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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because the baby and baby-related accessories are not fat, but they do weigh and they need calories in order to be created and supported.

The baby ends up weighing between 6-9 lbs.  Plancenta is another lb or two.  Increased blood volume adds a couple of lbs, etc etc etc.[/quote]

All of these things above plus the extra calories is what makes up the weight gain.  Technically...very little of that should be coming from food because its about 300 to 500 extra colories a day.

Thats why I dont get the whole I gained 50+ lbs thing because no where does it say to start eating out of control or to eat for "two."  I know everyone's bodies are different but I am 5'1 and to gain anything like 50 lbs is an extra person on me and I dont see how I could do that without eating out of control and I would feel horrible.[/quote]

This statement is baffling.  Where do you think the placenta comes from?  Your body uses the calories you eat to make it.  If you didn't eat extra, it would steal from your pre-pregnancy reserves, leaving you weighing less after you deliver (part of the reason the recommendation for weight gain is less for women who start off overweight).

People who gain 50+ lbs probably do eat more than 300-500 extra calories a day.  Maybe that's hard for you to imagine doing, but I don't think it is.  300 calories is like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or a single scoop ice cream cone.  A single extra whopper is more than twice that...or a milkshake.  I don't typically eat or like these things, but I don't think it's that hard to eat that much extra.  I've had a fair amount of morning sickness with vomiting, but when I can hold stuff down I'm surprised by how much more I can eat at a single time while pregnant than ever before.  [/quote]

What is exactly baffling to you?  The extra calories plus the baby, blood, water retention, amniotic fluid, etc., make up extra weight.

Or do you not understand how I am not understanding whypeople gain 50+ lbs when you are not supposed to eat over a certain amount of extra calories a day.  OBVIOUSLY people do but what I am saying is that when you gain that much more over what you normally eat and say a snack or two (500 cals) you are definitely over earting and its probably not healthy food.

To each their own....if people want to eat Mc D's multiple times a week thats their choice but the weight gain should not come as a shock.[/quote]

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