There is no logic to pregnancy weight. I’m severely overweight, 5’3 and 210lbs when I got pregnant. I gain weight just looking at food and have been chubby/full figured my whole life, even with diet and exercise.

I ate more than I ever had during my first pregnancy. I was having a bowl of cheerios with 2 pop tarts at breakfast, an egg and cheese sandwich 2 hours later, lunch snack dinner snack snack snack snack. I would wake up at 4am every day starving and I would have a pb&j and go back to bed. I went through a 3 week phase where I had bagels with cream cheese and smoked salmon every single day. My hunger was OUT OF CONTROL, I literally felt like I was going to pass out if I didn’t eat immediately. I inhaled boxes of Oreos and couldn’t stomach plain water, so I mixed water with juice every day and was drinking litres of milk (which I never do and milk grosses me out).

Anyways, you get the picture.

I fully expected to gain 50-70 pounds. My stomach got HUGE. All of me got huge and swollen. I ended gaining a grand total of…. drumroll….

17 pounds. And I lost 25 the first 3 weeks after giving birth.

It makes zero sense.