Posts by shara1234

"But to answer your question about men going to doctor's appointments, no, they don't."

I agree with almost everything you have written except for this. My husband has come to every single doctor's appt he could (He missed a few due to working), all the prenatal classes and has even come baby stuff shopping with me and put together lots of of baby stuff. He seems very excited about it all and spends lots of time hugging and kissing my belly (and me). So not all men don't go to Dr's appts and stuff.

But can I get him to clean out the crappy dresser he has and we don't need so we have room for the changetable...nope...he still hasn't, haha.

But I'm so thankful for him as he has given me a lot of help through this pregnancy as it has been a rough one for me.

I hope you feel better soon nenewa. I'm going to second the massage thing if you can, I've had two since I found out and it relieves a lot of that stress.

I understand the procrastinating thing...my boss hasn't even started looking for my replacement and I'm off on mat leave in 6 weeks! He doesn't want to start looking until November! It's driving me nuts!

I'm definitely in the zone of chanting "I'm pregnant, not fat." I've put on almost 25lbs and I'm 28 weeks. (5.9" with a large frame). I'm having a hard time with it because I am keeping track of my food/calories and eating super healthy (sweets only once in awhile, no white refined carbs). Yet I still put on 4lbs in a week this week! I just don't get it! Oh yeah, AND I'm walking 30-60 minutes a day plus other exercises.

Other than that I'm doing really well the only things that are bugging me are the round ligament pain and trying to get comfortable to sleep at night. The baby is moving lots and my husband and I are super excited.

Original Post by sunnybra:

My SIL bought a maternity belly bar when she was pregnant, it;s just longer to allow for your expanding bump. :o)

 Yep, I have one of those like I said in my OP post :) 2" long!

"When I was 16 weeks or so I put one of those long, flexible 2" pregnancy bars in"

Thanks for the replies everyone.

Hey!

I'm a 5'9 and I have a large frame and quite a bit of muscle. I got down to 160 once and I was almost too slim then (my cheeks started to go a bit gaunt!) and I had to eat very little to maintain that. I'm 180 now with a goal of 170 for now. I've been 180 for about 2 years now but I have lost quite a few inches.

I made myself a deal for Halloween. I would indulge in the candy on Halloween night and not count calories but not make myself sick or anything providing I was back on the bandwagon the next day and it's worked so far for me. You can still have candy on a healthy diet, some people have one piece a day as long as you save calories and fat for it.

Just remember how good you feel when you eat healthy. I had a bit of a yucky feeling in my intestines the next day from the candy so that was even more motivation to stay away from it until Christmas. 

Don't lose hope! 

You have about a 850 calorie deficit which is fine depending on the person. Try not to go below a 1000 deficit. If you have a 500 cal deficit you should lose 1 lb a week.

Since I only need to lose 7-10lbs I can only let myself have a 250-500 deficit without my body going into a plateau so I lose about half a pound a week. Which is fine. The more you are active the more you should eat. Technically if you ate 1830 Cal a day you should still lose 1lb a week providing you are still burning 2330 everyday.

 "Some people forget that for every hour they add in the "activities" column, you have to subtract an hour's worth of your "sedentary" expenditure - for me, that's nearly a hundred calories an hour."

I've noticed that if you look at your Burn Meter CC already subtracts the sedentary rate, which is about 80 calories an hour from your activity before putting it on the burn meter.

Your doctor is telling you that you don't need to lose weight then you probably don't. How about cardio and strength training to tone up those muscles instead? I've seen plenty of people in the 'ideal' weight range who really could tone up by working out.

It's not always about weight.

Thanks for your reply.

So if I commit to at least light exercise every day (which I do) I can select that option and still add my daily exercise to my log which adds more burnt calories to my meter?

 I try to walk around the office and go for long brisk walks at lunch, plus my activity off work hours. My only worry is that I might be over estimating my calories burnt by logging my exercise when maybe it is already counted for in my daily burn (from selecting light activity).