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You want to lose weight but you just found out you’re pregnant. Well, the bad news is that now is not the time to work on weight loss. The good news? You don’t need to gain more than 15 pounds during your pregnancy. If you are overweight to begin with, then the recommended weight gain during the next nine months is less than 15 pounds, and considering that about 10 pounds come out when the baby is born, it’s possible that you’ll only have about 5 pounds to lose of pregnancy weight before you go on your initially planned weight loss plan.
Some doctors even recommend that women who are really obese work hard during pregnancy to maintain their body weight, or even to lose weight.

Follow these safe diet tips to ensure optimal weight gain and optimal health for you and your baby.

1. Change your attitude. Just because you’re pregnant it doesn’t mean that you get free reign of the junk food isle. If you already have a weight problem, then you should focus on picturing your body after your pregnancy—you don’t want to struggle with an addition 30 or 40 pounds, do you? Focus on health, not indulgence.

This week was not good for my fitness level, or my waistline. I had mentally prepared myself for it, knew it was going to happen, and was right.

I had to travel for work this week, and that’s never good for fitness. It’s even worse when you’re traveling with a group of co-workers. I don’t really know what inspires this trend, but it seems as if when I travel for work, I tend to eat more. I’ve talked with other people about this, and most seem to agree that being out on business promotes weight gain. When the trip includes group dinners, it’s like there’s a compulsion to eat, and eat, and eat…

I’ll give an example. Thursday night a group of people went to dinner. There were eleven of us, and when we got to the table, everyone wanted an appetizer. I resolved to be good and only got water to drink. To be polite, I had one small piece off the appetizer (avocado bread of some sort). Then the soup was served, which was a cup of clam chowder, followed by the house salad. I ate half of mine. Finally, the main course arrived. I only ate 1/3 of what was on my plate, and felt miserable. The people ordered dessert!! I had coffee.

It's called the Portfolio diet. And you won't find it in any bookstore.

The goal of the eating plan's creators was simple: to see if a "portfolio" of foods, each with some minor cholesterol-lowering benefits, can have a larger effect when eaten together as part of a regular diet.

The concept was developed by David Jenkins, professor of nutrition and metabolism at the University of Toronto and a strong proponent of using food to help reduce blood cholesterol, high levels of which increase the risk of heart disease. Funding for research came from the Canadian government; Unilever, the maker of Take Control, a margarine-like spread that helps to lower blood cholesterol; Loblaw, Canada's largest food distributor; and the Almond Board of California.

But the Portfolio approach won't be for everyone. Strictly followed, it's a near-vegan regimen, meaning no meat, eggs, poultry, fish or dairy.

"It's a real challenge for people to stay on this kind of diet," notes Alice Lichtenstein, professor of nutrition at Tufts University and chair of the American Heart Association's Nutrition Committee.

What if there was a combination of foods that were as effective at lowering LDL cholesterol as prescription drugs? Would it be worth adding some new foods to what you eat each day to avoid medication? A study about a new diet plan known as the portfolio diet shows that various foods, such as nuts, soy protein, oat bran, and plant sterols all can have a cholesterol-lowering effect.

This is what the latest in a series of research studies Dr. Jenkins from the University of Toronto shows. Studies have previously shown that various foods, such as nuts, soy protein, oat bran, and plant sterols all can have a cholesterol-lowering effect. But what if you combined all these foods together? Dr. Jenkins’ latest research shows that combining all these foods together is as effective as taking a statin drug. The results showed a 30.9% decrease in LDL cholesterol from the statin and a decrease of 28.2% from the portfolio combination of all these foods.

Dr. Jenkins is calling this a dietary portfolio, but it’s becoming known as ‘The Portfolio Diet’

On his first day in Huntington, W. Va., Jamie Oliver spent the afternoon at Hillbilly Hot Dogs, pitching in to cook its signature 15-pound burger. That’s 10 pounds of meat, 5 pounds of custom-made bun, American cheese, tomatoes, onions, pickles, ketchup, mustard and mayo. Then he learned how to perfect the Home Wrecker, the eatery’s famous 15-inch, one-pound hot dog (boil first, then grill in butter). For the Home Wrecker Challenge, the dog gets 11 toppings, including chili sauce, jalapeños, liquid nacho cheese and coleslaw. Finish it in 12 minutes or less and you get a T-shirt.
So much for local color. Earlier that day, Oliver met with a pediatrician, James Bailes, and a pastor, Steve Willis. Bailes told him about an 8-year-old patient who was 80 pounds overweight and had developed Type 2 diabetes. If the child’s diet didn’t change, the doctor said, he wouldn’t live to see 30. Willis told Oliver that he visits patients in local hospitals several days a week and sees the effects of long-term obesity firsthand. Since he can’t write a prescription for their resulting illnesses, he said, all he can do is pray with them.

Tyra Banks can’t attribute her recent weight loss of 30 pounds to just hard work. When she appeared on The View on April 26, Tyra showed Rosie O’Donnell her jiggle-free secret – Spanx!

(Tyra has admitted to wearing Spanx on 80 percent of her own talk show’s episodes).

“I’m trying to get rid of some of this in my booty so I don’t have to wear Spanx,” she said about the girdlelike undergarments. “But I’m not going to obsess.”

In fact, Tyra’s thighs have always been her weak spot. “She’s always focused on her thighs,” says her former trainer, Harry Hanson, of Hanson Fitness in NYC.

According to a celebrity trainer Jim Ryno, to get a body like Tyra’s one would need a 45-minute does of cardio every other day, starting with a five-minute warm-up on the treadmill.

To get the heart pumping and to burn fat, Ryno says to sprint for one minute and then walk for three minutes. Repeat the cycle 10 times and end with a short cooldown.

Retired supermodel Tyra Banks has lost 30 pounds in five months after photographs of her beachwear left her in tears on her U.S. TV talk show. Banks insisted the shots of her in a bikini during a winter break were just taken from a bad angle as she launched a 'So What' campaign on her TV show and urged the tabloids to stop poking fun at stars' weight loss and weight gain. At one point she broke down on her show, stating, "With all the self-esteem my mom instilled in me, the criticism still hurts." But the terrible photographs forced Banks to take action - and, after months spent eating right and exercising, she has dropped 30 pounds, according to Life & Style magazine. An insider tells the publication, "She's eating healthy foods, but they're ones she likes, so she's more apt to maintain her diet." And she's completely revamped the food that's available to her and guests backstage at her show. Marcellas Reynolds, a frequent guest on The Tyra Banks Show, adds, "The craft-service table is now entirely absent of junk food and carbs. All you see are lean turkey sandwiches and loads of fresh-cut veggies and fruit."