No, I'm not eating for two.

More like 1.5. Or 1.2.

It's frustrating to me that people say things like "Oooh just eat the pastry, you're eating for two!"

No. I'm not. No one is. Unless maybe you're having twins, in that case you're eating for two babies, not two full sized people. Or three or whatever.

My diet hasn't really changed all that much. To date (I'm about 25 weeks along) I haven't had a single weird or sudden craving. I make sure that I'm getting the extra amount of calories I need (200-300, the equivalent of 2 or 3 bananas or large pears, seriously) and that I'm getting varied, balanced nutrition. I try not to snack on crap, and while I've never been a big consumer of processed foods, I've cut them down even more. 

Goodbye, Reduced-Fat Cheezits.

For example, yesterday this very hungry caterpillar ate:

Breakfast:

1 large HoneyCrisp Apple

24 almonds

2 16oz cups of lemon water

Lunch:

1 bowl of Total Plus Omega-3 Flax cereal with 1 cup plain almond milk

8 oz calcium fortified orange juice

2 more 16 oz cups of lemon water

Snack:

24 more almonds

Dinner:

Vegetable curry (broccoli, green beans, red bell pepper, zucchini, red chile, light coconut milk, red curry paste, fish sauce) over brown basmati rice.

Lemon water

1 cup decaf jasmine green tea.

That's basically how most of my days go. Some days I'm a little more tired in the middle of the day, and on those afternoons I'll have a Larabar (cashew cookie!) instead of the almonds to tide me over.

My blood is tested constantly, and I've yet to be deficient in any area. I've gained around 13-15 lbs so far, which my Doc says is right on track. I walk nearly every day, and I'm making sure to keep working my arms out and doing squats and lunges to stay in shape. I love my prenatal yoga DVD, and I try to do the 1 hr session at least once a week, though I'd like to do it more.

So far I've felt great, aside from my lupus symptoms.
That makes me glad.

I'm not trying to be a snot. I just have known and seen so many women who act like pregnancy is an excuse to do nothing ("rest is good for the baby!") and to eat garbage ("a craving is your body telling you what it needs, and my body needs ice cream!"). It's perfectly reasonable to think that pregnancy doesn't really have to change your daily routine. If you work out, you can keep working out, just use common sense. If you wouldn't feed it to a small child, maybe don't eat it when you're growing one inside of you.
Just my take on it.