I had my doctor’s appointment today and for the second time, she told me that I gained too much weight and should slow it down. I feel really defeated. She asked me her usual questions : Do I eat candies and soft drinks? No, very rarely. Do I skip meals? Never. Do I eat at regular times? Yes. Do I eat between meals? Almost never. Do I eat healthy and balanced? Absolutely. Do I walk and do exercise? Yes.

So why do I keep gaining too much weight according to her? She even said herself that I’m doing everything that I should.

I’m a small girl (5 feet 2) with low self-esteem so those comments that my doctor said about my weight gain are affecting me a lot. I weighted 140 lbs prior to my pregnancy. At almost 16 weeks, after a terrible first trimester of nausea and vomiting where I ate basically what I could, I weighted 154 lbs. When the nausea stopped, I improved my diet a lot and started doing more exercise. But looks like it didn’t work out as today, at almost 21 weeks, I weighted 164 lbs...😥

I don’t know what to do now. I just started feeling a little better about myself in the last couple of weeks and after seeing my doctor, I’m back to feeling like crap. Just adding to that, my mom told me today that I looked quite fat for a pregnant women... I was self-conscious before that, but now, I feel straight down shamed. Anyone feeling the same? Have dealt with similar comments? What do you do to feel better.

Here is a picture of my bump today as reference :