4 meat sauce mixture and continue layering (3 full layers) and top with remaining 1/4 of sauce mixture.

4. Cook on low in crockpot for 4-5 hours. I cooked mine for 4 hours and it was plenty. I would recommend letting it stand for 15 minutes before cutting and serving as it tends to run and is extremely hot if you serve immediately. I cut into 6 servings and it is very filling. Enjoy!

Ok...I'm going to try this again lol :bigsmile:
Happy Halloween everyone! Is anyone dressing up today or tonight? I totally dropped the ball on Halloween this year, my husband and I just carved our pumpkins last night and bought the candy for the kiddies tonight. I'm thinking of running out at lunch to try to find cat ears and just dress up like a cat for handing out candy tonight that's always easy!

I had a SUPER busy weekend and got SO much done. It was great but I'm definitely exhausted today and my hips are feeling the effects of a really busy weekend of non-stop walking and just constantly being on my feet! I'm actually happy sitting at my desk for the day today which NEVER happens lol.
So I wrote a super long post before and it didn't work because I didn't read that the last forum was locked (Monday/baby brain!) anyway I'm going to summarize as best I can....

I had a really good weekend, picked up the bassinet at Babies R Us (it was the last one!) it's a Graco Travel Lite Crib with Stages -Cabo. It fits perfect beside the bed and can be used as a travel crib and playpen later on :happy: it's really cute and super easy to set up. It's already beside the bed lol. Then I turbo cleaned my house and the main floor is finally at a place where I'm not constantly irritated if I sit too long and look around going "oh I should really..." lol so that's good. Now I just have to tackle the upstairs!
On Sunday I went for breakfast with my mom and then we went to Kids Furniture Gallery and did some damage! lol We found the baby bedroom set (Crib, mattress, dresser/change table, and bedding) I'm so surprised I was able to find bedding that I liked but I did and I LOVE IT...it's a retro-ie owl print with sections that are striped as well, it's SO cute and I LOVE it. I also got the change pad with matching cover. AND we found an owl themed play mat that is super cute too. I also bought one of those baby sleeping bag onesies because you can't use a blanket, it's made out of bamboo and it's super soft and cute. The nice thing about the crib etc is the store is coming to deliver and put everything together on Nov 19th! Which will be wonderful! Now I just have to get the computer room cleaned out and ready! :bigsmile: I'm so excited. And now we have a theme Owl/Forrest - so we're going to start getting everything together...I just can't wait until the room is done! Definitely getting there!
On Saturday this weekend, we also had supper at my inlaws and my MIL found my husbands mobile and it still works, it's SO cute and she found these little crochet animals that her mother made and we're going to use them on the mobile. I'm so excited. It means a lot :happy: They also pulled out a whole bunch of Jay's old baby things/toys etc. It was really cool.

Anyway...I will be 6 months this week! WOW the time is flying. We also have our prental classes this weekend in Calgary that I won from Healthy Birth Choices and I'm really excited. We just need to book our hotel! LOL. Even though we'll be in class all weekend it will still be nice to get away with my husband and stay in a hotel :bigsmile: I'm really looking forward to it. Just have to make it through this week! But with how fast the weeks have been going it shouldn't be that hard!

Better_Balance_2 - the painting is amazing! My husband and I are going to attempt to paint a mural ourselves and we're going to do a tree with some animals, birds/owls - wish us luck! I hope ours turns out as well!

Heather - you're doing amazing, I am so excited for you and hope that the baby comes soon!

Anyways, I should get back to work! 15 weeks of work left! LOL...but who's counting?

Have a fab Monday ladies! :flowerforyou:

It's me again. :ohwell: I forgot that I had my dr. apt. on Friday and my glucose and iron levels were good! I also got my RH neg shot and some blood drawn. The shot hurt. I liked my dr. My practice has 9-10 drs. so whoever is on call is who delivers your baby so I am trying to see them all. The last guy was really boring and not friendly at all, and this guy was super nice and so talkative. I would be OK for him to deliver the baby. They also set my next appointment for 2 weeks from now so I guess I am to the point where I go every 2 weeks from now on.

