Has anyone completely lost their apatite during pregnancy?

[yellowbaglady]

I am a curvy girl. I love food and in the past have struggled with over eating.
Since getting pregnant the thought of food disgusts me. Coming up with meal plans for the week is impossible, I don't want any of it. Then actually cooking said food is like hell on earth (especially in this heat!)

I think I could go all day without eating and not really notice apart from my moods/concentration.
If someone else cooks and plonks the food in front of me, I will happily eat it and quite often enjoy it. But I hate preparing food and have no desire any more to eat. It sounds really stupid. I am of course forcing myself to eat but I spend all day dreading tea time and having to cook. I am way past the sickness and vomiting phase. I rarely now go Ooooooh I really fancy a xxxxx and go and eat it. I just dread meal times.

Why are you forcing yourself to eat? You don’t have to eat a lot to have a healthy baby. The GD diet is quite restricted, for example.
I would always follow cravings, even if they are cravings to not eat, your body knows what it needs.

Yes. I lost weight in first few months of both my pregnancies. Both babies were over 8lbs and healthy, so clearly not affected.

I don't think I would eat at all though if I didn't force myself. I am also really anaemic so trying to make sure I eat stuff that will help with the iron levels.
I have put a bit of weight on but not much, only a few lbs and I am 25 weeks

I feel the same. I'm 13 weeks almost and really don't fancy any food apart from chips from the chip shop. I force myself to eat to keep my sugars up as I am diabetic. My partner has been doing all cooking thankfully.

I was the same for the first 18 weeks or so. Would cook but could only eat very small portions and didn't snack at all which is very unlike me.
I'm 25 weeks now and only put on 2lb as a list some weight in the early weeks. My appetite is better but I still can't eat large meals so I try to eat little & often x

I barely ate anything until about 18 weeks, I felt so sick and couldn’t bare the thought of cooking anything but like you said if someone cooked for me I’d eat it!
I actually lost a few pounds but as I got into my 2nd trimester my appetite came back and I’m hungry all the time! My desire to cook and to try and think of what I want to eat still isn’t there but my appetite definitely came back
I just go with what my body wants, some days I still don’t fancy much and some days I want a lot so I just go with it

I always struggled to eat when pregnant. I had sickness for many weeks but even when not being sick I didn't want to eat. I never put on more than seven pounds, with one I was lighter than when I got pregnant on my due date. I did better eating the snacks I fancied than facing a full meal Dc all weighed between 7 and 8 pounds and were healthy.

Yes! So glad I'm not alone! Before pregnancy I could eat continuously all day and often did as a teacher my breaks are often too short for full meals so I snack. I also get up early so don't have time for a proper breakfast and dinner was often the first time I've had something resembling proper food all day.

I'm 13 weeks and have found I often don't get hungry. I have got better at having proper (albeit small) meals about 4 times a day. Usually a pastry for brekkie, smoothie or fruit midmorning, wrap for lunch then something full of veg for dinner but I totally agree... The thought of prepping it all is a no go for me. Which is also why I've picked "easy" meals. My SO cooks dinner and then the smoothie is usually store bought, pastry is just a chuck in the oven job and the wrap I make up the night before if I can be bothered. If not I take the wrap to work and put the filling in a separate pot so I have to make it up at work 😂😂

I don't think it matters too much if you've lost your appetite. Just your body focusing too much on making a tiny person!

Food was just a torment zone in first half of my pregnancies. To the extent I could eat, half came back up.

@Curlymam88

I feel the same. I'm 13 weeks almost and really don't fancy any food apart from chips from the chip shop. I force myself to eat to keep my sugars up as I am diabetic. My partner has been doing all cooking thankfully.

I'm the same, having to force myself to eat to keep blood sugars reasonable. It's rubbish trying to choke down breakfast when you don't want it at all.

I totally lost my appetite with my 2nd & couldn’t face certain things at all like fruit (I was sick every day until 35 weeks though so that had a lot to do with it). I’m very funny about what I fancy this time too. I find if I eat little and often I manage better, whereas if I get too hungry I just can’t cope with the thought of prepping & eatingdinner, although I feel better once I’ve eaten it!

I was the same. Only put on 8lbs the whole pregnancy, usual nausea in the first trimester meant I had tiny portions and the second and third I ate more but was also walking everyday. Luckily hubby does most of the cooking but i asked for tiny portions most of the time. Just made sure I was drinking plenty of water and we had fruit and yoghurts I could stomach as healthy snacks.