Alex Bennett
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No.
Because you gain hormone weight, you gain fluid weight, you gain all this other... But what I am not on board for are these charts telling you how much you're supposed to gain weight-wise, first trimester, second trimester, third trimester.
No.
Those charts drive me insane because it's like you're actually allegedly not supposed to gain weight in the first trimester.
In the first trimester, if you're craving a bag of Doritos, you have to eat the bag of Doritos or your body like attacks you.
If you decide you want an Arby's roast beef sandwich, you got to get it.
Like the only way out of the first trimester is through.
And then these dieticians put out these pregnancy charts and they're like, well, only gain a pound.
And it's like, what?
We already have enough going on.
Like the audacity.
I think that however anybody, however much, like I don't get on scales when I'm pregnant because that's not the point.
And so I just think those charts are adding a level of
Not comparison, but adding a level of, what's the word?
Like pressure?
Yeah, pressure that doesn't need to be there.
And they drive me crazy.
So if you see those charts, please ignore them.
I've unfollowed people that have posted those charts.
Because I just think if you're making the baby, you're doing enough.