Pregnancy weight gain...the relationship is complicated. Som..
Added 2021-04-20 00:44:49 +0000 UTCPregnancy weight gain...the relationship is complicated. Some moments the extra round parts make u feel hot. Like, ready for the cover of playboy, let’s make a NSFW video on Only Fans kinda hot 😝, 3 seconds later (and probably better judgment call on the sex tape 🙃) you look down and see 5 squishy dodge balls of various sizes and deflation levels where your belly, arms and legs used to be.
So there’s how you look & feel (variable and sometimes 🔥🔥🔥). But then you gotta add THE SCALE NUMBER (invariably higher than it was yesterday and sometimes even HOW DID I JUST GAIN 20lbs in 2 WEEKS higher).
As a rule, non-pregnant me never sets foot on a scale. But that can’t really work in pregnancy bc A) the doctor makes you do it and B) if you’re craving cake and only cake like me, its probably a bad idea unless you want to gain 100lbs and go full Venus of Willendorf (which would be rather admirable but your doctor will probably be annoying about it bc bl00d pressure and they don’t want you to die etc) ((insurance reasons 🥸))
So far I’ve gained 8lbs which seems not so much considering in the same time frame I gained 20(!!) with my son. But my son got his shoulder stuck for a little (the doctors blamed his size & my weight gain 😳) and the birth experience was a little scary (bad things can happen when babies get stuck), so now every time i crave cake (ALL DAY EVERY DAY) i have to remind myself to...keep it to half a piece? SO I DONT DIE? The stakes are higher than I’d like.
Dieting when pregnant sucks more than you can know unless you’ve done it. Mainly bc your brain hates you bc ur supposed to be “eating for two and this is BULLSHIT”. But also because people know you can’t drink so bring over desserts as some sort of consolation. STOP BRINGING DESSERTS (but please don’t stop bringing desserts). Send every dessert.
in short:
desserts: YES
dieting: NO
but wait, death: BIG NO
then salad: FINE
then desserts? 😇
