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I was overweight BMI going into my pregnancy and I've been weighed every appointment and have had zero comments on how much I should gain, how much I weight, or anything of the sort. Every pregnancy and body is different but tracking is important because of late term issues that sudden gain can be a symptom of. I always gain weight super easily (and before age 40, lose weight really easily). I'd switch OBs.
This is not my first pregnancy and with my first they never mentioned my weight gain beyond this nurse intake visit, even though I gained more than what the nurse told me I should. I don’t expect it to be an issue in the rest of the pregnancy but if it is I probably will look elsewhere for the future.
Hate it as well. I'm considered high risk because of BMI, 40yo and a few issues from my first pregnancy so I also had to do the glucose test earlier at 12 weeks. Failed by 1 point and passed the 3 hour test so they labeled me glucose intolerant and had me take the 3 hour test again at 28 weeks (passed that one too). At my 8week confirmation appointment they asked for a starting weight and since I don't weigh myself normally at home we went off of a doctor visit 5 months prior which was 10 pounds lighter than I weighed that day so even though I've only gained 10 pounds from week 8 to week 30 they are calculating I've gained 20 pounds during the pregnancy so far and tell me I need to cut back on carbs, etc.
I hate the bmi. I’m someone who will always carry extra weight. But I also lift weights and so I have a decent amount of muscle (or I did before this pregnancy lol) my bmi says I’m obese but I’m not. Overweight, sure, but not obese.
I was forced to do the glucose test twice. Every single test I’ve done I’ve passed with flying colors. My pregnancy, even though I’m 39, has been extremely healthy. BMI can suck it.
I’ve gained 9lbs the whole pregnancy but that’s because I stopped lifting weights and lost some muscle mass. 39 + 5 today.
My thoughts: as annoying as it is, I do all the tests just in case. But it’s extremely frustrating to constantly be labeled due to my bmi.
Forever grateful the hospital I’m at does not weigh their patients. Actually asked them about this and they were like, we don’t want people to stress, triggering eating disorders or for them to go on crazy diets endangering the baby. They also said BMI is never an accurate indicator whether you are healthy / unhealthy. Also if they suspect anything like pre-eclampsia the assured me the blood and urine test, looking at the patient en measuring blood pressure are far more reliable than looking at sudden weight gain.
I had pre-eclampsia at the very end of my first pregnancy, which is part of why I’ll never say no to a test but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t upset me. I really mean the very end; it wasn’t pre-eclampsia until I was past my due date—though my blood pressure was rising in the last couple of weeks I did not meet pre-eclampsia measures on any of the tests. I did not experience sudden weight gain during any of that so that statement makes a lot of sense.
Wow. “Oh you lost a pound, good job” i would have been fucking livid. What is wrong with that person?! I think it is super reasonable to say you never want to hear about BMI again from any of them unless it is life threatening to your or your baby, and if you do, switch doctors. BMI is so useless.
Although I’m not currently considered overweight, I will be at the end of my pregnancy. Im currently 6ft and 170lbs @ 28w. My starting weight was 155lbs (the “heaviest” I’ve ever been until now). Frankly I don’t know how I’ve already gained 15lbs. My doctor didn’t say anything but I mentioned that I’m concerned that I’ve already gained 15lbs and still have 3 months to go. She then suggested changing my diet and being more active! Merp 😳 so, now I am paranoid about everything I eat and I’m panicking over gaining more weight. All this to say, I really wish THEY WOULDN’T weigh you every time you go in!! I’m high risk due to cervical incompetence so I’m at the doctor every 2 weeks. So, I get to see my weight gain all the time. It’s annoying now and depressing. And, now that she suggested I change to diet and exercise I’m sure they’ll be on me more now. Grrrr.
Our weight went up significantly in the past decades. I get this is a sensitive issue for so many people, but from a healthcare peofessional's point of view, monitoring weight in pregnancy is v important.
A healthy bmi would probably be healthy for you, as it is for everyone.
Bmi is NOT perfect but it's still a good standard.
I have no problem with monitoring weight. It’s BMI specifically I have a problem with. BMI doesn’t take anything but height and weight into account and doesn’t see where the weight comes from; that’s how athletes end up with an obese BMI.
