To ask how you managed the constant hunger in pregnancy?

[PollyHasAPocket]

I'm currently half way through my 2nd trimester and I am so hungry all of the time. It's really getting me down because I can tell the weight is piling on.

Just not eating isn't really an option as I can end up being sick if I don't and feeling faint.

I've been trying to eat fruit etc... But what I really want is something stodgey, I've been craving potatoes a lot!

I knew I'd be hungrier, I knew I'd eat more but this is constant, I could easily have two meals by 11am most days, did anyone else have this? I can wake up at 3am and need to eat immediately. I had ravioli at 5am the other day!

I'll try out the more protein based stuff thought, see if it helps keep me fuller for longer! Liking the thought of a steak actually Thank you.

Do whatever you need to do to get through it, I say. Pregnancy can be hardcore and exhausting for a lot of women. The ones you're seeing with the cute little bumps might be breezing through it and feeling just like normal. Or behind the smiles and pretty photos they might secretly be f*ing miserable. This is YOUR body, YOUR pregnancy, and YOUR feelings. Whatever gets you to the nine-month point (and beyond!) without cracking up! Plenty of time to get yourself sorted when you've got your body and brain back.

Enjoy eating everything in your second trimester! Before you know it your bump is too big & you can’t fit as much in your stomach anymore 😂

I embraced it - there is no appetite like a pregnancy appetite and I don;t think I've ever eaten out so often in my life! Everything tastes much better.

Are you drinking enough water? I’m 6 weeks pregnant and got horrible nausea too so I understand. I absolutely craved carbs last pregnancy too.

Make sure you’re eating slowly, drinking enough water and listen to your body. Hope it passes soon.

I ate and ate and ate then I had some more - pretty much beige carbs the whole way through - especially potato waffles (in the toaster for speed) and crumpets. I felt ill all the time if I didn't
Make sure you take a pregnancy multi vitamin if you aren't eating much healthy stuff
I was huge - from 6 months people would say not much longer and my back was wrecked but your body is an amazing thing and there's plenty of time after baby is here to lose the weight

FYI - if you are breastfeeding then I was told to eat a good but rich diet eg creamy porridge, lasagne, steak with cream sauce to produce good breastmilk. I ate / eat like this (baby still bf) and the weight came off. I find biscuits and cake are the worst for stopping weight loss

I tried to choose healthy filling options that were nutrient dense. Nuts, eggs, veggies and pulses. prawns & fish as are good as they take a while to digest but are lower calorie than meat.

But also you have a choice, either you make yourself miserable ignoring the hunger pangs and you will stay slimmer, or you follow your bodies needs and eat to hunger, and accept you may have a bit of a battle to lose the weight after.

Avoid sugar and artificial sweeteners.

I couldn’t eat protein. I just wanted ALL THE CARBS.

Went through this for a while with second pregnancy. I tried to eat plenty of fibre to make me feel more satisfied. Avocado on brown toast, porridge, bran flakes etc. Lots of water too. I think it's your body's way of preparing for third trimester, since I completely lost my appetite and everything gave me heartburn towards the end! Got to love pregnancy.

The problem is I feel incredibly sick if I don't eat when I'm hungry, often it leads to me actually being sick and throwing up horrible bile/acid.

A midwife friend told me that in her view, while some cases of severe morning sickness are totally unrelated to weight/food intake, a higher than average proportion are very slim people who dont eat enough in pregnancy.

Eat. You re growing a person!

I tend to just try to think of it as swapping the calories I'd usually consume on cider or wine for chocolate and cakes haha

Fruit and salad. Have four smaller meals a day rather than 3 bigger ones. Drink plenty. Protein keeps you fuller longer.

I ate. I did not care about weight gain. I gained over 3.5 stone in pregnancy with DS1 and when he was three months old had lost 2.5 stone of that; when he was 6 months old I weighed half a stone less than my pre conception weight. Pregnancy has enough challenges without adding constant hunger to it because of an obsession with weight gain.

Just eat it and worry about it later. Better to be keeping food down. I could only eat pizza and McDonald's breakfast wraps, something about the tomato, bread and cheese combo.

Just eat what you want, when you want. At one point, I was on 6 meals a day. I did put on weight, but I actually put on more weight after pregnancy lol.

Food is fuel. If your body is telling you something, you should listen to it 🙂

I'm absolutely with the majority here, I managed it by eating! Some fruit and yoghurt etc but mostly what ever I was wanting! Growing a while person is heavy work, eat when you need to x

It was easy for me....I was being sick the whole way through.....I wouldn't recommend HG!!

Lots of protein and good fats helped me with hunger pangs!

Beige carbs got me through the first four months of morning sickness. When I felt better, I managed to eat healthier.

Lots of food still but better and more spread out throughout the day, rather than three big meals. So I’d have a muesli bar first thing, then a bit later a couple of bits of toast with peanut butter and banana. Next snack would be Greek yoghurt with fruit and nuts, then I’d have a mini lunch of scrambled eggs with greens and avo. An hour later I’d be getting stuck into the peanut butter. I was addicted to it! Slathered on apples, with seed crackers, spoonfuls on its own. Dinner would be veg and salmon or pasta, cottage pie, tacos, etc. followed by more Greek yoghurt and nuts or cheese. Maybe another muesli bar later at night. And I ate a lot of pumpkin seeds, I love them.

I was quite active until I developed SPD and didn’t put on too much weight.

You need to eat plenty so you can nourish bub, just try to eat lots of good fats and protein, it’ll fill you up!

Oh and I snacked on nuts constantly, they’re really filling (and yummy!)

And peanut butter banana smoothies are great with honey cinnamon if you want a healthy drink between meals. I’d throw in some oats and it’d get me through to the next meal!

I was the exactly the same. Completely starving all the time, embarrassingly so! Just FYI it continued in full blast until I stopped bf when I lost a stone pretty much overnight with just eating normally again.

I don’t know what the answer is as I definitely put on too much weight but as a naturally slim person normally it gave me a LOT more empathy for people who struggle with a high appetite at normal times. Turns out my will power is absolutely no better than anyone else’s (my secret belief before ), I’m just fortunate not to have strong hunger cravings when not pg or bf.

I found the insatiable hunger died away as the pregnancy went on and my stomach got increasingly squashed up by the baby!

Listen to your body, don't fight it.

I had insatiable hunger with one of my pregnancies. Nauseous unless stuffing my face with stodge all day (like you).

At delivery, I discovered my placenta had failed and had detached (luckily not fully) and gave birth to an underweight but living baby due to the calories that did manage to pass through.

Never ignore your body.

I think others have a good point about protein tbh.

I usually have porridge or granola type breakfasts most of the time, but when pregnant craved boiled eggs and toast or peanut butter on toast loads instead. If I ate that soon after getting up, it really did help with the sickness feeling