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Always in the freezer at my house: chicken breast, ground turkey, Italian sausage, bacon, and some sort of frozen veggie that can be heated up quickly. Always in the fridge: eggs, milk, carrots, celery, zucchini, cabbage, bell peppers, whatever fruit was cheapest, salad mix ( definitely go organic- some of that stuff that is washed and triple washed has been doused in chlorine then packaged), a cheese, a salad dressing. Always in the pantry: fresh garlic, onions, sweet potatoes, canned tomato products, black beans, olive oil, coconut oil, quinoa (microwave-able from Seeds of Change), nuts, dried fruit and chicken stock. Meals within minutes using above: Taco salad like Thereisonlyzuul said - sauté some onion, throw in some ground meats, add some bell peppers, open a can of black beans, rinse them and add to pan. Put it into a bowl on top of lettuce (we do on top of shredded cabbage), add some cheese on top. Little people love cheese. Omelette with whatever in your fridge needs to be used. Zucchini spaghetti- brown Italian sausage or ground meat of choice, put some sauce on top to let it warm ( I make my own, but how much simpler does it get than opening a jar of sauce?). Make "zoodles" out of zucchini with a zoodler or vegetti (Google it- quicker than boiling pasta). Chuck some of your meat sauce on top. Chicken soup - way easy, very forgiving on cooking time... Noodled or not. I also agree its a good idea to start small and work around what you guys like and don't. When you do find something you like, make a double batch and do left overs another night to make your life extra simple. Feel free to message me about other ideas... I'm one of those who plans out a menu for a whole month for the sake of saving money and overlapping left overs...

Because of my insurance, this midwife most likely will not be delivering baby girl. You get whoever is the ob/gyn or registered midwife on call for labor and delivery. And if you're still laboring when a new team comes on shift, you get passed to them. I admit it's all super weird, especially if you're like me and don't like a whole bunch of people looking at your hoo-ha. Next appt is actually with a different midwife because mine will be out of town. I think it will be a good litmus test.

Hey Aminarra! Fellow preggo rebel with my first also . And have a similar story also... Didn't mean to create a tiny human, but wasn't entirely opposed... until it happened (different story for a different day). But had been in a good place with clean eating and exercising (maintaining goal weight for like 2 years!) and finally feeling settled with life, and now this. I'm kind of having an opposite problem with weight though - the midwife wants me to pack on some pounds, and my body is just not going there. I'm trying, eating good stuff like every two hours and threw in a high quality protein shake made with whole milk just to gain some calories, reduced my body weight to just walking and doing some rather wimpy push ups - still, nada. Midwife is cranky. Whatever. I'm excited to follow your story a bit more. The whole process has been terrifying and fascinating for me, and its good to get another perspective from a lady with like-mindedness. You can do it!

Thank you! Also, I have been keeping a little notebook with questions for her, but when I go in and ask she's not helpful. I emailed her once to ask her something about my blood type (I'm rh-) and she referred me to the website... which I had already looked at, and mentioned in my email. It's really bizarre that women are going through this crazy thing and Drs. and Midwifes kind of brush it off. I might be unrealistic due to first time mom panic, but I do a lot of research and reading, and if I'm asking a question of a professional it's because I need it explained to me. No history of eating disorder. No medical issues of any kind for that matter (minus being rh- and probably allergic to my baby). I'm 5ft 5 in, so I wasn't underweight to begin with :/. Oh, and I am popping out this week big time - a couple days ago, my husband came home from work, looked at my belly and said, "Whoa, and you're pregnant." Like I wasn't before because nobody could see? Thanks for this, I think I mainly need to know that it's not "unnatural" in some way to be hovering where I am. All the info out there, makes me feel like I'm unnatural. And that's crappy. Thanks guys - you gave me a bit of gumption. I think maybe everyone has a "right way" of doing pregnancy and they want to foist it onto other people. And I think I'm worried about it because I hate getting things wrong, and I'm pretty nervous. Also, I might just need to go toe to toe with the midwife and see what the deal is. That might be rough. Send some good vibes my way.

Dear Awesome Moms of the Rebellion, I'm Kim - a mom in training (read: 19 weeks pregnant with my first kiddo). I eat clean, I used to do the body weight routines and walk or hike a couple times a week (since preggo, it's been a little more walking than anything else). Other than the sheer terrified panic I feel about being responsible for a tiny human, I feel pretty good. But I have a problem... I am not gaining weight. I started this thing at 136lbs +/- 1. As of this morning, I'm at 140.5lbs. My midwife wants me to be at least at 143lbs by now. Before my last check up, I totally weight doped by drinking 20oz of water before I had to weigh in so that my midwife wouldn't be cranky (it should also be mentioned that she works for a very large hospital system and doesn't subscribe to "paleo" or "clean" so it's kind of difficult to talk to her about foods... I asked if it would be ok to do a protein shake if I felt like I wasn't getting enough and she just looked at me like I was a psychopath. Alas, that's what my insurance is.). I've increased my caloric intake by about 400 cals (maintenance is about 1500 for me). All has to be eaten in small increments because I get full really fast, but I'm eating like 6-7 times a day. Usually, all good real food like wild planet tuna on spinach and kale salad or homemade sweet potato chips dipped in guacamole. But I've also tried ice cream, and whole boxes of mac and cheese made with heavy cream, and chihuahua sized burritos (sometimes all in the same day). All to no avail. Starting to worry about it because I don't want to sabotage a small person before they're out in the world, and all the information about weight gain is just that you should be within a range of gain while preggo. A lot of information is that you just shouldn't gain too much or that you shouldn't eat certain things. How did the rest of you do it? Any insights you have would be much appreciated!

