Eating for two

**For the moment, I'm going to talk about pregnancy and baby stuff because it's all I can think about. Soon, I'll get back to my regularly scheduled chaos.

I usually have decent eating habits - I try not to eat junk-food, I haven't had a soda in a while and I don't have the sweet tooth I used to. I don't use food to make myself feel better, and I always stop eating when I'm full. However, I don't eat regularly and I don't eat very balanced meals. The usual culprit is breakfast - I can't even function before ten am, much less eat so I usually just leave it and have lunch. Dinner is sometimes a box of noodles and that's it. From my modeling days, I've learned to ignore little stomach grumblings and from what I understand that's not the greatest idea when you're growing a human being from scratch.

I'm only six weeks in but already I've noticed that my eating habits are much different, namely I cannot ignore the hunger pangs. I wake up in the morning starving, but then a couple hours later, I feel sick to my stomach. I've been very lucky *knock on wood* that I haven't actually puked yet, but I sure do get the waves of nausea. I was driving to work (the bus makes me nauseated too) this morning and it hit me so hard I nearly started crying because I thought I was going to puke all over my clothes. I just took several deep breaths and was able to get through it, but it sucked. I tried to call Drew and have him talk to me to keep my mind off of things but apparently for him 'talk to me' means ask me a bunch of questions. He didn't understand my goal of keeping my mouth shut so I didn't vomit everywhere. Oh well.

I was walking to work and I could smell everything. The woman with way too much perfume. Someone smoking. The exhaust from the cars and buses. Dog pee. It was terrible. I tried holding my hand in front of my face but then I could smell my lotion on my hand and that didn't help either. I settled for taking really shallow breaths until I could get inside my building.

I'm munching on some almonds right now because even though I had two scrambled eggs this morning, I'm still hungry. I read that you're only supposed to up your calorie intake by 300 when you're pregnant but I don't know if that's accurate for me since I'm pretty sure I didn't eat enough to start with. But how are you supposed to eat more when the smell of things makes your stomach start doing the Wave? When I opened my bag of almonds, I could totally smell it - it's kind of weird.

What I wouldn't give for some dry plain crackers right about now.