Decreased appetite?

[SoonToBe]

I always thought pregnant women were hungrier?  I am 5 weeks and I can't eat much.  It's not from morning sickness...I just don't want anything to eat.  I get hungry, but then I get full so fast.  Before pregnancy, I would have 2 eggs and toast with a veggie/fruit smoothie almost every morning.  Now I can barely eat one egg on toast and and I'm full.  Am I weird?  I have had SIGNIFICANTLY less to eat in the last week than usual.  I eat when I'm hungry, it just takes much longer and I can't eat a lot.  Today I didn't get hungry for dinner and hubby had people over so I didn't make anything anyway.  I finally decided I should eat so I had a bowl of cereal and couldn't finish it.  Didn't taste good and I was super full.  I'm really bloated today for the first time since my BFP. 

Anyway, am I weird or do other women have a decrease too?

Bree

[jenniferadurham]

Totally, completely normal.

Welcome to pg...it only gets more fun from here unfortunately. It's completely irritating and frustrating to not want to eat that early. But it WILL get better...I am 21w4d and I am making up for those days! Lol

GL!!!

[OakTreeMom]

me too.  I was super sick last week with a cold.  All I ate was toast.  Nothing else even remotely sounded good.  I was 4 weeks then and did not know yet.  I was also at that crazy bloated stage. This week, sometimes nothing sounds good.  Or, I am just a little nauseous and what I have is grossing me out.  Last night all I wanted was a hot salted pretzel with mustard.  Actually, that sound pretty goon now...  I was sure I could eat two but it was all I could do to eat one.  But it was so good I wanted to lick my fingers.

[nova22]

Add me to the list. I had to force myself to eat sometimes. It was worse in the first trimester but with a few pregnancies it came back on and off throughout the pregnancy.

[SoonToBe]

I know I'm eating enough for my health and the baby...I just thought it was weird that I wanted to eat less.  Fine by me.  I hated always being hungry.

Bree

[MO_Bookwyrm]

For me, it was the opposite.  I was totally hungry for the first trimester and then the second trimester came around.  Now, I'm lucky if I have one true meal a day.  Even then, I am often eating because I "have" to, not because I feel the need to.

[imogenlily]

Even though I'm eating much more frequently, I feel you on decreased stomach capacity.

[ibusymomto5]

Yes, very normal for the first trimester. Mine usually subsides by the 2nd trimester and then I LOVE to eat. Then towards the end my appetite usually decreases again.

[RubyLu]

I'm in the same boat. With my first I was ravenous all the time, whole pregnancy. With this (my second) I'm just... meh. Not ill feeling, but not hungry. So I snack frequently. I think one egg at a time is fine, though. :-)