Am I blowing up?

My family and I had a great Easter Weekend. My mother came out on Easter along with my brother and his family and spent Easter with me and the kiddos. Dan had to go to work :( However he was able to spend the morning with us. I made a great weight watcher breakfast casserole. Well one regular for him and the kids, and one healthy one for me and my mom. I am trying my best to stay eating healthy. I just feel like I am doing something wrong. I started out weighing 178 which I have weighed for the last 2+ years, and now since I have been pregnant I am at 196.7 today. That amount of weight gain is crazy. I have never in my life gained that much weight in 4 weeks. I even was gaining weight before I found out I was pregnant and was still smoking at the time. I don't know if it is water retention or not but it is kind of depressing.

I did however have Dan hold up my bb's while I weighed and it said I was 11 pounds less....(TMI) I know but I think that is kind of funny. :) I still can fit into my size 10 jeans but they are starting to get tight... so I am usually wearing my size 12's now. I need to find some shirts that don't make me look fat. Most of my shirts are starting to get tight and I want some thing to wear that will covering my belly without making me look like a cow. I really would rather not buy new jeans and just get a band or some type of thing that will let me do that. All the weight has gone to either my bb's or the tummy area.

I am trying to push more water so I won't retain as much but either that is not working or I don't know what the heck is going on. It is frustrating to see me blowing up. I am going to get a pregnancy workout video this next week but I really don't want to over do it either. Trying to keep my heart rate at 140 and under while exercising is hard for me even when I am working out on a regular basis. But I am going to try and get into a H20 aerobics class starting in May, and I hope that will help keep me in shape. Maybe I am over-reacting. I hope that I will stay this weight for awhile and not gain as much in my 2nd and 3rd trimester. Which is what I am hoping for. I guess as long as I am eating right and exercising that is all I can really do at this point, my body is going to do what my body is going to do.

Well I need to go and give my neighbor some stuff that is in our garage so I will try and update soon. I have my next appt on April 16th and hopefully we will hear the heartbeat through the doppler. I still need to post the ultrasound pics up. I know been busy the last couple of days. Have a happy week all.