Maintaining during pregnancy

You WANT to gain weight - 35 lbs was the 'healthy amount' you're expected to gain last I checked. Where I went for prenatal care, if you didn't gain at a steady rate for a certain amount of time, you were let go from the center and referred to a hospital (it was a birth center so they only took low risk pregnancies. Not gaining weight while growing a baby becomes a risk to both mother and child). Just keep making good eating choices and understand you'll need to add more calories. You ARE eating for two!

(OTTH, don't do like me and turn to eating whole double-decker pizzas in one sitting several times a week... I actually only gained ~40 lbs during the pregnancy, but it turned into another 50 or so after that)

And, congrats!

Are you currently at your goal weight, or are you still overweight?

It really depends on the person, i think. I've known some moms that gain 20lbs and that's healthy for them. i on the other hand...gained 65 and I had a perfectly healthy pregnancy. And i exercised every day. Zumba, water aerobics, running and walking. Hiking many miles during vacation. I'm small- 5'3, 135 before pregnancy but i was just hungry all. the. time. I gained 20lbs every trimester. i ate healthy food but also ate junk too. I also had a ton of water weight. I had lost 40 of the 65lbs before I even left the hospital. Maybe took 2-3 months to lose the rest. Breastfeeding made me lose a ton of weight while still eating whatever the heck I wanted, which is helpful when there's no time to cook!
The next time, I will make more of an effort to cut back on the sweets and empty calories, but I will probably eat to satisfy my hunger again.
Congrats on your baby!

Congrats!! I didn't maintain, but I only gained 23 lbs (started off at 122) during my pregnancy. I used MFP to keep track of my calories and exercised whenever I could, and didn't eat above maintenance until closer to the third trimester (which is when I gained most of the weight). I'm a week postpartum now and only have 10 lbs left to lose, and my stomach has flattened back out for the most part. Talk it over with your provider at your first appointment and figure out what they recommend. Good luck!

It was always reccomended to me(3 pregnancies, all healthy, gained way more during the last) that an appropriate gain was 1lb/month for the first 5 months and then 1lb/week from then on as a healthy weight gain. What you need to do is to talk to your health care provider and do as they say. On average that is about 300 extra cal/day to grow a baby. An apple with pb, a glass of milk and raw veggies, a bowl of oatmeal; all these things are approx 300 cal. Easy to add to your daily allowance.

In another thread you wrote

hoorayselma wrote: »

5-2
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Gw 120-130

There is absolutely no way you should maintain this weight during your pregnancy.

Oh and there are trimester calories on fit pal thay you can add to snacks or whatever that give you extra calories as needed. You might find those useful x

First, CONGRATULATIONS!

You can join the rest of us knocked up chicks in the fit, fabulous, and pregnant group. I'm 8 weeks and on my 3rd baby (hopefully only 1 is in there). Any way, talk to your doctor but everyone is correct. Even if you are starting overweight (like me) you still want to have some kind of gain with pregnancy. For the first trimester you can set yourself to maintain and then add calories for the 2nd and 3rd trimesters. In my personal opinion, just try to enjoy it and don't worry about weight gain. Allow treats and eat to nourish baby.

Seriously, the first trimester sucks anyway. At 4 weeks you probably feel pretty good. Wait until weeks 6-7 when the nausea, tiredness, cramps, heartburn and sore nipples kick in. I'm seriously eating what stays down. I feel the best in the morning and early afternoon so I eat super healthy for breakfast and lunch. By dinner I'm sick and tired and eat a bowl of cereal and go to bed at like 8pm.