Hi

I just turned 11 weeks and I feel the same way. When I found out I was pregnant I was eating fairly well, drinking lots of water and trying to "stay" active going on a few walks (I've never been active my life at all so I pushed myself). In the last couple of weeks I feel so unmotivated and lazy. My appetite is pretty weak, I still eat but out of hunger and necessity, rather than effort to eat what I should (I don't pig out on junk food though, just whatever I find in the kitchen: fruit, cereal, sandwiches,etc.). My days off are spent on the couch watching tv or napping. I want to be active and go swimming or walking but the area I live around has had sketchy events happen (people getting assaulted, robbed) so I have this anxiety about going outside alone as a woman, or even to a park or forest preserve. I would love to go swimming but again, I just would not prefer going alone. I thought about joining a gym but am afraid that just going to it I will still feel unmotivated. I've always been so independent but lately I'm just paranoid of going outside alone and it's killing me. I'm out of shape, overweight by a couple of numbers according to the BMI scale and I don't want to stay this way because I want to give my baby the best development. I don't even have the motivation to do any exercises at home that I found on my phone/pintrest. I really hope it's just a hormonal shift and it will pass in a few weeks as they say because I don't want to be put on any meds honestly. All of my friends either have opposite scheduled of me (I work nights) or they live far, or I don't even want to reach out to either. I would just rather be alone.

If anyone has gone through this "low" please share how you've dealt with it so that maybe we could understand what's happening better...

Depression