I lost over 90lbs.. and then GOT KNOCKED UP! :(

Pregnancy is crazy... and you'll probably gain ALOT more ... I gained the most in the last month... but my little baby was incredibly healthy... You just wait until that baby is here and you will just die that you ever even thought all this.

There's no race to the finish--- you will eventually be at your goal weight... promise.

when you are pregnant the weight you gain is from all sorts of stuff like the baby and water and all that......13 pounds isn't bad and after you have the baby you will lose some of it pretty quickly. As long as you eat healthy and take care of yourself you will lose all the weight and get down to your goal after you have the baby. Stop stressing about your weight you can do that after the baby is out but for now you need to take care of yourself and that baby.......

First of all CONGRATULATIONS! On losing the weight AND on your future baby!
Enjoy this time, be healthy during your pregnancy...eating for 2 is a myth. AND breastfeeding melts of at least 500 calories....so between that and chasing the little one around you will melt off what you gain during pregnancy and then some.

Congratulations!!!!!:flowerforyou: Don't be sad.

Breast-feeding is incredible for some ladies--- I highly recommend it. However, I was one of those "unlucky" ones... breast-fed for 15 months and didn't start losing weight until she had weaned. It made me really hungry and I just wanted to sit, and eat and--- gaze at my baby )))))

Congrats on becoming parents, its awesome. Weight gain does not have to get you down. Talk to your doctor about how much exercise you can do and same for dieting. Prob. just some modifications from what you were doing. I was quite heavy when I had each of my kids and I only gained 12 with my first who weight over 8lbs and only 20 with my second.

Depression and saddness can really be a cause of weight gain, try to focus more on being healtly and having a healthy baby and all the joys it brings!

Congrats!

You are so dedicated, there's no way that you won't reach your goal after the baby is born. During this process of losing weight, you probably weighed yourself about once a week, right? Well, wait until you come home from the hospital, each day you can/will get on the scale and just see lbs after lbs shedding off, daily!! It will be wonderful and that will motivate you to keep it going, even after you lose the baby weight, until you reach your goal weight! If ever there were a speed bump in the weight loss process, I would say a baby would have to be the best one!! Congrats to you!

With BOTH of my kids I got pregnang after I had lost 30-40 pounds! I know it seems sad and difficult, but I PROMISE you that it will be worth it when he/she is here. And you have the tools and knowledge of how to do it again when you are ready. 13 lbs in 20 weeks is really good as far as weight gain. It is true you gain more at the end, but you can still make sure you eat as healthy as you can. My OB always told me that "eating for two' is a myth & you only really need to up your diet 200-300 calories & make them healthy ones.

I started my weighloss journey July 08. I had 67 pounds to lose. I lost 25 pounds in 5 months and was on a roll!!! But...like you, I found out I was pregnant. Unlike you though, my husband and I were planning it...just not for a few more months. So it came a little early, but we were happy. Since then I have had TWO babies! My youngest is not quite 8 months old yet and I weigh less than I did when I got pregnant with my first (I have lost 44 pounds since she was born)! It is frustrating to have your weightloss journey put on hold, but just know how much it will motivate you to get back on that path when your precious baby is born!! You can do it. I vowed to myself that I would stay on MFP while I was pregnant and try to maintain (plus 300 extra calories for being preg) so that I wouldn’t gain too much...but I didn’t do it. I was happy with what I gained, but I know I could have done better. I gained 32 with my first and lost 29 before I got pregnant again. I gained another 38 with the second and have now (like I said) lost 44 pounds. You can do it!! It is doable!! I am, once again, on a roll and have been able to pick up where I left off before I got pregnant! Good luck!

And CONGRATULATIONS!! Be happy! Babies are SOOOO fun! Maybe you’ll breastfeed and earn those 500 extra exercise calories daily 

OK first of all sorry to say this and I don't want to upset you but please be really happy about this baby.
I have been trying to get pregnant for 5 years and am losing weight so that I will be able to have IVF - I would give my right arm to be in your shoes and pregnant !!

it happened to me too...back in 2006 i had lost 40 lbs and was 20 away from my goal and then got pregnant, completely unexpectedly and then followed that with having 2 more (3 in 3 yrs) i gained a total of 60 pounds and i am finally in the process of taking it all off. but i didnt eat healthy at all, i figured i was pregnant and going to get "fat" anyway and let myself go. my youngest is about to be 2 and just this year i decided to stop using the "i just had a baby" excuse for being so overweight. it will come off just as quick (if not quicker) than it goes on if you eat right, exercise, even lightly, and take care of yourself. i know it is scary but once he/she is born it will be amazing! enjoy it and congratulations!

congratulations on losing over 90 lbs! That's amazing!

and congrats on the baby! you're bring a baby into this world so much healthier because of your efforts to lose weight and be healthier. you've lost 90 lbs before, and you will continue to improve your health throughout the rest of your pregnancy and after your baby arrives.

i got pregnant at my highest weight of 236, also my starting weight when i joined mfp. when pregnant, i weighed up to 251 the day before i gave birth to my most wonderful daughter, about to turn 1 year old in 2 weeks. i lost all the baby weight within 2 weeks after having my daughter, then lost an extra 10 in the next 6 weeks. only to gain and lose and gain and re-lose those same 10 lbs for the next 8 months. then i found mfp. I've lost 18.4 lbs since joining the last week of january.

