(sorry this might be a bit long and boring) but flynn try not to worry too much about your weight.
My dad, on my wedding day pointed out to everyone around that he was slim, my mum was slim so naturally I must have taken from his grandma. (?) I'd lost a lot of weight for my wedding and looked pretty decent!! I was a bit but in the end just thought it was funny that he was so undiplomatic.
It takes time to come off but watching what you eat and exercising really does work. I have lost 5 stones over 3 or 4 years and wouldn't be scared if i had to do it again.
I really do think if you take your time and actually change your eating and exercising habit for good then you can keep it off for good.
It started when I had a health check up and my cholesterol was borderline which scared me shitless as my older brother died of a heart attack at 33yo because his cholesterol was too high and although he was warned years before he didn't care (carpe diem and all that).
For probably 2 years I used to exercise everyday for 20 minutes which really honestly wasn't that much of a commitment - and I work full time - then added a couple of classes at the weekend (body combat/body pump/spinning).
The hardest bit was to get into a routine and force myself to go at the beginning, after that when it is part of your routine it really is a lot easier and enjoyable, and motivating especially when you see the weight come off and feel healthier, drop down a size, buy nicer clothes etc.
I also had a personal trainer once or twice a week for 6 months before our wedding and lost over 2 stones then. It was good to have her to push&motivate me so I knew how fast or how long I could run, how much I coudl lift and generally do and then do it on my own, really worth it.
I didn't do any diet where you eat liquid or anything like that. I really watched my portions, didn't eat chocolate or deep fried stuff (I still don't mainly) and for a while I cut out bread and pasta, only because I coudn't just have one slice, or a reasonable portion I had to have the whole loaf and third helpings with loads of butter and I really needed to break that habit completely.
I started re-introcuding it when I knew I was able to control that.
Although the first two weeks were pretty miserable I quickly realised I didn't actually need as much food as I thought! (sparkpeople.com is a good site for understanding your portions).
After the pregnancy work out with a trainer how much calories you need to eat per day and how much exercise you need to do each week to get to your target weight. Then write down what you eat and what exercise you do and find your balance (this site works the calories out for you.)
I went on the scales yesterday and put 14 pounds since my first weigh in in September, am 21+3 weeks now.
Onto today's scan: Brilliant experience at UCLH, it was very clean, and although they were running over an hour late the people there were really nice and reassuring.
They said the choroid plexus cysts soft markers are really common and more and more pg women don't even get referred further if there are no other markers.
They are still there, may or may not disappear but it's basically normal. All the other measurements are fine.
I'm definitely having a girl
I am so over the moon about it. (I would equally have been over the moon about a boy, it's weird isn't it, it was always going to be one or the other, what did I expect??).
They said she was on the tall side, (dh is tall.)
So big sigh of relief here for me. I'll try and catch up properly later!