18 weeks - 126 days

Yellow peppers are expensive!

Another week has come and gone.  I've had a hard time getting this week's update started for some reason. Maybe I'm less witty when school's out.  I don't have to be on my toes and my summer laziness has already started to kick in.  I will say that I am glad that the end-of-year parties and all of that is over because I am not one to avoid cupcakes, pizza, brownies, and all that mess.  I think that I had pizza three times last week.  Not that I'm complaining because it was delicious, but my weight goal is between 25-35 pounds not 85-90 pounds.  Right now I'm guestimating that I've gained about 10 pounds so far.  When I stepped on the scale this morning and saw 150lbs. I had mixed feelings.  First of all, I have never seen my weight over the 140s.  Not that there isn't a possibility that I was in the 150s at one point, but I never physically saw it on the scale.  When I started Weight Watchers back in 2007 my starting weight was 149lbs.  On the other hand, all of the weight is in my boobs and a little around the tummy region.  Seriously, my bresticles are getting out of control.

Oddly I'm at a loss for words this week.  Probably because I have already posted about my vomiting incident and my long run on Saturday.  I have been more awesome about working out this week.  So far I've run 7 miles, did a 60 min. spin class, and a 45 min. kettlebell cardio class.  Feels good.  I balance that out with bowls of Edy's coconut, pineapple ice cream at night.  It's good, but I wish that it was coconut ice cream with bits of pineapple in it.  I'm pretty sure that it's just vanilla with coconut and pineapple mixed in.  To tell you the truth I don't really taste the pineapple much.  Just can't wait to hit the beach a few more times before summer school starts on Friday.

                                                                          Food Musts:

There have been requests made for a 'naked' belly
shot so here it is in a shameless mirror self-portrait

-watermelon (seriously, I ate an entire watermelon last week and am now working on my 2nd one)
-pizza (hopefully I got this out of my system - too many parties at school)
-diet soda (must have carbonation - only one a day if that people, no need to give any lectures)
-cereal
-tomatoes

News from the Womb
There's a bump, sometimes.  I don't know what's up with my bump.  I know once it pops out I'll want it to go back.  I'm just glad that I'm not at work where people keep telling me to eat because I'm not really showing yet.  I eat plenty, trust me.  My book tells me that Baby T looks human now - always a good thing - but that's about all my book tells me about the baby.  The rest of week 18's chapter is about exercise, which may jump start this otherwise snoozer of a blog post.

Side shot - obviously

 Exercise - according to the book
Well, the mystery of why I now have to choose between talking and breathing while I run has been answered.  Apparently my body demands more oxygen and as my uterus grows/moves upward it's going to move organs and squish my lungs.  Great.  I guess it's good that DD only runs with me for about two miles.  I'll just have to listen to his stories instead of making a conversation out of it.  As I get slower he heads out must sooner so I'm usually running solo anyway.  Me and my iPod, that's how it's gonna be.
Green Light Exercises - swimming, walking, biking (stationary and mobile), and jogging.  Excellent!  These are all activities that I do and enjoy.  I still have to find a pool nearby to get some swimming in but I'm not sure if I'm ready to give up my spin and kettlebell classes to head back to my YMCA membership.  That will happen once the baby is born because I want to make sure that it's used to and enjoys the water.  Other green light activities include: tennis, golf, bowling
Red Light Exercises/Activities - horseback riding, water skiing, snow skiing is apparently ok in the first trimester but frowned upon later for obvious reasons, jet skiing, and motorcycle riding.  The only one that makes me sad is the no jet skiing.  Not that we own one or would get around to renting one for the day, but still.  Jet skis are fun.


Surprisingly the exercising portion of week 18 didn't get me as heated as I thought it would.  Looks like I'm a-ok on all of the exercised and activities I like to do.  Not that I need a book to tell me that, the doctor already has.  I was just kind of expecting some quack opinions on how exercise is bad and the only exercise you should do is walk gently around the neighborhood.  I'm glad that it didn't.


And with that, I'm finished recapping week 17 into 18.  Not my finest blog post, but what can ya' do?