fitness and putting on weight.

[Possums]

hi there, 1400 cals does seem too low, but maintaining your normal exercise routine (without overheating or pushing your heart rate too high) should be OK

Just on that subject, to pregnant women need extra calories even in the first trimester? i thought it was just after that once the placenta is fully working and the baby is bigger?

[Melbournemumma]

Hi,

I too have PCOS and have continued to see my Endocronoligist during this pregnancy. She advised me that there is actually no reason to gain weight during pregnancy and that she wants me to still be 90 kilos at the end of my pregnancy. She said the best way to do this is excercise and healthy eating. So, so far, I haven't put on any weight, although I haven't weighed myself in the last few weeks. I have been walking and trying to eat healthly as much as possible.

Apparently they are now revising the amount of weight that women should gain during pregnancy to be, for a healthy woman, 8-10 kilos.

anyway's, just thought I'd pass that one

[Possums]

how can you avoid gaining any weight though, when the baby, placenta etc all add to your weight?

[~Leanne~]

Possums - I wonder that too actually.
So far so good (i am only 6 weeks so should not have put on anything) - have actually lost 1/2 a kilo. But I think that is because I can not keep anything remotely naughty down! chocolate no, milo no, biscuits no.... oh well!

Thanks everyone for your advice. Only 7 weeks until I see my ob!

[Melbournemumma]

Well at first I wondered the same thing, but by eating healthily and keeping up regular excercise I have continued to loose some of the excess weight that I was carrying (thighs tummy fat etc) as the baby has gained weight. So that's how I haven't put on weight. Mind you, I am not on a diet and I still eat some naughty things sometimes, it's mainly through eating well normally and maintaining my excercise. The only excercise I've been doing is a 40 - 60 min walk. I try and go every day but generally it's 3 to 4 times a week. I think what they are trying to encourage women to do is not gain excess weight but just baby weight. The doctor did say that if I did gain some weight she wasn't going to stress too much but that she didn't want me to gain more than 6 kilos.

Realistically, I was talking to my Personal trainer and she was saying she put on 20 kilos during her second pregnancy and we all know that there is no way that the 20 kilos was baby . That's what they are trying to encourage women to avoid.

[Possums]

Ah I see, I don't have much excess to lose and am a good weight now, so I guess I will just try and only gain baby related weight