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I ate a ton of fresh fruit (way over that limit I assure you) last time around and I didn't have GD. Its not always linked to your sugar intake.

YAY!!!! so glad to see this thread! I can't tell you how it will all turn out, but I am in the same boat of having gained too much too quickly.

I'm 22 weeks on Thrusday and I'm prrrroooobably right around 22 lbs up. I gained 13 lbs in the first tri when I was horribly nauseous and I still have no idea how it happened! I was literally barely eating, and what I was eating wasn't "bad" at all. I have a scale at home and knew I was gaining, so I started calorie tracking (just for curiosity's sake) and ate 800 cals one day, 1200 the next, and something like 850 the next---out of nausea, not because I was dieting. After that three days, I was up 2 more lbs!!

The only thing I can think of it that before our wedding, I lost about 15 lbs through watching my diet and exercise, and I wasn't exercising at all during the first tri because of my extreme nausea, so I think my body just shut down the calorie burners? Or it was just super eager to regain the weight I'd lost?

I have no idea. So far, my BP has been good and all my bloodwork has been fine, so my doctor has given me no diet advice other than to try to choose healthy foods. That kiiiiind of frustrated me, because in my first tri when I gained the most, I didn't have junk food or sweets at all, because I was too nauseous! I ate a lot of wheat toast, apples, bananas, crackers (the low sodium kind, beacuse my DH has high blood pressure), sometimes cheese if I could manage it. Like...none of these things are particularly bad.

I almost cried at my last appointment, because I couldn't understand how I was still gaining so much and he told ME not to worry so much, that people gain at different times and different rates.

But like you, I don't want Pre-E or GD, so I want to do what I can now. It's frustrating, definitely. The only thing I've been able to do in the past few weeks is start back at the gym. Ive managed to go a few times a week and do the elliptical/treadmill/bike and last weekend, DH and I walked 6 miles on Sunday, just to get out and about. Mind you, after the 6 miles, I eagerly weighed myself and was up a lb from the day before, lol, so sometimes I just want to throw my hands up and give up.