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[quote=Anonymous]OP, when I got pregnant with my first baby, I was about 40 pounds heavier than I wanted to be: not obese, but definitely overweight. In my case, it was a sedentary lifestyle combined with unhealthy food choices that built up over a long period of time.

When I got pregnant, a lot of that changed. I started getting a bit more exercise - mostly just going for more walks and going to a weekly yoga class where I'd been walking to the bus but that was about it. Not drinking alcohol or other calories was also a big deal for me. I think I probably cut about 500 calories per day just by not drinking alcohol or soft drinks anymore. I switched to water pretty much exclusively, with a cup of black coffee a couple times a day so I would not go into caffeine withdrawal. I also changed the way that I ate and began focusing more on vegetables and proteins and less on carbs. For me, it wasn't that I was eating dramatically different things, but if I made a pasta primavera dish for dinner, I reduced the amount of pasta in it and increased the amount of vegetables. I don't really enjoy salads, but I do enjoy vegetables as a snack, so I just started making snack vegetable salads for lunch and dipping them in hummus or yogurt dip or something.

I also had pretty severe morning sickness during the first 13 weeks, and actually lost close to 10 pounds during that period. My doctor was not particularly concerned because I was maximizing the nutrition of what I was able to eat, and it resolved after 13 weeks.

Overall, I was 170 pounds when I got pregnant, dropped to 160 by second trimester, and was 185 pounds the day I gave birth. I was able to get back to 160 by the time DD was 6 months old through a combination of breastfeeding, maintaining the healthy eating I was doing during pregnancy, and going for long walks while on maternity leave.[/quote]

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