[quote=FlyerInHi]… They key is to not to gain weight in the first place. Assuming you’re at ideal weight at age 18 or 20, 1 pound per year makes you overweight in 20 years. 2 pounds per year makes you obese. …[/quote]
Absolutely, that is the key.
And it is hard for a lot of women to get back to their pre-pregnancy weight, ESPecially if they are over 35 at the time of delivery, become pregnant again within months of delivering or MUST return to a FT sedentary job within weeks of giving birth. Or a combination thereof. The trick is to not gain too much in the first place. This was my downfall a couple of times. It took me a l-o-o-o-ng time to get all the way back to my former weight with my last kid, when I was the oldest mom on the ward at the (fairly new at the time) Sharp “Mary Birch” Hospital for Women in the age of “drive-thru deliveries.” (I was in there just short of 15 hours where most of the new moms were discharged in 12-16 hrs … as soon as their paperwork was ready). Since I spent any “spare minute” I had that day on the (landline) phone in my room when not filling out paperwork, I didn’t even have a chance to have a glass of water, let alone any food :=0
