Baby weight gain

http://www.metro.co.uk/lifestyle/847201-new-mothers-feel-baby-weight-loss-pressure-from-celebrities


A "news" story today about how new mums feel pressured by Celebs who quickly regain their pre-pregnancy figure.


I'm petite and have always been thin so I guess one of my worries is about gaining weight, as in "will I be able to do it?" I understand that being pregnant doesn't give you carte blanche to "Eat for two" and pig out on all that junk food; is eating a normal, balanced, nutritional diet merely enough to gain the recommended weight, or do I have to start -for the first time- counting calories, and not in the traditional manner of opting for foods which have less rather than more? 


According to Blooming Pregnancy: Surviving & thriving for him & her (Huggins-Cooper, L.; The Infinite Ideas Co Ltd, 2005), 
"for the first trimester [which is almost over, I think!] your body only needs about 100 extra calories a day- and that amounts to roughly a piece of fruit.  During the second and third trimesters, you need about 300 extra calories per day."
"You should expect to gain around 11-16 kg (35-35 lb)."(p36)


In the news article above one lady states that ‘I have been trying, unsuccessfully, to lose weight as my daughter is almost two years old now but I am still five stone overweight,’ said Lindsay Ritchie, 28, from Northern Ireland

um okay, so how much weight did you gain while you were pregnant if you're still 5 stone overweight 2 years afterwards?? ! 

*meow!