I am starting to have fantasies about going into the doctor's office and having her declare that their calculations were way off and I am at 40 weeks NOW and, hey, I'm ready to have this baby straight away! I figure this must be a common third trimester thing, right when you start feeling trapped by your body. Usually when I feel a little heavy or bloated, I can just eat healthy for a few days and kick it up a notch at the gym and I'm back to feeling great again. While I decided that the summertime bbq diet of deviled eggs, potato salad, cake, and potato chips could certainly be scaled back, the gym workout gets increasingly difficult each time I go. I'm not doing anything too strenuous, just some eliptical, floor exercises, and stretching, but it does feel weird for added exercise to have the opposite effect of making me more worn-out and sore rather than stronger and healthier.
On top of all that, you know what's really bothering me? That Cindy McCain apparently doesn't have any original cookie recipes. Look, most of the things I bake come from cookbooks or recipes; I only have a few things that are "original," and even those had a head start with an established recipe. It's the execution of the whole thing that rubs me the wrong way. No one checked to make sure the recipe she was going to submit wasn't, say, a recipe on the Hershey's website? Or if these were truly a favorite of hers, couldn't she just admit it was a Hershey's recipe that she tweaked a little and gone with that? Frankly, the whole thing was just done sloppily, which makes me feel the same way I would about someone who stole an essay off the internet and turned it in for a grade. If you're going to fake it, at least put in a little effort to cover your tracks so it takes more than a lazy google to find you out.
I'm trying to decide if my feminist baker mom would be on board with me or upset that I'm more bothered by this than the fact that the presidential candidates' spouses' contribution to the campaign are boiled down to a cookie competition in freaking Family Circle magazine.
Also, can someone please bake up these two cookies and bring them to me? The, uh, baby would like to do a taste test.
During my third trimester, my energy level depleted to the point where the only "workout" I could do was a prenatal yoga DVD that was totally lame, but it helped to relieve some of those sore muscle spots (hips, lower back, etc.) and it made me feel better. You know, as opposed to flattening me for the rest of the day like a real workout would've done. It sounds like you've hit that point of diminishing returns with your workouts.
But the good news is, if you've kept up your exercise regimen this long, it'll take you no time to get back in pre-pregnancy shape after the baby is born. You'd probably be ok to take it down a notch at the gym for now if you wanted to. And just resign yourself to the fact that yeah, you're going to feel heavy and bloated, because dude, there's another PERSON in there. It's not all potato chips and cake, y'know?