Lying, Acting, and Eating

  Last Thursday we had our official confirmation appointment with the doc!  Though the home pregnancy test and symptoms left me 100% sure, it was still nice to get it so official from a professional:)

Lies:
  Thanks to the doc appointment (and another one to follow next week) I've gotten to officially start the lying game.  My husband once blogged about if it's ever okay to lie-  I think pregnancy is certainly a time where lying is okay!  I had to lie about what my doc appointment was about and how it went... had to lie about why I need another one so soon already... and I've gotten to lie pretty much every day as I hide when I'm feeling lousy!:)

Acting:
  Which takes me to another thought- it's certainly hard to not tell people from pure excitement that I'm pregnant; it's also hard to not tell them when I feel like a wreck!  Last Saturday I had a girls night and WHOA did I feel  awful.  But I had to plaster on the smile and try to fake energy and comfort!  My 7 hour work day suddenly feels like 14.  It has certainly not been easy to hide how I feel, but it's made me quite the great actress!

Eating:
  My diet has pretty much done a 180 in the last couple weeks.  Mainly, of course, to be healthy for the little one!  But also to help me fight some awesome pregnancy symptoms.

  My day starts with a glass of orange juice and a fiber breakfast bar to help up my blood sugar and settle the yucky stomach.  I then make sure I plan a lot of more healthy snacks for work. I then go to work where I sip 4 oz. of coffee (I know I can have 10 oz. but am playing it safer) and eat my second little breakfast (cereal or yogurt or fruit).  Then I eat a teeny lunch a couple hours later and proceed to have healthy snacks each couple of hours till a dinner that night.   Throughout the day I also drowned myself in water; I then end the day with a yummy (not!) prenatal vitamin and calcium supplement (gag).

  The diet has definitely become high maintenance, but I finding eating small amounts several times a day has helped squelch my symptoms, so yay!  Sadly, I haven't been able to eat a normal meal amount at once without feeling nauseous.  So it's been weird to not feel more "satisfied" by eating a real meal!  It's been quite the balance act- don't get too hungry or I'll feel sick and don't get too full or I'll feel sick.  And it's all totally worth it and drowned out by the excitement of being pregnant!!

So here's to the lies, fake smiles, and grazing!