Rayna, if you can get and use a projector for your wall art, even if it's projecting an image of an owl or animal, it helps so much. I consider myself to be somewhat artistic, but drawing on a wall and getting everything scaled properly is hard. The projector made it so much easier to get the base started.

Misti, my lower back has been bothering me some. I just went for a 20ish minute walk and it hurts now. I had small problems with it before and they're just getting worse. I can pretty much twist and crack my lower vertebrae at any given time. I have been to the chiro once and will probably have to go again. I think I am going to schedule a preggo massage for in a few weeks after my test, which I scheduled for 11/17, so check that off my list!

Alright, back to work.

Bump! Gotta stay in the know with my pregnant MFP friends!
Happy Halloween Mamas.

Happy Halloween to all!

I love all your costumes. I still need to carve my pumpkin, haha. I guess tonight's better time than never:0) I hope we get lots of Trick or Treaters because I can not be left alone with too much candy, haha. I heard a good thing to do is freeze whatever you don't use that way it is harder to eat. So I will definitley do that.

Heather that baby will be here before you know it. I'm sure she will come when you least expect it.

Better Balance your nursery is amazing! Great job:0)

Hope everyone else is well. I'm still pretty busy at work and it's hard to keep up.

I'm doing pretty good. I'm starting to feel really pregnant. This baby is really starting to get big and her moves are more uncomfortable. She loves to lay on my bladder. Also this weekend I think she was breeched sideways. I had a lump on my left side and a lump on my right. Today I think she is where she is supposed to be. I feel movement in my pelvis and near my ribs. I've been trying so hard not to recline as to keep this baby in the right position. It won't be long before she runs out of room to turn around.

Well better go, have a great day all!

Happy Halloween!

I did manage to get my three runs this past week, but only walked the dogs five days instead of seven. This morning we had a three mile run and a 40 minute walk with the dogs. Still need to get in my ab work and arms, hopefully when Ellie goes to bed tonight. Goals for this week - three runs and 5-7 days of dog walking. It is starting to get chilly and rainy here, but we are still getting out. No excuses!!

bmfranzie, excellent on the 5k. I hope you can continue to run as long as you'd like. I never intended to make it my entire pregnancy, but I did and am now back to it. It's such a great release.

Heather, I know I keep saying this, but try and be patient and enjoy your last days of non-parenthood. It is not easy to do because you are SO READY to meet Charlee, but this is the end of life as you know it (in a really good way!) You wonder how I managed to not complain at the end. First, I don't think my discomfort was the same as yours (mine was very pelvic) and secondly as you know it was a struggle for me to conceive too. We'd love a second child, but I am being realistic in that it may not happen again for us so I just wanted to soak up every possible minute of being pregnant. It becomes so hard when all your friends and family are asking, "any baby yet" and that is what pushed me over the emotional edge at the end. Hang in there your precious bambina will be here very soon! As for the nay-sayers on working out (pregnant or not and children or not) - in my opinion, if having a healthy lifestyle of eating right and working out is important to you it is something that you make a priority. Look at Amy, Lexi and myself (and BelgiumLady I'm sure when she gets cleared from the c-section). We all exercised throughout pregnancy, gained a healthy amount of weight and got back to working out when our doctors gave us the okay and we all have babies now! Not to mention we are either at/below or just shy of pre-pregnancy weights. I think being pregnant is a very easy excuse to not exercise and some people will take every out that they are given. I always say you have to want it. If being thin was easy, just about everyone would be. It's HARD WORK to eat right and exercise and you definitely have the right mind set. Listen to the body for now. I am praying for a super easy, vaginal birth for you so you will be back to the sweating, hard core workouts within a few weeks. I'm rooting for you!!

