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I'm due March 13th. Please add me! This is my second too. My first I gained 41 lbs, then lost 55! After I weaned, I gained back to my exact prepregnancy weight. I'm at 32 weeks and gained 37 lbs so far. Feeling really run down and tired this time around. Looking forward to a Spring maternity leave.

I can't seem to find where I placed my notes from our first class, so here goes: Most of our first class was a lot of discussion about what we'll be doing this month. We did do a 10-min exercise with counting to 10 breaths and re-starting at 1 whenever the mind wanders. Also a partner exercise where we sat opposite with…

Not much activity at all. I'm due Nov 11 with my first, a girl. I've put on about on about 30 pounds and I'm 33.5 weeks now. I figure it'll be about 40 pounds total. Almost time to find a message board for loosing baby weight!

Yup, 30 weeks in and gained about 28 pounds. Every single appt. my dr. wants to caution me about my weight gain. I have MFP set to gain 1/2 pound a week. No matter how good (or bad) of choices I make, I still gain 1-1.5 lbs a week. At this point, I'll worry about loosing the weight in a few months. Sick of worrying about…

Thanks so much for posting yoginimary.

The past three days I've been on a sugar high. I need to start eating oatmeal for breakfast again...I think I destabilized my blood sugar with English muffins and jam for breakfast and never recovered! I just hate feeling sick from all the sugar late in the day.

I know a lot of people swear by Jade. Let us know how it works for you.

That is amazing! I have only once been able to achieve a comfortable full lotus and that was after a very nice Yin class where all we did was hip openers. My right hip is completely different and much worse than my left, so I've always been able to do a half-lotus...that darn right hip finally opened up and it was amazing.…

I've been tracking with my calories set to gain 0.5 lb per week but I've been gaining 1.5 lbs/week lately. Trying to remember we are retaining a bunch of fluids too. Up to 21 lbs at 25 weeks. Trying to just shrug off the weight gain and eat as healthfully as possible and keep exercising.

Sounds awesome! Let us know how it goes.

Awesome! I'll have to look at these sometime.

Nov 11th too! This is my first and I'm trying to eat as healthy as possible. I did tell my husband that I'm sure not going to enjoy working off the extra weight, so I'm going to enjoy putting it on! I think I enjoyed that a little tooooo much the first trimester so I'm being much more careful this second trimester and…

That's great!

My husband and I are also starting to try for #1. Looking forward to it, but also looking for motivation to exercise and eat healthy when I know I'll shortly be putting weight on, not trying to take some off.

That's great!

I've been challenged this past year with maintaining a consistent practice, so that's definitely a goal. My basic downdog needs more tweaking and I want to strengthen my adductors/Sartorius muscles around my hips . I've been trying out different studios around town and I think I've found a home. I think I can get closer to…

I'm in

Used to hate hate hate pigeon, very painful but with practice it's gotten better. Anyforward bend is fun because I have very flexible hamstrings. Also love headstand and the tripod. Agree with getting good instructors to make me back out of poses I sink into and develop strength instead.

Oh yes, yogi friends for me as well! My fiance gets bored hearing me talk about trying to do crow and peacock and analyzing the directions my hips will/will not move in.

I did the video once and thought it was terrible, not very consistent and annoying instructors.

I've seen hot yoga listed as high as 500 calories/hour. For me, after going to a vinyasa or power style yoga class lasting 75 minutes, I discount the last 15 minutes due to the shivasana and passive stretching poses and just assume 350 calories/hour. I'm 33 and weigh 130 lbs, if that helps.