my goal is to get below 160, my goal range is 150-159. but my husband and i also recently decided that at the end of the summer, we should think about trying to have another child. so my new short term goal is to get below 200 before the end of summer and improve my body composition (lower body fat %age) before getting pregnant again. sure, it may push back my ultimate goal for awhile, but i will be so much healthier this next pregnancy. i'm doing something wonderful by raising my daughter and planning to create another life. and i will be able to exercise during pregnancy next time since i've been doing already-- meaning healthier pregnancy, easier birth, and it'll be easier recover and heal post-birth and get right back to losing the weight again!

don't discount all the hard work and effort you have put forth and reaped the benefits of. it's not just about the number on the scale, but what's inside that amazing body of yours and the little one you are growing. keep working-- you are doing amazing things for yourself and your family.

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Oh honey! Be happy and enjoy your pregnancy. It's a wonderful miracle you're experiencing, don't miss it. You only have a few months... My advice to you is to keep your diet in check. Maintain a healthy diet but don't go overboard like many women do when they're pregnant. Pregnancy is not a license to eat whatever you want! Every person and every pregnancy is different, but if it is any consolation, I lost all my baby weight immediately. Throughout the pregnancy, I gained 32 pounds. But after delivery and my body release all the water it was holding onto (I was super swollen the entire time), I was back to my pre-pregnancy weight within 2 weeks. Love your pregnant body. To me, there's nothing more beautiful...

same story... kinda :-)

I was 16 years old and 250lbs when I got pregnant with my 1st child. At the end of my pregnancy I weighed 300lbs. My life story gets WAY more complicated; at 19 years old I had my 2nd child and my husband was battling cancer (he passed away a few years later). After our second child was born, I lost 100 lbs. It took me 2 years, but I did it!

Then I meet my second husband in 2006. Guess what news we found out the following year??? I was pregnant :-) At this point I didn't think of my weight at all..... and I climbed the scale back to 300 lbs! She was born in April of 2008. June, when I went back to work, I joined weight watchers and did REALLY well.... got back down to 250lbs! BUTTTTTTT, guess what news we got in 2009??? YUP! Baby number 4!!! This is the pregnancy were I expirenced the feelings you described. I didn't want to be pregnant! Of course I was happy and excited about my soon-to-be child, BUT I couldn't stand the thought of losing control of my body... gaining back all the weight! Regardless of exercise and being careful of what I ate, I was 300 lbs again by the time she was born in April 2010. Immediatly I started trying to lose the weight. However, it wasn't coming off!!! I got to a point where I just gave into the role of being a women.... my body wasn't mine any more. It belonged to this child I was breastfeeding. I knew if I cut my calories too low, my milk supply would suffer.... and the time to exercise was not afforded to me. BUT the one thing I held on to was that this is only temporary!

I knew if I could lose 100lbs once, I could do it again! I stopped breastfeeding in December of last year, and knew in no-time-at-all I'd start losing the weight again! I started exercising in January, but didn't start losing until I found this website in Feburary! It's been 2 months, and I'm already down almost 30 lbs!

Having known that was my last pregnancy, my last childbirth, my last little blessing to learn to crawl/walking/talk.... I wish that I had been able to celebrate my pregnancy more..... cling to the NOW... and not worry too much about the future!

YOU will be able to lose the weight after you have the baby!!!

First of all congratulations.
The weight gain is normal, and the sad feelings are ok, but dont' let them ruin your enjoyment. The weight you gain(as long as you are eating healthy) will go away after the baby is born, most of it is baby and extra fluid weight. I didn't lose as much weight as you did, but I lost almost 50 and got pregnant(completely unplanned) I maintained my weight for a while, I gained about 20 lbs in my whole pregnancy, but lost it all and I am still doing it. Breastfeeding will help you maintain and lose more weight. Do your best to enjoy your body, enjoy your baby and enjoy your new family.
Good luck

I will add my two cents. Congratulations! My son just had an unplanned pregnancy and his son is the best "mistake" he's ever made. Try to be positive, because you can make this work to your advantage.

My first pregnancy I weighed 124, gained 28 pounds. I ate healthy and walked and did physical labor each day. When son was born, he was 9 pounds and I lost 18 pounds right then and there. By the time he was 8 months old, I was 115 pounds. Breast feeding and less time for myself caused that weight loss.

Two years later I was 128 pounds when I became pregnant with my daughter. I didn't eat as healthy, didn't "exercise" much and didn't lose as much weight when she was born. See the moral of these two situations?

On to later on....small children have much energy. Playing, chasing, cleaning up after them will work your heiny off. Also, until they can eat whole meals on their own, you will be splitting your meals with them. And the lifting you do with them builds strength. Bottom line little tykes are the best calorie control, cardio and strength training you can get!

Little tip - If you lift your small children up on your feet so they can fly like superman and bend your knees so they go up and down, there's no better work out for your abs and legs and the kids love it!

im happy for everyones babies and everything... but it seriously baffles me when someone accidentally gets pregnant... especially more than once? birth control...??

I've never been pregnant and have wondered as well BUT, in the case of very heavy women, sometimes their bodies aren't working correctly until they lose weight and bam, it happens. Prior to that, they may have never felt the need for birth control.