During the gestation period, women become more anxious. This anxiety can be understood and explained. The future mother is worried about the baby's health and their health, mutual understanding and relationships in the family, etc. There are many reasons for anxiety, among them the problem of changing the female figure during pregnancy. Many women are wondering whether it is possible to lose weight during pregnancy? Let's try to find the answer.
First, pregnancy is the most inappropriate time to go on a diet, as this can end badly for the child and for you. When diet is observed, there is often a shortage of valuable substances and compounds for the body (iron, folic acid, etc.)
A low-calorie diet significantly increases the risk of developing hypertension in pregnant women and pre-eclampsia. During this period of life, many women experience a strong sense of hunger between meals. This is due to the fact that the level of sugar in their blood drops sharply. If to all other they have decided to grow thin at pregnancy, that is to sit down on a diet the feeling of hunger will be simply intolerable. A malnutrition can lead to violations of the child's intrauterine development.
Doctors, nutritionists advise to take another approach to pregnancy and look at a set of weight from a different angle. Perhaps the weight gained is one that should be dropped before pregnancy. And now you should not torture the body (two organisms!) With diets, and it is better to accustom yourself to healthy food and the proper intake of food. This habit you can use all your life, and it will help you to reach the right weight after giving birth.
Adjust yourself psychologically to a healthy and balanced diet, give up fatty foods and digestible sugars. Descend or go on consultation to the dietician who has an operational experience with women in position. Perhaps he will develop for you an individual diet with valuable nutrients, but without excess calories, which will not harm your health and baby health.
It is believed that you do not need to increase the number of calories until the third trimester. And even then the daily diet should be only 200 kilocalories more.
Remember that during pregnancy there must be an increase in weight. After all, it consists of the weight of the child, the appearance of amniotic fluid and placenta, uterus enlargement, breast growth, as well as an increase in the total volume of blood and fat stores. And this is the norm! Kilograms of this weight will disappear almost in the first days after childbirth.
To date, there are no official WHO standards for weight gain during pregnancy, the conditional norm is the weight gain of 10-12 kg for the entire period of gestation. However, it should be emphasized that these figures are arbitrary and should be determined individually for each woman by her physician.
There is an opinion that if the body mass index (abbreviated as BMI) before pregnancy was more than 25, the weight gain during pregnancy should be less than 10-12 kg. That is, the higher the BMI value before pregnancy, the less weight it is recommended to type.
Follow the weight helps exercise before and after pregnancy. If you are not engaged in physical training before pregnancy, then it is strictly forbidden to begin classes during pregnancy with heavy loads. A set of exercises, suitable for you, will help to choose a doctor. The general recommendations are walking: 15 minutes a day, thrice a week, gradually increasing them to 30 minutes every day.
Remember that during pregnancy, losing weight is very risky, but with the right approach, this process can be made safe. Watch for weight and nutrition with a nutritionist and a doctor who advises you. You may need to periodically adjust your diet and exercise. Do not be afraid of fat deposits during pregnancy, because it is so conceived by nature and this is a normal process. You need to control your weight, eat right, lead a healthy lifestyle and then the weight gain does not shock you, it will be within the norm and will easily disappear after the birth of the baby.