Old Wives’ Tales and Healthy(er) Eating

My latest “bump” pictures! Check out the rest on my Baby Story tab!

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Special shot out to Johanna and Lani for the sweet words on their blogs! Go check out their blogs and say “hi!”

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Yay, we’re at 16 weeks and 3 days! Yes, I am counting the days because now that I’ve entered this world of pregnancy, I am obsessed very informed about how the timeline works. I used to be confused as to why it was so important for expecting mothers to report their progress in weeks and days and months with fractions at the end. I would just want the gal to tell me an approximate number of months, because I could relate to that. So in case you are confused yourself, 16 weeks and 3 days is roughly translated into 3.7 months, or almost 4 months. If you are still confused and wanting to tell me that 16 months should mean 4 months exactly, well, think about how many months are actually 4.5 weeks long. Yeah, my head spun a lot at first, too.

I came across this blog post about Old Wives’ Tales during pregnancy and could not stop laughing! It’s an awesome post and Stacy has a great sense of humor (and sarcasm) and writes really well. One of my favorite ones is about spinning your wedding ring on a piece of string and holding it over your pregnant belly to determine baby’s sex – yeah, I would think the outcome of that test is more a result of the person holding the string, too!!!

It’s been an interesting journey food-wise for me so far. I started out not too well – fried food, lots of sugar, and just plain ol’ BAD-for-ya food. Remember the French fries, spam, and Filipino spaghetti? Well, here’s a look at my handy dandy Tupperware I bring to work. Notice how it’s gone from really bad to better and actually pretty healthy? I have to remind myself out loud, Skittles are NOT a breakfast item and should even just not be at my desk!

Skittles, chocolate covered pretzels, chocolate covered sea salt butterscotch caramels (YUMMMMM), & more candy…