I go back and forth between being a breakfast person and not being a breakfast person. I have phases where I want a heaping bowl-full of cereal with blueberries and a bananas shortly after waking up; and phases where all I can stomach is a cup of coffee for my first few waking hours.
Since I've been pregnant, though, things have changed. Not only do I want breakfast every morning, I realize that, well, I kind of need breakfast each morning. Here are five reasons you shouldn't skip breakfast while pregnant.
Hey, they don't call it the "most important meal of the day" for nothing.
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I know this makes me a shallow, bitter person, but I hate when celebrity moms talk about how their pregnancy cravings were for fresh papaya juice or arugula chips or whatever. "Oh, I just couldn't make it through the day without my artisan lettuce salad and goji smoothie!" Really, that's so weird, I had the exact same problem. I don't know what I would have done without my classically-trained fair-trade organic chef.
There are women like Jessica Simpson who crave healthy fruits and vegetables while pregnant --
If you believe everything you read, like I've been known to do, Beyonce has had some weird pregnancy cravings so far, and she doesn't give a rat's about chowing down -- big time -- since she's learned she's with child.
Raise your hand if you stick to a perfect pregnancy diet – eating a nice healthy balance of foods, with lots grains and fresh fruits and veggies, and religiously taking your giant horse pill of a vitamin every day without fail, even when you're in the depths of morning sickness and it makes you instantly hurl.
I don't know about you, but when I was pregnant, the low-fat and fat-free versions of just about anything tasted absolutely wrong to me. Like I was eating some kind of synthetic faux-food. I'd never had a problem with those foods before, but my pregnant body definitely wouldn't settle for less than full-fat. (Even though all the pregnancy books insisted anything but low-fat dairy would result in eventual morbid obesity.)
Head to Whole Foods, pregnant ladies, there are a few things you need to pick up. If you're baking someone in your belly and worried about the little guy or gal coming out with a boat load of allergies, there are now ways you can try to stop that situation before your baby's first rash. Luckily it requires eating, and that's what pregnant ladies are all about. At least once the morning sickness subsides.
Blame the pregnant celebrities who barely show a bump during their nine months then bust out a bikini minutes later looking flawless if you want, but mommyrexia is infecting American moms like never before. The term, coined by the New York Post, is used to describe
While many women look at pregnancy as a time to let their regular dietary habits go, many vegan women still stick to the healthy plans they followed pre-pregnancy, food cravings be damned! While I'm opposed to women counting calories when they've got a growing life inside of them, I have serious respect for those who can maintain a meat-free, dairy-free lifestyle -- it seems crazy hard to me.