how much weight have you gained
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I gained 7 pounds in 4 weeks. Yikes. That makes 15 pounds in 25 weeks. I was on vacation last week, though. It was a bit of a free for all as far as food and no exercise. Back on track this week.0
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My counselor brought up an interesting point...are those who were actively losing weight prior to pregnancy more likely to gain quickly/more weight during pregnancy? Not sure if there really is an answer, but it seems as though many of us here are struggling to keep the weight gain under control, despite the fact we are calorie counting crazies
Thoughts?
http://www.realhealthmag.com/articles/dieting_pregnancy_weightloss_382_15397.shtml
I remember reading about this study shortly before my first pregnancy. It suggested chronic dieters were likely to gain MORE weight during pregnancy than necessary. I know this happened to me (80lbs) because I just felt like it was the one time in my life when I was supposed to gain weight. I went crazy because I always had to restrict before and I was just sick of it.
I've developed a healthier approach to "dieting" now so it should be easier for me to maintain my healthy habits this time.0 -
Only 14.5 weeks and I've already gained 15lbs.
But I find that water retention is a HUGE factor. On Sunday I was 153 - Wednesday 158 - today 155.4. So I'm keeping frequent track so I can see the pattern and not freak out over huge spikes.0 -
My counselor brought up an interesting point...are those who were actively losing weight prior to pregnancy more likely to gain quickly/more weight during pregnancy? Not sure if there really is an answer, but it seems as though many of us here are struggling to keep the weight gain under control, despite the fact we are calorie counting crazies Thoughts?
I seriously think that's the case!!! I've considered not counting my calories (still being careful of course) but I wouldn't want to get out of the habit of it and not be able to pick it back up post baby. It's been an every day part of my life for a year and a half or so though I don't know if I could lol0 -
Gained my first pound this week - bummer! I'm just 10 weeks, was planning to making it to 13 before seeing any gain. Haven't been logging my eating, but have been staying with my same eating habits, for the most part. When I sat down to figure out how I gained that pound (since I'm still working out 40 minutes 5 days per week), I realized it's the pasta. Pasta has been my "comfort food" this pregnancy so far - when nothing else sounds good, pasta does. Starting tomorrow, I'm going to have to give up my pasta (tonight is leftover night, and it's all pasta-based)! Waaahh!
Decided to start logging again, just to make sure I'm staying under my 1500 net calories (okayed by doc). Can I just say how annoying it is to start logging again after taking a couple weeks off!
Quick question - How do you ladies measure your weight gain? From your weight the day you peed on a stick, or from your lowest once becoming pregnant? I only ask because I've lost a little weight since my positive preg test, but don't know if I should say I'm up one pound now, or down seven (instead of eight).
I don't really know! After finding out I was pregnant I lost 6# but I've been counting from the lowest I'd got to. Idk. Maybe by the end ill subtract that loss from my total LOL0 -
I'm 17 weeks and have gained a little less than 4 pounds. I was starting to wonder why I hadn't gained an ounce throughout my first trimester but as soon as I commented on it, I shot up 5 pounds in two weeks. I figured some of it was water weight because a few ounces disappeared the next day. Thankfully, its evened out this week. 2.5lbs/week is a little more than I'd like!
I think I'm actually scared to gain weight now that I know how difficult it is to lose it! There are sometimes I REALLY want that ice cream or that donut, but I always think twice about it. Okay, yes. I'm scared of gaining weight. 'Unnecessary' weight.
And I figure my weight gain based off my weight the day I found out I was pregnant. I've heard its really common to lose weight in the first trimester because of morning sickness, and I can only imagine that weight comes back quickly. I'd probably stress too much otherwise!0 -
I'm in my 14th week and have already gained 8-9 pounds. My doctor told me to try and maintain for a couple of weeks. So I will try and maintain. I was wondering, if I was at a 1200 calories before and was losing around 1-2 pounds a week, if MFP put my calories too high for maintenance, it says 2200 calories to maintain, that is a bit much? Plus they say to add another 200-300 calories in your 2nd trimester! Yikes! I will surely gain way too much?0
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I'm in my 14th week and have already gained 8-9 pounds. My doctor told me to try and maintain for a couple of weeks. So I will try and maintain. I was wondering, if I was at a 1200 calories before and was losing around 1-2 pounds a week, if MFP put my calories too high for maintenance, it says 2200 calories to maintain, that is a bit much? Plus they say to add another 200-300 calories in your 2nd trimester! Yikes! I will surely gain way too much?
