14 DAY TRIAL // One of the priorities for most women after giving birth is shedding the weight they gain while with child. A recent study comes to reveal that, indeed, young moms feel a lot of pressure to lose weight because of celebrity mothers.
More and more celebrity moms boast of losing the weight they gain during pregnancy in as little as a couple of weeks, with only a few actually doing in it in 6 months or so, which would be the “recommended” time period.
A new survey conducted by the Royal College of Midwives and cited by the Daily Mail reveals that more and more women feel pressured into losing weight, at times at the expense of their health or the wellbeing of the child.
Seeing celebrity mothers shift the extra weight so quickly often leaves regular moms feeling disgusted about their bodies, which, in turn, pushes them towards crash diets, the survey has revealed.
In doing so, they completely disregard all recommendations from health experts, even putting their baby’s health and wellbeing at risk.
“The survey of more than 6,200 new mothers, carried out with the Netmums website, also found that 61 per cent said midwives were too busy to give them advice on what to eat before and after giving birth,” the Mail reports.
85 percent of the moms queried believed they were given “poor” advice about what to eat to stay healthy and lose weight.
“Crash dieting has health consequences,” Janet Fyle, midwife and policy adviser at the RCM, tells the Mail about young mothers’ decision to go on crash diets to shed the extra pounds.
“Women are going to feel very tired, they are not going to be able to look after their baby and they won't be able to properly recover from pregnancy. They should eat normally for the first six months,” Fyle points out.
Losing weight should come naturally and not as a result of a crash diet. “The emphasis is on a healthy diet. They will also find they lose weight naturally through breast feeding,” Fyle says.