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How To Handle Weight Gain During Pregnancy

23rd July, 2010 - Posted by health news - No Comments

Let’s be honest ; one of the biggest drags about having a baby is weight gain during pregnancy. It feels like Mother Nature has “stacked the deck” against us. Between the crazy food longings and feeling dog-tired all the time how are we intended to avoid weight gain during pregnancy? Well, the even better news is that pregnancy and weight gain do not really have to go together.

It is simple to look great when pregnant, maybe not super model good looking, but we will maintain some semblance of ordinary weight thru dieting and exercise. Exercise and diet you say?

But I could not even keep a good dieting and exercise program going before I got pregnant! That is’s OK. Just think, now you have added incentive to follow a good exercise and diet routing when pregnant. You are not only doing it for yourself, you do it for that small baby growing within you.

Let us take a look at diet first. And, no, I don’t mean diet as in the most recent trend diet. I am talking about what sorts of foods you eat and what proportion of it you eat. Many pregnant girls lie on the sofa like the Queen of Sheba eating whatever they can get into their mouths. Yes I am talking about those feared longings. Pickles, Ice Cream, Taco Bell, fried Twinkies, you are saying it and pregnant ladies have wanted it.

Eat a well balanced diet made of different types of foods to get all of your nutrient elements. You don’t need to eat far more than you probably did before falling pregnant. “But I am eating for two” you say? Studies show that pregnant girls only need to consume about three hundred further calories every day to give their baby an appropriate quantity of nourishment. So far as exercising goes it is safe and healthy to exercise while carrying a child. The benefits are several and all good.

From a more fit baby, to a faster pregnancy and delivery it’s an wonderful idea to take part in some kind of exercise while expecting to avoid weight gain during pregnancy.