Honest answers please :) ... Do you....
.... Worry about putting on weight when you get your bfp?!!
I know babys health is more important then weight gain etc etc
but....
My nam is sam and I'm a weightaholic!!!
I am weight obsessed, I don't have an "eating disorder" I'm a very healthy size 8, with a healthy bmi. I'm always yo yo dieting and then eat crap food. Though 80% of the time i do eat healthly. I know I'm not fat but I'm very critical of my own body. I'm petrified of gaining weight and think i may find it hard getting use to my body changing when I finlly get my bfp. I wouldn't diet when pregnant and will eat healthy as I'm not that selfish. But the thought of stretch marks frighten the hell out of me! I spend alot of time ( when I'm not on this forum!) on diet forums and love reading magazines about celebs gaining weight or losing it and what crazy diets they are on. At night I lay there either obsessing about my body or about babies
Am I the only one????!!!
I know babys health is more important then weight gain etc etc
but....
My nam is sam and I'm a weightaholic!!!
I am weight obsessed, I don't have an "eating disorder" I'm a very healthy size 8, with a healthy bmi. I'm always yo yo dieting and then eat crap food. Though 80% of the time i do eat healthly. I know I'm not fat but I'm very critical of my own body. I'm petrified of gaining weight and think i may find it hard getting use to my body changing when I finlly get my bfp. I wouldn't diet when pregnant and will eat healthy as I'm not that selfish. But the thought of stretch marks frighten the hell out of me! I spend alot of time ( when I'm not on this forum!) on diet forums and love reading magazines about celebs gaining weight or losing it and what crazy diets they are on. At night I lay there either obsessing about my body or about babies
Am I the only one????!!!
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Don't want to sound like the mummy mafia, but breastfeeding reallly is the finest thing for losing/keeping the weight off. I was on two packets of ginger nuts a day. And I really did need them!
As for stretch marks......BIO OIL!!!!! I haven't got one single stretch mark. They should give me shares though, the amount of times I've recommended it and the gallons that I bought.
bulimic for a looooooong time and am
now a 14/16 and I'm petrified of gaining weight and being fat. I'm trying to look at bumps and now don't see it as fat bit the after the baby is born time is what worries me most. I know I sound a bit extreme but unfortunately my brain is just like that lol.
Sorry a bit long lol
I know exactly where you are coming from with your fears. I hav had eating disorders on and off for 14 years now, so putting on weight when i fell pregnant with my first terrified me, but in all honesty, once I was pg I couldn't have cared less!!! My body and baby craved foods I needed to I ate them, I put on a lot of weight, all towards the back end as I lost it for the first five months due to excessive morning sickness (i forget the official name for it). I got LOADS of stretch marks, due to how quickly i gained the weight at the back end, but, honestly, it's all worth every little bit of weight gain and every single stretch mark.
My youngest is now five and the stretch marks are barely visible anymore (bio oil does work) and with the help of breastfeeding and a healthy diet I soon lost the baby weight.
Still not totally happy with my body, but don't think I ever will be, but now planning bubs number 3 and can't wait.