Amyrhubarb, keeping you in my prayers for a good doctors appointment. The waiting is unbearable sometimes.

Ashley, your painting in the nursery looks awesome! Your little girl is so lucky to have a creative mama! Thanks for the recipe too. I am always looking for something easy and healthy to shake up my standard go to recipes. I will give it a try soon. As always, your goals look excellent. Hope you have a fabulous week ahead.

Ash, see above rant to Heather on the exercise nay-sayers! Okay, here is my 10 cents on your friends wedding. It is almost impossible to know how you will be feeling at two months old. Ellie will be eight weeks on Wednesday, which I can hardly believe, so I am right near where you'll be. My brother-in-law offered to babysit yesterday so that my husband and I could go to the Seahawks game. As much as I love to go to games, I realized I wasn't mentally or physically ready to leave her for that long yet! So far, I think the longest I've been away is about four hours. I am breastfeeding and also know that five hours is my absolute max before I am so uncomfortable that I have to pump. Remember breastfeeding is a supply and demand thing so if you choose to pump, your milk will keep coming, which can kind of be a double edged sword. I was very lucky to have an easy time with breastfeeding and we were well established within the first week. I started pumping the second week since I will go back to work part-time in January and my working girlfriends all said the one thing they regret was not pumping and storing more milk before returning to work. I also wanted to introduce Ellie to the bottle to have that option if we were out and so that she'd be comfortable taking a bottle when I go back to work. We introduced the bottle between week two and three. As for looking your best, you have continued to exercise and eat well so you should have an easy time losing the baby weight. Breastfeeding will help too. I know we all have different bodies, but I was back to my pre-pregnancy weight within the first 7-10 days (once all the swelling from the c-section went away) and Amy, Lexi and BelgiumLady are all either at or close to their pre-pregnancy weight too and we are all two months or less since giving birth. You have all of us to continue to support you! Apologize and hope that isn't too much information!

Kristy, love the costumes! I didn't buy a bumper either - too worried about the safety and I have a hard time spending money on something just for show. The nursery will still end up adorable without it. It's not too late to jump back on the exercise bandwagon. You can do this, tell the lazy monsters to get out! Great goals for the week.

Brenda, yeah on your mom getting on-board for the ultrasound. Sometimes I think they forget how important some of the little milestones are for us. Good luck to getting back to your exercising - it shouldn't be too hard since you usually rock it!

Misti, as always your schedule makes my head spin! Hopefully your boss just was forgetful about your due date - I am pretty adamant when I am off work, that means I am off! No phone calls at home!! As for your hip pain, I seem to remember having my hips be pretty sore when lying down by that stage in the game. I think it's all the extra weight that you aren't used to carrying and not all that unusual. Sorry for the discomfort. Your nursery too sounds like it is coming together.

Rayna, you have been a busy bee! It feels good to start checking things off the list doesn't it? Enjoy your free class this weekend.

Kristin, glad you had a good week last week. It's very hard for me to stay away from the candy too. So far I am winning today!

Amy, you have been rocking the workouts mama. I can only imagine how much harder it is to find the time with an infant and a toddler. You are an inspiration!

Babeed, you too sound like you are getting lots accomplished. Love the costumes! Ellie always kicked and made lot of movements when I listened to music and/or sang. She was particularly fond of The Who!

Nichole, we just carved our pumpkins a couple hours ago! I'm with you on hoping for lots of trick or treaters although I will miss some of it with bath time and putting Ellie to sleep. My husband is working tonight so this will be the first year I'll have to leave the candy on the porch with a sign for part of the night. You are starting to move along with this pregnancy too. It is incredible how our bodies manage to change to find the room as we grow.

Taldie, have fun with your little one tonight. Your party sounds like it was a great success! Good job on the run yesterday and great weekly goals.

Okay, I think I got everyone. I apologize if I missed anyone. Good luck to everyone for a healthy meals and exercise this week!

Holly

Don't forget it's already November ladies! See ya there.

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