Fit and Food - 25.January

Food:
Breakfast: Toast with butter and nutella, green tea.
Lunch: smashed potatoes with brown onions and fish filet (Fischstäbchen)
Dinner: one orange and water

Workout:
aerobic warm-up
new pilates video which i didn't like
pregnancy yoga
that makes 30 minutes workout and 25 minutes relaxation.

Maternity Fashion

For quite some time I thought that i don't need to buy extra maternity wear. And for the most part i still think like that. I plan to wear leggings which i can roll down so they don't sqeeze my belly, long t-shirts and to go out ill wear my abayas or one of my maxi dresses.

But at the same time there are so many wonderful maternity clothes available that i can't resist to show them at least.

Specially nice and inexpensive pieces are available at asos.com

Very nice and inexpensive basics can be found at H&M:

and nice blouses...

as well as pants and jeans:

I am so in love with all these things that ill totaly go to H&M next time i go to germany!!!!
love love love those clothes!

Fit and Food - 24.January

Food:

Breakfast: Toast with butter, nutella, jam and honey. Green tea.
Lunch: Spaghetti with tomato sauce and cheese again.
Dinner: salad, two eggs, 2 oranges, one banana-peanut butter milkshake.


Workout:
aerobic warm up
pilates core workout
pilates total body workout
pilates stretching

that makes 36 minutes of workout.

Fit and Food - 23.January

Food:

Breakfast: Toast with nutella, honey, butter and jam. Green tea.
Lunch: Spaghetti with tomato sauca and cheese.
Dinner: three oranges and one banana.

Because i sleep so long these days, my breakfast and my luch are really late too. Therefore when it comes to dinner i don't feel really hungry..


Excercise:

aerobic warm up,
pilates (standing pilates),
pilates (stretching),
in the evening pregnancy yoga.

That makes all in all 26 minutes work out and 25 minutes relaxation.

How to carry your baby around...

When it comes to bringing your baby from A to B, there are several methods to do so.
The two biggest alternatives might be to put the baby in a stroller

or to carry it around with yourself using a formm of baby carrier.
Babies are all different, so my brother for example only wanted to lay in a stroller were he had lots of space to move around whereas i wouldn't lay for one minute in a stroller but wanted to be as close to my mom as i could.
I personally prefer the baby carrier for several reasons:
- it is less expensive
- it is healthy for the physical development of the baby
- it keeps the baby calm as it feels always close to the parent and therefor safe.

Baby carriers come in different styles and variations. Most common are the carrier that has a more stable structure

and the blanket which can be folded very very small.

The carrying blankets are more healthy for the physical development of the baby and can be used from the first day up to about 3 years.
It allows for many different carrying positions and is the most cost effective carrying option.

Fit and Food - 22.January

Food:

Breakfast: Toast with butter and avocado, green tea
Lunch: broccoli, potato and sauce hollandaise

Dinner: tomato salad, two boiled eggs and a banana milkshake

Excercise:
aerobic warmup, pilates stretching, yoga relax (before sleeping)
thats 16 minutes workout and 25 minutes relaxing.

Fit and Food - 21.January

Exercising during pregnancy is extremely benefitial for the mothers health, for the baby's health, to make labor easier and to enable a natural and fast birth.
Knowing that i surfed the internet and found some youtube videos with exercise routines specially for pregnant ladies.
I have 3 routines:
- aerobic: warm up, different strenght workouts, stretching
- pilates: four different workouts, last being a stretching one
- yoga: relaxing and breathing techniques to relax mother and baby and prepare for labor

My big pregnancy-plan is to take time to eat healthy and to exercise every day.
To see how successful i am in realising that plan ill write it down day by day, hopefully.

Saturday, 21. January:

Food:
Breakfast: Toast with butter, honey and jam. Green Tea.
Lunch: Spaghetti with a sauce of pesto and cream cheese.
Dinner: Vietnamese raw springrolls:

take rice paper

Make a sauce from fish sauce, water, garlic, spring onions, carrot and a hint of sugar.

Cut salad, spring onions, cucumber, carrots and grilled beef.

Fill the rice paper, roll it into a roll, dip it in the sauce and ENJOY!

I really loved it soo much!!!


Excercise:

It seems i am really unfit at the moment which made me actually quite sad.
I did my aerobic warm up which lasts only 6 minutes and that was really hard hehehehe! So hard that after that I went directly to aerobic stretching and that was it for the day.
But before going to bed i did the Yoga excercise which is really nice and relaxing, loved it!

So that was the day, lets see how the other days will go...