PCOS, Pregnant and Terrified of Gaining Weight

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  • kamakazeekim
    kamakazeekim Posts: 1,183 Member
    edited July 2015
    Ninkyou wrote: »
    kamakazeekim wrote: »
    jemhh wrote: »
    Why not eat at the caloric level recommended by the medical professional who knows your case and then, if you suddenly "blow up like a freakin balloon" eat a bit less? You will not literally gain 5 or 10 or 20 pounds overnight if you are paying attention to the scale and how your clothes fit. You're not going to eat 2000 calories today, go to bed, and wake up 200 pounds in the morning.

    I do gain weight crazy fast though! I was out of refills on my medication and it took almost 3 weeks to get a new prescription and in that time I gained almost 12 pounds. My eating did not change at all during that time.

    I'm really skeptical of this, to be honest. Mathematically and scientifically that makes no sense. You would have had to eaten about 42,000 extra calories over what you need to maintain to gain 12 lbs. Yet your eating didn't change. That's literally not possible.

    To be honest, I feel like there's a lot of inconsistency going on here. You haven't logged since late April, and even that was inconsistent. I see you also do not weigh your food, so I suspect you are actually eating more calories than you think. But even that would not account for an extra 42,000 calories. Do you understand what I'm getting at here?

    Your (non-pregnancy) gains are probably a mixture water, hormones and inaccurate calorie intake. You did not just magically gain 12 lbs.

    Your pregnancy gains are going to be baby, placenta, blood, maternal fat stores, milk production, water, hormones, etc. Your gains should be pretty consistent with a few large upshoots from "growth spurts".

    Seriously, stop freaking out about weight gain. It's going to happen. You can keep it in check though by logging consistently and accurately.
    Also, eat more than 1000 calories. How do you expect to grow a baby with that? You can't. I'm assuming you worked hard to even get pregnant, so why would you risk your pregnancy and baby by ignoring your doctor's advice and only eating 1000 calories? Do you think 1000 or even 1300 calories is enough to grow a healthy baby? Because it's not.

    My stomach is 80% smaller than the typical adult. I physically cannot overeat. My sporadic logging was to show my husband that I was eating the way my doctor told me to. Overeating is not the issue. For the past 2 months I have lived on fruits and veggies...mostly watermelon, cantaloupe, pea pods, broccoli and asparagus. Meat, dairy and bread/pasta make me violently ill so I just don't eat it. I vastly overestimate my intake...I log what goes my plate, not what I actually eat. I tend to throw up several times a day since having WLS which is unrelated to eating...doctor says I just have a very irritated stomach. Since getting pregnant I throw up nonstop all day long. I've thrown up 4 times already today and it's only 11:00 am. I guess Zofran is no longer an option so I'm just going to have to suffer through it and hope it doesn't last all 9 months like with my other 2 pregnancies.

  • Ninkyou
    Ninkyou Posts: 6,666 Member
    kamakazeekim wrote: »

    My stomach is 80% smaller than the typical adult. I physically cannot overeat. My sporadic logging was to show my husband that I was eating the way my doctor told me to. Overeating is not the issue. For the past 2 months I have lived on fruits and veggies...mostly watermelon, cantaloupe, pea pods, broccoli and asparagus. Meat, dairy and bread/pasta make me violently ill so I just don't eat it. I vastly overestimate my intake...I log what goes my plate, not what I actually eat. I tend to throw up several times a day since having WLS which is unrelated to eating...doctor says I just have a very irritated stomach. Since getting pregnant I throw up nonstop all day long. I've thrown up 4 times already today and it's only 11:00 am. I guess Zofran is no longer an option so I'm just going to have to suffer through it and hope it doesn't last all 9 months like with my other 2 pregnancies.

    It's not the physical quantity of food that is "overeating". It's the caloric content that counts. You gain weight from calories.

    That's why I said you'd had have to have eaten 42,000 extra calories. It's calories. Not quantity.

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