I don’t buy it either. EVERY woman I know *stops* dieting the second she finds out she’s pregnant.
And what about morning sickness? I lost 10 pounds with my daughter in the first trimester, then gained back 35 - for a total of 25 pound pregnancy gain.
My daughter is very sick at the moment and has lost ten pounds in the last 2 weeks. She’s not dieting. She’s not starving herself. She’s a victim of a natural biological process. For a solid week she was lucky if she could hold down water and broth.
If this theory is true, then every woman who has long-term morning sickness - lasting throughout the majority of the pregnancy - will produce a fat person.
I do love the jab at Atkins. How would a woman who’s eating a large amount of protein, lots of fats and salads be “dieting”? No, she’d just be restricting carbs. She could actually be having a much larger caloric intake than someone on a “healthy” pyramid diet.
My daughter has gotten chubby (before she got pregnant) over the last year because she drank 5 Caramel Mocha Frappuccinos a day for two months before she bothered to look and saw that she was getting 2000 calories a day from just that. (20 pounds)
She was fat as a baby ( I was giving her too much juice), thin as a child, fit as a teen and is now chubby because she didn’t pay attention for a few months while she was in the process of a move and a house remodel.
It’s the western diet that is making us fat. It’s sweet drinks that make us fat. It’s the advice of nutritionists that’s making us fat. It’s the fact that we have this weird, unnatural fear of missing a meal that’s making us fat. It’s the fact that we sit all day that’s making us fat. It’s the fact that our primary work and entertainment is sedentary that’s making us fat.
After 7 years of steadily gaining weight, I’ve lost 45 pounds since I’ve thrown ALL of the modern-day nutritional advice out the window and only have 20 pounds to go to be at an ideal weight for me.
Are you doing low carb?