Eating For Two

Those who know me pretty well no that I am not a big eater. At least, I don't eat a bunch during a meal. Instead, I spread out my consumption of mass quantities over the course of a day - I am a grazer. But pregnancy has obviously done something to me.

My boss mentioned that back in the day (she's in her late 60's), it wasn't too uncommon for women to gain a lot of weight when carrying a child. After all, they were eating for two. With advances in medical science and a stronger grasp of nutrition that has been acquired over the years, women now know that they don't need to gain a ton of weight, and that too much weight is a bad idea no matter how you look at it.

But they don't tell this to the fathers. Or I missed the lesson that day. Why? Well, last night Lisa made salmon and jasmine rice for dinner. She wasn't quite able to finish hers and I had long since cleaned my plate and had dished up some more rice. She offered me the rest of her salmon. I declined since, after all, she's the pregnant one and she should eat it. She assured me that she was full, and dished her leftover onto my plate. It was gone in probably 2 minutes. Seriously, I ate almost an entire salmon and three servings of rice. But that's not the weirdest part!

Probably 90 minutes later I decided I needed a snack, and a big bowl of Lucky Charms was going to make me happy. Keep in mind that we are whole milk drinkers. Anything less just isn't milk.

Lisa pointed out my mass consumption and laughed. I seriously never eat like that. Granted, I won't make a habit of it as it just isn't my personality. But who knows? Maybe this is the time in my life where I balloon up like the Michelin Man and become a fat lard. Nah... having thought about it, I decided that idea sucks. But still it was enough to make both of us laugh.