So let me preface this post with the info that I'm a med device sales rep- Eye Doctors are my customers. And sometimes doctors only have time to really see me when they are at lunch, and therefore I generally eat out a lot. I eat lunch at a restaurant every day, and even though I order as healthy as possible -salads, grilled fish, etc - I still have a lot of food guilt because of this...I feel like I eat out too much! You don't know how the restaurant prepares the food, but it's guaranteed to be a lot less healthy than if I prepared it myself!

I can honestly say that I'm hungrier, and more often, now that I'm in the third trimester. But I feel "guilt" for eating more! I guess 30+ years of being told that I shouldn't overeat and worrying about my weight just can't go away overnight. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night absolutely starving, but I can't break my lifelong habit of no midnight eating! I get so excited when I wake up in the morning and can have a "legal" meal - breakfast! It's hard for my brain to break the mold of 3 meals a day and a couple of snacks in the day.

I'm hungry right now, but it's almost 10pm in FL and I don't want to eat this late.

Do you have food guilt or feel "bad" for needing to eat more or feeling hungrier?

Just to note: I would estimate that I've gained about 20lbs at 29 weeks, so it's not like I'm not gaining weight properly. But I feel like my body hangs on to every calorie and if I'm watching it, and working out, and still have gained 20lbs, then what in the WORLD would happen if I let go and ate every time I'm hungry? It scares me:(