Come and talk weight with me - I've put on...

[bohemianbint]

...a stone in about 4 weeks! To begin with the weight went on slowly, it took me about 23 weeks to put on the first stone. Then all of a sudden another one went on in literally weeks!

I put on 4 stone last time and am pretty keen to avoid getting bigger than I did last time, and I know, I'm going to have to reign in on the magnum addiction. Am 27 weeks now and am in fear of how much more I might put on. I was doing Slimming World to lose my first lot of baby weight and was determined to stick with it, and I promised myself if I got pregnant again I wouldn't let myself balloon up again. But I have! It's just the prospect of all that hard slog to get it off again afterwards that does my head in.

Anyone else in a similar boat?

Me!!!

I am totally addicted to junk food at the moment. My body is having bizarre carvings for sausage and egg mcmuffins!!! I usually HATe this type of stuff but you name it if its rubbish I will be craving it.

The list includes
pot noodles
coke
crisps, crips, crisps
chips

I put on 3 stone with Ds and I had a hard time getting it all off but it did all come off and I now I am worried that this junk food craving malarky is going to give me an even harder job.

I have really tried not to give in but my body just seems to want the stuff!!!
(18 weeks BTW)

HELP!!!

Oh thank god it's not just me gem!

Wouldn't you think that your body would crave useful food? I could only eat cereal and toast for the first 14 weeks! Now it's all kinds of crap.

I stopped counting at roughly 2 stone. I will be blissfully unaware of my gain as I only have a vague idea of pre pregnancy weight and I refuse to bother with the scales now, at 32 weeks it's just tooooooo late! Do wish I hadn't scoffed so many refined carbs in the first trimester but it's all I could stand.

I'm hoping for a placenta that weighs a stone, half each for the boobs, 28 litres of amniotic fluid and a baby around 7lbs. Back in the bikini by the end of the summer a la Ella McPherson. Think positive. Can you tell i haven't done this before?

I put on 20kg in the first 2 months!
I lost it all afterwards, but you can't fight nature.
Please note that while I had morning sickness I could only face dry bread, so it was just the old hormones and preparing for birth stuff, not overeating!

Miggsie - I really wasn't arsed last time at all, and I still think that to a large extent you'll gain as much as you are genetically programmed to (as you showed with the dry bread thing!) but in my case I don't think I'm helping nature by being addicted to crisps sandwiches and chocolate. I'm really having trouble cutting it out though, my self discipline goes right out the window.

gilly - that sounds superb...I was actually surprised that after giving birth to my teeny 7lb son I lost a stone altogether with the placenta etc.

I'm planning to breastfeed all the extra off, so long as I can lay off the crisp butties then - but I dunno, I remember it making me really bloody hungry last time!

ooops I have having a takeaway tonight

will someone please slap me

oh I'm so in that boat (probably sinking it). 4 stone on with last one (took 2 years to get 3.5 of it off), and I was determined next pregnancy I'd exercise, eat healthily etc and aim for a 2 stone gain: 3.5 on so far at 37 weeks . I've got lots of excuses (get lots of water retention, was ill and couldn't exercise) but in the end the cake and biscuit and just major eating are probably the likely candidates.

It doesn't help that my bump is measuring small and people keep saying how 'neat' I am - well if the bump/baby etc. are small then all the stones are sitting on my arse, legs and all over the rest of me and truly is just fat!

I'm absolutely determined to get it off quickly this time - I'm going to weightwatchers cos if you breastfeed you get loads of extra points, which should make it do-able. There's only one slight problem with this resolution - its that 'sunday night before the monday diet' effect. I think I'm pigging out more now cos of the prospect of hardcore dieting starting sometime in the next 2 months!

My experience is different. I'm 38+ weeks now and have put on just 15lbs. Baby takes up around 7.5lbs of this and much of the rest, according to MW, is fluid and placenta.

The only cravings I've had throughout pregnancy is for fruit, early on, and latterly milk. Most of the time my stomach has felt too hemmed in by the placenta/baby to eat more than I usually do.

For some reason I am really disappointed by this as I really looked forward to eating loads of goodies which I could blame on pregnancy. Now I hope I make a success of breastfeeding so I can use the excuse of needing extra calories for eating those goodies :-)

I've lost half a stone since falling pregnant with this one.

I carried HUGE amounts of water weight with both girls, though, shocking oedema.

About three weeks after they were born, I was a full stone lighter than before I'd gotten pregnant.

