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Top 10 Tips for Losing Pregnancy Weight
November 23, 2011 Leave a Comment
Losing weight after pregnancy or miscarriage can be extremely tough. In my own experience, losing weight after miscarriage has been much harder than it was after pregnancy. No matter what I did, how consistent I was, or how hard I tried, I could not lose the last 6 pounds after miscarriage. I’ve come to the conclusion that this has a lot to do with excess estrogen.
Your liver is responsible for metabolizing estrogen, and it can’t do this job it’s busy getting rid of other crap we put into our bodies. Therefore, the excess estrogen in your system after pregnancy or miscarriage continues to float around and make fat loss virtually impossible. Once I made a few simple, yet powerful adjustments to my lifestyle, the weight finally came off. These changes had nothing to do with exercise or caloric deficit and everything to do with helping my body do some estrogen detox.
Here are a few less well known tips for losing weight after miscarriage and pregnancy that can help lower your estrogen levels and make your efforts more effective.
Electromagnetic Radiation During Pregnancy
August 19, 2011 Leave a Comment
I have been concerned about exposure to electromagnetic radiation during pregnancy since my own miscarriage in March. We know that X-rays are a no-no during pregnancy, and many women refuse to even walk through the security scanners at the airports. However, few people acknowledge the fact that we are exposed to electromagnetic radiation on a daily basis at home. Smart phones, vacuums, toasters, blenders, microwaves, computers, iPads…..all of these items emit strong electromagnetic radiation that become harmless from about 4 feet away. Then again, who sits 4 feet away from the computer?
What kind of cumulative effects occur when we are over exposed to electromagnetic radiation during pregnancy? This study found that pregnant women who were exposed to higher levels of electromagnetic radiation for the first 10 weeks of pregnancy (as measured by monitors they wore) were 80% more likely to have a miscarriage. Scary stuff.
If You Want Twins, Move to Nigeria
August 18, 2011 Leave a Comment
Random fact of the day: Did you know that Nigeria has the highest number of twins in the world? This African country has a twinning rate estimated at 1 in 22 in the Yorubas of Nigeria. This has been attributed to the women’s consumption of large quantities of yams, which have estrogen-like properties. Perhaps the high levels of estrogen cause the women to ovulate not one, but two eggs fairly often. So if you happen to want twins, consider eating yams and see what happens!
Five Big Reasons to Skip Happy Hour
August 15, 2011 Leave a Comment
Do you like to have a few drinks at the end of the day? Few people really understand the connection between alcohol, hormonal balance, and weight. Here are a few of the biggest reasons you should consider skipping, or at least minimizing, your alcoholic beverages.
Fluke: How to Recover After Miscarriage
July 8, 2011 1 Comment
I have written this post many times in my head and yet, I couldn’t sit down to type it out. Perhaps this is because I needed some time to process the experience, or maybe because I tend to avoid sharing personal failures on the internet. Whatever the case, I share this story now because I am certain that some woman, somewhere, some day, will read this and feel less alone. Or perhaps some mom will feel less alone in the future when this becomes her story, too.
January 7, 2011
Mike and I were surprised (and overjoyed) to learn that I was pregnant! The baby was due in September, just a month shy of Savanna’s 5th birthday. I ceased all of the usual things immediately: alcohol, raw fish, any OTC not safe during pregnancy. Like most couples, we spent hours thinking and talking about names and imagining Savanna as a big sister. I had a very strong feeling that it was a boy, just as I felt with certainty that Savanna was a girl. We named him Luke.
My first trimester was complete with nausea, occasional hurling, endless fatigue, and the complimentary muffin top. Around week 10, I began to feel better. The nausea lifted, energy returned, and I started to show. We shared the news with anyone and everyone: family, friends, school teachers, the president, and anyone else who would listen.
13 Reasons to Avoid Artificial Sweeteners
June 26, 2011 3 Comments
Whenever we go out to dinner, I can’t help but notice that the sweetener packets still consist of all three colors: pink, blue, yellow. Here are my top 13 reasons you should avoid all of them.
1. Aspartame (Nutrasweet) can deplete your serotonin levels via phenylalanine, an amino acid. Serotonin helps you stay happy and satiated and when depleted, we feel anxious, irritable, sad, and sleepless. We also tend to crave carbohydrates. Unless you want to feel pissed off and fat at the same time, avoid aspartame. [Read more...]
Miscarriages Count, Too
November 7, 2010 Leave a Comment
Miscarriage is such a common occurrence, and yet it continues to be so underreported in our society. I have written about this before, so this is an admittedly recycled post-but I’ve revised this article and added a link for a wonderful essay by Alice Bradley on her experience with miscarriage. Here is the article again:
The Power of a Mother’s Touch
September 4, 2010 1 Comment
If you haven’t read about Kate Ogg yet, I hope you will now. Just two days ago, Kate Ogg gave birth to twins prematurely. At only 27 weeks, she knew that her babies may be in for a struggle, and she was right. While her infant daughter was delivered without complication, her infant son was pronounced dead a few moments after birth. [Read more...]