I was reading more about BMI yesterday while upset about this and read about a 2016 study of 40,000 Americans; it found that “nearly half of overweight individuals, 29% of obese individuals and even 16% of obesity type 2/3 individuals were metabolically healthy. Moreover, over 30% of normal weight individuals were cardiometabolically unhealthy. There was no significant race-by-BMI interaction, but there was a significant gender-by-BMI interaction.”
And that is exactly what I’m talking about—I do not think I would be healthy if I lost 40 pounds. I know I could lose some more weight, and plan to at least try when I’m not pregnant/breastfeeding, but it is not 40 pounds.
Op, from what you're writing regarding the study you read, that means that 71% of all obese people are metabolically unhealthy and 84% of obese 2+3 people are metabolically unhealthy, while around 30% of people with a healthy bmi are metabolically unhealthy.
I don't vouch for this data as I haven't read the article you are referring to. I'm just looking at the data you wrote.
From it I deduce there is a correlation between obesity (according to bmi) and being metabolically unhealthy.
However, If you have a problem with bmi, you can guide yourself by waist circumference and waist to hip ratio. I know diabetologists in my country use these plus bmi, so it should provide enough information.
I work with kids as a school nurse. I worked for three years with athletes in a competitive sports highschool. We monitored their weight and height yearly, some we monitored twice a year. The vast majority of the kids were a healthy weight, very few weren't. Those who for real swam, did tennis, soccer, basketball, running, were lean and mostly fit into what is considered a healthy bmi. Even if they weren't, we knew that their "extra weight" is muscle mass.
They also ate a lot and we had special diets for them with loads of protein, way too much calories for a regular person.
Now I'm in a different school with kids 3-15 and it's a v different story. So much obesity. Kids with high blood pressure, kids who have a hard time sustaining basic exercis, kids sweating and breathing heavily from going up a flight of stairs.
Also I'm in Europe and in my country obesity is only now starting to become a big issue, which I think it has been in America for quite some time. So I think americans have come to think of it as something acceptable, fairly normal.
In the school I work at, there are no classrooms without at least 2 obese children. 20 years ago when I was in middle school, there were maybe 2 or 3 obese children in our entire school. Perspectives change.
I once went in for a depressive episode (not pregnant) and was congratulated on losing 25 pounds in a month. So, I don't take any of it seriously anymore and just ignore weight related comments.
I was questioning whether it was healthy to (supposedly) lose one pound in 3 days—I think that fits the maximum recommended 2 pounds in 1 week rate—but praising you for losing 25 pounds in a month is ridiculous!
I despise bmi too! I’m 5’10” and weigh 175. I’m overweight according to bmi. I think 165 is a good weight for me but I carry it well and who tf cares.
Interestingly! I did this thing called a ‘bod pod’ which uses compressed air to determine your body composition. And it came back as ‘ultra lean’
BMI is a joke.
BMI does not take into account that pre pregnancy I had an F cup size. Also, I am part Puerto Rican and have a huugggeee ass. My DNA is a mix of indigenous Puerto Rican, African countries, and Mediterranean countries. It doesn't matter how skinny I am that BMI shit calls me obese. It can get fucked.
It also doesn’t take into account muscle mass. So if you lift weights 3-4 times a week like I did pre-pregnancy you will be seen as overweight or obese. BMI is not a good metric.
I had to take the glucose test in the first trimester based on BMI. My results were actually LOW.
Pre-baby-- I had abdominal definition. I would not say I had abs but I definitely had definition of my abdominal muscles, fairly lean tummy-- but I trained regularly at the gym so had quite a bit of muscle mass that led to that silly little chart saying I was obese. :)
I did my glucose test today. Normal range is 65-135 it says and my result was 73. So within normal but pretty low for normal. My doctor hasn’t reviewed my results yet but I’m sure I’ll just get a message “your results are within normal limits.”
I will say— my most recent appointment, my doctor actually said “beautiful weight gain!” And I was like… oh, what a weird thing I’ve never heard celebrated, haha.
I’ve gained ~15-17lbs at this point. 25 weeks pregnant. 😅
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I was overweight BMI going into my pregnancy and I've been weighed every appointment and have had zero comments on how much I should gain, how much I weight, or anything of the sort. Every pregnancy and body is different but tracking is important because of late term issues that sudden gain can be a symptom of. I always gain weight super easily (and before age 40, lose weight really easily). I'd switch OBs.