After telling my Dr I was only eating 1200 calories before getting pregnant, he gave me 1800...so I just changed my cals to eat 1800 instead of worrying about maintenance and all that jazz0 -
The point about the chronic dieters gaining more weight during pregnancy is really interesting to me. As someone who has been up and down the scale, it's scary to fathom that it is entirely possible (if not highly probable) for someone to gain 100 pounds during pregnancy. I feel like if I didn't track, that would totally be me. When I wasn't pregnant, I experimented with intuitive eating, and found that "listening to my body" wasn't always the best idea, as "intuitively" I always seemed to want a cookie (or cake, or ice cream, or some such). I may or may not gain more weight than I want to this pregnancy, but I know that whatever I gain, it will be WAAAAAY less than what it would have been if I hadn't tracked. I am so grateful for MyFitnessPal for providing us with this tool.1
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The point about the chronic dieters gaining more weight during pregnancy is really interesting to me. As someone who has been up and down the scale, it's scary to fathom that it is entirely possible (if not highly probable) for someone to gain 100 pounds during pregnancy. I feel like if I didn't track, that would totally be me. When I wasn't pregnant, I experimented with intuitive eating, and found that "listening to my body" wasn't always the best idea, as "intuitively" I always seemed to want a cookie (or cake, or ice cream, or some such). I may or may not gain more weight than I want to this pregnancy, but I know that whatever I gain, it will be WAAAAAY less than what it would have been if I hadn't tracked. I am so grateful for MyFitnessPal for providing us with this tool.
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16 weeks up 13lbs.
Girls I've been so bad! I decided I wasn't going to count calories on this pregnancy and was going to enjoy it but I feel like crap! I'm up 13lbs at 16 weeks. I'm back and determined to slow down this gain! I've set my calories to 1900. I am so concerned about all the health problems with gaining too much and I'm so mad at myself for being selfish and binging on chocolate non stop the past few weeks. I feel so big and heavy and not just the bump, the weight has gone onto my arms and legs and I just don't look like myself anymore.0 -
16 weeks up 13lbs.
Girls I've been so bad! I decided I wasn't going to count calories on this pregnancy and was going to enjoy it but I feel like crap! I'm up 13lbs at 16 weeks. I'm back and determined to slow down this gain! I've set my calories to 1900. I am so concerned about all the health problems with gaining too much and I'm so mad at myself for being selfish and binging on chocolate non stop the past few weeks. I feel so big and heavy and not just the bump, the weight has gone onto my arms and legs and I just don't look like myself anymore.
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At least you're catching it early! Don't feel bad.0 -
hi girls, I haven't jumped on the scales in a while but I am not feeling very wonderful at the moment. I've just been feeling so nauseas all the time and eating is the only thing that makes me feel better. I am off to Fiji for two weeks on Saturday, so I am just going to stay calm, have a good time and worry about my eating when I get back. Hopefully by then (I'll be 14 weeks) the nausea will have stopped and I can go back to my normal healthy diet. I've been having an aversion to anything green for the past few weeks, the idea of broccoli makes me gag. It's rediculous!!0
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jamie31, Just an observation, but you may be gaining weight because you mentioned you're eating below maintenance. It may very well be that your body needs more than what you're feeding it, so it's hanging on to what it is getting (storing it for the pregnancy to make sure it has enough for the baby). If you bump it up to at least maintenance calories every day, you may see a slow down in weight gain. As I said, just an observation, but I hope it helps.Update - 16 weeks and 17 pounds. Trying not to flip out about it - I'm doing the best I can, continuing to work out, and my body is going to do what it wants. I can't help but get really bummed (jealous?) when I hear of others who have gained so little at this point - but we aren't all the same, and comparing doesn't do any good Or at least, that's what I keep telling myself, haha!
