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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you only need 300 extra calories a day during pregnancy, how is it that they recommend a 20 to 30 pound weight gain? It takes way more calories that 300 to gain a. Pound.[/quote] Yeah but 20-30 lbs is not 1lb a day for an entire pregnancy... [/quote] LOL what is hard to understand about this?? A pound is 3500 extra calories. You are advised to eat 300 extra a day, which equals more or less a pound every 10-11 days. 40 weeks of pregnancy = 280 or so days. 280/10 is 28 lbs. nobody is saying 300 calories equals a pound a day or that you're supposed to gain a pound a day. It's impossible to tell what is going on in your head but this is not confusing! [/quote] Your body is metabolizing those extra calories to support the baby. So how does it equal that much weight gain? Yes, the placenta. Yes the baby. Yes the extra blood. But there is still some unaccounted for poundage there.[/quote]
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