Everything old is new again.
I can understand exercising, even to extremes, because that isn’t harmful to the new born as long as care is taken to ensure good care of the mother otherwise.
But to not eat properly when the unborn child would need it the most. That’s wrong.
The bogus claims of "obesity" have some sheeple running scared of the "disease".
I blame the media for these women's poor self-image.
My body is still bouncing back after number three, who will be three months old in a few days. Getting back into shape is so important because I have so much more energy and sleep much better. I also like that the kids see us work out together. However, crash dieting is just too dangerous and is not a long term fix.
It’s tough. Society places such a value on thin, attractive women that we criticize or stigmatize women who gain while pregnant and seem incapable or unwilling to slim down. If we had the right priorities, we would not subject women to this pressure.
Then again, I think it is natural for women to want to regain their figure because it signifies they are eligible for mating again.
In the parrot world, the females will pluck out all their feathers when they deem themselves to be unattractive and, thus, unsuitable to reproduce. I think some women do the same thing only with packing on weight instead of plucking feathers. It’s all subconscious.
As a male, I can only try to understand what that’s like but I see it all the time. So women like the one in this story are trying to a) fight the natural weight gain that happens in pregnancy and b) try to get a head start on looking suitable for mating again.
I belong to Weight Watchers. WW forbids pregnant women from joining or continuing the program, but you would not believe how many women have tried to do the program while pregnant. What the H are these women thinking?
I gained a ‘normal’ amount of weight when I was pg. 15lbs. Since I was already about 30lbs overweight that was the number my OB threw out when I asked. The calories/day were about 300 more than I had been eating prior to pregnancy. I continued to ride the recumbant bike 3 or 4 times per week.
I was criticized for not eating for two and ‘starving the baby’ plenty I might add.
I’m the ONLY woman I know with kids my kids age who weighs ANYTHING close to her prepregnancy weight after kids. Most of them gained at LEAST SIXTY pounds. One gained ONE HUNDRED POUNDS. They skipped b/fast because of morning sickness. Then ate lunch, after lunch, afternoon snack, pre dinner snack, dinner, after dinner snack and bedtime snack. These were all full meals too BTW. It wasn’t unusual for these women (there were 3 of us pregnant at the same time in our social group) to make a trip to sonic in mid afternoon and get a meals worth of food topped off with a large shake or brownie fudge sundae. And bring home a walker of tater tots and onion rings. It was almost a sport to just watch them eat.
I was the ONLY woman in the group who did NOT have issues with diabetes and blood pressure later on in the pregnancy.
One of the women ‘outgrew’ the 3XL maternity clothing and had to have clothes made for her. She had been in a regular size L prior to pregnancy. At 5’8” she was ‘large average’ prior to pregnancy. She’s never lost the weight since.
From looking around I’d say the ‘too skinny’ moms are greatly in the minority compared to the ones who have a food free for all for 9 months because the two they eat for are apparently two NFL linebackers.
Funny how they don’t mention the studies finding skinny women are less healthy and die younger than average weight women. Wonder why?
Pray America is Waking
Everything old is new again.