You are 100% right. I keep gaining a pound a week and still workout at a high intensity and eat below maintenance.0 -
honestly I don't know if eating less or more is the thing that makes you gain weight. I think it has more to do with WHAT you eat. I was just quickly skimming through your diary and I saw a lot of fast food and processed foods. I don't eat perfect, but I try to keep it as clean as I can. Try watching sodium levels. I have my eye on my sodium like crazy, usually when you watch sodium, most likely you'll eat healthier foods. Restaurant foods and processed stuff has a ridiculous amount of sodium and it makes you retain extra fluids which might be happening to you. I just had a Dr visit and my Dr is all about nutrition. I am not heavy at all and she warned me against eating fast foods and such. She said eat as clean and healthy as I can. Keep it simple like Adam and Eve would eat. She said since I am slender, I can allow myself 1 treat a day. If I was bigger, she would advise against any sweets.
she went on saying that the unhealthy stuff have lots of oils and minimum amounts of nutrition for both you and baby. I agree with her on that. When I was pregnant with my DD, I ate fast foods 3-4x a week. I ended up gaining 47lbs, BUT my last half of my pregnancy I was being watched like a hawk cause they saw that my DD wasn't getting enough nutrition and wasnt growing on track. So I was then put on a high protein diet and I tried limiting fast foods and she started growing normal again. Sooo thats just my 2cents.0 -
hi girls, I haven't jumped on the scales in a while but I am not feeling very wonderful at the moment. I've just been feeling so nauseas all the time and eating is the only thing that makes me feel better. I am off to Fiji for two weeks on Saturday, so I am just going to stay calm, have a good time and worry about my eating when I get back. Hopefully by then (I'll be 14 weeks) the nausea will have stopped and I can go back to my normal healthy diet. I've been having an aversion to anything green for the past few weeks, the idea of broccoli makes me gag. It's rediculous!!
I had been enjoying simple green side salads (spring/spinach mix + salt/pepper + olive oil + vinegar) for a few weeks pre-pregnancy and now the taste makes me gag. Luckily, I'm fine with most of my routine veggies like broccoli, brussels sprouts, green beans, peas... I think it was just the raw leafy greens thing. Hope you find something you can stomach!0 -
I don't know if you'd count this as meeting me in person, but I'm 15 weeks, and 0 lbs gained. I actually lost almost 1.5 lbs when on vacation (~13 weeks) as I apparently underestimated how many calories I burned so I didn't eat enough back. In the two weeks since, I've worked my way back to where I started. I guess had I not lost that weight, I'd be 1.5 lbs gainedI'm pretty sure I was at that amount of weight gain by that point for sure. I was also stressed out about it but for no reason really. I jumped on the scale this morning and am up 26 lbs at 28 weeks. I remember feeling super bloated and fat in the first trimester.......I also got an instant super muffin top the minute after I peed on that stick! well it seemed that way anyways. I set my calorie goal to maintenance and only recently changed it to gain a 1/2 lb a week. The weight gain seems to come in spurts.
Jamie if you're exercising and tracking I wouldn't stress about it. It took a really long time for me to get over the fact that you're supposed to gain weight.....because you're making a baby! Plus you read all that literature about how you really shouldn't gain much weight, if any, the first trimester and I have yet to meet a single person (in person) that didn't gain the first trimester. You probably feel bigger than you are and water retention sucks.
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I've been posting here to keep track of my weight week after week and give others to come an idea of my weight gain progress.
For anyone who hasen't been keep keeping track here it is...
At 8 weeks pregnant I was +6lbs
at 10 weeks pregnant I was +11lbs
at 11 weeks pregnant I was +10 lbs
At 12 weeks +8lbs
At 13 weeks +10lbs
At 14 weeks + 12 lbs
At 15 weeks + 9lbs
So....?! Pretty much up and down a bit but more or less stable in the past 5 weeks?!
