Pregnant, emotional and weight gain

[anonnani]

I gained about that with my son and find that soon as you get back into your groove the weigt does fall off faster specially if you didn't change your eating habits an pick up bad ones through the pregnancy. Plus your in the tird trimester and weight adds on super fast dring that last stage.

[karinothing]

I know it can be rough. I gained 40lbs despite eating healthy, working out every day until 38 weeks, and doing yoga on Sundays. I mean heck I never ate fast food the entire pregnancy Still, I gained the weight. Sometimes your body is going to do what it is going to do and there is nothing you can do to stop it.

The good news is the for most people that weight does fall off. I am only 5lbs away from my pre-pregnancy weight and I have only been to the gym once since January (that once being today). I lost 26lbs right away and the rest has slowly faded away. The good news is, you know how to eat well and you know how to get some exercise. Once your body stops adding baby/breastfeeding weight you should get there.

[Ashley&Scott]

I gained 40lb, I think it's a pretty normal gain for many women. I didn't have any problems losing the weight. It just melted off, I'm sure bfing is playing a huge role. I think the emotions are very normal too. Heck I've been tearing up at some of the Olympic stories.

[thatgirl2478]

I gained about 60 lbs and was starving just like you! Immediately after the birth I lost 10 lbs (baby, placenta, water, etc) and then after about 2 months of breastfeeding I was down another 20. Then, when DD was about 14mo I decided I needed to do something about being 30lbs over weight. I cut back to 1200 calories and started running 30 min every other day or so. I have done that for the past 4mo and have lost another 15lbs (If I had actually stuck to that plan religiously I would have probably lost more).

[MamaMaui24]

I gained 50#. The first 35# went fast and now at 6 months, I have 10# to go (+ 10 more to be happy).

I know it's easy to say, but try to not worry. Just think of your healthy baby you are growing big and strong! And be thankful you're not sick as a dog and worried about gaining enough.

~ 5 weeks to go! You can do it!

[raylongivens]

I gained 42 lbs with DD, and had her at 36 weeks. I also worked out almost every day, and I was very careful about my diet.

Like others, the weight just sort of came off. I lost 25 lbs in my first 2 weeks, and I didn't BF. When I went back to work at 14 weeks pp, I had already lost 32 lbs. The next 5 came off within a couple of months, and the last 5 took about 5 more months. I really never dieted. I just ate what I wanted (and I usually just wanted healthy stuff) and paid attention to portions. I mean, I ate things like lasagna and chicken parm in the weeks after delivery, and the weight still came off pretty easily.

I completely understand how you feel, though. I felt very much the same way. Listen To your body, eat when you need to (even if you think you shoukdnt be hungry). You'll be fine - just keep up your healthy habits and walking, and you'll lose the weight!

[hannamaren]

I gained 40lbs with Layla. I started at about 135. It was weird to see those numbers on the scale.
But I think it was mostly water. It was almost all gone at 2 weeks post partum. I was down to prepregnancy weight at 1 month out (i didnt breastfeed). I am more now, but that is my own fault. And I am 35. Younger bodies bounce back easier maybe.

I weigh more now, but that is my own fault.

[Deleted]

One of the books that I've read in the last few months actually encourages pregnant women to give in to the urge to cry during he last weeks of pregnancy. Something to do with all of those emotions being bottled up as tension conflicting with an "easy" birth. It sounds super hippy to say, but you have my permission the cry whenever you want right now :-)

It'll be okay in regards to weight loss. Be gentle with yourself!

[megs193]

I gained 35 pounds with my son. He is 5 weeks old and I am down 25 pounds. I have been eating worse now than I did when I was pregnant because I am so tired and don't have time to cook. Most of it will come off fairly easily. I plan on starting weight watchers at 2 months post-partum if I haven't lost the last 10 pounds.

[Deleted]

I know it's a lot easier said than done, but I would try not to worry about it so much. If you're eating healthily and walking a lot, you're probably just retaining a lot of fluid. After you have the baby, you'll lose a lot of this weight through night sweats (gross, I know) and just by peeing it out.

I was pg. with my first child through the summer and I gained about 40 lb.s with him, which I lost very easily by six weeks pp. I think a lot of it was just water weight. I had our third child three weeks ago and lost about 25 lb.s by 2 weeks pp. Again, I think most of it was fluid and weight related to the baby. This part of your weight gain will literally just fall off of you without any particular effort on your part.

Hang in there, you're almost at the end. I know how hard it is to see the number on the scale inching up. Just remember it's for a good cause.

[slug*bug]

Hugs! I remember feeling like you do!

Not sure if this will help, but I really leveled off at the end of third tri: in the middle of third tri. I was on track to gain quite a bit more than I was hoping, but like you, I was hungry!

I didn't alter my eating habits at the end, but for whatever reason, the weight gain really leveled off the last few weeks and I stopped gaining at 34 or 35 w. I wound up at 35 lbs. total when I delivered at 41 w and some change (I was on track to gain quite a bit more if you'd asked me at 33 or 34 w.)

IME, as long as you're eating reasonably healthfully, your body is going to do what it needs to do. I've always been a good weight for my height and people always said I'd have such a cute basketball belly when I got pg but that's just not how I carry baby weight: I carry it ALL over. I got really sick of hearing how 'so and so carries it all out front: you can't tell she's pg 'til she turns to the side!' b/c that just wasn't my body.

Esp. w/#1, I lost the weight steadily, but somewhat slowly. The first few weeks were a downer: there were no pre-pg jeans for me until 3 or 4 mos., but by 8 mos. pp., I was in a smaller size than even pre-pg. So, hang in there! It'll get better!

(And congrats if you made it through this novel! )