My Lady of the Lantern

** Thanks for the superb doppler suggestion. I am trying to see if I can get my hands on one. ** The four things from hell: Pepsi, Coffee, Potatoes and Chocolate. Amount of Coffee intake since I found out I was pregnant: Zero. Amount of Pepsi/Soft Drink intake since I found out I was pregnant: One 300 ml bottle, plus short and long sips here and there. I have not been able to get rid of it completely. Amount of Chocolate intake since I found out I was pregnant: Good thing is no one frowns on my chocolate consumption now. Haven't had too much of the chocolate still. Amount of Potatoes since I found out I was pregnant: Well, I crave potatoes. And potato chips. It's the only dark side of my consumption that will irk my mother. ^WiseGuy^

I don't smoke, don't do drugs, don't booze..... I am such a saint that I do not even have a 'I-hate-this-vegetable' food quirk.... (My limited weaknesses include Soft Drinks (P.E.P.S.I.) and Non-vegetarian food....) So, when my doctor asked me to go off Potatoes completely, it has left me flummoxed. Though I have dropped it from my daily menu, how can the world's favourite vegetable be my bete noire? I have seen people with pathetic sense of balanced diet, producing children by the handful. And I got bowled over by a tub of carbohydrates? In India, people sleep by the roads, by the wells, by the trees, by the skyscrapers, by the huts, by the airports, by the railway platform, by the middle-of-nowhere and still have kids. And I sleep nowhere close to these places, yet my diet is one of the contributing factors(??).