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If like to be a bit more fit but I'm happy. I'm tall and intend (or hope) to gain muscle so my scale number is only mildly important to me. I love my body and am proud of the things it's learning to do and that's what I try to focus on when I'm feeling down.

No. I haven't been happy since 11.

Nope! I've gained 20 lbs over the last year because of stress, being sick, prescription meds, and not being able to work out. I was already trying to lose weight before the 20lbs so ugh. Now that I'm healthy again I'm trying to get back on the fitness bandwagon but it's hard!

Nope. Still up 20 pounds from pre(first)-pregnancy weight. My goal is to lose 40... but my fitness level, yes. I've been doing fitness blender workouts on my lunch break, and I feel so strong!

Nope...not even close...constant battle...

Not even a little bit, and it's really impacting my marriage. I avoid looking at myself naked.

Oh helllllllls no. Still have ten+ pounds of baby weight and another 10 on top of that that I need to lose before I got pregnant .....

Before this baby, yes! We'll see how things go postpartum/holidays

Yes. I'm thankful to be naturally on the slim side, and I feel like I have a healthy lifestyle. We don't own a scale. I'd like to be more toned and fit, and I'd like to get back into doing yoga on a regular basis. But we eat healthy, we walk nearly every day, hike on weekends, and I feel good.

@avivoca: wow! you are an inspiration!

Sort of? Fitness level, not really, I was just really getting back into running when I got pregnant and totally slacked in the first tri. Now I'm 17.5 weeks and have been able to do more walk/jogs and have started prenatal yoga. I want to start swimming again soon. Weight-wise I've gained 5.5 pounds so far and started out on the lower end of the BMI scale so I'm not unhappy with it, actually wondering if I should be gaining more.

What really needs work is my upper body. Need to work on toning my arms!!!

Nope. 10 weeks postpartum and still up 5-6 pounds and would like to lose 5ish more on top of that... And those 5-6 extra pounds feel like a lot more since I still can't even button any of my pre pregnancy pants and let's not even talk about my fitness level

I lost too much weight after having DD. I'm not sure how. The legs of my shorts are too baggy. I feel like I look like skin and bones and I'm kind of self conscious about it. I've always been a small person, but I haven't been this small in many years.

@Smurfette: I'm sorry you're struggling with the pregnancy weight gain. I feel you. I'm a big gainer too - all my pregnancies I've gained 40+ and I have big babies. I've gained 25 lbs at 25 weeks and I started almost 10lbs heavier than usual this pregnancy. I'm try not to stress about it - I just figure I'll focus on the weight loss once the baby is out.

Not really, although I am really trying not to focus on it. I am pregnant, so I'm supposed to be gaining, but I started off higher than my preferred weight (in part due to not losing all the weight from previous miscarriages), and during pregnancy, I always seem to gain at a slightly higher than recommended pace, so I just feel big right now. At this stage in my last pregnancy, I was a full 10 pounds lighter (but mostly from starting at a lower weight).

On the flip side, I am normally a pretty small person, and I know I lost all the weight last time, so I am trying to stay positive and assume that my body just needs this weight for the baby.

@sandy: I mean it isn't stopping me from eating fries. But I am trying. It is just so hard but I just know that she will be worth it and I will just have to work hard to lose it.

Nope. But, I'm also not being good about doing anything about it.

@Mrs. Pickle: Are you still nursing? It burns a lot of calories and that could explain why! Since I stopped nursing I put on a few pounds that I had actually lost after birth.

@Mrs. Pickle: I looked super bad (think under 100 lbs at 5' 6") after having my first. After I cut way back nursing I put a few back on and looked much better. Are you nursing?

Overall I'm happy right now. Wish my 18 week belly looked more like baby and less like pizza!

I'd like to lose the last 5 pregnancy pounds and 5 more than that.... but more importantly, I wish I stopped looking pregnant!! I have very skinny arms & legs, normal chest and waist, (usually small but thanks, nursing), but a big round belly. PCOS /diastasis recti sucks.

No, I'm not. I've been working insanely hard to look and feel better and it's just really slow going for me. So it's hard not to get discouraged.

It's hard to start this pregnancy up 15 lbs from when I first got pregnant with Cobi. But I need to be easier on myself because I already worked insanely hard to lose 18 lbs and I may be up in lbs, but I'm down in body fat and way healthier now than I was when I got pregnant the first time.