Prenatal NUT appt :(

 have always said it didn't take a lot of weight gain to have a healthy pregnancy especially since I have lost a tremendous amount of weight recently. So I saw my nutrionist who helped me with a diet plan that would put me calorie wise (1800 an increase of about 700) where I need to be for healthy me and baby.

Wellll lets just say today was a disaster its 5:33 and even counting my dinner I'm about 400 calories shy of my goal intake

 She told me if I don't gain at least 4 lbs by this time next month I'll have to start sending her weekly meal charts until I get my weight gain on track.

sigh.....

try adding in some protein shakes made with milk, even add in some yogurt. I think that 700 calories is a bit much to go up. I was told to increase by 300 calories. So I had to eat 1500-1800 calories, 100 grams of carbs, 90 grams of protein and I had a healthy pregnancy. My OB  and NUT also agreed that it was OK if I didn't gain anything or even lost weight during the pregnancy. of course I did gain 26 pounds but everyone was happy with that too.

You can also switch to using 1% or 2% milk.

I think the issue is I don't even get 1200 in on most days and she wanted me around1800 so this is a lot of food. I didn't want to get it from shakes but I may have to. I don't kow if you viewed my profile but I'm very slim so I have to put on at least 20 otherwise either me or the baby aren't getting all the goodies. I have th80-90g protein thing too. I think because today was day 1 it just kinda overwhelmed me but I will do whatever is best for me and baby at this point..so if I have acup of yogurt in my hands 3 times a da that I shall do!

add full fat things... like full fat butter, cheese, yogurt, salad dressing... peanut butter is also pretty high calorie... put it on an apple ..nuts in  general are high calorie but not so bad for you..

THANKS!!! Yeah of course I'm trying to eat healthy stuff and of cours that means lower calories so I'm eating eating eating and racking up NOOOOO calories!

i was a professional puker my last pregnancy.... i only gained 9 lbs and 7 of it was baby... i even went so far as.... cake!

Wow! And to put a even better spin on this everyone is swearing I'm going to TRY not to gain weight because I don't want to get fat and hurt the baby! SO I feel all this added pressure on top of. Its not that I don't want to gain any its I don't want to gain unneccessary and I don't see why people can't tell the difference.

It is funny how doctors take things differently.  My doctor is not at all concerned that I have lost 12 lbs so far (I am 16 weeks now).  The baby is growing fine.

I think their big concern is that I already wasn't htiting my 1200 calories and so the babies heartbeat is strong (heard it today) so I'm jst going to see what happens in the next 3-4 weeks.