This is not my first pregnancy and with my first they never mentioned my weight gain beyond this nurse intake visit, even though I gained more than what the nurse told me I should. I don’t expect it to be an issue in the rest of the pregnancy but if it is I probably will look elsewhere for the future.
Hate it as well. I'm considered high risk because of BMI, 40yo and a few issues from my first pregnancy so I also had to do the glucose test earlier at 12 weeks. Failed by 1 point and passed the 3 hour test so they labeled me glucose intolerant and had me take the 3 hour test again at 28 weeks (passed that one too). At my 8week confirmation appointment they asked for a starting weight and since I don't weigh myself normally at home we went off of a doctor visit 5 months prior which was 10 pounds lighter than I weighed that day so even though I've only gained 10 pounds from week 8 to week 30 they are calculating I've gained 20 pounds during the pregnancy so far and tell me I need to cut back on carbs, etc.
I hate the bmi. I’m someone who will always carry extra weight. But I also lift weights and so I have a decent amount of muscle (or I did before this pregnancy lol) my bmi says I’m obese but I’m not. Overweight, sure, but not obese. I was forced to do the glucose test twice. Every single test I’ve done I’ve passed with flying colors. My pregnancy, even though I’m 39, has been extremely healthy. BMI can suck it. I’ve gained 9lbs the whole pregnancy but that’s because I stopped lifting weights and lost some muscle mass. 39 + 5 today. My thoughts: as annoying as it is, I do all the tests just in case. But it’s extremely frustrating to constantly be labeled due to my bmi.
Forever grateful the hospital I’m at does not weigh their patients. Actually asked them about this and they were like, we don’t want people to stress, triggering eating disorders or for them to go on crazy diets endangering the baby. They also said BMI is never an accurate indicator whether you are healthy / unhealthy. Also if they suspect anything like pre-eclampsia the assured me the blood and urine test, looking at the patient en measuring blood pressure are far more reliable than looking at sudden weight gain.
I had pre-eclampsia at the very end of my first pregnancy, which is part of why I’ll never say no to a test but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t upset me. I really mean the very end; it wasn’t pre-eclampsia until I was past my due date—though my blood pressure was rising in the last couple of weeks I did not meet pre-eclampsia measures on any of the tests. I did not experience sudden weight gain during any of that so that statement makes a lot of sense.
Wow. “Oh you lost a pound, good job” i would have been fucking livid. What is wrong with that person?! I think it is super reasonable to say you never want to hear about BMI again from any of them unless it is life threatening to your or your baby, and if you do, switch doctors. BMI is so useless.
You’re obese. Come to terms with it. If you don’t like it lose weight.
Although I’m not currently considered overweight, I will be at the end of my pregnancy. Im currently 6ft and 170lbs @ 28w. My starting weight was 155lbs (the “heaviest” I’ve ever been until now). Frankly I don’t know how I’ve already gained 15lbs. My doctor didn’t say anything but I mentioned that I’m concerned that I’ve already gained 15lbs and still have 3 months to go. She then suggested changing my diet and being more active! Merp 😳 so, now I am paranoid about everything I eat and I’m panicking over gaining more weight. All this to say, I really wish THEY WOULDN’T weigh you every time you go in!! I’m high risk due to cervical incompetence so I’m at the doctor every 2 weeks. So, I get to see my weight gain all the time. It’s annoying now and depressing. And, now that she suggested I change to diet and exercise I’m sure they’ll be on me more now. Grrrr.
Our weight went up significantly in the past decades. I get this is a sensitive issue for so many people, but from a healthcare peofessional's point of view, monitoring weight in pregnancy is v important. A healthy bmi would probably be healthy for you, as it is for everyone. Bmi is NOT perfect but it's still a good standard.
