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Originally Posted by smisen
To be honest, I wasn't working on weight loss or maintaining. Right around the time my husband and I decided to start trying, I was diagnosed with some serious thyroid issues, so most of my attention was on getting that managed - not weight loss. Once things were set on that end, pregnancy happened too quickly for me to even think about losing weight
So going into this, I definitely weigh more than I should, but I've been losing weight (thanks to zero appetite) and all my tests look good (including the full GD test that I passed with flying colors). Hopefully, weight won't be much of an issue - and hopefully it won't be an issue at all with future pregnancies
What thyroid issues were you diagnosed with? I was diagnosed with Hashimotos last year and started on synthroid. What prompted me to see the doc was I went from normal energy to zero energy, hair falling out, and many other classic thyroid symptoms. Since being on synthroid I feel so much better. I was almost at goal, but after 2 m/c this year I just stopped exercising and stopped calorie counting, and gained a lot back. I was depressed and just didn't care. So I'm higher than I'd like to be going into this pregnancy.
I've been losing too (10 lbs so far yikes!)from feeling so sick but in my other pregnancies I lost in the beginning (though not this much) and eventually ended up gaining way too much.
I'm glad to hear to pasted your test!! I've known several women that have had GD (and actually only one was over weight, rest were healthy weight) and it is a very strict diet and going off it can really be harmful to the baby. Not having that extra stress is good news!
I'm also concerned about GD. I'm going to talk to my doc about having GTT early, I've heard some woman at higher risk do that. Diabetes runs in my family, I'm older with this baby than the others, I have mostly belly fat now. I used to be all hips and thighs but over the past year that has changed. Also I've read about hypothyroid patients also being at higher risk for insulin resistance. Also, with my other two pregnancies I did not need progesterone, but with this one (and my 2 m/c) my progesterone was low, and I have also read about a possible link between low progesterone and insulin resistance, but then I also read that taking progesterone supplements can be a risk for insulin resistance, which I'm on, so I need to talk to my doc...but I'm definitely concerned about GD.