It’s a difficult issue – maintaining a healthy weight during pregnancy.
There was a time was when doctors were mainly concerned about women being underweight during pregnancy. Nowadays, the concerns go in the opposite direction as trends towards women tipping the scales during pregnancy.
A new study by researchers at the University of North Carolina suggests that [...]
Tags: dieters, dieting, Pregnancy, pregnancy weight, weight gain
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I saw an article recently about a trend for women to diet during pregnancy. According to the article, women are trying to emulate the numerous slim, yet pregnant celebrities by dieting excessively during pregnancy. I have not known women who actually do this, but I admit, I have seen more than my share [...]
Tags: breast feeding, child birth, nursing, Pregnancy, pregorexia, weight gain, weight loss
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It’s taken me about thirty years, but at last I think I’ve made peace with my body image. It’s been through diets, exercise regimes taken up and abandoned, my weight fluctuating between 100 and 160lbs, boyfriends, marriage, separation, a new relationship, and the most important factor: my son.
Gaining pregnancy weight – a lot of pregnancy [...]
Tags: Body Image, Breastfeeding, pregnancy weight, Relationships, self-esteem, weight gain
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Do we fast during the week and feast on weekends?
We all know how holidays – Christmas, Easter, and Thanksgiving for Americans – lead to feasting – and extra pounds. This new study shows that we tend to feast and gain weight on weekends as well. True, we tend to lose what we have gained when [...]
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When you’ve been married five years and are five-and-a-half months pregnant, you don’t have quite the same mentality about friends weddings. In other words, there’s no mental stigma of being ‘always the bridesmaid, never the bride.’
But that doesn’t mean shopping for a bridesmaid dress is fun.
I’m fortunate in that I won’t be walking down the [...]
Tags: bridesmaid, Pregnancy, Shopping, weddings, weight gain
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