Ravenously hungry nausea?

The whole pregnancy thing really is surreal, especially in the beginning when you don't really look or feel pregnant.  In the first trimester, the only reminders of pregnancy I had were extreme nausea and ravenous hunger.  From about week 6 until the middle of week 11, I had what they call "morning sickness."  I'm not sure who named it that, since the morning had very little to do with my sickness.  I was sick all day, every day, and sometimes even in the middle of the night.  It was like having the worst hangover of your life, 24 hours a day, for 6 weeks.  The strangest part of it all was that I never actually threw up, I just felt like I needed to or was about to all the time.  Sometimes I wish I had just thrown up and gotten it over with!

Another strange partner to my all-day sickness was the most intense hunger I have ever experienced in my life.  Like I might die if I don't eat in the next 5 minutes kind of hunger.  And that paired with nausea makes for a very confusing all day conflict.  I feel so sick I can't eat a thing, but if I don't eat a thing, I might just die.  And it did seem that somehow despite nausea, the only thing that provided even momentary relief was to eat something...only to shortly after feel nauseousness again.  It was a vicious cycle that I eventually gave into and just ate anything cheesy or sweet I could get my hands on.

My local yogurt place Yotopia has a yogurt happy hour on Tuesdays from 4-6pm where everything is 25% off.  It has been my happy hour of choice these days.  This beauty you see here is cake batter frozen yogurt with brownie bites, white chocolate chips and strawberries.  I knew it was decent sized but didn't think I went overboard until I got up to the register, where the young girl at the counter rang me up after I set my froyo on the scale, and then just stood there staring at me.  She says to me, "You know that's 16 oz., right?" Yes, honey, I do.  And for those of you who aren't big on your conversions, 16 oz is 1 pound.  And I ate the entire thing in one sitting.  I had to.  I might have died otherwise.