Pregnancy Q&A: Avoiding Weight Gain, Nutrition, and Body Image Advice (Part 2)

Embrace Your Real

Julie Ledbetter

Health & Fitness, Fitness, Body, Mindset, Movement, Health, Acceptance, Macros, Love, Positivity, Nutrition, Loss, Weight

5 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to another episode of the Embrace Your Real podcast, I’m diving into the second part of our three-part series on pregnancy Q&A, where I answer your burning questions about how to navigate the incredible journey pregnancy while maintaining your fitness and nutrition goals.

With so many of you curious about how to manage weight gain, stay on track with your diet, adjust your macros, and find the right time to modify your workouts, I’m here to share my personal experiences and insights. We'll also talk about body image as your body transforms and practical tips for dealing with swelling. Whether you're expecting, planning, or simply curious, join me as we explore how to embrace each stage of pregnancy with confidence and grace.

What I discuss:

How has your pregnancy been so far?
Has pregnancy been harder or easier than you imagined?
How do you avoid gaining a lot of weight during pregnancy?
How can I stay on track with food during pregnancy? The 1st trimester is killing me!
Do my macros need to change during pregnancy? in most cases 300-500 calories
Have you been following your weekly workouts? at what point do you plan to stop?
Do you have any advice for body image wise as your body changes?
Do you have any tips for swelling? i feel so swollen!

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Episode 455: Pregnancy Q&A: Working Out During Pregnancy (Part 1)

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0:00.0	Hey there beautiful human you're listening to embrace your real with me Julie Ledbetter a
0:05.4	podcast where I empower you to just be you with each episode I dish you a dose of
0:10.8	real talk and actionable advice for building your confidence, honoring your body, and unconditionally loving your authentic self.
0:18.0	Stay tuned if you're ready to embrace your real, let's get it, let's go.
0:36.6	Hello and welcome back to another episode on the Embrace Real Podcast. We are continuing with the pregnancy Q&A. So as of now you might or might not know but I am pregnant I know many of you guys are
0:44.4	interested on just kind of my insight on this pregnancy so far navigating the
0:48.9	twists and turns with fitness and
0:55.0	I feel like for so many of you guys I actually did not announce my pregnancy until I was about 24 25 weeks
0:58.7	which is crazy and so I feel like for so many of you guys you have told me in my
1:03.3	dams like your pregnancy has flown by and I totally get why you think that
1:07.4	because I've really you know only been pregnant to the public for like 15
1:11.8	weeks and so for a lot of people they feel like
1:14.4	it's flown by but for me I've literally been pregnant since October of
1:17.5	last year and there's people that are announcing you know March of 2025 pregnancies
1:22.4	and I'm like what I have been pregnant since October
1:24.9	2023 but I am really excited about today's episode I'm doing a three-part
1:29.6	series I talked about in part one last week on kind of all things workouts related to pregnancy
1:36.1	and so if you're curious about that go tune into that I will be sure to link that in the show
1:40.2	notes below in today's episode I'm going to kind of be addressing
1:44.0	you know things like how to avoid waking how to stay on track with food, whether or not you
1:48.0	need to change your macros when pregnant and kind of at what point do you
1:51.5	need to stop working out and many more.
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