Fitness During Pregnancy - Is It Necessary For Maintaining A Healthy Pregnancy Weight?

Just found out that you're pregnant? Congratulations!

With your pregnancy of course, will come some weight gain, necessary both for your own health and the health of your baby. However, during your pregnancy you need to maintain a healthy pregnancy weight, and that can sometimes be difficult to do.

There is a way though, to maintain a healthy pregnancy weight if you follow a well-structured exercise routine. Amongst other things you need to keep your core muscles strong so that they'll "bounce right back" after the delivery. In fact, maintaining fitness during pregnancy can actually make your labor easier.

Just how do you maintain a healthy pregnancy weight?

As their body grows during pregnancy, many pregnant women simply feel unattractive and "fat" so that they just let themselves go. In short, you need to take care of yourself by maintaining fitness during pregnancy and so many moms-to-be simply don't. It's true that pregnancy can make you feel nauseous, can make you feel out of place in your own body, suddenly full of aches, pains, hormone swings, feelings ... lots of things perhaps that you weren't expecting.

It can be difficult to maintain a healthy pregnancy weight when you're feeling this way because "it'll just make me feel better" to sit down and eat an entire box of chocolates, right?

That may be a good justification on the surface, but what's really true is that if you eat healthy food it can actually make you feel better, so that you don't have as many hormone swings, aches, pains, and nausea.

Best of all, maintaining fitness during pregnancy combined with eating a healthy diet of the right foods will keep your body in top shape so that you can have a much more enjoyable pregnancy overall, an easier labor, and enough energy to be the mom you want to be once your new baby arrives.

Cravings are often blamed for gaining excess weight but are they the real culprit? What does cause cravings and how can you take care of them while maintaining fitness during pregnancy (There are special considerations realting to exercise when you're pregnant, most pregnant women SHOULD be able to exercise to maintain a healthy weight providing of course that you have the approval of your doctor or your family's health care provider)?

While there are some cravings that are GOOD and do tell you what you are lacking in your diet. Others are a sign of a poor diet or overindulgence. For instance if you're craving foods with a lot of sodium, it's probably a sign that you are eating too many foods that are high in sugar.

Understanding your cravings can make maintaining a healthy pregnancy weight much easier.

If you maintain fitness during pregnancy which will definitely help you maintain a healthy pregnancy weight it will also help keep you feeling sexy.

And best of all, you will be able to watch the little extra baby weight you do have simply "melt away" in the first weeks after pregnancy, so that you'll fit back into your old clothes in no time -- or need to buy sexy new ones.

by: Steve Barker

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