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As of yesterday, I\u2019m halfway through my pregnancy. It hasn\u2019t been the easiest or most comfortable few months of my life, but I realize how incredibly fortunate I am to have had a normal and uneventful experience thus far. All of the nausea, exhaustion, and the aches and pains of the first trimester feel completely worth it when I think of holding our perfect baby boy at the end of this summer. But as much as I\u2019ve enjoyed carrying our baby, I realize too that I\u2019ve been using my pregnancy as an excuse to give into overeating, caving to dessert multiple<\/span> times a day, and being pretty sedentary. I find myself justifying every bad habit with, \u201cWhy not? I\u2019m pregnant!\u201d\u2014as if it will be easier to get on track once our baby boy arrives.<\/p>\n Of course, being pregnant isn\u2019t a nine month vacation from discipline and taking care of ourselves. The rational part of me knows that this is the time<\/em> to eat healthfully and now is the time<\/em> to work on building productive, sustainable habits that will carry me through baby\u2019s birth. It\u2019s also time to practice self-compassion, I know, without letting the idea of being kind to myself<\/em>\u00a0twist into meaning:\u00a0letting go of my deeper desire to eat well and move my body. I notice that I\u2019m getting a little impatient, telling Daniel, \u201cI wish the baby was here,\u201d once a day. But as long as he is still taking his time growing strong, I\u2019m going to try to use to the next few months to strengthen my discipline and practice healthier and more productive routines.<\/p>\n Has anyone else struggled with this? The fatigue can make it so tough to flex that willpower muscle and to muster the energy to get things done. Do you mothers have any tips or experience that you think could help a first time pregnant lady?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As of yesterday, I\u2019m halfway through my pregnancy. It hasn\u2019t been the easiest or most comfortable few months of my …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[998],"tags":[1172],"class_list":["post-16296","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weight-loss","tag-pregnancy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"soft](\"https:\/\/www.andiemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_5844-e1522861135639.jpg\")
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