if you feel hungry, have a drink of water, and then see in 10 mins or so if you are still feeling hungry..I've read/heard that a lot of the time when we think we are hungry, your body is actually trying to tell you it's thirsty. Of course since you're pg you'd still need to make sure you were eating enough for the two of you
I'm trying to lose all my post-baby weight and have been walking every day since she was born but hadn't lost anything. I've now cut out soft drink/juice and only have water, plus a cup of tea at breakfast. Trying to not eat horrible snacky junk food (gets hard with chocolate cravings though!), and to not buy it in the first place! DF is terrible though, he just doesn't care and will bring home whatever. Going to buy some nice fruit today so I can eat that instead of a biscuit or something else.
There is a really good book called "I can make you thin" by Paul McKenna. He looks at only eating when you're hungry, eating slowly and enjoying your food and stopping when you feel full. So simple but it works so well. I lost heaps of weight that way years ago and have stayed much slimmer than I ever have been. It's not about changing your diet as such (although, he does say that eating healthy is important - which is a given) but it's more about the cognitive and emotional side of eating. It's excellent and I still refer to it even now. It's so easy to get into the habit of snacking when bored, upset etc.
1. No softdrink, juice etc
2. Eat smaller meals more often - always have breakfast lunch and tea but make sure your having good healthy snacks in b/w - fruit, carrot sticks etc etc
3. Go for walks if you can
I'm not PG but for me right now i found i was not eating enough or regularly enough to get my metabolism working so i was storing anything i took on.
For anyone who wants to check out the Summer health challenge thread, it's not all about loosing weight, it's about maintaining goals and feeling good about ourselves.
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