Hey there and congrats!! I know how you feel. I think if you stick to eating healthy and continue to walking you will be okay! Also, in the first trimester you don't really have to increase you calorie intake (which is good).

I definitely do not recommend trying to "diet" while pregnant by any means but that absolutely does not mean that you can't keep track of calories and work out! I'll be 19 weeks pregnant tomorrow and I'm down 14 lbs from my pre-pregnancy weight. I had an appointment this past week and my doctor commented that I had lost another 3 lbs since last month but proceeded to say he wasn't "too concerned" with my weight at this point. I'm not trying to diet by any means I've just continued exercising the way I was before I found out I was pregnant.

I started this pregnancy at 185, I am currently 171 lbs and I am 5'7" (still overweight for my height).

I am also pregnant (25 weeks) with my 3rd and have been concerned about weight gain. My 2nd child is just over 2.5 years and I started this pregnancy about 70lbs lighter than when she was 8 weeks old! So I did start at a healthy BMI, and after over 2 years in the gym 5-6 times a week I was pretty fit.

I found I gained weight in the first trimester as I felt so sick, and the only thing that stopped the nausea was eating. I didn't necessarily eat bad things, just ate more than I usually would. I ate tonnes of fruit salads, which I think make me bloated which probably made me weigh more when I stepped on the scale!

I think you just do what you can. When the nausea stopped for me at 14 weeks I was able to go back to my usual healthy eating (although have had a few too many treats over the Xmas period) and I've managed to exercise throughout. I did a step aerobics class once feeling like I was about to throw up for the entire hour!

Don't beat yourself up about a little weight gain. Don't forget you lose a good 15-20lbs just in the first few days.

So, stick to healthy eating, and make sure you exercise. Even if you gain a bit, that should make it easier for it to come off after.

I am currently 249lbs and 5ft6. I found out tonight that I am approx. 4-6 wks pregnant with our 3rd child. I don't want to diet of course or do anything to put baby at risk but I am planning on walking and not eating any junk (not hard just now because I feel sick all the time!!) and I wonder whether I could end this pregnancy lighter than I began it by moving more (walking mainly), eating more healthily and cutting out cola (currently 3cans a day)..

Congratulations! That's precisely what I did. My daughter is now 9 weeks old, but I continued to exercise and ate heathily for most of the pregnancy. I lost weight for the first half of the pregnancy and gained baby weight in the second half as you need to. Immediately after birth I was already lighter than I was when I discovered I was pregnant and six weeks later I'm needing to shop for clothes a size smaller than I was wearing 10 months ago. These were my weigh-ins...

5'5", baby #5, ideal weight gain 3.2-6.4kg (7-14lbs)

4 wks: 90.1 kg (198lbs) (Waist: 94cm)
5 wks: 90.8 kg
5+4 wks: 90.2 kg
9+5 wks: 90.1 kg
11 wks: 89.5 kg
11+5 wks: 89.1 kg
13+2 wks: 88.9 kg
14 wks: 88.2 kg
14+5 wks: 88.0 kg
15+5 wks: 87.5 kg
19+5 wks: 87.2 kg (192.2lbs)
20+5 wks: 87.5 kg
22+5 wks: 88.4 kg
25+5 wks: 89.4 kg (Waist: 110cm)
26+5 wks: 89.7 kg
27+5 wks: 89.5 kg
28+5 wks: 90.0 kg
29+5 wks: 90.4 kg
30+5 wks: 91.2 kg (Waist 116cm)
31+5 wks: 91.8 kg
33+5 wks: 92.1 kg
35+5 wks: 92.6 kg
36+5 wks: 91.5 kg
37+5 wks: 92.1 kg (Waist 118.5cm)
38+5 wks: 92.5 kg
39+5 wks: 93.2 kg
40+5 wks: 93.9 kg (207lbs)

Baby Rosanna born 40+6 and was 8lb 4oz

1 wk pp: 86kg (189.6lbs)

To achieve this I walked for at least an hour five times a week, did 30 minutes of Zumba and swam for 30-40 minutes every week. So nothing too physical, just enough to bring on a light sweat. But as a general rule you're not meant to start any new exercise, just continue with whatever you've been doing. For calories I ate at maintenance the whole way through, eating back my exercise calories and allowing myself to go over when I was really hungry.

You'll have to work out what's going to work best for you, but I wish you good luck with your pregnancy.