Anyone tracking diet with babyfit.com?

LAHN

I'm questioning their calories range and wondering if others have had similar experiences.  After tracking and staying in that range for the past 2 1/2 weeks, I lost over 1 lb this week.....obviously I'm upping my calories so I can sort of start averaging a 1/2 lb gain each week, but I'm wondering if I'm the crazy one that just needs so many calories?!!  FYI pre-preg I as on the line between healthy and overweight (159 lbs and 5'6''). 

I did google, and most women seem to think the ranges are too high from babyfit!  go figure...but at least I know I get a donut today!! 

Traycee1242

I agree with ppl. It's always good to make sure you get a variety of foods.. But listen to your body and what it needs instead of obsessively counting calories. Some days you will need more than others. And if you make good choices you will be fine!
I also agree that your body is gonna do what it's gonna do. With DS I gained 34lbs and he was a 10lb baby.. Most of that weight packed on after 20 weeks.. And I never changed my eating/activity. It's just how my body handles pregnancy. Some people slowly gain, while others gain a lot up front then not much at the end. It's all a crapshoot ; )

LAHN

For those unfamiliar with the site, you enter your pre-preg weight, the range of weight gain your doc recommends, etc and it gives you a target caloric range. It is hardly restrictive (I'm in a 2,100 to 2,300 cal range. 

I'm interested in whether other have had to up their estimated calorie range based on lack of weight gain. Obviously I'm using common sense.

LAHN

lisajay09:

LAHN:

For those unfamiliar with the site, you enter your pre-preg weight, the range of weight gain your doc recommends, etc and it gives you a target caloric range. It is hardly restrictive (I'm in a 2,100 to 2,300 cal range. 

I'm interested in whether other have had to up their estimated calorie range based on lack of weight gain. Obviously I'm using common sense.

Oh, and you were the one talking about restricting your weight gain to 1/2 a pound a week...good luck with that!

I'm not being defensive on purpose....just trying to get user input on this website.  And yes, I am trying to average 1/2 lb a week because I'm starting out overweight and all recommendations (including OB) are to gain between 20 and 25 lbs.  I know, for me, to do that I have to known what I'm eating so I can balance it out. 

colorschemer

I've been using SparkPeople (the unpregnant people's BabyFit ) for a couple of years now. I had lost about about 40 pounds total but went back a couple of years later when I gradually put about 10 back from working a crazy insane job with terrible hours, stress like you wouldn't believe and no time for my previously held running schedule. That put me back on the normal/overweight line (5' 2" 137lb) when I got pregnant.

I'm a big fan of tracking. Before I got pregnant, I tracked every single thing I ate, my fruit and vegetable intake and every minute and calorie of exercise that I could.I'll go back to it as soon as I can after giving birth. It absolutely works for me.

However, I'm not a big fan of tracking while pregnant. The data fiend in me needs a little bit of control though, so I just make sure I'm on track with a pregnancy weight gain calculator that I found online: https://www.indiacurry.com/women/pregcalc.htm  .I think I'd keep track of fruit/vegetable intake before actual calories.

 My calorie range is 1920 - 2220 on BabyFit. I don't think I eat 600 more calories a day than when I was on SparkPeople and my body is managing to keep me bumping around the normal weight gain mark. I do have to take into account that I'm exercising a lot less though (medical condition made better with running flairs up in ugly, ugly ways when pregnancy is added).

The calorie range is probably right for me taking the exercise thing into account but I wouldn't start tracking unless my numbers compared to the weight gain calculator started disagreeing by a lot.