Help:Weight, Slimming Clubs and Wedding dilemma!

[Welly558]

Hello ladies,
I'm currently 14weeks pregnant and have really started to show in the last week! I am able to feel the top of my uterus and it has shot up with great speed ha!
My problem is, before getting preggo I had managed to lose three stone in weight. I had put on about 1.5stone back but now I am pregnant I am really feeling down about putting weight on. I have been very very bloated since 7weeks, from just under my bust(consultant said this is normal) but it made me look heavily pregnant. Now my proper baby bump is starting to show, I am really scared I am just going to look fat throughout! I am still a size 16 but I am having to start going into maternity jeans. I know it sounds vain and I do expect to put weight on, obviously. But I am feeling quite down about it. I have lost about 5lbs since getting pregnant but not by trying, believe me!
I had planned on doing Weight Watchers during pregnancy, not to lose weight, but to make sure I didn't put on anything excessive and was being healthy. But they apparently don't allow you to join pregnant. Has anyone else been in a similar situation?
Secondly to this, prior to getting pregnant we had accepted a wedding invite. This is a friend of my husband who is going to be wed. I know absolutely nobody, we are far from home and all my hubby's old school friends will be there. Prior to getting pregnant I had just planned on getting drunk, having a dance and hopefully getting chatting to some other poor woman whose husband will be off getting smashed with his old mates(as mine will be). Now I am pregnant I feel like I will a)stick out like a sore thumb b)be stuck alone whilst hubby is having a laugh c)look rude when I skulk back to the chalet early alone d)look hideously fat, not pregnant, and make my husband look bad in front of all his friends and their non pregnant and beautiful partners! I have no idea what to wear/buy as I am getting big now and will be 24weeks by then! I want my husband to have a good time as he doesn't see his friends often due to distance, without him having to feel like he has to babysit me.
Nyuh, I don't know. I am just feeling quite rubbish about the whole thing.
Welly x

Hi Welly & congratulations.
Please try not to stress about your weight - I was massivly bloated for the first few weeks, and in maternity trousers by 12 weeks (although I had actually lost weight - didn't stop going to weightwatchers until 12 weeks, even though wasn't following the plan).

I believe you can do slimming world while pg if you want to, but I recommend exercising if possible (walking & swimming are great unless you are unlucky and get PGP!!) and trying to be sensible with your eating - healthy snacks and meal choices if possible, but try not to beat yourself up if you do put weight on, a lot of it will be water/baby and placenta, and it is normal & healthy to do so.

At 24 weeks you will probably have a lovely bump and will look properly pg! ASOS do some lovely maternity dresses so have a look and get yourself a nice maternity dress for the wedding. It is hard when you are the only one at an event like that who isn't drinking, but you never know - there may well be other ladies there in a similar situation! Failing that though, I would probably take some nice bubble bath & a book or magazine, and just take myself off for an early night, after all the food etc!!

Just to second elly's advice. Slimming World have a plan you can follow safely during pregnancy. Also, you will look pg by 24 weeks esp as you have noticed your bump appearing now.

Hope you feel better about everything soon and congratulations