subject: Fat Loss Diets Can Be Healthy During Pregnancy [print this page] Fat Loss Diets Can Be Healthy During Pregnancy
Being pregnant means you live surrounded by excitement, horror stories and unwanted advice; tshe last thing you really want to have to think about is controlling your weight, especially as this is just about the only time in a woman's life where it's socially acceptable to gain weight, but maintaining a healthy weight is important to both of you. The right fat loss diet can be just the thing you need to keep everyone happy and healthy for those nine or ten months.
Diet Is Not A Dirty Word
Ever since we, as a culture, stopped having to put in a full day's physical labor for our meals, the word diet has been collecting baggage and ugly connotations. However, in its most basic, it simply means how and what we eat and doesn't have to be tied to calorie restrictions and "fat-free," artificially flavored, colored and created foods that not only don't satisfy, but almost always seem to leave us less healthy than when we started.
The diet of a pregnant woman is especially crucial because so many things that are in our "food" can damage her, the baby or both, regardless of whether she's gaining an unhealthy amount of weight in the process or not.
There are different layers of restrictions for different points of pregnancy. Aside from cigarettes which are bad for anyone, anytime and caffeine and alcohol which are sufficiently tricky that it's best just to avoid them there are a plethora of other things an expectant mother should avoid.
Eating For A Healthy Weight Doesn't Mean Avoiding Food
Lunchmeat, the stuff that comes pressed and processed and sealed in plastic, contains nitrites chemicals used to "fix" the flavor and color, and essentially keep the meat edible long past what it would normally manage and can also put the consumer at risk for listeria contamination.
Listeria is a bacterium that can cause miscarriages and other serious complications. While it is true that raw milk and meat can also be contaminated with this bacterium, cooking will kill it. Lunchmeat is hazardous because the means of processing can lead to contamination after cooking but before packaging.
All that from just one food category. And that is without taking into consideration the fact that this same food item is made from leftover parts and lots of fat, meaning that it isn't all that great for non-pregnant people and one of the main values of meat, that its an excellent protein source, is greatly diminished.
Just Avoiding The Wrong Foods
To have a healthy pregnancy, a woman needs good sources of protein, as well as vitamins, minerals and all those other things so crucial to a growing body. This is why the right fat loss diet can be such a help.
While fat serves many useful purposes, having too much of it will harm both mother and child and reduce the odds of a successful pregnancy. And all the salt, added sugars and unpronounceable preservatives in "diet" foods aren't conducive to healthy development either.
Do you know what a good source of protein is? Grass-fed, organic beef. It's also a great source of iron. Other organic meats have excellent food value as well, without all those chemicals.
Want a good vitamin supplement that's just sweet enough to satisfy a craving? Try fresh fruit! It even comes packaged in nifty sources of fiber! Organic vegetables also have tons of vitamins, minerals. Dark, leafy greens have more calcium than milk and a lot more flavor variety.
And because the body uses these organically sourced, single-ingredient foods far more efficiently than anything preprocessed, fat is burned rather than stored. This has the amazing double benefit of allowing pregnant women everywhere to stay full while maintaining a healthy weight and healthy child.
