Dragoncookie - it is interesting to read about your experience with the dietician and the referral. I understand you about not looking as big as you BMI as well. I am the same. I carry my weight well, so although people might look at me and think "oh she is a little overweight" or "she could probably do to loose a few kgs". Most people are shocked IF I tell them just how high my BMI actually is. And then they usually launch into a spiel about how BMI is a load of rubbish - which I don't believe. I KNOW I carry my extra weight well, but i also know how I look and feel at a healthy BMI. I don't want to be in denial about my weight, denial about my size is one of the reasons I let myself get so big the first time round, and I wasn't happy with my weight or myself. (Not that I want people telling me I look like a hippo either...)
Jen82 - hello. Good to have you here. I am another Weight Watcher. One of the hardest things to get your head around with being pregnant is that even when you are trying to minimize or control your weight gain, it IS going to happen and it IS OK: and there will likely be no apparent logic to it. You may be fabulously behaved one week and gain 3kgs, and then terrible for then next two weeks and somehow loose 500g. Are you attending meetings? Or are you doing it online? Or at home? If you are at meetings you will have to let your leader know about your pregnancy (they can hold you membership for 12months for you to return 6 weeks after bubs is born) as you will no longer be able to attend meetings and weigh in whilst pregnant. I always tell my pregnant members to take their program material along to their midwife or Ob and ask them to refer you to a dietician who can then tailor the plan to you specifically throughout your pregnancy - as what you will need to consum at different stages will be very different to the basic program. I have been following ProPoints (more often then not ) through out this entire pregnancy. It is a fantastic program to follow in pregnancy, much better then the old points program simply because you can eat as much fruit and vege as you want - so you will never go hungry. (and I certainly get more hungry whilst pregnant).
Well, I have been going well - although tonight I blew out a bit. A friend asked me to go to the movies with some other people (we saw "the Help"; great movie) So I had a small popcorn whilst there and some bikkies on the way home. But oh well - I rarely ever go out, and although I went a little over, I didn't pig out. Just not looking forward to weighing in at maternity tomorrow afternoon. Lets hope with all that salt on the popcorn I don't retain too much fluid.
Good to have you here. I am another Weight Watcher. One of the hardest things to get your head around with being pregnant is that even when you are trying to minimize or control your weight gain, it IS going to happen and it IS OK: and there will likely be no apparent logic to it. You may be fabulously behaved one week and gain 3kgs, and then terrible for then next two weeks and somehow loose 500g. Are you attending meetings? Or are you doing it online? Or at home? If you are at meetings you will have to let your leader know about your pregnancy (they can hold you membership for 12months for you to return 6 weeks after bubs is born) as you will no longer be able to attend meetings and weigh in whilst pregnant. I always tell my pregnant members to take their program material along to their midwife or Ob and ask them to refer you to a dietician who can then tailor the plan to you specifically throughout your pregnancy - as what you will need to consum at different stages will be very different to the basic program. I have been following ProPoints (more often then not
) through out this entire pregnancy. It is a fantastic program to follow in pregnancy, much better then the old points program simply because you can eat as much fruit and vege as you want - so you will never go hungry. (and I certainly get more hungry whilst pregnant).
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