I have horrible pregnancies full of either nausea and vomitting or acid reflux.

And this one is proving no different.

I'm supposedly 17 weeks, although now they think 18, but even now, I have to force myself to eat anything. EVERYTHING turns my stomach.

I have put on 20 pounds and I'm at 21 weeks. Weirdly, overnight my belly is GIANT - I had my scan yesterday and the midwife i saw today says that happens often - that overnight you go pop, and it's often after the scan. weird.

Things that rub together: my thighs; my arms and sides at the top, my (newly giant) boobs (must be a stone each. Perhaps) and belly.

Things I think about things that rub together: GROSS; make it stop.

I'm almost 34 weeks and have put on erm 2 and a bit stone
maybe 2 and a half?

I lost it all quite fast after having ds
well I mean within a year or something

I've put on 25 pounds in 30 weeks. But I gained four stone last time so I'm not too worried. I then lost five stone in six months without really trying after I had the baby and was the thinnest I'd ever been. So don't worry too much.

It's fine.

My bump has increased massively. DH says I look like I've eaten my birth ball and he's not wrong. I'm not really changed anywhere else so I look very, very odd.

Oh, you've all cheered me up, bless you! So glad it's not just me.

Doesn't help that the fricking hairdresser (old gay bloke) asked me how far gone I was and then said "bloody hell, you're massive" and then proceeded to look as though he feared for me with 3 months still to go - and actually fucking quibbled with me over my dates!! Wish I'd had a wicked comeback to hand but unfortunately I was a bit stunned and had to make do with a death stare...

Just like whomovedmychocolate, I look like a boa constrictor who has just swallowed an enormous beach ball

Baby is due in a matter of days and I have gained almost bang on 3 stone - disgraceful eating habits are entirely to blame although my mw keeps telling me I have lots of amniotic fluid so I am living in hope that it will all disappear after the birth. Am mainly worried that when the giant bump disappears there will be nothing to distract people from my monstrous arse and thighs...

LOL novicemama - I was in M&S today and reaching up to get something from a shelf I didn't notice....(okay, let's be honest, I can't see below three feet).....the small child underneath my bump. He was looking up my t shirt and he said to his mum 'cor mum, look at that lady mum, she must have eaten an entire cow for lunch' .

Bohemianbint - ah the old 'you have to be kidding, are you having twins' comedy routine. I've got to the point where I just say 'actually I have ten weeks left, I'm just fat. And you are just rude. I can lose weight, can you gain some manners?'

Mind you this is normally negated somewhat by me flouncing out of wherever this happens while sweeping items off the shelves or knocking over small children who are below the bumpline .

Poor DD has been bowled over a few times now by me, the bump has quite some momentum when in motion!

WMMC!!!! Finally!! Please e-mail me so I can get your e-mail addy back! I left facebook in a huff at all the sycophantic (sp!!) crap going on and forgot to tell you or reply to your mail and I don't have you on my yahoo contacts

When is baby due??? Should I get my knitting needles ready???

Ah then I take it you didn't get my 'where the hell are you, you feckless mare' messages then

Silly sausage. I've been missing you. Will CAT you immediately!

Oh and in case that doesn't get through - my work is woodworm music. I'm sure you know how to Google.

Oh duh!!!! I didn't think of that....worra twat! When is baby due and do you know what you are having???

30th July, a boy. Oliver probably.

Last time I weighed I had put on 2 stone. I'm now 23 weeks and given up weighing as it's too depressing. Despite that I can't stop eating. I really do feel confident about losing it afterwards though...not like I'm going to sink into a giant fat ball of despair...I hope!

That's the one thought that keeps me going, that the breastfeeding last time melted two of the three stone I put on without too much sacrifice.

That last one was a bugger to shift though - in fact, I hadn't shifted it before I got pregnant again. Really don't want to end up putting on a stone per child or will and up on that half ton mum programme.

Look, i live in California & the doctors weigh you every time you go even if it is for a cold.....last time i told them not to tell me how much i weighed... so they wrote it on my notes, circled it with an orange highlighter then passed them to me...great... know i know i weigh "man-weight". i DREAD going to the bloody scales.

whomovedmychocolate
i have heard "is it twins" in the last week too.

scared of bingo wings at the mo. can't see my thighs anymore...thy probably look huge, but who knows...can't look at arse in mirror as i see stars from turning my neck...oh and it is nearly 36 degrees this week...look like a giant red whale and still have 12 weeks left.

i hear your pain ladies!!!!!!