Tracking weight is so variable.1 -
Update: 30lbs@27weeks! I only gained a pound from last week, which is good, and last week was not the best for me with eating or exercise due to the hubby's birthday dinners. I'm hoping another 1/2lb or so fall off today before I have to face the scale at the doctor tomorrow!0
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I'm up 30lbs at 29 weeks. Being on vacation and not logging for two weeks really took a toll, 7 lbs to be exact. The sad part is that I didn't even indulge that much! I thought the scale would be up 3-4 lbs, but 7?!?!?! :noway: :sad: Haven't gained anything since Friday, though, so hopefully I can hold steady for a couple of weeks.0
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When I went to the doctor Monday, it was the first time I didn't gain any weight Haha...I'm up 14lbs according to their scales, and 18 at home (I count my gain from the day I got my BFP, whereas the doctor counts it from my first appt at 7 weeks). I'm 17 weeks, by the way! 0
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I'm up 21 lbs at 29 1/2 weeks- happy because I don't think I will gain the 40 I gained last pregnancy:):)0
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When I went to the doctor Monday, it was the first time I didn't gain any weight Haha...I'm up 14lbs according to their scales, and 18 at home (I count my gain from the day I got my BFP, whereas the doctor counts it from my first appt at 7 weeks). I'm 17 weeks, by the way!
I wonder if the reason my OB/GYN hasn't commented on my weight (yet!) is because I started seeing her at 14 weeks, when I was already up 8lbs? I saw my GP for initial bloodwork at 5 weeks and was up 1lb at that point. Not sure which starting weight my current doc is using.0 -
So I was really good the last 2 days, ate under calories, lots of water, and lower sodium, and my weight was the highest this morning it's ever been!! It makes me feel like why bother trying? Oh well I guess, it's out of my control, as long as my baby is healthy, I will just have a lot of work ahead of me 0
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I wonder if my dr will count my weight from my first appt? I was 17weeks first time I met her (she was on vacation for a month, ugh) anywhoo, weight is slowing down.
15wk- +9.2
16wk +9.5
17wk +9.9
18wk +10.9
i was a little less in lbs yesterday, but i think i am holding in some water from this heatwave we've got going on. i am kinda swollen0 -
I'm up 21 lbs at 29 1/2 weeks- happy because I don't think I will gain the 40 I gained last pregnancy:):)
fantastic!! I am shooting for the same range at 30wks, to be between 20-25gain and then for my 40wk range to be under 35gain. I gained almost 50with my DD and she was 6lbs13oz, soooo I know not all the weight goes to baby. LOL. I was only 15lbs lighter after I lost all the fluids and such, the rest was for me to lose on my own. ugh. SOOO I gained pure fat with her, which i am avoiding now, I am eating 100% healthier and whole foods. WIth her I ate a crap load of fast foods and frozen meals and ramen noodles. LOL No wonder my poor baby wasn't any bigger. she wasn't getting the necessary nutrition.0 -
So I was really good the last 2 days, ate under calories, lots of water, and lower sodium, and my weight was the highest this morning it's ever been!! It makes me feel like why bother trying? Oh well I guess, it's out of my control, as long as my baby is healthy, I will just have a lot of work ahead of me
Me, too! Except for the sodium part - I had frozen pizza last night, so I'm hoping that is part of the reason my scale was up 1.5 lbs this morning (even after getting up for 3 good pees last night!) This morning I weighed 1/2 lb over my highest pre-pregnancy weight. I knew it was going to happen, just thought it would be a few more weeks down the road! :ohwell:0 -
Well the good news is the doctors weren't concerned with my weight 0
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I was gaining really fast the first trimester, stupid cravings. I have been maintaining these last few weeks, so far so good. Would love to weigh the same for the next 5 weeks. We will see, I checked on this site http://www.baby2see.com/pregnancy_weight_calculator.html and I would need to maintain for the next 5 weeks to be back on track. Stupid cravings!!!!
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I was gaining really fast the first trimester, stupid cravings. I have been maintaining these last few weeks, so far so good. Would love to weigh the same for the next 5 weeks. We will see, I checked on this site http://www.baby2see.com/pregnancy_weight_calculator.html and I would need to maintain for the next 5 weeks to be back on track. Stupid cravings!!!!
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I have had a similar slowdown in my weight gain. I initally gained nothing, then around 8 weeks seemed to have suddenly gained 3kg, but weighed myself yesterday at 11 weeks and had only gained another 0.5kg in the past 3 weeks.0
