Hello everyone!
I had a baby a year and a half ago and after the birth I gained 20 pounds over of what I had gained during the pregnancy. I have tried diet pills, exercising, liquid diet with only one meal a day and nothing works in matter of fact I think I just gained 5 pounds in the last 2 weeks. I have always had a big behind and thick legs to go with it and it did look cute but its not looking cute if theres a gut to with it. With the first kid it was easy to loose the weight. I honestly dont know what else to do.
Please does anyone know of any home remedies that i could use that actualy works?
Thanks.
oops! I just noticed I spelled pounds wrong. Thanks to that guy..
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First, make sure that you are healthy, no diabetes, no heart stuff, and check to see what you should weigh for your bone structure, height, AND family genes (which are important). Some women never get rid of that extra 10 to 20 lbs., others can eat you out of house and home and never put on a pound.
Worrying about weight actually makes you think about food more. The word "diet" is a bad word too. Eating right is the only way. LOTS of quick diets only last a quick time. You can lose a lot of water with pills, but your body needs a lot of water to lose weight.
Our family is Native American and Scotch and Sephardic. Weight is easy for us to put on. My sister found it easier with doc's help to eat 6 smaller meals each day. Kept to 1200 to 1500 calories daily with 2 glasses of water with each meal. She lost 15 lbs. first month, 10 the second and 5 the third. She added more carbs the 2nd and 3rd month and it made a difference. So she cut out white sugar, white flour and corn, potatoes (kept the sweet), rice, but eats brown, uses grapeseed oil and walnut oil. She feels a lot better and some months hardly looses, but the weight has shifted, has more muscle then fat, but muscle weights more, so she bikes with her kids and hates running, but like roller skating. You don't have to over do it, live. You have kids and the time is short. You marriage needs work too, not just your body and if you can make good looking low fat carb, meals romantic, or picnics, with husband, isn't his view important?
So lots of high fiber salads, like with turkey, chicken pea pods, spinach, peppers, onions, scallions, mushrooms, gluten free muffins (yes, you can have muffins, breads and even cookies, low carb). My sister takes a few hours off at night to fix a weeks worth of cooked mushrooms, peppers, onions, and other ingredients and freezes into individual packets to thaw and heat when mixing with other stuff. She also has yogurt and 1/2 banana for breakfast, midmorning a gluten-free cookie and green hot tea, lunch vegetable soup with brown bread (gluten free), and ice tea, mid afternoon, fruit with fish or meat salad or just a fruit salad with cottage cheese, dinner a hot meal with hubbie, before bed, muffin or 1/2 a low carb sand., or gluten crackers with cashew butter and 1/2 glass of low fat milk ...
Sometimes she makes low fat ice cream with real fruit, or a smoothie with tofu. There are so many good recipes on line that take little time to make. You will lose slowly if you eat well and drink water and be involved in family, your mental and physical health is so important. Gut someones will get smaller, but nothing like situps to tone you, but biking will help, otherwise look at your children and if you had a choice we all would grow older gracefully with them and stay as healthy as long as possible. Good Luck.
First, make sure that you are healthy, no diabetes, no heart stuff, and check to see what you should weigh for your bone structure, height, AND family genes (which are important). Some women never get rid of that extra 10 to 20 lbs., others can eat you out of house and home and never put on a pound.
Worrying about weight actually makes you think about food more. The word "diet" is a bad word too. Eating right is the only way. LOTS of quick diets only last a quick time. You can lose a lot of water with pills, but your body needs a lot of water to lose weight.
Our family is Native American and Scotch and Sephardic. Weight is easy for us to put on. My sister found it easier with doc's help to eat 6 smaller meals each day. Kept to 1200 to 1500 calories daily with 2 glasses of water with each meal. She lost 15 lbs. first month, 10 the second and 5 the third. She added more carbs the 2nd and 3rd month and it made a difference. So she cut out white sugar, white flour and corn, potatoes (kept the sweet), rice, but eats brown, uses grapeseed oil and walnut oil. She feels a lot better and some months hardly looses, but the weight has shifted, has more muscle then fat, but muscle weights more, so she bikes with her kids and hates running, but like roller skating. You don't have to over do it, live. You have kids and the time is short. You marriage needs work too, not just your body and if you can make good looking low fat carb, meals romantic, or picnics, with husband, isn't his view important?
