re: Myth of "eating for two": women use pregnancy as excuse to become whales

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Pecker

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Do you have a wife and kids? if so, can I send this link to her?

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BMI is a terrible indicator of physical condition and health. It's not a good measure of body fat content and does not take into account muscle mass, bone density, or overall body composition

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this is what all the fatties say FWIW

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I got it from my brain. You said she's lower than me.

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And people accuse me of semantics

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BMI is a terrible indicator of physical condition and health. It's not a good measure of body fat content and does not take into account muscle mass, bone density, or overall body composition

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Wierd. My fat hyperthyroid patients say the same thing.

My wife is now 26 weeks pregnant. According to what she read. She only needs like 400 more calories a day then normal for the baby. That's only 20% more then the 2000 a day recommendations.

Nothing like "eating for two"

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BMI is a terrible indicator of physical condition and health.

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I have the same BMI as Josh Norma, I MUST be healthy as shite!!!

Post-graduate embryology had text book normals for the human mammal to gain ~ 20 pounds during a normal pregnancy. The ladies in the class had a conniption fit when that was discussed.

These fat arses use these lame excuses; "eating for 2", "big boned", "water weight", "hormones" etc.

NO ITS NOT! It's your fat arse lifestyle choices and lack of exercise other than putting that spoon in your mouth.

I have one client who had a baby 3 months ago, and she only put on 25 pounds during the pregnancy. Now having eaten a proper diet and getting back into her pre-pregnancy exercise program, she is back to her pre-pregnancy weight.

I have another client who put on 50+ pounds during her pregnancy. She had GAINED another 10 pounds over the last 6 months post delivery. She complains every visit about how the baby weight is slowly coming off (WHAT?! She is gaining weight!) and her husband looks miserable.

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this is what all the fatties say FWIW

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You're right, but it's still true.

BMI isn't a good way to gauge the health of fatties or anyone. It's especially bad for people who workout with weights and have good (even above average) muscle mass.

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BMI is weird. It calls deathly skinny people "normal". And normal people obsese.

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No it does not. More than 20% of body weight being fat is unhealthy.

Don't get me wrong, I am fine with the BMI calculator because I'm small. But I could lose 6 more pounds (which would put me at 89lbs) and still not be called underweight. Lol. That's scary.