How many calories should I be eating?!?

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Hey ladies! So I started out my pregnancy at 260lbs and I'm almost 18weeks now and I'm down to 235, dr said its fine even good that 
Loosing some weight as long baby is growing which he/she is. I've been trying to find some sort of calculator to help me determine how many calories I should be eating a day but can't seem to find one does any know of any?? Thank you :))

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I was told to use myfitnesspal and put the settings at 'maintain' and that should be my caloric intake of HEALTHY sensible foods. I'm 5'7 and 240lbs

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Melissa, how have you lost the weight during your pregnancy? Something you tried for? I think it's awesome btw!

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My physician's assistant said 100-200 extra calories 2nd trimester, 200-300 3rd trimester, and 500 breastfeeding. She also told me not to worry if I didn't make it to those calories as long as my diet is balanced, I get enough protein and water, I can lose some fat.  HCG takes calories from your stored fat for growing baby not from what you eat so for most women they don't need any extra calories first trimester.

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Congrats on your weight loss but especially on you little one. HCG makes sure the baby is fed from your fat stores so while you're puking your guts out from the same hormone the baby is happy and healthy. Sometimes women just aren't hungry because of the hormone and sometimes we need to eat all the time.

As long as you have appropriate fat stores you can eat less calories and the baby will be fine. But eat enough to make yourself feel healthy because your body needs nutrition more than calories. My dr said eat enough protein and avoid sugar and not to worry about it past that.

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My nutritionist (for GD) would like me to get to 2200 calories a day. Myfitnesspal at maintain seems to think I need 2500. My OB is fine with the fact that I get on average 1800 in.

How many calories should I be eating?!?

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