So lots of high fiber salads, like with turkey, chicken pea pods, spinach, peppers, onions, scallions, mushrooms, gluten free muffins (yes, you can have muffins, breads and even cookies, low carb). My sister takes a few hours off at night to fix a weeks worth of cooked mushrooms, peppers, onions, and other ingredients and freezes into individual packets to thaw and heat when mixing with other stuff. She also has yogurt and 1/2 banana for breakfast, midmorning a gluten-free cookie and green hot tea, lunch vegetable soup with brown bread (gluten free), and ice tea, mid afternoon, fruit with fish or meat salad or just a fruit salad with cottage cheese, dinner a hot meal with hubbie, before bed, muffin or 1/2 a low carb sand., or gluten crackers with cashew butter and 1/2 glass of low fat milk ...
Sometimes she makes low fat ice cream with real fruit, or a smoothie with tofu. There are so many good recipes on line that take little time to make. You will lose slowly if you eat well and drink water and be involved in family, your mental and physical health is so important. Gut someones will get smaller, but nothing like situps to tone you, but biking will help, otherwise look at your children and if you had a choice we all would grow older gracefully with them and stay as healthy as long as possible. Good Luck.
Helpful cookbooks for gestational diabetes?
Platinum M
I am 14 weeks pregnant with twins, and found that I have gestational diabetes. Therefore, my OB has asked that I follow a diabetic food plan, but that I must be aware to consume the necessary caloric allotment of 3,200 daily. That is a lot of calories when almost eliminating carbs! Does anyone out there have a suggestion for a helpful (and easy) cookbook designed for women with gestational diabetes? I am sure I could use any diabetic cookbook, but am hoping for one geared more towards pregnant women, to help me get enough nutrition and calories in. Your help is appreciated.
Oh, and consuming meat is either hit-or-miss for me daily, as my morning sickness still lingers some days.
ADD: Yes, I am fully aware of the fact that I could easily look online. However, the whole point of using YA is to get actual perspectives and ideas. (Otherwise, wouldn't the suggestion of just using Google pretty much eliminate about 95% of the questions on YA)
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I feel your pain!!
I am experiencing my second pregnancy with gestational diabetes. Since I hae a strong family history of diabetes, they generally test me at about 8 weeks so I get to spend the entire pregnancy eating a diabetic diet.
With my first pregnancy I was not very good about following my diet and gained 40 pounds in a singleton pregnancy.
Now I'm 18 weeks deep into my second pregnancy and have been following the diabetic diet since beginning. I was nearly 20 pounds heavier when I conceived this time than last time and I have yet to gain any weight. Instead I've lost 8 pounds and remain 8 pounds lower than my pre-pregnancy weight. Again, I am carrying only one baby.... (and I was overweight.)
I spend a HUGE amount of time researching gestational diabetes and diets during my first pregnancy and discovered that of the inter-connected library service in my county (connected to three other counties there was only ONE book about it. Since the book had a long waiting list I only got to keep it for four weeks. Since it was dry as hell, I think I only got through three chapters.
I have yet to find any cookbooks geared toward pregnant diabetics. :-(
I will list in my resources the two BEST diabetic websites I have found to date.
Additionally, I will tell you that the key to my current success is walking after meals (about 10-20 minutes) and limiting my carb intakes to that which was specifically directed by the dietitian I was assigned to.
Further, here is a list of "super foods" I have found to give me great energy, meet my dietary requirements well, allow for second helpings, and keep my blood sugars low:
Spinach Quiche (If you like eggs,want a recipe I have a really easy one, email me and I will send it back to you.) The added benefit to this is that my midwife informed me that egg consumption helps strengthen the amniotic sac!
2. Home-made turkey chili (beans add additional which not only helps to keep sugar levels down, but had *ahem* added benefits to counteract pregnancy symptoms... again I have a great recipe.)
