I'm 8 weeks pregnant and although the morning (all day really) sickness is a little better, it still comes & goes several times a day, and I still feel pretty tired most of the time. It's 11 a.m. right now and I'm struggling to stay awake through lunch so I can hopefully get my 2 year old to take a nap with me! I need to wear her out I think.

Anyway, my question is, at what point did you get back to exercise, or were you able to continue? I was up to going to the Y about 3x a week, swimming once a week and riding the bike the other two times. I've been swimming about once a week but much less intensely, mostly backstroke with lots of rest breaks! It does relax me. I really want to exercise again but feel so zapped of energy. Being 115 degrees today doesn't help.

Hi,

Yeah..it is sure HOT here in Indiana. The heat index is about 105 here (well yesterday anyways..think that it is supposed to be hotter today). It is hard to exercise consistantly in early pregnancy but if you can keep it up your body will thank you for it later. I KNOW..just gave birth to my 4th on July 4th of this year, LOL. I am now trying to get healthy before my next pregnancy..

Good Luck!

This is my first week of actually not feeling so puny so I'm going to "TRY" to get back to doing at least the Walk away the pounds tapes tomorrow. Tonight I'm heading over to my mom's and she has a small pool and I'll do a bit of moving around in it. . It's super hot here as well and everytime I get out in the heat it zaps my energy and makes me nauseous.

I felt icky until I was 14 weeks. I wish I would have at least been swimming or walking then. I walked to work and home, but that was only 2 blocks at the time. Just don't push too hard.

If you keep it up, you will thank yourself later. Starting at 14 weeks, I took aquatic classes twice a week and walked when it was nice out. Good luck, the energy will come back!

I skipped all exercise for the entire first trimester, because I was worried about miscarriage plus I was exhausted. Now I've been fighting laziness more than anything. I guess I do something about 3 times a week - either aquafit or elliptical trainer or walk. But I know I should be doing more...

Honestly, I haven't. I've not been back to feeling like myself at all this pregnancy. I have to take my husband to the grocery store when I'm buying for the week, because I can't make it all the way through the store without having to rest. I had at least a few weeks of respite the last two times! I seem to be going from one thing to another, and though I've tested the theory that I'll feel better if I just walk, thus far it hasn't borne out.

Thanks for your replies. I don't have a lot of real-life friends who have had babies, at least not who had pregnancies that were anything but picture perfect. One friend told me a foolproof way of getting "rid" of nausea is to sit on the sofa and sip cold water through a straw for a few minutes and it will pass. I know she means well, but it's hardly a thought I have when clutching the sides of my toilet bowl (and then thinking, 'when was the last time I cleaned this thing???' )

I know I'll feel better. I really want to keep up with it. With my last pregnancy, I was on bed rest for 6 weeks before delivery, and recovering from that was very, VERY hard on me. I know I haven't got complete control over what happens, but it'll be very hard to be that wiped out, coming home with a newborn and a toddler already here.

Snoopy where are you? I'm in SW IN too.

Yeah, all the advice on how to get rid of morning sickness gets old fast, doesn't it? If I had a dollar for every time someone told me to keep soda crackers by my bed and nibble a few before I got up...Let's see: soda crackers before waking, hard-boiled eggs before bed, lemons, peppermint, chamomile (which might have worked, but puts me to sleep)...Sigh.

I hope that the pregnancy sickness passes soon for you...ugh..I could not deal with that during these hot sumer months. LOL..I remember being huddled over the toilet wondering when the last time was I *thoroughly* cleaned the toilet..memories,...

I am in the Evansville area for another month or so until we move.

Snoop, I'm in Evansville too! How weird! Where are you moving to?

Today it was actually not Surface-of-Mars hot and I took my little girl outside for awhile. All I did was pull a few weeds and swing with her, wiped me out. Not sure how much of this is first trimester exhaustion and how much is from having not exercised in several weeks.

I think I'll feel like exercising again soon. I may go to the Y Saturday and give it a shot.

Hi! I'm 15 weeks today and still can't do it. I lost a lot of weight a few years ago and mostly maintained the loss through exercise, so now I'm freaking out that I'll end up gaining all the weight back and never really feel motivated to exercise again. I'm basically living the lifestyle that got me so fat in the first place, and it scares me. Everything I do still feels like a struggle, so exercising seems out of the question. I keep writing it in my planner though! (I'm beginning to think that all the stuff they say about the 2nd trimester being a breeze was a lie).

I agree! I think we're told that in the first semester just to give us that false hope that this will get better. I have back pain that worsens when I walk, so I've slowed down quite a bit. I did a lot of walking this weekend and now I'm paying for it. I have a dr's appt tomorrow, so I plan on asking about exercises I can do to help my back.

I didn't have any morning sickness. I had some dizziness, but those spells came and went and I could sit and close my eyes for awhile to clear them. With my daughter, I was constantly sick. But even still, you should get some kind of breaks between sickness that you can squeeze in just small amounts of exercise. Face it, you're not going to get back to what you were doing, whether the sickness passes or not.

Anyway, because I didn't suffer sickness, I was able to keep on exercising. I just noticed it slowly slowing down. I did between 60 to 90 minutes a day of hard exercise (usually running for 30 minutes or more, then perhaps 30 minutes of aerobics, then stretching and body ball exercises). After perhaps the 2nd month, 45 minutes to an hour would exhaust me. Now, I do 30 minutes, and that's more than enough for me.

Do smaller amounts, even 15 minutes here and there when you're not experiencing queeziness. That will keep you in the exercise mode so you won't actually lose the motivation.

I was worried that I'd lose the motivation too, since I couldn't do more than 30 minutes after the first 4 months or so. So I joined Curves to motivate me to go exercise rather than putting off doing a video at home. I can handle the 30 minutes and it keeps me in exercise mode. I find that when I go for walks I'm even half-tempted to try and run again, whereas my enthusiasm was wanning before. But I know that I might run about 15 feet and need to hit a bathroom, so I stick with fast walking.

Thanks everyone! I agree that people must say that about the 2nd tri just to give us something to look forward to. 1st tri sucks but you're still excited that you're pregnant; 3rd tri, at least you look pregnant and you're close to delivery! But 2nd tri, what does it have to offer? It's like the Wednesday of pregnancy!

My problem isn't morning sickness anymore, just a general blah feeling. I'm still so tired and I'm generally unmotivated. I was already thinking of joining WW after delivery, so if I keep that in mind then maybe I can get through this without freaking out too much. I've never done WW before but I bet I'll really benefit from all the motivation at the meetings.

Well, I AM GOING TO WORK OUT TONIGHT. I'm holding myself accountable to all of you. I haven't felt sick in several days now so after dinner tonight, while DH stays here with our little girl, I'm heading down to the Y. I may only be able to bike for 15 minutes and do 1 bicep curl before I keel over, but I am going to do it!!!

My stomach has 'popped' out now and so I'm pretty excited to be in maternity clothes. I just want to make sure I'm not so huge that I'm in them this time next year still!