'Pregorexia': Extreme dieting while pregnant

CNN ^ | Kelly Wallace

[Texan5]

The women in my family are small boned and slender, as I am. Most of us are naturalists who do not eat processed food or take drugs, and all work on family ranches or in the small shops they own. Barring accident or other mishap, life well into the 90’s is common...

One size does not fit all...

[utahagen]

I'd bet the pregnant women who want to do Weight Watchers are not all as nutty as you'd think. Given that WW encourages people to eat a balanced variety of healthy foods and tells members not to cut calories drastically, a pregnant woman who followed Weight Watchers would be much healthier, as would her baby, than some of the “pregorexic” women described in this article.

(Of course, I don't think pregnant women should go to WW or diet at all.)

[Mygirlsmom]

LOL - right there with ya! My twinnies will be 20 soon, and I've never quite recovered.

When I was expecting my first, another lady I worked with was pregnant at the same time. She bragged on how she was living on coffee and cigarettes, and how she was losing weight during the pregnancy.

On my last day of work, we heard she had been admitted to the hospital with pre-term labor. Her baby did not make it. I can't help but think that not feeding him properly in utero had something to do with it.