Anyone else who needs support with weight control during pregnancy??

[misty]

CK - I think gentle swimming of aqua areobics should be alright with my SPD, but the problem is getting there - I cann't make any of the classes that are available, because I don't have anywhere to dump the kids when they are on. I have thought about just going to the pool myself and doing gental exercises - but haven't been able to fit it in with DH working late hours and he is dissapearing for 3 weeks at the end of this week. Walking has always been my exercise of choice. Pre-pregnancy it wasn't unusual for me to walk about 15kms each day. But I definitely cann't match even close to that at the moment.

Peanutter - the more the merrier. It is so hard to find support sometimes - I definitely need some people I can be completely honest with about how I am going and how I am feeling about my weight. So much of my weight issues are due to emotional eating, and when I am pregnant I am definitely more emotional then normal.

[toomanyshoes]

Misty - how about upper body stuff? Doing some arm exercises with some light weights maybe? I know it wouldn't be much but keeps you moving at least.

[LionsandBears]

I had a similar problem before it all went wrong. Overweight with SPD. The thing about eating is to have the nutrients for 2 not the volume. So that meant no junk food, reducing refined sugar and wheat foods and increasing things like brown rice, quinoa (high protein & calcium), fresh vegies etc. I used the Brewer diet for tips on what to eat as well. Good nutrition is essential for placenta health as well and the Brewer diet is good for that. There are some great 'superfoods' like chia and quinoa that can be added to porridge etc. A good book on pregnancy nutrition is Feeding the Bump.

Wrt exercise, sitting on a fitball using hand weights, clinical pilates & aqua mums classes, all adjusted for having SPD. At the end of my pregnancy with DS1 they only thing I could cope with was gentle hydro sessions. I gained a total of 8kg for that whole pregnancy.

[~mamaspice~]

Hi Misty,

Just wanted to let you know that with my second pregnancy I managed to weigh exactly the same at full term as what I did when I fell pregnant and it was wholy attributed to the fact that I got gestational diabetes and had to follow a low GI diet. I had 5 small low GI meals per day. So maybe it's worth sticking to a Low GI diet. Your hospy should be able to give you a booklet about low GI eating (the ones they give to the GDM mums).

Best of luck with it all!