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Depressed about weight, is anyone else?
Argh when I was younger and I read magazines etc saying how celebrities were desperate to lose their 'baby weight', I never really understood, I thought well surely youd be too happy having a new baby and too busy to worry about your weight.
But now I really understand it...I feel so ugly and fat! Not because of my bump because I love it, but I was too heavy (bout a stone overweight & a size 14) before I got pregnant and I DREAD to think how big I am going to be when I have my lo. I have put on 2 stone, taking me up to 13 stone!!! I do look slimmer than I was before oddly enough as the weight on my face and arms has gone completely but it has 're-located' itself onto my hips which are now enormous! I haven't been eating stupid amounts either...
Does anyone else feel this way? I just feel like I'll never be a size 10 again and my oh wont fancy me even though he says he does. I feel like everyone is looking at me now thinking I'm a fat cow even though I never think that about anyone however big they are.....I just want to look forward to having my baby! But I can't because all I want to do now is go on a diet, and it would be irresponsible to do that while pregnant....but I cant help wishing I was thin and thinking how far I've got to go!
But now I really understand it...I feel so ugly and fat! Not because of my bump because I love it, but I was too heavy (bout a stone overweight & a size 14) before I got pregnant and I DREAD to think how big I am going to be when I have my lo. I have put on 2 stone, taking me up to 13 stone!!! I do look slimmer than I was before oddly enough as the weight on my face and arms has gone completely but it has 're-located' itself onto my hips which are now enormous! I haven't been eating stupid amounts either...
Does anyone else feel this way? I just feel like I'll never be a size 10 again and my oh wont fancy me even though he says he does. I feel like everyone is looking at me now thinking I'm a fat cow even though I never think that about anyone however big they are.....I just want to look forward to having my baby! But I can't because all I want to do now is go on a diet, and it would be irresponsible to do that while pregnant....but I cant help wishing I was thin and thinking how far I've got to go!
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Please don't feel down!
Louise.
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The problem for me is that I know over this last 7 weeks I'm only going to get bigger. Don't get me wrong though, I love my bump and will probably be lost without it.
I just saw 2st 2 was average "baby" is this true???? Please please please tell me it is coz then I wont feel so bad!! Found out "fatboy"is 3.9 today (30 wks) and looking like hes gonna be 7.9 when born IN EIGHT WEEKS!!! See am even calling lo Fatboy now - so I dont feel sooo bad lol - God, Im a bad mother already!!!!
I feel like this too, and I feel mean saying to my friends because I don't think that they can understand how you can be bothered by something so trivial when you're getting a baby at the end of it all, which is true, but it's still no picnic. Being only 5ft I think it's worse, I seem to have a massive bump - I look like a beach ball. I actually found out I was pregnant just before I got married and I refused to weigh myself before the wedding as I knew I couldn't diet and didn't want to stress myself, and I haven't had the courage to weigh myself since so I have no idea at all how much I have put on. It's too frightening to find out now!
I was feeling fine about it until about a week or two ago, but since then virtually every day someone says how huge I am. What is it with people thinking your body is public property when you're pregnant? At a time in your life when you're probably the biggest you've ever been, with raging hormones mucking your skin up and water retention, people tend to asses your appearance more than ever.
Some people are just so rude. I actually cried after work on Friday (hormones probably had an influence too) after a particularly mean comment. I was saying that a lot of people had said they thought I was carrying a boy because I am 'all bump' when this cow (who IS a cow, and for the record, who I wasn't even talking to) said "oh no, it's defiantly not a boy - that's when you JUST have a bump - you can easily see you are pregnant from behind, must be a girl". What the f*ck?! And this was from no stunner, let me tell you!
I have a wedding to very soon and I will be 30 weeks and I am DREADING it because the last time I went out in a big group I was 22 weeks and everyone was saying how well I looked but now I feel massive and the fact they thought I looked smaller than expected then sort of makes it worse, if that makes any sense? Like I have rapidly gone down hill in the last few weeks?!
Oh well, I am sure it's all worth it (and I have just eaten a donut so I obviously can't be helped!!)
2 lbs Amniotic Fluid
1.5 - 2 lbs Placenta
1.5 - 2 lbs Breast Tissue
3 lbs Blood Volume
2 - 2.5 lbs Uterine Muscle
4 lbs Water
8 lbs Maternal Stores
that average, so if the baby weighs more, allow another cople of lb!
When I met my oh (two years ago!) I was 9 stone and a size 10 - omg I miss it sooooo much! All my own fault though as a relationship isnt an excuse to eat chocolate! xxx
I have copied it, pasted it and blown it up and stuck it on my fridge lol xxxxxxxxxxx
Now the Ben and Jerrys on offer in Morrisons wont feel soooo bad lol
God no ur not alone ,
im 37 weeks and ive put on around 2stone , i was so paranoid of puting on weight that i was weighing myself every week , my oh half got rid of the weighing scales now lol. just think hopefully we will have a great summer and you can go on long walk with the baby. and the slower the weight drop's of the more likely it will stay of. try not to worry to much bout this issue.
Donna xx )