Third pregnancy-how do I not gain too much weight? - Page 2

[ema-adama]

Originally Posted by MaerynPearl

Cravings tend to have reasons... if it is nutritional, many websites out there will tell you healthy alternatives to those cravings (as your body is going to crave the most obvious source of whatever it is needing) if it is that your body is still coming off an addiction to it, it can be much harder. Craving both coffee and chocolate sounds very much like you are still coming down off of caffeine.

I have not had caffeine for about 2 months, and did not crave it when I cut it out, I had a cup of coffee a couple of times a week, and chocolate a couple of times a month. I think I am craving these foods as I am feeling miserable and tired and want a pick me up. I am quite sure my baby is not asking for caffeine. I just want to indulge myself.... although I also would also prefer not too.

Now I am craving ice cream.... again, a comfort food, as I feel crummy.

[BlackSheepPDX]

Originally Posted by sanguine_speed

I think weighing one's self daily can be a positive strategy if one is aware of daily weight fluctuations because weight over time WILL be tracked accurately when viewed as an average or a trend. This versus weighing one's self once a week when there are all kinds of variances as described. So day-to-day over an average will account for the fluctuations, where if you just weighed yourself once a month, you could have a very large difference based on the factors described above that is not an accurate picture...but if you had a series of measurements across the month, even daily, you would have a more accurate picture.

I do not think body image problems comes from regular weigh-ins; I think if someone has a positive and healthy attitude about body image and weight, a daily weigh-in doesn't become a permission form to eat or not eat that day. If someone has that line of thinking, it's not caused by a daily weigh-in, and needs to be addressed whether that person engages in the weigh-ins or not (i.e. someone who WANTS to weigh in every day in order to decide how much is okay to eat today needs help regardless).

I'm going to respectfully disagree, quoting you, but also addressing this to the other posters who have said it's a good idea to weigh daily.

If one has a positive and healthy attitude about body image and weight, a daily weigh-in shouldn't be important. A weekly weigh in, viewed over the course of a month will give you a similar sense of "trend." A healthy attitude about weight in particular shouldn't find any importance in fluctuations of a pound or three, which is all you might pick up with constant monitoring. Ultimately WEIGHT is of very little value in determining health.

It has been demonstrated over and over again that EXERCISE and HEALTHY DIET are far more relevant predictors of long term health and correlate with other measures of "health" like cholesterol levels, liver enzymes, and heart disease. Despite what we are drilled to think, "weight" (and even BMI) is actually a pretty arbitrary measure of progress and health.

I would rather see someone looking at their food journal as a way of documenting and being accountable for their food choices if needed, and having ongoing exercise goals (easy to moderate daily exercise being COMPLETELY sufficient) as a measure of success. Health is a lifestyle, not a number.

[Tizzy]

Here's my little tip, as I LOVE ice cream and ate it almost every day of my 2nd pregnancy...and gained 37lbs

Frozen yogurt or sorbet makes an excellent substitute!