A new study shows that the women of Wales are following the dangerous diets that many celebrity predecessors have patented after childbirth.

The study shows that not only are women crash-dieting and hitting the gyms heavy after their delivery, but toward the end as well.  Many of these same women, who are pressured by the likes of Angelina Jolie, Victoria Beckham and other super-slim hot mamas, are using dangerous diuretics during their pregnancy, which can potentially put their skinny asses in the hospital due to pre-term labor and pregnancy complications.

I have a twenty month-old at home.  I obviously did the whole conception, pregnancy and labor ordeal.  I will freely admit that I (gasp) gained almost seventy pounds during my pregnancy.  Unless I was having a seventy pound child, fluids included, there was no excuse for it other than the fact that I hadn’t taken good, healthy care of myself and sat practically for nine months on my ever-growing backside while eating like a fool.  I would sometimes eat four or five full meals in one day, and that’s not even including snacking.  Pre-pregnancy, my weight was approximately 120-ish.  At my largest and in-chargest, I was tipping the scales at around 188 or so.  Granted, I lost the weight.  I probably lost twenty right off the bat, with the birth of my daughter and fluid loss.  Gradually, I lost more through breastfeeding.  My weight loss kick kind of stagnated around the time my daughter was twelve months old, but I was doing my best at the time and doing it healthfully.

I’m now (twenty months later) at my pre-pregnancy weight.  I’m actually three pounds less than my pre-pregnancy number, which, if you do the math is just about 118 or somewhere around there.

Did I gain a seemingly-inexorable amount of weight during my eating (pregnancy) days?  Yes.  Did I feel completely disgusting and pitiful afterwards?  Another big yes.  However, despite my growing bottom-half, I knew that I’d have to grease my elbows and put some good, hard work into losing it.  I had wicked fun eating my face off, but it clearly didn’t pay off in the end.  Regardless, my health and my child’s health, moreso, was always the number one priority to me and starving myself during pregnancy and after childbirth was neither conducive to my child’s health, nor was it to my food-craving frame of mind.

I never understood the during- and post-baby crash dieting and frankly, anyone who feels otherwise has got some serious issues that need to be addressed prior to conception.

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