I haven’t quite figured out the answer to this one, but I can tell you a few things that are NOT the answer:
- eating spoonfuls of peanut butter out of the jar sporadically throughout the day as a between-meal “pick me up”
- treating baked goods like their own category in the food pyramid (gotta get those 8 servings in!)
- consisting on nothing but coffee all day long until the baby goes to sleep, at which point you carbo-load like Michael before his Rabies 5K run
I shall continue on my quest to eat every brownie in the world find the answer to this question, but first…breakfast pizza.
Hi Mama Hags,
I’m not sure where I read this, but here’s another bit of advice from the NOT TO DO list: “Use cauliflower as a substitute for rice, mashed potatoes, pizza crusts, and any joy in your life. You have no friends now. There is ONLY cauliflower.”
I speak from experience. Sad, gaseous experience.
Oh man. A lot of wise words here. While I can’t speak from experience with the cauliflower (I admit I DID have plans once to make an elaborate salad which used grated cauliflower as the base but then I was like what am I doing I can’t GRATE AN ENTIRE CAULIFLOWER; I haven’t even showered in like a week), I did go through a spiralized zucchini noodle phase (they call them “zoodles” on the food blogs but I can’t do that) and I may be forever turned off of zucchini. And I loaded them with so much parmesan cheese that they certainly did not help with the pregnancy weight loss.
It’s also almost midnight on a Monday night and I’m eating popcorn, so you know. Probably not helping the cause. Ah well.