My wife is about to give birth to our 1st child & we’re learning a lot about nutrition from the experience.
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Someone in my nutrition coaching group (for us as coaches) asked about coaching pregnant women
so I gave my 2 cents.

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Of course, this experience is new to me, so “absorb what’s useful, reject what isn’t”, as Bruce Lee would say



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For some background, my wife was a very precise macro-counter with very strict targets before this.
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The biggies:
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She’s definitely needed a lot of compassionate support through this.
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She bought a training program for pregnancy. I’m not sure what it’s called, but she hopes it’ll make childbirth easier on her bc her muscles will be able to handle the difficulties
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Compared to a lot of complaints we’ve heard from others about the physical toll that pregnancy & childbirth can take, she feels like the training has really paid off so far.
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Not to mention the dopamine she gets from it, which can be a big boost when so much time is spent stuck inside not wanting to move
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It’s basically about eating more food in order to raise your metabolism as high as it’ll go and then cutting calories to lose weight quicker.
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That’s how my wife is vewing this. Right now she’s approaching this 9 months as a metabolic rebuild so that when she’s ready to cut weight again she’ll have a huge headstart.
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There you have it. Those are my best nutrition tips during pregnancy. Please share what tips you have in the comments below!