Mamas to be keeping fit support thread

Had to dig this thread out from pages back!

I've had a crazy fortnight! Best friend's 30th celebrations plus being support person on call for my friend's birth for her children - the birth happened at exactly 42 weeks! So extra time waiting and conserving my limited energy for that Plus my usual crazy old loveable life. Suffice to say my fitness program was bumped down the priorities, something I have rarely done this year, where I've kept it waaaay up there. I'm letting go of the guilt and just resuming it today.

So my new "rule" for the gym is if I don't enjoy the exercise I don't do it anymore LOL That's the slacking off I'm allowed. I was doing a pretty intense program that took at least 90 minutes, that was made for me a few weeks before I got pregnant. I can handle an hour, about 40 mins cardio and then resistance. I am going to modify for another 3 weeks and then ask for a new program with pregnancy taken into account. Right on time for the second trimester which is when more modification is necessary from my research. Really want to prevent SPD and be as energetic as possible

How's everyone else going?

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me too! i really had hoped to be 10 pounds less (like not at the very maximum of the healthy weight range) before getting preggers but here i am.

so, i'm trying to keep riding my bike, doing the yoga video, and walking the dog at the very least and it sucks! because i feel so queasy that all i want to do is eat all the time, even if i'm full!

last time i gained 35 pounds and it was fine but i'd *like* to be a little bit lower this time around because it was so friggin' hard to move!

so, yeah, i'm totally in!

How's everyone doing today? Did y'all work out? It's hot as hell here, with almost 100% humidity, but thanfully I got to the Y first thing in the morning to do a weight lifting class. I've found that if I put on my workout clothes first thing when I get up, I usually get to the gym. If I don't, I won't! And if I shower first, no way will I end up going.
I am determined to lose the baby belly after this baby, even though I never did after dd who is 18 months. So I'm doing lots of weights, ab work, and pilates now, and plan on keeping at it as long as I can. I always thought weight lifting was tabboo during pregnancy, but all that I've read has said it's okay. And I only use about 15 kg. Hope everyone else got some activity in today. (oh yeah, and it's really helping with the caffeine withdrawal!)

Sign me up too! I have always been about 15-20lbs overweight (over the high end of the "ideal" weight scale for my height) and I gained about 20 lbs after coming home from Iraq so I'm carrying all that into this pregnancy. So far I have just been eating like crap-not because I'm sick and nothing else sounds good, but because I'm lazy and usually wait too long to eat. Plus, I haven't done any regular exercise in months!

I'm really scared about being really overweight after I have this baby. I gained exactly 25 lbs with dd and exercised my whole pregnancy, but I never lost the last 5 lbs of it and I've just felt a lot bigger since then.

Hopefully you ladies and this thread will be my motivation to get out of bed a little early to work out and start eating healthy!! I'm really hoping to stay on the low end of the weight gain.

So, tomorrow's goal: do 45 mins of cardio and strength training; don't eat cold cereral or nachoes for dinner (those are my two quick easy junk meals!)

I'm not so much concerned about my weight and eating habits as I am with keeping up some sort of an exercise program and not turning back into a couch potato. It's very important for me, as an "older" mother, not to loose ground and to stay in shape so that I can chase after my toddler and keep her safe and play horsey with her and pull her Burley Solo (bicycle trailer) up those hills and take my grandbabies to the park instead of having them push my wheelchair through the halls of my nursing home.

I'm starting to feel out of breath and dd needs to use the good bicycle now that she has a twelve mile ride to her new job in the morning, so I could definitely do with some support. I'm having to remind myself that my Middle Eastern dance class is NOT an expendable luxery even though it's fun, because it is the only form of exercise I do which isolates specific muscles that I'll need to strengthen for an easier birth. I also got new pedals for my dirt bike to make it more pleasant to ride on the streets and commited myself to visiting a friend in the next town up the highway "today or tomorow" so I can't wimp out.

My Mom was visiting last week so I missed my daily short rides into town, which does NOT help at all! It did help that she is hypoglycemic and since I was making frequent small meals for her, I made enough for me too. It helped the ms and had a noticeable effect on my mood.

Tomorrow's goal is about a 12-20 mile round trip to my friend's house and to show up at my dance class and start seriously practicing every day.