Pregnancy Without Weight: Humorous yet Informative Survival Guide for Staying in Your Skinny Jeans
If you want a healthy pregnancy without all the excess weight then this is the survival guide for you. Celebrity fitness trainer and mother of two boys, Trudy Stevens, shows you how to safely stay in your skinny jeans as your belly expands. The book also includes four easy workout videos.
A humorous yet informative guide on how to stay healthy and fit during your pregnancy, for busy moms-to-be. ‘Pregnancy Without Weight’ focuses on efficient fitness and nutrition during pregnancy for the non-exerciser through to the pregnant athlete, cutting through the confusing and sometimes conflicting messages about what you should and shouldn’t do during each stage of your pregnancy.
You will learn exactly which exercises and sports are safe or dangerous to continue whilst pregnant and more specifically, which yoga poses you must absolutely avoid.
There are four 20-minute workout videos plus a stretching video included that are safe to follow throughout all trimesters and are suitable for all fitness levels.
Nutrition is completely covered too, with a breakdown of which foods contain which essential vitamins and minerals to ensure you have a healthy pregnancy weight and of course a healthy baby. Likewise there are dangerous foods listed that need to be avoided.
Upon reading of Pregnancy Without Weight you will:
• Know all sneaky tricks to avoid excess pregnancy weight so you remain healthy and a hot momma to be.
• Have all the tools to ensure you look like a pregnant celebrity
• Know which body parts to stretch or strengthen and which to leave alone
• Learn exercises to assist you in a faster and easier labor (well that’s the plan!)
• Learn the important craving swaps to ensure you don’t inflate to gargantuan proportions
• Be armed with the tools to stay in your skinny jeans or at least fit back into your skinny jeans by month two after giving birth
• Be shown safe exercises and learn which ones to avoid through each trimester for novices through to athletes
• Get four easy and effective workouts videos you can do at home in 20 minutes that will keep you pregnancy fit and assist in labor and delivery
• Know the dangerous foods to avoid during pregnancy
• Learn which vitamins, minerals and good foods you need to be eating
• Understand doctor recommended guidelines for different sports and particular exercises as well as nutritional guidelines
• Know specific yoga poses you should be avoiding
• Know what to expect when it feels like an alien has invaded your body (a candid insight into the changes your body is going through)
• Understand why the heck you should even consider exercise when you feel like crap i.e. benefits of fitting exercise into your routine even if it’s only 5 minutes
• Realize that you are pregnant and not disabled so you can still perform some excellent safe pregnancy exercises to keep you in great shape
• Tips on safe post natal weight loss that doesn’t involve feeding tubes or starving yourself and your baby
• Understand that if you can’t exercise without throwing up then good nutrition can be your savior.
• Have a sense of humor about pregnancy and child birth
• Have no shame about breastfeeding or other body fluids in public
Healthy mommy and healthy baby is your pure objective - ‘Pregnancy Without Weight’ is a pregnancy health survival guide that cuts through the clutter in a candid and fun way and shows you how to keep your sanity and your weight at a healthy level during this truly precious time.