Nursing mothers generally need 500 calories more a day than their pre-pregnancy Recommended Daily Allowance. This takes into consideration the fact that the average breastfeeding infant consumes 650 calories a day, which is why breastfeeding mothers generally lose weight much more quickly than their bottle feeding counterparts. The weight you gained while pregnant will make up the difference. That’s an instant weight loss of... More »
Junk food aside, not all “good” calories are created equal either. Here are some basic guidelines for choosing calories that are going to meet your caloric needs, your nutritional needs and your basic food desires. You have doubtlessly at some point in your life gone on a diet that has required you to limit yourself to certain types of foods. The Adkins diet, for example, severely limits your carbohydrates, while... More »
Since no truly healthy diet would be complete without a regular exercise regime we’ll go ahead and wrap it up with this. The concept of exercising when you’re nine months pregnant might seem appalling right now, but regular exercise has actually been shown to make both pregnancy and delivery go much more smoothly for both mother and baby.
