claire_donegal84 Member

Hey I'm gonna weigh weekly on Mondays. So far though: Week 1 162 Week 2 161 Week 3 160 Week 4 160 Week 5 159 Week 6 158 Week 7 157.4 Week 8 158.6 (Christmas gain!!!)

Hey Chloe, tried adding u but couldn't on the app for some reason and won't have my laptop for a few days - we're due the same time, aug 9th! Although I haven't had my dating scan yet.

Hey, just back from the docs who confirmed my pregnancy, due approx Aug 9th with my second. My baby boy is only 9&half months old so I'm going to be so busy with a newborn next summer and him running around too! I gained far too much last time and hoping to keep gains to a minimum if possible! Christmas won't help though!…

Thanks for the well wishes - and best of luck to you too! Not long to go until we will have our babies here with us. Claire :-)

Congratulations, Noah is gorgeous! Hope you're both doing well.

Hey So great to hear from you all. Wishing you all the very best of luck with the final few weeks…. the babies will soon be here!!! :-) So exciting. I'm going shopping later to stock up the cupboards and can make some healthy soups etc to put in the freezer for some easy meals which will just be handy in that first week…

I'm 26 weeks pregnant with my first and we're having a baby boy! So exciting. Hubby and I plan to have 3-4 children so hoping this little guy gets a baby sister one day ;-)

Hey, feel free to add me too. I'm almost 23 weeks. Due 22nd Feb...and you're due 21st May which is my Birthday :-) I love having friends on here who are going through pregnancy at the same time, its been helpful for asking questions/having people who understand what I'm going through! Claire x (in Ireland).

Doing good thanks :-) Getting occasional backache now, but I'm rather prone to it anyway so doubtless it'll continue to get worse as the weeks go by! I can't believe how fast the week are whizzing past now... I'm a PhD student and in the final stages of getting my dissertation together to submit it by Late November so I…

Awwww thank you for the mention. Just so happy for you to see you've done so well and you're coming out of the other side of difficult times. You deserve to thoroughly celebrate your achievements-graduation and personal. Well done you xx

Hey Thanks for the comments everyone. I know I shouldn't worry about gaining weight because so much of it is due to Baby/Placenta/Extra Blood/Fluid etc etc.... **but** what makes me nervous about the monthly weigh in is that the nurse I seems to be quite expectant of no more than 1lb per week gain and I've gained about 8lb…

Haha... good for you... worth a try!!! I'm from Mayo too and my facebook newsfeed is full of almost **Everyone I know from the area** after tickets!!! GOOD LUCK!!!! Maybe worth going to Croke Park and chancing your arm on the day....

So exciting! Hope my baby boy gets a baby sister someday x

I found out 3 days ago at 16 weeks 4 days I'm having a boy!!! Can't wait to meet him in February xx

I have done a degree, an MA and a PhD at Uni.. I've basically spent the past 11 years there since leaving school! lol! I gained a lot of weight during my first 4 years at Uni, and lost it in the last few years. I gained weight due to going out so much with my friends, drinking a lot more than I should have done (I dread to…

haha I hadn't even thought of that as a possibility! hope we can tell at the 16 week scan... otherwise it'll be the 20 week scan mid Oct..

We're going to find out at my next scan 11th sept which'll be 16 weeks. Can't wait!!!

Hey, I know what you mean... its hard to see your 'loss' decrease if you lost a lot through MFP already. I'd lost 31lbs.. and with weight gain i'm down to 26lbs lost (meaning i'm up 5!). I think I'd rather log my weight every week or two, and if that means its going up rather than staying where it is, then that's ok.. i…

Hi! I'm Claire, I live in Ireland. I'm about 6 weeks pregnant... by our own calculations, due around February 15th.. I'll have my first antenatal appt in 2 weeks time, and my first scan at 10 weeks. So exciting. Would love to have friends due around the same time x

hey, I've been wondering this for my best mate too.... she's at least 3 stone overweight and often says she should go on a diet but never does (well... she **did** do WW but gave it up). I think MFP just teaches you to make healthy choices because by logging it you have to be accountable to yourself, or your friends too if…

Oooh ok thanks :-)

forgive my ignorance... what's a carb re-feed (i get that you want to have Loads of carbs...) but why are you doing it?

3 family members due to smoking..... please stop... or your other family members may be adding you to that list in the future. My uncle was only a few years older than my dad and he died recently from smoking related heart disease etc...he looked 30 years older than my dad just before he died, it was so scary... and…

Agreed. My husband is a doctor and always advises his patients should do their upmost be within their BMI range, even if it is the very top end of their BMI (this is one of the points of BMI... its usually a 3stone (40lb or so) bracket which allows for different body frames like naturally small or big boned etc) - unless…

May 21st 1984 here.... Taurus/Gemini....

I live in Donegal in the North West. It really is so stunningly beautiful up here. Just google image 'glenveagh national park' (10mins from my house :) and Beaches like 'Portsalon' and 'Bunbeg' and 'Dunfanaghy'.... there's gorgeous little places to visit like Gweedore and Killybegs.... oh you must make it to Donegal!…

One of my favs for under 100 cals is getting some frozen berries and warming up a portion of them in the microwave (like 120g or something...40cals!) and having a blob of creme fraise or fat free greek yoghurt on the side....or a scoop of ice cream. Delicious :-)

Yep.... in donegal.. where abouts are you? Feel free to add :-)

I'm just under 5'5 (like 5'4.75!) and currently 138lbs.... I was 168 last summer (and a few yrs back I lost weight to get to 160-168 where I stayed for a while) I thought I'd be happy under 140 but I can still do with losing some more, so I'm aiming to lose another half stone or so and see how early 130s feels/looks,…

yes! donegal :) feel free to add