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65kg-90kg,although I now weight 79.5kg, I honestly don’t want a repeat of such magnitude. I definitely will gain but not the one it’s a struggle to lose.
NIGERIAN FOOD FOR PREGNANT WOMEN TO LOSE WEIGHT
Hello poster, for questions like this, I’m happy that other experienced moms are always ready to leave comments with tips below.
What causes pregnant women to gain do much weight could be hormones, the size of the unborn baby or food rich in carbs. There are so many Nigerian foods that can help a pregnant woman lose weight. You know our Nigerian food is basically carbohydrates with some soup, rice with stew, jollof, ofada, fried rice and so on.
A pregnant woman should never starve herself to lose weight because another beautiful human is depending on you for nutrition and to stay alive.
However, a pregnant woman can eat wisely and help control her weight gain because too much weight isn’t good. Being overweight while pregnant sometimes can cause gestational diabetes or other health problems.
Nigerian foods that can help a pregnant woman to lose or control weight gain in a healthy way are foods like:
- Vegetable soups eaten with proteins.
- Unripe plantains with stew and proteins
- Very small swallows with much vegetable soup.
- Efo Riro with some rice. More soup than rice.
- Moi moi with fish. More fish than the quantity of moi moi
- Roasted plantain with fish and vegetables where you eat more of the fish and vegetables than the plantain.
- Okra soup with fish or meat without swallows
- Egusi soup with proteins and no carbs some days
- Very little jollof rice with much green vegetable stew
- Garden egg stew with small boiled plantain
Listing the food just like that may help help. What will help a pregnant woman to lose weight or control her pregnant weight with Nigerian food is to know how to combine her vitamins and proteins with just little carbs.
When I use Nigerian foods to control pregnancy weight gain, what I do that helps is eat all my meals but ensure that carbs have the smallest quantity. I consciously make an effort daily to eat more of the soups or stews than the carbs.
Most of our foods help us gain weight if we do not make an effort to serve the right portions and combinations. When you eat bread, make some salad to eat after so you don’t fill yourself with just the bread. A little carbohydrate goes a long way and eating smaller portions of carbohydrates can help us control weight gain in pregnant women.
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Hi,congrats on your pregnancy. Pregnancy weight gain is unavoidable because your baby needs to grow. it's not all your body weight, baby weight, placenta plus yours combined. If you avoid carbohydrates, you won't gain weight but your baby needs and your muscles too. I'll advise you to put baby first at this time. Eat less carbohydrates and you won't gain too much but what about cravings? Will you ignore?
Make some sacrifices just for these few months and once baby arrives, do whatever it takes to drop the excess weight ok? Motherhood is not easy but everything is possible. It's a struggle but you can lose all if you put your mind to it.
I'm guessing you don't struggle with morning sickness, if not that would lead you to loose a good amount of weight in the first trimester. Which is what you will gain back for the rest of your pregnancy (story of my life).
I will suggest you make an effort to watch over-eating, try to work on cravings and move away from the mindset of "ooh i'm eating for two." Also, try to do light exercise like aerobics at home. You can go to youtube, there are alot of pregnancy exercise videos there. Finally, lemons and cinammon powder (you can buy it in the spice section of a supermarket)are great for reducing cravings I wish you all the best.
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Go on a high protein low carb diet. If you want to eat carbs do complex carbs like wheat, oats, brown rice. Then eat fruits with low sugar and vegetables and you should be good. Then also exercise (walking, light jogging, maybe lift some weights if you can manage). Just don't eat junk and try as much as possible to eat most of your meals by 4pm and if you are hungry in the evening please keep it light to fish or vegetables or fruits. If you do that you should be fine. This is what I did and I only gained about 6-7kg which i lost immediately the baby came
Medically,a woman with a normal pregnancy should gain @ least 12kg before she gives birth.the 12kg is a combination of weight of amniotic fluid,placenta,d baby….so pls be careful not 2 starve d growing baby of vital nutrients as this helps 2 improve brain development and development of other parts of the body.work with ur obstetrician to guide you properly.cheers
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Adding weight during pregnancy is very normal, the main thing you should be looking out for is how healthy you and your baby is. I'm a mum of three and I had my 3 kids within 4 years, so you can imagine, I still lost the weight or rather am still losing it.
So please eat well but more of fruits and veggies.Congrats in advance.
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Cinnamon isn't healthy when pregnant, can cause miscarriage
Pls cinnamon isn't healthy for pregnant women, could lead to miscarriage