Losing weight @ 30 weeks?

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February 18th, 2009, 09:09 AM
Toomanytoomany

Losing weight @ 30 weeks?

I've been much better about putting on weight this pregnancy. Up to 27 weeks, I put on 10kg from my pre-pregnancy weight. At that time I also went on a low GI diet to get my unstable blood sugar under control. I don't have GD but I do have hypoglycaemia which gets much worse when I'm pg. The diet's really worked and I haven't had the shakes for over a month.

I hopped on the scales last Sunday and it said I'd put on the requisite 0.5kg for the week, taking me up to 12kg weight gain at 30 weeks. Then I hopped on today just out of curiosity and the scales reckoned I'd lost 2kg. I always weigh myself straight after I get out of bed, before I've had brekky.

Should I be concerned about weight loss at this point? I haven't been exercising much (hips are too sore for walking) and I've been eating very well, a very healthy balanced diet, and not restricting food intake at all. I've only ever had to worry about putting on masses of weight before during pregnancy, never the other way around!!

I have low iron and I'm not feeling very energetic but other than that I'm as fit as a fiddle.
February 18th, 2009, 09:22 AM
Pandora

I wouldnt worry.
Unless you are weighing your self on recently calibrated scales, they wont be exactly correct anyway, and just the fluctuation in water levels, and whether you'd been to the loo etc.
Do you weigh yourself on the same day? I always weigh less on wednesdays...seriously...I dont know why.
Ive also had scales that varied up to 3kg and that was with weighing myself 4 times in a half hour.
February 18th, 2009, 09:45 AM
Toomanytoomany

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I wouldnt worry.
Unless you are weighing your self on recently calibrated scales, they wont be exactly correct anyway, and just the fluctuation in water levels, and whether you'd been to the loo etc.
Do you weigh yourself on the same day? I always weigh less on wednesdays...seriously...I dont know why.
Ive also had scales that varied up to 3kg and that was with weighing myself 4 times in a half hour.

I normally weigh myself on a Sunday morning, because Saturday is chocolate night, and I figure I'll get the worst news then LOL.
February 18th, 2009, 09:55 AM
Pandora

ooooh chocolate night? I think I need one of those!

Seriously though, even if you have lost weight, its probably your weight not baby weight, if that makes sense? I know someone who lost 30 kilos over their pg, but baby wise everything was fine she was just eating better and exercising more.
February 18th, 2009, 10:10 AM
tenar

I've just realised this morning that I've lost weight too. I had gained around 10.5kg two weeks ago, and now back to 9.5. I'm 31w 2d today.

I think the difference is in water retention. Two weeks ago, in the worse of the hot weather here, my ankles and feet were totally swollen, driving me nuts. Now they are only a bit swollen and much more comfortable.

I think that the really hot weather in Victoria a couple of weeks ago made me gain a lot of weight in fluids that my body has now flushed out, losing some of that weight again. I'm not worried about this, just glad to have some vestige of ankles back again.
February 18th, 2009, 10:42 AM
Toomanytoomany

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I think that the really hot weather in Victoria a couple of weeks ago made me gain a lot of weight in fluids that my body has now flushed out, losing some of that weight again. I'm not worried about this, just glad to have some vestige of ankles back again.

You know, that hadn't occurred to me, that it might have been fluid retention that I've lost. It was certainly uncomfortably hot all weekend, of course.

Rayray, one of my bad habits I've broken is having to eat chocolate Every.Single.Day. The only way I could break the habit was to buy good quality fair trade chocolate on a Saturday night and share it with the kids, so I'm not going completely without.

Of course, every other night is ice cream night LOL. (Well, maybe every *other* night... how wonderful that low fat vanilla icecream is low GI....mmmmmmm).
February 18th, 2009, 11:12 AM
Snacks

I wouldn't be worried either. 10kg is still a good gain, and if its a bit up and down I wouldn't have thought would matter too much.
I'd only worry if you were feeling not right, or if you were losing heaps of weight consistently each week with no explanation.
Mmmm, good on you about the chocky! I think I might employ a similar strategy after I've had this baby (even though I've not any issues with blood sugar, only with weight because of a serious carb addiction!). What a wonderful idea.