pregorexia

Getting Your Body Back After Pregnancy: What not to do

December 20, 2011

See – she’s fine now! Check out that core strength!! Compare Jelly Bean’s fab plank to this woman’s – this has got to be the worst “fitness” photo I’ve ever seen! (And no comment about the two binkies. We’re working on it!) I love her one boot/one plaid sandal combo. She cracks me up every single day. “Huh, we never really figured out what happened with that blip,” the doctor said lightly as she traced her finger over Jelly Bean’s growth chart at her recent 2-year checkup. She didn’t even notice my uncomfortable fidgeting as she continued, “Ah well, no [...]

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Have Your Feelings About Your Weight Ever Held You Back from Doing What you Love?

March 14, 2011

Gwen Stefani with 4-month-old Zuma Nesta Rock (I cannot hear that name and not immediately think Zima. I’m sure she did not mean it but her baby will forever be linked to a much-mocked adult beverage.) If this is “gross, big and uncool” sign me up! Gwen Stefani is hot. I think everyone, regardless of gender or orientation, can agree on this one. I have long loved the blond bindi-sporting No Doubt singer – their Tragic Kingdom album is still in my top ten list of albums that most affected me – so I was a little torn when I [...]

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Can Exercise Hurt Your Breast Milk? [A Study in Mother Guilt]

September 6, 2010

A mother’s love – they say that nothing is more powerful. (At least if you believe Harry Potter, which of course I do. I’m a sucker for green eyes.) So if this is true then I know the second most powerful force on the planet: A mother’s guilt. Whether they hand it to you as you exit the hospital, a neat little package of the shame you carry for sending your precious infant to the nursery to spend his first night on the planet alone amongst the bright lights and loud noises or whether you don’t discover the little box [...]

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Tips for Losing the Baby Weight – That Really Work!

November 17, 2009

I am ten days past the scream-n-push Bodily Fluids Festival of ’09 (Marilyn Manson should take notes) which means, of course, that it’s time to talk about losing the baby weight. No, not because I’m feeling overly anxious about it – I’m too busy being anxious about being anxious! – but because I’ve gotten a ton of e-mails about it. Being officially The Nicest People on the Internet, none of you readers have been pressuring me but rather just wondering if I’ve found anything that works. Weight loss being the crapshoot that it is once you mix in genetics, socioeconomic [...]

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Trendwatch: How to be "Skinny Pregnant"

October 19, 2009

Thanks to Laura for the pic! It was awkward. And I have no one to blame but myself. There I was, surrounded by several of my good friends who took me out to remind me that I am actually a person and not just a non-exercising baby incubator, when this happened: Friend: Oh you look so adorable! You’re all belly!Me: Oh no, really I’ve gained a ton of weight.Friend 2: No! You look fabulous! Your face isn’t puffy at all.Me: It just looks that way because I straightened my hair. Trust me, it’s puffy.Friend 3: But your legs look great! [...]

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Confessions of a Pregnant Compulsive Exerciser

September 25, 2009

Yeah, this poster has a typo. Several actually. Kids these days. I have the feeling that eventually this will be one of those Turning Points in my life that I’ll talk about later with great insight. But living it thus far has felt anything but profound. Unless you mean profoundly depressing. Backstory: Wednesday morning I did Turbokick, per my usual. Halfway through the class, the little girls’ room called and I headed out. There was blood, people. A lot of blood. Which is never a good thing when you are pregnant, much less eight months pregnant. Trying not to panic, [...]

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The Cure for Compulsive Over Exercise

August 21, 2009

This is what happens when you tell me you “have to go number 2″ 10 minutes after we passed the last gas station for 100 miles. My Summer Vacationby Charlotte Andersen I learned a lot of things on my summer vacation: 1. Not only do my kids not like audio books, it turns out my husband and I do not like them either. Narrators are boring compared to the voices in my head! They all talk funny. And slow.2. There are 17 different Jen/Jennie/Jennifers in my cell phone but not a single Jenny – a strange factoid I discovered when [...]

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New Research: A Distorted Self Image Linked to Weight Gain

July 10, 2009

I read FitPregnancy. It seems slightly silly to me, this being my fifth (I’m a breeder!) pregnancy and all and yet I’m still drawn by the lure of Build An Entire Maternity Wardrobe Out of 5 Simple Pieces (of clothing I could never afford) and essays by professional athletes who do two-hour trail runs when 9 months pregnant (despite the fact that I can barely chug out a mile these days). One thing never fails to catch my eye: research. While most of it only pertains to preggos – apparently swimming at least once a week helps you use less [...]

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Weight Gain in Pregnancy: What’s Normal and What’s Just Celebrities

June 23, 2009

It’s official: I am half way done with my pregnancy! With 20 weeks under my metaphorical belt – like I could get an actual belt on these days – and perhaps less to go if the universe loves me, I feel pretty excited about this milestone. As I’m looking obviously pregnant now, there are many upsides – I’m starting to look cute in maternity clothes, hopefully we’ll find out the gender soon (my ultrasound is on the 30th) and I get to park in the mother-to-be parking spots without feeling guilty. (Side note: pregnant women do not need special parking [...]

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The Problem With Being a People Pleaser

May 21, 2009

This would also be good reason for a freak-out. And now for an interruption in our regularly scheduled programming (I owe you a dissertation on poo, I know.) The following is an announcement from the Emergency Charlotte Broadcast System. This is not a test. I repeat, this is not a test. (And it’s not a Thursday re-run today either.) So I had my first official meltdown of this pregnancy today. Truth to be told I’ve been building up to it for a while now. A lot of you in the past have asked me how a girl with an eating [...]

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