I encourage you to track and try to keep to your maintenance + baby calorie goal and just go with the flow from there. That helps ensure you are eating right to support baby growth but not be putting on alot of extra personal fat. No one can really predict how many more pounds you gain, and I encourage you to try to not let the numbers on the scale get to you, just stick to your calories goal and trust that you are doing the best you can. From what I have observed from alot of other womens posts here once you hit 20+ weeks, weight gain can become a bit unpredictable as baby is growing faster. It is not as simple as standard calorie counting weight gain equation as there are alot of different things going on in your body. So let go of the scale, focus on healthy eating, and you will come out of this just fine!

Also, check out the "how much weight have you gained thread". It has been going for quite a while and has lots of womens weekly weigh ins for their pregnancy. Some of those women gained early and slowed down later in pregnancy. Everyone is a bit different. We were also just discussing some good stuff the other day so check out the most recent posts, I know I posted a really helpful calorie counting while pregnant link there, I would post here bit currently on my phone

I'm 29.5 weeks. I gained a lot in my first tri. I tried to eat well but carbs were all I could handle. I'm currently up 30lbs from the beginning. I haven't gained in 6 weeks though. I did stop logging and tracking. It wasn't helping me and made me feel horrible about myself. So I stopped. The weight gain just is what it is as far as I'm concerned. As long as I'm trying to eat well that's all that matter at this point.

wearmi1 wrote: »

I'm 29.5 weeks. I gained a lot in my first tri. I tried to eat well but carbs were all I could handle. I'm currently up 30lbs from the beginning. I haven't gained in 6 weeks though. I did stop logging and tracking. It wasn't helping me and made me feel horrible about myself. So I stopped. The weight gain just is what it is as far as I'm concerned. As long as I'm trying to eat well that's all that matter at this point.

I agree with this!

I just had my 3rd on January 10th and I didn't really worry about gain at all. It was my last pregnancy and I really just wanted to feel good and try and enjoy it. You're probably only going to be pregnant a couple of times in your life. I wouldn't stress so much over gaining. 2nd and 3rd trimester are completely different from the first. 2nd trimester I ate all the food. 3rd trimester I got awful heartburn and ate things that didn't make me feel like my stomach and throat were on fire. I've got 9lbs to lose to be back to pre-baby weight and little man is 11 weeks old on tuesday. It does come off.

Story of my pregnancy life! I am going to be 19 weeks on Thursday and I have gained 20 pounds already. Same reason, the only thing that made me feel less sick was eating. The only thing that I wanted to eat was junky carbs. Then I started to have low blood sugar issues a couple weeks ago so again I had to constantly shovel food into myself to keep from feeling HORRIBLE.

Last pregnancy was the same (but that time I had random high blood sugars). I got on the Trim Healthy Mama plan in the second trimester and stopped my rapid weight gain and only put on a total of 30 pounds. Most of that came off right after delivery. I highly suggest it.

This time I am trying to eat nutritarian style to correct some nutritional deficiencies I am struggling with. It's been two weeks since I implemented that way of eating. I feel so much better and I halted my weight gain. I actually get full on the meals I am eating and no more blood sugar issues. I am tracking maintenance calories and using a second-trimester calorie adjustment I found in the foods section.

I set my calories to maintenance (my pre-pregnancy weight since I adjusted when I found out I was pregnant) for the 1st trimester. Then when I hit the 2nd, I manually adjusted up 300 calories, and then in the 3rd manually added another 200. Maybe talk to your OB or midwife about what your calorie goal should be right now? If you have awhile until an appointment or until you can get ahold of them, maybe just try pre-pregnancy weight at maint + allotted trimester calories and see how that goes. If you find you're losing too much then bump up?

I know I haven't been logging lately and have been eating like crap. It doesn't help that hubby is working an off shift and I'm chasing the 2 year old at night. By the time I get off work, pick her up, get her fed, play with her, do bath time, etc there's no time left for me to eat. Not to mention I'm at the point where I'm hungry, but if I eat more than 1/2C of food (which lets face it I'm going to, I'm starving) then I'm so uncomfortable. I'm 32 weeks today.... 8 more weeks...

Sorry I can't be of more help.

i was wondering if you can backtrack too. i have had a horrible first trimester and only now later in the first trimester am i able to eat anything other than white foods! i also eat every two hours to abate the nausea/acid that churns my tummy. i was extremely fatigued which is letting up and i'm hoping i can incorporate back more than sitting and/or sleeping. walking seems good.
Has anyone backtracked successfully before?