Great snackies:
Kashi brand makes a cracker that is virtually identical to a Triscut, but it has no added sugar and half the carbs, I get mine by the three pack at Costco. It's called Heart-to-Heart
Plain Greek yogurt 7g carbs per serving! If you add 1-2 Splenda packets to a 1/2 cup, it tastes like creme freche! I like to throw a couple of raspberries in too for a low carb, low sugar fruit yogurt.
Places to find hidden sugars:
TOMATOS, tomato sauces. If you like Italian food... stick to meaty stews with small amounts of polenta and cheese... red sauce spikes my sugar every time!
Carrots (sad but true!) and OK in limited quantities ix-nay on the ranch dressing dip.
Peanut butter! Seems like a great place to get protein, I know! Actually it is, but you have to seek out the "special" peanut butter that is made with only peanuts and peanut oil. No added sugar (you can toss the Skippy and JIF right now.) Plus, this stuff usually requires refrigeration...
Pre-cooked bacon or jerky. Both of these are typically cured in sugar, so make sure you read packages.
It's tough but not impossible. If you do it well you're in great shape. If you have trouble, talk to your doctor, they can offer medication that isn't insulin to try to help control it.
Best of luck to you!
I feel your pain!!
I am experiencing my second pregnancy with gestational diabetes. Since I hae a strong family history of diabetes, they generally test me at about 8 weeks so I get to spend the entire pregnancy eating a diabetic diet.
With my first pregnancy I was not very good about following my diet and gained 40 pounds in a singleton pregnancy.
Now I'm 18 weeks deep into my second pregnancy and have been following the diabetic diet since beginning. I was nearly 20 pounds heavier when I conceived this time than last time and I have yet to gain any weight. Instead I've lost 8 pounds and remain 8 pounds lower than my pre-pregnancy weight. Again, I am carrying only one baby.... (and I was overweight.)
I spend a HUGE amount of time researching gestational diabetes and diets during my first pregnancy and discovered that of the inter-connected library service in my county (connected to three other counties there was only ONE book about it. Since the book had a long waiting list I only got to keep it for four weeks. Since it was dry as hell, I think I only got through three chapters.
I have yet to find any cookbooks geared toward pregnant diabetics. :-(
I will list in my resources the two BEST diabetic websites I have found to date.
Additionally, I will tell you that the key to my current success is walking after meals (about 10-20 minutes) and limiting my carb intakes to that which was specifically directed by the dietitian I was assigned to.
Further, here is a list of "super foods" I have found to give me great energy, meet my dietary requirements well, allow for second helpings, and keep my blood sugars low:
Spinach Quiche (If you like eggs,want a recipe I have a really easy one, email me and I will send it back to you.) The added benefit to this is that my midwife informed me that egg consumption helps strengthen the amniotic sac!
2. Home-made turkey chili (beans add additional which not only helps to keep sugar levels down, but had *ahem* added benefits to counteract pregnancy symptoms... again I have a great recipe.)
Great snackies:
Kashi brand makes a cracker that is virtually identical to a Triscut, but it has no added sugar and half the carbs, I get mine by the three pack at Costco. It's called Heart-to-Heart
Plain Greek yogurt 7g carbs per serving! If you add 1-2 Splenda packets to a 1/2 cup, it tastes like creme freche! I like to throw a couple of raspberries in too for a low carb, low sugar fruit yogurt.
Places to find hidden sugars:
TOMATOS, tomato sauces. If you like Italian food... stick to meaty stews with small amounts of polenta and cheese... red sauce spikes my sugar every time!
Carrots (sad but true!) and OK in limited quantities ix-nay on the ranch dressing dip.
Peanut butter! Seems like a great place to get protein, I know! Actually it is, but you have to seek out the "special" peanut butter that is made with only peanuts and peanut oil. No added sugar (you can toss the Skippy and JIF right now.) Plus, this stuff usually requires refrigeration...
Pre-cooked bacon or jerky. Both of these are typically cured in sugar, so make sure you read packages.
It's tough but not impossible. If you do it well you're in great shape. If you have trouble, talk to your doctor, they can offer medication that isn't insulin to try to help control it.
Best of luck to you!
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