I dont want to diet I am a mother of 4 I know you have to eat and no I am dont eat junkI need a healthy way?

Question

to lose weight while pregant

Answer 1

Dieting During Pregnancy
Almost all medical experts advise AGAINST dieting during pregnancy. Your baby needs good nutrition and is depending on you to get it. Do not try to lose in order to keep from gaining too much during pregnancy; as a large woman you will probably not gain as much as a smaller woman would anyhow (see section on Weight Gain in Pregnancy), and dieting during pregnancy may cause significant harm to your baby.

If your baby cannot get good nutrition, it may be malnourished and underweight at birth or have other significant problems. Pregnancy tends to be more complicated and delivery tends to be premature and more risky in undernourished women. Keep in mind the most important priority right now-----your baby's health.

It probably IS a good idea to restrict sugar and other simple carbohydrates like fruit juice or sweets to small amounts only or to omit them entirely. Smaller, more frequent meals do tend to reduce nausea and heartburn and keep a consistent energy level, but restricting caloric intake is NOT a good idea. Most pregnant women need 300-500 calories over the level needed to maintain weight (this will differ depending on your size and activity level). Generally speaking, most registered dieticians give large women caloric intakes of around 2000-2300 calories during pregnancy.

A few antiquated doctors still do recommend that fat women try to lose weight during pregnancy, and while some don't recommend actually dieting during pregnancy, they will tell women not to gain any weight during pregnancy. This can be harmful too! One woman pregnant with twins was actually put on a restricted-calorie diet and told to drink SlimFast during the pregnancy! Researchers on gestational diabetes often call for restricting the intake of obese women with GD by 30% or more, yet the disturbing fact is that they RARELY follow-up on these children to see if there is any long-term harm from this practice! There is little research proving that restricting intake is not harmful to babies; providers should err on the side of caution and NOT recommend restriction or dieting during pregnancy.

Yet a few doctors still are doing this, even today. One recent research study examined the use of a diabetes medication in pregnancy, which it gave to all the fat women with GD in the study. When the perinatal mortality rate rose, they blamed the medication or the women's obesity for the problem, conveniently ignoring the fact that all of the fat women had been put on 1200 calorie diets during the pregnancy. 1200 calories is barely above official starvation levels as dictated by the World Health Organization for a single non-pregnant person; it is completely inadequate for a pregnant woman! Yet the doctors refused to consider the possibility that undernourishment or ketosis in the mother may have produced the higher mortality rate. Even in pregnancy, some doctors simply cannot conceive of the fact that dieting or restriction might be harmful.

Although periodic examples of restriction do exist even today, the majority of doctors and midwives feel very strongly that fat women should NOT diet during pregnancy. Yet surprisingly, many women of varying sizes do choose to diet during pregnancy, especially in the last trimester when weight gain really begins to add up and their new girth suddenly seems threatening. The book, A Good Birth, A Safe Birth (Korte and Scaer, 1992), notes:

Madeleine Shearer reported that a survey showed 25 to 80 percent of women in childbirth education classes were dieting to hold the line at their seven-month weight gain. The end of pregnancy is not only the time when the baby has a huge growth spurt...but it is also a time of rapid growth of her brain cells. "Even mild degrees of maternal undernutrition in the last few weeks can interfere with the normal growth and development of the normal fetal brain," says John Dobbing, British research professor, quoted by Gail Brewer in What Every Pregnant Woman Should Know: The Truth about Diets and Drugs in Pregnancy.

Occasionally, some heavy women who have been on so-called 'sensible diets' and become unexpectedly pregnant have wondered if they could stay on those food plans during their pregnancy to try and help the pregnancy be healthy and to try to avoid excessive weight gain during pregnancy. This is a difficult question, because so much depends on the program involved.

Controversially, a few places like Weight Watchers have, in the past, offered special food plans during pregnancy that are sometimes called 'diets'. These may not be true diets, however, just healthy eating plans (so they argue), but extreme care should be taken when considering one of these. Beware of excessive caloric restriction; anything less than 1800 calories a day is probably not sufficient, and many feel that 2000 to 2300 is probably safer. Ketones in the urine must be kept track of to be sure that these acids are not being 'spilled' as a by-product of weight loss----as noted, some studies have linked excessive amounts of them to learning disabilities later in life for baby. If ketones are not being tested in your 'diet' plan, then you should probably not BE on that plan.

