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Permalink Reply by lizzistardust on January 29, 2013 at 6:00pm

I had a hard time gaining weight earlier in my pregnancy last time, and it was partly because I was nervous about my increasing I:Cs (and also because of morning sickness). I eventually just told myself that there's nothing wrong with taking more insulin if I need it. Everyone takes different amounts, and a healthy pancreas creates more insulin as resistance goes up. If you didn't have D, you'd just produce it yourself. So we have to inject or pump it... We're just doing the pancreas's job!

Also, are you overweight? If you are (I am, and was), then the weight gain recommendations aren't quite as high. Part of the weight we're suppose to gain is "maternal fat stores." Well, a lot of us already have that! :) (My OB told me that she'd prefer that I not gain much more than 20 pounds by the end. I was on track for that, but don't know what the final weight gain was because I suddenly ballooned up with ungodly amounts if water weight. Like 13 pounds in one week!)

Permalink Reply by Anna on January 29, 2013 at 9:03pm

I'm not overweight by medical standards, but i was not happy with my prepregnancy weight. That's mainly why I haven't been too concerned so far, but going forward I'm a little nervous. i don't mind giving more insulin when i need it (i.e. raising i:c ratios and basals) it's mainly the food that I'm eating is making me spike suddenly, when it hasn't in the past. Normally i wouldn't care, it's not that high, but it's higher than my endo wants me 2 hours after eating.

Permalink Reply by Kristin on January 29, 2013 at 11:23pm

I gained 25 pounds throughout the whole pregnancy, but I think that most of that was in the second half of the pregnancy. My doctors were glad that I wasn't gaining near the beginning. (I will check my records later, but this is what I remember.) I was eating a pretty high protein and fat diet (I think that I consumed more cheese than I could even imagine eating now), but also 180g of carb a day. For me the difference was WHICH carbs I was eating. I could eat whole grains, potatoes, plain greek yoghurt, but only ate fruit in 10gCH serving at a time and always ate some protein with the fruit (cheese, yoghurt or peanut butter). I also had a flaxseed chocolate cake recipe that I made in the microwave, which contained an egg, butter, and ground flaxseed. So it was high calorie and incredibly filling with almost no carbs. And I felt like I got dessert too. I found the recipe on TuD somewhere. I will look for it later.

Good luck!