to think this is not 'excessive'

[RobynLou]

I''m 16 weeks pg, and I'm overweight. I've managed to not put anything on so far, and had an appointment with the midwife today, she'd asked me to keep a food diary for a few days so we could go through it together and figure out if there were any improvements that I could make.
very good of her and helpful I thought, esp as it's not possible to get a dietician app for months.
she didn't find fault with anything, except each morning I have two slices of toast for breakfast with a cuppa, normally with peanut butter, sometimes with marmalade. she said this was 'excessive for breakfast'
really?
is my view of eating so skewed that 2 slices of toast is excessive and I've never known?

How do you get low fat peanut butter? Unless its not made of peanuts.

werewolf it does, but using the creche would make the expedition too expensive sadly.

kewcumber, they do add oil to pb, so reducing that maybe? I heartily dislike low fat products though - if you look at the ingredients they always seem to replace the fat with sugar, even low fat mayo has sugar....

i actually think it's fine (we are a '2 slices each for breakfast' family, and dd2 (10) sometimes has 3 and is skinny as a rake) but would mention that when i decided to lose weight a couple of years ago, dropping peanut butter (i had two slices with pb or conserve of some description on a day) had fairly dramatic results. i lost half a stone in a month, so it was the easiest change to make.

no idea of the science behind it - 'natural earth' pb and wholemeal toast.

but when i was pg, i definitely wouldn't have been cutting it out.

i quite like those oatmeal sachet things now - but am really picky about buying the ones with the lowest salt content as some taste really salty to me. i like them because i don't have to wonder how big a serving is lol...

God I love peanut butter.

am I now responsible for either a slew of pb and toast midnight snacks or a rise in pb sales tomorrow?

Absolutely!

Not excessive but it is disgusting. Nuts and bread?? It's an abomination, woman!

If this your first pregnancy, it will help you to learn now that health professionals know nothing of nutrition.

Now it is your midwife spouting crap at you. Next it will be your HV because either your baby is under weight or overweight or eating too much or not enough, then it will be your child's school telling him/her that home made flap jacks are the work of the devil.

I think 2 pieces of toast is a wee bit excessive, yes. Esp with peanut butter. Have one with peanut butter or two with Marmite or summat.

Christ, she is nuts.
A perfectly good breakfast.
You obviously do need to sort out your food intake if you have a BMI of 38 but not here.

It is an ok breakfast if you are happy to stay the weight you are but if you are not then there are far better choices out there:

1 slice wholemeal toast and two poached eggs
Porridge made with water with maple syrup
Fruit salad with low fat yougurt
2 rice cakes topped with 1 mashed bannana and honey.

These are all lower in fat and will keep you fuller for longer so less chance of snacking.

Is fine. I think peanut butter everyday is not ideal but its not bad at all.

Rice cakes topped with banana sounds vile btw would rather eat toenails.

I usually have bran flakes or weetabix or porridge for breakfast which seemed to please my practice nurse when I had to do her a food diary (the joys of being a fattie).

Shineyandnew - the OP said 'I've never lost the 3 and a bit stone I gained having DD'

So no, not her first pregnancy

However, the rest of your post is perfection in a nut shell (pun intended)

^it will help you to learn now that health professionals know nothing of nutrition.

Now it is your midwife spouting crap at you. Next it will be your HV because either your baby is under weight or overweight or eating too much or not enough, then it will be your child's school telling him/her that home made flap jacks are the work of the devil^

Not excessive and put on some weight during your pg - tis normal

marmite - euuurrrrggghhh!!!!

I know I've been doing plenty wrong to have a BMI of 38, a lifetime of loosing loads (I've been a small size 8 a few times) then gaining it all back and then some is what's got me here. I've been on a binge/starve/binge/starve cycle since I was 10.

If there's anyone out there with a chubby 10 year old, don't put her on a strict diet for goodness sake!!!!! my mother meant well, but that's what strted me off on the journey to here.

I went completely mad when pg with DD, eating rounds and rounds of eggy bread and jacket potatoes for a snack, I put on a vast amount, and I wish someone had pulled me up on it then, but because my BMI was under 35 it was considered ok.

I tried to loose weight before getting pg, but I've been in a binge phase the past year (having actually previously lost most of my pg weight) and loosing when my head's in that place is like fighting against the tide, DH was getting frustrated with me putting off ttc and DD kept getting older, I thought it might take a while to get pg given that we don't DTD anything like as much as we did before DD, but 2 weeks later I got a BFP...

I've always maintained that, for me, so long as I'm not in the midst of a binging phase, loosing weight is simple, it's staying that way that's hard, and so trying to maintain my weight at the moment is the biggest challenge for me.

I'm not only pg, I also still bf DD twice a day, and given that I am fit and active and having read a bit about the potential effects of ketones on an unborn baby I actually actively don't want to loose weight at the moment.

thankyou for the advice everyone, I was genuinely worried that my years of messed up eating had totally skewed what I thought was reasonable to have for breakfast.

two pieces of toast and peanut butter, I don't think is at all excessive. However, I didn't think that it was recommended to eat peanuts whilst you were pregnant.

I would think it´s the peanut butter that is "excessive".

But what do I know-if I have toast, it´s usually only one slice!

"The midwife wants me to not gain any weight throughout the pg"

WTF!? How the hell does she expect you to do this?

Someone mentioned dust, that's clearly the best choice for all meals, dust and air, maybe a glass of water if you're good.

YANBU.

peanuts are fine so long as there are no peanut llergies in the family Mumdrivenmad.

mumdrivenmad, I didn't eat peanuts when pg with DD, but since then they've changed the recommendations...

Am I odd in looking at peanut butter as a treat, & not something that I would eat every day?

Not excessive at all - I can do a whole loaf if i've got a hangover.