If your so-called 'healthy pregnancy diet' is planned to include all the extra nutrition you need as a pregnant woman AND monitors for ketone spillage AND has sufficient caloric intake, then it may not be harmful---------if it's just a sane healthy eating plan. In this situation, why pay someone else big bucks for that? Do you have so little control over your own eating that you need a weekly weigh-in or meeting to keep you honest? Isn't your baby's health sufficient motivation? For a few, such a plan may not be harmful, but must be considered extremely carefully. This is a decision you have to make for yourself. Just be SURE that any 'diet' you consider is not restrictive and is actually just healthy eating and good monitoring.

However, probably the safest and most sensible position is to absolutely avoid dieting during pregnancy. Doctors are quick to add in that this doesn't mean you can go out and go crazy 'eating for two'. Sensible, healthy eating is still very important, and QUALITY of nutrients is more important than QUANTITY of food. However, be sure to get enough food that baby can get enough protein, folate, and other nutrients to build a strong and healthy body. Avoid junk, but don't be afraid to eat healthy foods. Good nutrition in pregnancy is very important. Your baby needs you to feed him or her right!

Answer 2

Walk. You're goal shouldn't be to lose weight if you're pregnante. Try setting a goal like only gaining 15 to 20lbs. Eat healthy foods like fresh fuits and cook frozen vegetables instead of canned, if you eat canned fuit rinse the syrup off first, and walk....a lot. You can take your other kids with you too which would not only be good for you but your kids as well. You can also do wall push ups, or lift a 1lb weight to build your arms up. you can do some squats depending on how far along you are. Again the goal wouldn't be losing weight but maintaining and or toning your body in a healthy way. Dont over due it either. You can worry about losing weight after your baby's born. good luck.

Answer 3

Lynette, unless you are obese and your doctor prescribes weight loss for both your health and the baby's health there is no reason to lose weight when pregnant.

Sometimes a pregnant woman who was very overweight before she got pregnant will get gestational diabetes. In this case the Doctor may prescribe a diet such as the Diabetes diet. But only sometimes.

If your doctor has not specifically prescribed a diet such as this then just eat healthy foods and stay away from smoking, alcohol and drugs so you will have a healthy baby.

Answer 4

Your mom is going to kill you if she keeps this up. Tell her to look up some actual diet stuff, call a doctor or a nutritionist. It's common sense to eat three full meals a day limit your calories to 900 a day, and work out 30 minutes a day with cardio excersises. Drink a ton of water, and just make sure your eating saturated and transfat free foods and you'll lose weight faster. With the way your mom is limiting your food you are definitely going to gain weight because your body has to make up for what your not eating and you'll bloat. If she doesn't listen to you, I'd tell someone because that's just ridiculous, your mom should know that's so unhealthy

Answer 5

ask your obgyn for a healthy way to lose weight while pregnant...and he'd probably smack you, lol
you need to GAIN weight while pregnant for the sake of your baby--you dont want a sickly ill baby in 9 months do you?

If you think losing weight is a good thing for you right now--take a look at some websites with pics of babies in which the mothers didnt take care of themselves while pregnant.

Answer 6

even if you try to loose weight, unless your do something crazy like just starving yourself you wont loose weight, i was on a diet up until the day i found out i was pregnant, for the life of me i couldnt realize why i started gaining weight again, i was exerciseing and eating very healthy, but then when i added that with the morning sickness and other things i had i realized i could be pregnant as soon as i took that test and it came back pos, i stoped dieting, still lost weight from morning sickness, but that was out of my control. my doc was even telling me that when i COULD eat, to pack it in, in case i cant stomac to eat anything later.

Answer 7

invest in a standing desk like the ergotron workfit s 379 ergotron com or get crafty and raise your monitor and keyboard with books

Answer 8

As long as you limit your sugar intake and walk for at least fifteen minutes a day you should be okay with your fat burning. Assuming you have a healthy metabolism. Good luck!

Answer 9

make sure you check food labels and avoid anything with more than 4 grams of sugar especially high fructose corn syrup per serving

Answer 10

eat healthy fats

Answer 11

To know how much calories you have to eat just add zero to your weight