![]() Weight gain happens due to lot of factors such as growing size of the foetus, placenta, amniotic fluid, changes in the shape and size of the breasts, uterus etc. Fat and muscle are completely different types of tissue, and one cannot turn into the other.Its normal to gain weight during pregnancy because there a lot of changes happening in the body of the mother. Fat is just fat, and it sits on top of muscle. You really don’t need to build up any more fat stores, so once the extra maternal and breastfeeding fat stores are no longer needed, I’m afraid there is no such thing as ‘baby fat’, there is only ‘fat fat’. So a healthy diet, plenty of fluids, minimal or no processed foods and moderate activity will provide the calories that both you and your baby need. ![]() This is pretty much the same additional nutritional requirement as your body needed throughout pregnancy. The body builds up extra fat stores during pregnancy and uses 300-500 calories of these a day for as long as you’re exclusively breastfeeding. You’ve heard it before, but losing fat for the long term needs to be done sensibly and gradually. ![]() It took 9 months to steadily go on, and so you must expect that it will take at least that long, in conjunction with eating healthily and staying active, to steadily come off. Of course, putting on weight in pregnancy is healthy and simply means your baby is growing well. So the necessary extra FAT stores of pregnancy account for around 7 pounds / just over 3 Kilos of that ‘average’ 30 pounds /13.6 kilos weight gain we talked about.Īctually I’m not sure whether that has made you feel better or worse… Your pregnancy weight gain is made up of the following (with approximate weights): ![]() Please do not get hung up weight gain charts… as you can see from above, average covers quite a range! But here’s the bit we often forget – most of your pregnancy weight gain is NOT FAT! So after all that math, um, the answer is: it depends. Bear in mind that in reality there could be significant fluctuations in either direction. Personally I didn’t realise we were all so short, but there you go…Ī healthy weight gain during pregnancy for Ms Average might be around 30lb / 2 stones / 13.6kg. Your pre-pregnancy weight, age, race and height will all influence how much weight you gain during pregnancy (oh, and there is also the small matter of what you eat, but we’ll leave it as ‘all being equal’ for the moment!). woman is also 5′ 3.8″ (163 cm) tall, and weighs 163 pounds / 74 kg. ![]() woman is 5′ 3.8″ (162 centimeters) tall and weighs 147 pounds / 10 stone 7lb /66.7 kilograms. Here’s some rather interesting facts about the average UK and US woman putting on weight in pregnancy.Īccording to the Department for Trade and Industry, the average U.K. And the whole point of an *average* is that most people lie one or other side of it. Some women will gain quite a bit more than average (3.5 stone / 50+ pounds / 23kg), while others gain much less (1 stone / 15 pounds / 7kg). #Pregnancy weight tracker kg how to#How much is healthy? Or necessary? How much of the weight you’re putting on is ‘Baby Fat’… and what’s the average time it takes to lose your baby weight?īut before we start worrying about how to lose it, how much pregnancy weight gain, is *average* pregnancy weight gain?īit of a disclaimer / stating the obvious here, but every pregnancy is different. I’m often asked this “How much pregnancy weight gain is normal?” ![]()
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