Losing Weight Fast-Pregnancy Weight Loss-Thin Me Blog

When I started this pregnancy, I knew I wanted to try to lose weight instead of gain.  I had been only a little successful in getting my weight down before achieving pregnancy, having gone from 340 to 300 over the course of a year and a half or so.  It helped, but I hated the  [ Read More ]

I just read an article that just sums up everything that I have been advised to do and am doing to overcome gestational diabetes in this pregnancy. I have been pretty consistently keeping my fasting numbers below 100, and my 2-hour post-prandial numbers are usually below 100, sometimes well below, but almost always below 120.  [ Read More ]

At the beginning of my pregnancy, I wrote about Preventing Gestational Diabetes.  It was great advice!  Now it is the 7th month of my pregnancy, and I can reflect back on my own experience. As I am prone to do when trying to diet, I “fell off the wagon” along the way.  It was the  [ Read More ]

Gestational Diabetes is a condition that arises during pregnancy when a woman’s blood glucose levels rise above normal.  It’s caused by the pregnancy hormones which can reduce cell’s sensitivity to glucose, and it goes away when the baby is born.  One huge risk when you have gestational diabetes is that you will have a big  [ Read More ]

Trying to lose weight while pregnant is an interesting endeavor. I don’t know what to expect from the scale from day to day, it’s always a surprise, and not always a happy one when I’m really just wanting the pounds to keep dropping. Last week I got serious of tracking my food on Sparkpeople, and  [ Read More ]

Pregnancy Weight Loss Exercise Program I have just entered week 9 of the pregnancy, which you know is more like 7 actual weeks of being pregnant. And today I have hit the 16 pounds lost mark. Woo hoo! Here’s how I’m losing weight while pregnant: 1) I’m tracking my food on sparkpeople.com. 2) I’m eating  [ Read More ]

Michael Pollan, author of The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, and Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual, spoke to Google employees in 2008.  Here are a few of the points he mentioned that I jotted down  [ Read More ]

It’s time to lose some extra body fat.  All right, you say, so how does one get their body to start burning fat?  The reality is, your body burns some body fat and replenishes fat stores all the time.  Whether you end up with a net increase or a net loss of body fat depends  [ Read More ]

I always figure out I’m pregnant very early in the process.  This is because I practice Natural Family Planning: I take my temperatures, I keep a chart, I have a fairly decent idea of the few days when ovulation might have occurred.  I typically take a home pregnancy test and stare at it for minutes  [ Read More ]

I’m popping a lot of supplements these days and I thought it might be nice to list them here in case you’re wondering… these were approved by my doctor for me, and note that I’m in the 290′s now weight-wise, so another person’s dose might be different. 1) Multi-Vitamin.  I have been taking the same  [ Read More ]