According to the study at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research if you gain a lot of weight during pregnancy you most likely end up having large baby. That’s why you should not “eat for two” when you are pregnant. Healthy eating is what you have to concentrating on.
From personal experience I know that the last couple months before giving birth I gained most of my weight and my baby weighted almost 9 pounds at birth. Sugar is mostly to blame for that! The extra weight you have after pregnancy is very difficult to get rid of. Here is how I lost weight after baby.