Low carb diet in pregnancy

[RTchoke]

Six months ago I cut down on carbs drastically. I now only have carbs in my breakfast porridge and in fruit and veg I might eat later in the day. I never eat bread, cereals, rice, pasta or potatoes. I have got down to a size 10 and feel great.

I am now 5 weeks pregnant. I would like to carry on eating low carb as not only does it stop me putting on loads of lbs but I feel better in myself without carbs weighing me down.

Do you think it is safe to low carb in pregnancy (remember I have the porridge and veg so I am not carb free).

I hope that is the case for your RTchoke. But, as I said, I was eating very low carb (basically, non-starchy veg + occasional sweet potatoes and virtually no fruit and obvs no grains of any sort) for 5 months prior to pg. At wk 6.5 pg announced itself with a nasty, week-long bout of diarrhea, after which I could only stomach toast and marmite and baked potatoes for a couple of weeks. Things calming down now, but I still can't bear most cooking smells and many of my previous sources of protein and anything very high fat (e.g. smoked mackerel, an old favourite, makes me feel ill for hours after eating).

So, keep up the healthy diet for as long as you can, but don't beat yourself up if you end up living on pasta and cheese for a while.

Honestly think morning sickness is just down to luck really. I get quite nauseous before AF arrives and always assumed I would get awful MS. Never got it at all, thank God and I was eating plenty of carbs, good and bad.

Mind you mum and sister never got MS either so maybe we have some kind of genetic good fortune :o

Please don't confuse ketosis with ketoacidosis. The former simply means your body is burning fat. The latter is a serious condition related to diabetes.

If you're eating a good diet, with a variety of different foods, then I can't see any reason why you shouldn't low carb. (As long as you're not doing it to lose weight, of course!).

Angelico - I'm most envious of your non MS genes!