Challenge 2, Week 3 Review There is only so much that I can do as a person. It is not up to me to fix all the people. I have to start practice what I'm preaching - At school, I always tell all the little kids who want to tattle on other kids and/or instigate stuff, "what's YOUR job? Is it your job to be their mom? Is it your job to be the teacher? No, its your job to be YOU. Take care of you, make good choices for yourself." I have to remember that out in the real world. I'm only responsible for the choices that I make on a daily basis. It is not up to me to fix my mom and dad. They are adults, they can work things out on their own. Goals: 2/3 Body Weight Routines done and logged 4/7 Logging foods (still eating really good, just have been too lazy to record it) 7/7 Daily Vitamin 1/1 Contacting the In-laws 1/1 Money set aside for meats and shopping for fresh veg. I'm fairly excited about daylight savings time going into this week. An extra hour of sunlight a day means that the Hubs and I can resume our after work walks a couple days a week. Small things to be grateful for.

Better late than never. Side: Bacon wrapped chipotle roasted sweet potatoes OR salad bar spread with lots of fixins.

I almost feel the need to down some slurm! Amen. Amen. "Bake it till it looks done," isn't exactly constructive if we happen to be keeping a list. :-/ Also, you're pretty fabulous. You're busy, and still rocking it. Dude. I need to build myself a bridge and get over my own lameness.

Challenge 2, Week 2 Review: Pretty much epic fail. The only thing I did right was my body weight routines. Everything else... I get a big fat zero on. Weird stuff all at once. Work has been stressing me out, last week I was teaching for a 4/5th GATE class long term and those kids wore me out. I had to take them on a field trip, I had to give a "life science" (sex ed) presentation, and I felt bad about not doing enough so I took home papers to grade over the weekend. Essays. TOOK FFOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRR (if you're thinking Sandlot, you'd be correct). Going into this week, I have been freaking tired. Challenge 2, Week 3, Day 3 Yesterday, found out that my parents are separated, again. Long story. But the results of which are that my dad will not cosign a house with us. So my parents separated... not cool. Not getting a house... not cool. Total depressing blow on two accounts. It's feeling back to square one for this whole process. Either I change jobs so that the bank counts my money towards a house, or we just save up a massive down payment over the next ten years. Cool...And my parents can't even be around each other without supervision I guess, so my parents have been going back and forth about flying my brother or I up to their houses so that my dad can get his stuff out of my mom's place. UGH. Everything just feels a little off. The only thing that has been good is that I'm doing my body weight routines come hell or high water. I still have time to mostly redeem myself this week, but feels like an uphill battle. So much easier to be lazy. Aka, goal fail tonight - didn't want to cook dinner, carne asada nachos were had. Mer.

Hahaha, this is amazing. Your goals look awesome Heather! I like that you have a goal to cool down properly, that is something that I never think about until I'm too sore to do something. And I like that you're putting in a little bit of cardio just because you're hiking the Inca trail with me sometime

Challenge 2, Week 2, Day 4 Dude. Theme of this challenge is when you join, you're in for life. I haven't been showing that I'm much of a lifer right now. Next goal: write more often? Quickly, as my recap for the last week. It did not end pretty. Went to my brother's house, ate horribly (sooo good), drank a bit (or a lot) and didn't go on the promised hike. Gotta move on. The problem is, since getting back home, I'm kind of fudging on my normal habits. I may or may not have eaten half a bag of cheetos yesterday. :/ And I have found out that when I'm eating crap, it triggers my migraines. Which makes me feel like crap and I don't want to work out. Vicious cycle: eat crap, feel like crap, don't work out, feel like crap... Time to regain my hutzpah. So far this week: 2/3 on body weight workouts 2/7 on logging foods 0/1 contacting in- laws Today was also meats buying day, which helps lift spirits and makes me feel like I'm getting back on track. That's good. Think Positively Exercise Daily Work Hard Stay Strong Worry Less Dance More Love Often Be Happy Go.

I might be totally ADD, but that completely helped. Its hard not to be happier when you have Louis Armstrong singing to you. And from "Whistle While You Work" it goes to "What a Wonderful World"... Challenge 2, Week 1, Day 5 I did get in my workout last night, and it was still really hard for some reason but I feel good about having done it. I also was able to talk to the Hubs last night about how to start conversations with his parents. He was really helpful, and I can say that as of.... just now... I texted my father in law. So, moving forward. Now, I have to figure out how to stay on track while going out of town this weekend. My brother and sister in law threw us a late invite to come to their house this weekend. They always spoil us pretty good, and I almost always fall off the eating clean wagon while I'm there. Its going to be a bit of a challenge maintaining healthy eating this weekend, and getting in a Friday night workout.

Bad news - cannot run recon this weekend. Husband and brother are running interference and I will be out of town hiking the pacific crest trail instead! They have lots of pretty pictures on their website though. I think grilling may be out of the option since also according to their website "all fires, smoking and fireworks are prohibited." So, magical forest animals it is! I'm planning on bringing something already cooked probably. What are everyone's food things so I know what to bring for sharing? Allergies? Aversions? Veggie?

Challenge 2, Week 1, Day 4 Debating whether or not to log my entries as like software updates. This would be 2.1.4. Too confusing? Maybe. This week feels like a crap shoot for no apparent reason. Work has royally sucked because people have started getting mean - pink slip day for California teachers is a couple weeks away, and all the staff have turned into harpies - and they are all talking smack about each other all day. I have only gotten in one work out in this challenge so far and it was really hard, I'm kind of ready to say... Well, its not polite... I'm just having a case of blah this week and I can't figure how to shake it. Blah and blarg and meh and UGH. Ready to move on. With. Every. Thing.