If only weight loss was just about food.

How we eat can go back to before we were even born, how our mother felt about food, how she was brought up to eat and indeed, how her mother brought her up. There’s a whole story around food before you were even conceived. If for example, your mother was worried about putting on weight or believed she was eating ‘for two’, worried about her boss knowing she was pregnant, worried about losing her job or not being able to earn, all this will affect how she ate before she even conceived. This then gets magnified in pregnancy as she sees her body change shape and how she reacts to this.

I had a client whose mother was terrified of losing her job if she had a baby but her husband was desperate for a family so she agreed to stop taking precautions. She fell pregnant almost immediately and was very worried she’d be as large as her own mother had become in pregnancy so she was adamant that she would restrict her food intake so she wouldn’t ‘show’. She was very proud of the minimal weight she …