5 common myths that contribute to weight gain during pregnancy. How can I not gain excess weight?

5 common myths that contribute to weight gain during pregnancy. How can I not gain excess weight?

The article gives advice on how to preserve their figure during pregnancy, also gives common misconceptions that contribute to the set of extra pounds with pregnant women.

So that the treasured two stripes on the test do not become an completely undesirable cross on your figure, it is necessary to recall the most common myths that prevent our mothers from maintaining beautiful forms.

Myth 1, promoting weight gain during pregnancy

Need to eat for two!

Our mothers and grandmothers from generation to generation listened to this proverb, sacredly believing that if you do not overshadow, then the baby may not have enough nutrients and he will be born weak, hair and nails fall out and you will generally look like a pale bark.

But what really?

You get all the nutrients of the baby through the blood from your mother. In the first - second trimester, he needs very few proteins, fats and carbohydrates, because he is still tiny!

Important: what you really need to take care of is about vitamins and trace elements. In them, the need really increases. The most important vitamin in the first trimester of pregnancy folic acid (B9)! Dose during pregnancy is 400 μg.

It is best to accept natural  polyvitamin complexes for children Or for pregnant women, having consulted first with your doctor. This is really what the baby needs. If you are drawn to eat an extra piece of meat, a tomato or an apple, then it will not be superfluous. Even cereals with moderate oil content can be asked for an additive.

But if after you eat three pieces of cake or chocolate at a time, then there certainly no very necessary substances for your baby is not contained. Most likely it asks for your appetite, not a crumb.

Myth 2, contributing to weight gain during pregnancy

You need to eat everything you want, because pregnant women cannot be refused!

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I would like to eat a whole loaf with a can of condensed milk in one sitting - it is for a reason the body asks! I want a stick of sausage or a bowl of Olivier - this is definitely a baby!

And what really?

Many women really have hunger attacks during pregnancy, especially in Vespers - night time, when the body intensively produces “pregnancy hormones”. Try to have a useful and delicious food at hand by this time: fresh and dry fruits, nuts, cottage cheese, yogurt, bread, boiled meat, egg.

In short, you will find useful, then eat.
It is better to eat a piece of meat, even with boiled potatoes and sauerkraut, than a half -kilo cookies with tea.

Myth 3, promoting weight gain during pregnancy

Pregnant women are always drawn to the salty.

In our mentality, a symbol of pregnancy is not a rounded tummy and shining eyes of a future mommy, but a large salty cucumber in his hand. If you are pregnant, then you must certainly pull you on pickles: cucumbers, tomatoes, herring.

And what really?

Important: Pregnant women are drawn not so much on salty as on sour, because it is acidic that helps to alleviate toxicosis. Doctors generally categorically against the use of an excessive amount of salt by the future mother. After all, salt provokes swelling, which not only adversely affects the figure, but also threatens a malfunction in the work of the kidneys and generally adversely affects the baby.

To relieve toxicosis, use sour: lemon, sour apples, cranberries, lingonberries, tangerines, grapefruit, currants.

Myth 4, contributing to weight gain during pregnancy

Pregnant people are contraindicated in physical activity. Pregnants should move less and lie more, otherwise they will put on preservation.

And what really?

There are really such sad moments when the doctor recommends limiting physical activity and can even prescribe bed rest. Of course, then it is better to listen to an experienced specialist.
But very often an absolutely “healthy pregnancy” is accompanied by constant lying, sitting “just in case”. In the first 4-5 months of pregnancy, you really need to take care, because very often during this period the uterus is in good shape, the placenta is attached low, plus pain in the lower abdomen, toxicosis and drowsiness.

Important: but then, after the second ultrasound at 18-22 weeks, if the doctor does not mind, you can safely engage in yoga for pregnant women, aquaerobics, swimming, simple gymnastics, in general, everything that does not cause you pain and fears for the baby.

It is proven that if a woman does not lead a constantly lying lifestyle during pregnancy: she walks a lot in the fresh air, is engaged in sparing gymnastics, then the birth is more natural and, accordingly, easier.

Myth 5, contributing to weight gain during pregnancy

You need to carefully monitor the weight gained!

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This is another extreme. During pregnancy, many women have nothing to do that they look for different signs on the Internet with a weekly weight gain during pregnancy, compare them, calculate the average indicators. And if, God forbid, they gain extra 50-100 grams per week, then that's all, this is a disaster! Seats begin on buckwheat and water, and this is during pregnancy!

And what really?

Leave all your favorite radical methods of losing weight for the period after breastfeeding.

Important: you took responsibility to God to endure, give birth and grow a healthy child. Accordingly, something will have to be sacrificed. You will gain kilograms anyway. In the first months, due to toxicosis, you can even lose weight, but then be sure to catch up and overtake this weight by 11-16 kilograms.
Nature thought out everything to the smallest detail. During childbirth, women lose 6-10 kilograms. The unfortunate 5-10 kilograms will remain, which will quickly leave during breastfeeding and taking care of the baby.

If you have a restless child, then you will drop extra kg for the first couple of months after childbirth. And if there is calm and sleeping, then all the cards are in your hands: prepare your right food, do easy gymnastics, add cleaning, washing and other “charms” to this.

How many pregnant women should gain in weight?

On average, future mothers add to pregnancy in the region of 11-16 kg.

Important: the more fully mom is before pregnancy, the less she should add, the more slimmer the mother, the more she can add while he nurses the baby.

This is due to the fact that many female hormones are produced in subcutaneous fat. Accordingly, if the mother was very thin before pregnancy, the body specially increases the volume of “fat” during pregnancy and breastfeeding.

What is the weight gain during pregnancy?

  • 1.5-2 kg- uterine weight during pregnancy
  • 3.5 - 4 kg - the most frequent weight of the crumbs
  • 1 kg - mass of placenta and fetal bladder
  • 1 - 1.5 kg - weightlifting weight
  • a couple of kilograms for the production of hormones, protect the baby in the tummy from blows, temperature difference, energy resource during childbirth and breastfeeding.

A few tips for a pregnant woman

You have to eat with benefit for yourself and crumbs

  1. Try to eat slowly. Turning the floor of the roll on the go, talking with a girlfriend on the phone, you will not even notice what you ate. The body will receive the lion's dose of calories, but will not receive nutrients and pleasure at all and will begin to demand more. Another thing will be if you make tea, put a bun on a beautiful plate and slowly pinching off each piece, you will add.
  2. If you notice that the “zhor” does not leave you all day and you have already devastated the floor of the refrigerator, try to “take your hands”: you can tie a blouse for crumbs or booties, pick up things in a hospital, do yoga for pregnant women, in the end brush your teeth

Important: it is proved that if a person is used to brush his teeth twice a day after eating, then his teeth brushing is associated with the cessation of food intake

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