A monster appetite

I swore that when I get pregnant with #2 I would be much healthier, limit my food intake in particular sweets, and work out a lot. OK, I'm keeping my promise on the working out part...so far...even though I'm feeling tired and lazy. Well, I don't know what happens to my body but it seems like it gets taken over by food monsters because all I want to do is eat. I'm so hungry all the time, and I crave sweets like crazy. I didn't remember it being this bad so early on with Maia, but I went back and looked at my pregnancy book with her, and at 6 weeks I was craving sweets and feeling really hungry too. I also had other similar symptoms...crazy dreams, sore breasts, and a huge case of pregnancy brain. Man oh man, I feel like I can't remember anything...sometimes I even forget people's names...and I mean people's names I actually know. I just draw random blanks. Oy vey. I already feel like going into hibernation...so early this time...I feel like it didn't happen until a little later with Maia but I basically just feel like cuddling up in my bad at night in my beloved PJ's and resurfacing after 9+ months after the baby. I have no desire to go out, really. I'm also exhausted at night because I have a 14 month old baby that is super active and keeps me busy all day. She also loves for me to carry her around and lay on my belly which already feels too heavy. It's definitely a whole different deal this time...no resting on the couch and taking afternoon naps...haha just writing that makes me laugh...I don't even know what that is anymore. A distant memory I last saw happening when I was pregnant with Maia and would stuff my face with Lucky Charms cereal and then take an afternoon snoozer.

Tomorrow, I'm going to go for a run again. I'm determined not to let my legs become like cottage cheese again. I didn't work out at all during my first pregnancy because the beginning of my pregnancy was so crucial and I had doctor's orders not to work out for the first trimester and then after that I was just too lazy and once I had a belly, forget about it. So, I'm doing good so far. I even went to Bikram Yoga  today and I felt great. I did every pose as I did before I was pregnant. I'm going to continue to go maybe not 3 times a week but at least once or twice. It's going to be difficult to watch me lose my in shape body and get big and round again. It took me 4 hard months of working out and eating healthy to lose the 40 pounds I gained with Maia. But it's so worth it so it doesn't really matter.

Today, for some reason I was thinking that I bet I'm having another girl because it seems like I'm having a very similar pregnancy as my first so far. My skin is not radiating and I already feel like I'm blowing up. I would love another girl. A sister for Maia would be ideal. So perfect. If it's a boy, I hope this pregnancy takes a turn and I end up with the perfect basket ball belly, thin face and radiating skin. Otherwise I would feel cheated haha. A boy would be wonderful too. Equally as perfect.

Night, night. Sweet dreams little baby in my belly.