pregnant-restrict calories or maintenance?
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katiew78
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Hi,
I've just found out I'm pregnant, and it's very early days, but I want to know if I should immediately change to maintenance rather than keep at about 1600 which I have been? I'm 5foot 4 and weigh about 60kg (about 27%body fat) I wanted to get back down to 55kg (and about 23% bodyfat) which was the weight I was happiest at, but I obviously want to do everything to make sure everything is OK
Or should I increase calories slowly?
Thanks
I've just found out I'm pregnant, and it's very early days, but I want to know if I should immediately change to maintenance rather than keep at about 1600 which I have been? I'm 5foot 4 and weigh about 60kg (about 27%body fat) I wanted to get back down to 55kg (and about 23% bodyfat) which was the weight I was happiest at, but I obviously want to do everything to make sure everything is OK
Or should I increase calories slowly?
Thanks
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Probably not worth risking the growth of your unborn child. talk to your doctor or midwife etc before making any changes but I would suggest maintenance.3
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Congratulations too!0
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Congratulations Katie!
There are several Pregnancy Fitness Calorie Calculators available online. Here's one you may input your data into to ascertain possible targets. I would still run the trimester caloric goals through your ObGyn just to be on the safe side.
http://www.freedieting.com/tools/pregnancy_calorie_calculator.htm2 -
maintenance, you aren't overweight so you have no reason to eat in a deficit.5
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Dr Hilary from Lorraine Kelly's morning TV show talked about this the other day. During first two trimesters the average woman needs 2000 cals a day, then for the final trimester, 2200 a day.1
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RunRutheeRun wrote: »Dr Hilary from Lorraine Kelly's morning TV show talked about this the other day. During first two trimesters the average woman needs 2000 cals a day, then for the final trimester, 2200 a day.
This is very dependent upon weight and activity level, not an absolute.7 -
RunRutheeRun wrote: »Dr Hilary from Lorraine Kelly's morning TV show talked about this the other day. During first two trimesters the average woman needs 2000 cals a day, then for the final trimester, 2200 a day.
That's way too generalized to be any help.
I'm not even pregnant and I maintain on 2200 a day, for example.2 -
Go up to maintenance for the first two trimesters. UK guidelines are that that pregnant women should avoid dieting and only need to have an extra 200 calories a day in the last three months of their pregnancy.
http://www.nhs.uk/news/2010/July07/Pages/new-nice-guidelines-weight-pregnancy.aspx
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Thank you all-that confirms what I was thinking
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