I am constantly shocked at the women who roll into the gym where I teach and announce they are 6 months pregnant. They have absolutely no signs. If they hadn’t said a word I wouldn’t have known. There are no signs of a growing belly. They continue on with tough vigorous workouts and don’t seem to make modifications. Living in NYC there is a wide variety of shapes and sizes of people. Most women fret endlessly about what they eat and how much they weigh from the moment they conceive—and earlier. Why? It can’t be healthy.
To answer my own question I did a little research into meaning behind the desire not to look too fat in pregnancy. Basically what I learned is that everyone in New York came here to make it big and a lot of people wait awhile to have kids because they are very accomplished, fit and basically don’t want a pregnancy to disrupt their perfect life. If you can go home after giving birth in the same dress size before you got pregnant you are a success.
I completely get why you would want to keep your weight gain a secret. My hubs doesn’t really know how much I weigh. He has a general idea but really why does he need to know the exact number on the scale? It seems like a boring topic to discuss but….I’m not pregnant so there is no need for him to know. It almost seems comical that women would force their husbands to leave the examining room for their weigh-ins. Imagine going into labor and you decide you’d like an epidural so the nurse sends in an anesthesiologist and she asks, ‘How much do you weigh?’ You can’t lie because you need the right amount of drugs, so you try to whisper the number to the doc and she’s says, ‘What? I’m sorry, I can’t hear you.’ So then you have blurt out your secret. Crazy, right?
Being a slave to your diet isn't healthy. Everything in moderation. Well how much should you gain to have a healthy pregnancy? How much you should gain during pregnancy depends on how much you weighed before conception.
1. Multiply your weight in pounds by 703
2. Divide the answer by your height in inches
3. Divide this number by your height in inches again. This is your BMI.
4.
Once you know your BMI, here is an example of the weight approprate to gain:
◦ Underweight pre-pregnancy: BMI of under 19.8: gain 28 to 40 pounds
◦ Normal weight pre-pregnancy: BMI of 19.8 to 26: gain 25 to 35 pounds
◦ Overweight pre-pregnancy: BMI of over 26.1: gain 15 to 25 pounds
Keeping yourself active and making healthy food choices will ensure optimal wellness for both your baby and you.
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