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Congratulations MushroomLady :) I can only really comment from my own experience (31 weeks preggers atm) but I was also craaaazy hungry to begin with... just wanted to eat ALL. THE. CARBS.! Also I found that snacking was the only way (for me) to keep the morning sickness aka afternoon sickness (& total knackeredness!!) at…

Well done, that's awesome! Looking forward to the Trunchbull style severe uniform!! :)

Late to the show here! Breakfast: bowl of cornflakes & unsweetened almond milk. Lunch: fried eggs & baked beans on toast. Dinner: pork and green bean curry, white rice. Snack: a homemade peanut butter oat "bar" that turned out as a pile of peanutty oats, but still tasted ok!

You had me at "raisin blimps" lol :)

If you have low B12 but are eating a "good" diet sometimes the problem is that your body can't absorb the B12 properly - so in those cases it wouldn't matter how much you ate if your body was unable to use it... hence they give it via injection rather that tablet supplements. Either way, glad you found out what the problem…

Thanks for all the ideas :) mmmm the clafoutis sounds good, think I'll be trying that one! Also pancakes & crumbles... I usually do a lot of cooking but not so much on the dessert side of things... the mention of apple butter has reminded me i might even have some stashed in the freezer from last year when i did a whole…

Congratulations! Just to add, once you're cleared by your Dr to continue exercising, don't feel too guilty if you can't maintain everything you did before... I am usually fairly active (running, spin, on my feet a lot at work) and had the best intentions of carrying on as before (thinking: I'm pregnant, not sick! I'm…

If you look up Minimalist Baker she has tons of vegan recipes, she's also not actually vegan but tends to eat almost all plant based... the vegan fried rice with tofu is a regular on our menu now :)

Breakfast: 2 toasted crumpets, spread. Lunch: peanut & honey cornflakes, semi skimmed milk. Mango, strawberries & blackberries with a little greek yoghurt & honey. Dinner: leftovers! Chilli con carne (bulked up with extra tinned tomatoes to stretch the leftovers!) & white rice. Mars bar ice cream. Then a slice of homemade…

Anything on toast! Baked beans on toast, egg on toast, mushrooms on toast... or all of the above together in a toast bonanza :)

I'm a verrrrry slow runner and built up to doing 10k starting from using a similar plan to c25k, once i could do the 5k i was doing parkrun (erm, slowly!) I just kept adding on a little extra time at each run until i could do long enough to achieve 10k. In future I'm just going to use the same method to increase to longer…

Have you been advised to eat a low potassium diet for a medical condition? Your Dr should refer you to a registered dietician so you are aware of what to eat/avoid... there are lots of helpful sites such as the kidney foundation which give good info on low potassium foods as it's a bit of a minefield! A quick google search…

Haha this is a pretty carb-tastic looking day to start for me :) Breakfast: 2 slices of toast, butter. Homemade kefir. Lunch: fruit & fibre cereal, semi skimmed milk, bag of pom bears. Dinner: chicken paprikas, nokedli (little kinda pasta dumplings), green beans. No snacks yet but there's still plenty of time!! Think I…

Congratulations :) yep I'm pregnant now and still tracking what I eat, I changed my goal to maintenance but eat usually around 200-300cal over that at the moment... sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less, and my weight is doing about right. Also it helped me notice I really needed to eat more protein. I did try…

I've only just seen this thread, it's been really interesting seeing what people are eating & given me some inspiration for future food ideas... also reassured me plenty of people have random "dinner" breakfasts! :) so my day today: Breakfast: 2x crumpets & sunflower spread 2nd breakfast/snack: (I'm not a hobbit but I do…

Normally my fav is a strong "builders brew" with a little dash of milk, but I'm pregnant at the mo so cutting right back on the caffeine (sad times on the tea & coffee front!!) ...my friend bought me a massive tin of herbal teas which I'm working my way through the flavours, I like a lemon & ginger tea or the Pukka…

Whoops somehow managed to quote myself in response to one of the OPs responses... doh!!

I love the idea of this and have been thinking about doing it for a while, but think my partner would need a bit more convincing! I think it really highlights how much a lot of us take for granted in terms of food budget as well as the selection of food/availability to most of us (as in those of us who aren't living…

Agree with the above, last December I had a 12 hour flight home (Vietnam to UK) and slammed on about 6lb overnight! Also looked pretty much like I was pregnant with all the bloating... once things had settled down after a week or so it was mostly just water weight... although the 2 weeks of several beers a day had taken…

For me it'd be aaaaaall the asparagus! :)

Can't believe no one's mentioned raw cake mix yet... sometimes my sister and I used to eat so much of the mix there wasn't really anything left to bake with! I'd 100% do the same thing now too though.... :)

^^Yep, ditto... I didn't used to mind but now I find it quite rude that people feel the need to comment on my size "you're slim so you don't need to watch what you eat/you can eat whatever you want" errrm no, I'm slim (now) BECAUSE I watch what I eat... I never bring up the subject of watching calories etc at work because…

I've been making stock from leftover turkey bones so I guess that makes me a bone broth expert too!

I gave up chocolate for lent one year just because my sister bet me that I wouldn't be able to do it and I was determined to prove her wrong haha... don't think I had any weight loss though, as I probably fell into the trap of "oh i haven't had any chocolate so I'll eat this other fatty treat instead"!

The small warburtons wholemeal loaves are 77kcal a slice i think, smaller sized but a slice of toast is a slice of toast!

Well done bjcrewe, cheering you on from Suffolk, England :) :)

Thanks for all the responses guys, it's really interesting to see what different people's motivations are and how everyone feels about things. Haha this is exactly what my partner says! But he's super motivated by trying to get a new PB whereas for me the achievement was actually being able to run 10k in the first place, I…

Haha slooooow... 1h 14mins! No walking though, I'm a tortoise not a hare! :)

GRANOLA. By the handful from the bag like some kind of granola fiend. I'm just not gonna buy it any more. The weird thing is I never used to really like it but now it's like if I know it's in the house I feel compelled to munch! Also I make these chocolate peanut butter squares which are horribly addictive. Again, I'm just…