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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People need to get over the Wisdom diet already. It's not like this elite club that people will kick you out of if you eat a cupcake. They want you to be healthy. If all you can stomach is Wonderbread fluffernutters, it's better than not eating anything at all.

By excellent health they mean they don't want to start out with having to worry about complications from things like hypertension, diabetes, etc. You can be overweight if you are also healthy. But they will probably tell you to watch it with the weight gain. Because they want you to stay healthy.

I've had zero conversations about what I've been eating since I've been with the practice. I'm of average weight, average fitness level, etc. I'm mindful about what I eat generally because junkfood makes me feel like crap even when I'm not pregnant. And I'm even more prone now to the blood sugar swings associated with a high-crap diet. That said, I don't eat "perfectly" because pregnancy, even at 20 weeks, has completely altered what I want to eat and how I eat, and I still don't always relish the idea of a bowl full of broccoli.

But I do try to eat it anyhow. Why? Look, if you're pregnant and you want good outcomes, a natural birth, a healthy baby, a springy vagina, etc, you are better off eating food that is nutrient-dense and anti-inflammatory. It's just that simple. Your body is already taxed, immunosupressed, etc. Taxing it more by making it process a bunch of crap, fight inflammation from shitty food is just going to cause you problems, vitamin deficiencies, gestational diabetes, etc.

You are what you eat. Your baby is too. So stop whining that Whitney et al tells you to put down the McDonald's.

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You know what? You need to just chill! This is OP here and what the heck is it about my question that sparked your absurd and misplaced jabs? I didn't criticize the wisdom diet nor did I complain about it, so how in the world do you justify your nasty comment about "whining" about being told to put down the McDonalds? Who said anything about McDonalds? I wouldn't eat that with [u]your[/u] mouth. I'm a healthy person and a healthy eater and I said clearly that my prepregnancy diet looked a lot like the wisdom diet anyway, except I don't eat much meat. My question, which has been answered, was how much slack the midwives cut their new patients who are vomiting a lot, and having strong food aversions to the point that a healthy diet is a constant struggle.

Man, not sure why I'd let your comment get under my skin but seriously, what is your deal? 
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NP, but I agree with the first quoted PP here. OP, you seem very nice, but I'd say it's a bit more important for you to relax than for PP.  PP was not ranting at YOU but at the Wisdom-related freakouts that happen on DCUM every few weeks. People are so weird about Wisdom and it is just strange to see. Heck, I was too, it's understandable given the way people talk about them, but if you remember that it is just pregnant women freaking out talking about people who they think will be judging them, it makes sense, of course it's overwrought.    If you read the threads you'll see plenty of testimonials from wisdom patients about how the diet is a GUIDELINE and not something they kick you out for "violating."  I know because I both read and wrote some of them myself.  Believe me, after you meet with them you will wonder what you were spazzing about. My BMI was ~28 pre-preg and they've never once mentioned my weight or weight gain. In five appts they've maybe once asked me what I ate the day before, when it was standard first trimester crap they nodded understandingly and said "try to eat vegetables when you can stomach them again, for the micronutrients."  I did not feel smacked down by that.

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