Why do pregnant women let themselves go?

[peace-love-couture]

Technically, pregnant women should only eat like 300 extra calories a day, per fetus/baby in them.

And they should only gain around 25-30 lbs. My mom never got big with my sisters and I, but she was (before she had my sister) an aspiring body builder or whatever, so she was in shape. My sisters never got big. One of them only got a tad bigger on her 3rd pregnancy, but even then it wasn't big at all.

I guess they let themselves go because they never cared about their appearance to begin with? I mean, the average woman is a size 16 in America, so clearly they don't care about their appearances to begin with?

Mind you, I know girls who are 14-16 and have had children lmao and they stayed small and petite and didn't gain much weight. But even then, you shouldn't get that big

I know I sound shallow, but eating healthy and exercising(which is perfectly safe) isn't that much work

[Anonymous]

Pregnancy sends a woman's hormones all over the place. They crave weirder foods, they crave more food, they're sore, exhausted, emotional and in a lot of cases, sick and nauseous. Weird fact: before my mom had her first child, her teeth were perfect and she never had a cavity. After having a child (with no change in her diet or routine), her teeth were suddenly awful. And that's not that uncommon. Pregnancy does all sorts of things to the body.

If a woman is more prone to weight gain, she'll gain more weight anyway, regardless of what she eats, because her metabolism is slower or confused by the pregnancy.

And yes, for some people, staying a certain size really isn't a priority in life, it just isn't. People come in all different sizes, some people are healthy in a size 16, some aren't.

As for people using pregnancy as an excuse, sometimes it is a legitimate reason for weight gain. And some people have a lot of trouble losing the baby weight. Now, when the kids are older, of course that is just an excuse. But I have to say, the only time I've heard a woman do that, she was only saying it in jest.

I've never been pregnant myself, so I can't speak from personal experience. I have no idea how my body will react to pregnancy so I'm not judging those women because it may have the same effect on me. Without personal experience, people can't possibly know they'd do "better".

[justme20]

The babies become more important than their health plus they don't have the time to work out with a new baby, jobs, etc. My mother was 107 pounds before she had me and 2 days after birth she was 105 pounds (mind you she was 34 with me and 35 with my sis). She got up to 150 with both pregnancies and never got a single stretch mark with either. She had a c-section with my sister and it became harder to lose the weight

[iPood]

Lazy women just use pregnancy as an excuse to eat whatever they want and not really have to worry about the side effect bcause they're "supposed" to be gaining weight. Women who gain 60+ pounds during pregnancy disgust me almost as much as the women who blame being overweight/obese on having a baby. Half the time the kid is school age and she's still using that excuse

[MyNameIsJonas]

It's an easy crutch "Im pregnant don't worry about what I eat" I think women should eat healthy when pregnant but not over do it or eat a lot of bad foods. I'd imagine women get lots of cravings for certain things.

[aMuse]

Because they care more about their child then being hot? They also get their attention addiction filled just for being prego. No need to wear tight clothing and flash their breasts when they have a kid on the way.

[peace-love-couture]

Exercising and eating healthy means one is trying to be hot? gotta be kidding me

[aMuse]

As Gregory House would say link but you're very image conscious and I'm sure you'd sacrifice your baby's health for your attempt to constantly please the majority of onlookers. It's the center of your persona on GaG. Forget the science behind pregnancy and how it changes your hormone concentrations forcing you to gain weight.

[peace-love-couture]

Forget that medicine has proven you should only gain 25-30 lbs and gaining too much weight puts yourself and your baby at risk.

Yeah, that makes one too image conscious

retarded liberal

[aMuse]

Yeah everyone who thinks you're an idiot must be a liberal. Makes perfect sense.

[aMuse]

Proven huh? Show me the medical journal. Reading some secondhand recommendation for weight gain on some magazine website is not proff. All women are at different weights before pregnancy. Some are under weigh, some are over weight, some are average. As such they need to gain more or less to compensate for their bodies fat reserves. Some women are bigger then others. Genetics plays to how large the baby will be and how many calories it will need. There are more factors then just 300 calories.

[aMuse]

You know what has been proven in concern to new pregnant women not eating enough?

Premature delivery

Low birth weight

Pre-eclampsia

Complications such as anemia

Higher susceptibility to infection

Birth defects

Long-term health problems such as delayed development, disease, and mortality durring the first few months of life.

Just to wet your appetite. I'm sure your appearance is more important. =|

[peace-love-couture]

Eating healthy and exercising while pregnant doesn't equal not eating enough, but it's great that you can see things in extremes. And even in cases where the woman is underweight, eating to gain weight doesn't mean eating in an unhealthy manner

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[peace-love-couture]

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I never once mentioned under eating, starving oneself or going overboard on exercising. But to act as though eating healthy and working out will harm the baby is just plain ignorant.

The wonders of Google. Wow

[peace-love-couture]

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[aMuse]

So did you think throwing a bunch of links to editorials in my face would make you feel right or something? You only provided one actual scientific study. Did you happen to read it? Well I'll interpret it for you. The study was examining exercise before getting pregnant and during early pregnancy. They were expecting mothers to stop exercising once in pregnancy. Not only that, 55% of participants in the study didn't even stick to the plan in the experiments protocol of 3 times a week.

[aMuse]

They cannot conclude what possible effects exercising at least three times per week may have directly on glucose metabolism. This explorative analysis did not have the benefits of an RCT, and results therefore should be interpreted with caution.

Sorry to break it to you, but this in no way supports your argument.

[peace-love-couture]

Actually, it does :) Seems like someone is upset

It IS recommended that pregnant women workout. I'm sorry it hurts to hear that. In no way, shape or form did I say they should go overboard or that it should be their sole purpose in life. But being healthy and in shape isn't limited to when one isn't pregnant

perhaps if you master the art of reading through the links, you'd see it's been recommended. Nothing you've said has been backed up

[peace-love-couture]

And I'm not even sure how one can even argue against a person who has a low risk pregnancy, exercising. it doesn't hurt lmao. But hey, if you think it's bad to take care of your healthy while pregnant and to put some thought into appearance, by all means maintain that train of thought. This was a simple question

[rudy37lee]

Everyone is different. Sometimes even if you eat right and exercise, your body is just going to gain the weight. Of friend of mine who is in excellent shape and works out avidly, gained over 75 pounds with both her pregnancies.

[7gnat]

After looking at the answers and comments I am afraid to answer.

[peace-love-couture]

There's no right or wrong answer here

People seem to think I'm suggesting they over exercise or maintain a low calorie diet when I'm not. I'm just wondering why they don't continue eating healthy and exercising.

I think the idea that exercising means one only thinks about being hot shows why we have an obesity problem here, but hey. I'm only a superficial bitch

[7gnat]

My mom's metabolism changed drastically after she had kids and see a different view and don't want to be labeled a liberal moron on food stamps or something if I answer honestly lol. Sorry but I see intestines torn out on some of the people that answered your question.

[peace-love-couture]

uh OK whatever

[7gnat]

Sorry, I just am shocked a bit lately. I think there is something amiss lately. It's all good though. I still think you are a great girl in many ways.

[Moloch]

I guess they were like, "F*** it."