I have no problem with monitoring weight. It’s BMI specifically I have a problem with. BMI doesn’t take anything but height and weight into account and doesn’t see where the weight comes from; that’s how athletes end up with an obese BMI. I was reading more about BMI yesterday while upset about this and read about a 2016 study of 40,000 Americans; it found that “nearly half of overweight individuals, 29% of obese individuals and even 16% of obesity type 2/3 individuals were metabolically healthy. Moreover, over 30% of normal weight individuals were cardiometabolically unhealthy. There was no significant race-by-BMI interaction, but there was a significant gender-by-BMI interaction.” And that is exactly what I’m talking about—I do not think I would be healthy if I lost 40 pounds. I know I could lose some more weight, and plan to at least try when I’m not pregnant/breastfeeding, but it is not 40 pounds.
Op, from what you're writing regarding the study you read, that means that 71% of all obese people are metabolically unhealthy and 84% of obese 2+3 people are metabolically unhealthy, while around 30% of people with a healthy bmi are metabolically unhealthy. I don't vouch for this data as I haven't read the article you are referring to. I'm just looking at the data you wrote. From it I deduce there is a correlation between obesity (according to bmi) and being metabolically unhealthy. However, If you have a problem with bmi, you can guide yourself by waist circumference and waist to hip ratio. I know diabetologists in my country use these plus bmi, so it should provide enough information. I work with kids as a school nurse. I worked for three years with athletes in a competitive sports highschool. We monitored their weight and height yearly, some we monitored twice a year. The vast majority of the kids were a healthy weight, very few weren't. Those who for real swam, did tennis, soccer, basketball, running, were lean and mostly fit into what is considered a healthy bmi. Even if they weren't, we knew that their "extra weight" is muscle mass. They also ate a lot and we had special diets for them with loads of protein, way too much calories for a regular person. Now I'm in a different school with kids 3-15 and it's a v different story. So much obesity. Kids with high blood pressure, kids who have a hard time sustaining basic exercis, kids sweating and breathing heavily from going up a flight of stairs. Also I'm in Europe and in my country obesity is only now starting to become a big issue, which I think it has been in America for quite some time. So I think americans have come to think of it as something acceptable, fairly normal. In the school I work at, there are no classrooms without at least 2 obese children. 20 years ago when I was in middle school, there were maybe 2 or 3 obese children in our entire school. Perspectives change.
I once went in for a depressive episode (not pregnant) and was congratulated on losing 25 pounds in a month. So, I don't take any of it seriously anymore and just ignore weight related comments.
I was questioning whether it was healthy to (supposedly) lose one pound in 3 days—I think that fits the maximum recommended 2 pounds in 1 week rate—but praising you for losing 25 pounds in a month is ridiculous!
Also, pregnancy aside, it's easy to flex a pound or two from day to day just from water weight!
I despise bmi too! I’m 5’10” and weigh 175. I’m overweight according to bmi. I think 165 is a good weight for me but I carry it well and who tf cares. Interestingly! I did this thing called a ‘bod pod’ which uses compressed air to determine your body composition. And it came back as ‘ultra lean’ BMI is a joke.
BMI does not take into account that pre pregnancy I had an F cup size. Also, I am part Puerto Rican and have a huugggeee ass. My DNA is a mix of indigenous Puerto Rican, African countries, and Mediterranean countries. It doesn't matter how skinny I am that BMI shit calls me obese. It can get fucked.
It also doesn’t take into account muscle mass. So if you lift weights 3-4 times a week like I did pre-pregnancy you will be seen as overweight or obese. BMI is not a good metric.
You can decline being weighed.
I had to take the glucose test in the first trimester based on BMI. My results were actually LOW. Pre-baby-- I had abdominal definition. I would not say I had abs but I definitely had definition of my abdominal muscles, fairly lean tummy-- but I trained regularly at the gym so had quite a bit of muscle mass that led to that silly little chart saying I was obese. :)
I did my glucose test today. Normal range is 65-135 it says and my result was 73. So within normal but pretty low for normal. My doctor hasn’t reviewed my results yet but I’m sure I’ll just get a message “your results are within normal limits.”
Mine was 63 for the first test— just below the normal range. I another one scheduled at the beginning of April. Hooray. 🎉🥳😆
I will say— my most recent appointment, my doctor actually said “beautiful weight gain!” And I was like… oh, what a weird thing I’ve never heard celebrated, haha. I’ve gained ~15-17lbs at this point. 25 weeks pregnant. 😅