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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]  [b] (My mom gained less than 25 lbs and I was a 7 lb baby)[/b]

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Are you Asian? Otherwise you must be pretty old; that's no longer considered healthy except for women of a small build. [/quote]

Actually, you are wrong pp. I was told to gain no more than 25 lbs when pregnant four years ago. Standards have changed. And no, I was not overweight to start. I was size 4.[/quote]

I have a small build, only 5', normal weight size 0 and I was told to not gain more than 20.  Gained 18 and had a 7.5 lb baby.  Lost all the weight except for 2 lbs within 6 wks of giving birth.  Gaining too much weight during pregnancy increases rate of gestational diabetes and/or preeclampsia.[/quote]

Yes, Asian. And my mom was/is tiny, 5'1", even now and she's in her 50s.  So the weight gain during her pregnancy with me was a large percentage of her body weight.

And yes, she ate a typical Asian diet throughout, which consisted of a lot of fatty meats, such as pork belly.  And also rice and vegetables of course.  She hardly ate bread though, or pasta, zero junk food, zero fast food, zero processed foods, very few sweets.  And the sweets she did eat were not that sweet.  I'm American, but I grew up with the same habits and I eat basically the same way, still.

Parents who have bad eating habits, addicting their children to sugar at a young age, and in many cases while they are still pregnant - I see that as child abuse.  Those poor kids don't know any better.

Aside - I have one acquaintance, already fat, who gained 80 lbs while pregnant.  She took it as license to eat whatever the hell she wanted, which seemed to be nachos non-stop and fast food. No kidding.  The one food she stopped eating - sushi.  She said didn't want to "harm baby."

People here come up with so many excuses why they are fat and how they should love their (fat, unhealthy) bodies.  The fact is that very few people have medical issues where fatness is not a choice (and I feel for those people); most people are fat for the simple reason that they are stupid and/or lazy.

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Oooh, [i]too bad[/i]. Most Asians get very overweight living here in America. You may have kept up your mom's diet, but your kids, or their kids, won't. They'll start eating like Americans. And then it's FAT CITY. Asians are TERRIBLE at processing carbs and get gestational diabetes and type 2 diabetes super easily. Waaay easier than European Americans.

So please, keep crowing about how small you are. It's only a matter of time before your descendants are the fattest in the land.[/quote]

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