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Zusatztext “Having faced a very public struggle with her own weight! Sweeney knows firsthand how challenging it is to stick with a food and fitness plan! especially while also juggling the demands of work and motherhood.” — Good Housekeeping Informationen zum Autor Award-winning actress ALISON SWEENEY balances life as a mom with her roles as host of NBC’s hit reality series The Biggest Loser and as Sami Brady on NBC’s long-running daytime drama Days of our Lives . She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, a California Highway Patrol officer, and their five-year-old son, Ben, and two-year-old daughter, Megan. Klappentext The star of "Days of Our Lives" and host of NBC's "The Biggest Loser" shares her "diet" of nutrition and fitness tips that new moms can follow to look and feel fantastic.Deciding you want to get pregnant—or thinking it might be a possibility soon—is a big milestone. Get ready for your life to change! And until then, enjoy being master of your own body and your own schedule, because that won’t last forever. In the meantime, you need to start taking very good care of yourself—well before you’re actually knocked up. There are many reasons to do this. First, you want your baby to have the healthiest possible environment in which to grow from the moment of conception. This means getting your body ready now! Second, chances are you don’t know exactly when you’ll get pregnant. Sure, it could take a while, but it could also happen right away. You never know, so be prepared. If your pregnancy comes as a surprise, please don’t worry. Plenty of healthy babies are born every day to parents who nine months earlier had no idea they were conceiving a child. Still, you want to give your child every advantage you can, right? So we’ll focus on helping you be the healthiest host you can be for the little person who will soon be spending the better part of a year inside of you. Third, your chances of getting pregnant and having a complication-free pregnancy are greatest if you are healthy and fit. Of course, being healthy and fit doesn’t mean you’ll get pregnant instantly, but it does help. The first time I tried to get pregnant, it took about a year, and I remember being frustrated when my friends got pregnant more quickly, while I kept seeing one line in the window of the pregnancy test instead of two. If you’re in the same situation, it’s best to get past the frustration and to focus on your own journey. Don’t compare your path to anyone else’s. (I know that’s not the easiest advice to take, but I’m going to offer it anyway.) Since I couldn’t make my body get pregnant, I had to focus on the other things I could control, like my health, fitness, and nutrition. I reduced my alcohol intake, too, by mostly cutting out my glass of wine with dinner and skipping the cocktails when I was out with friends. Not to be a downer, but if you have any other unhealthy habits, like smoking or taking drugs of any kind, I highly suggest you deal with them now, before you are pregnant, so your body will be healthier and so you don’t have to deal with the stress of withdrawal on top of everything else. Fourth, being healthy before you get pregnant makes it way easier to stay active and fit during pregnancy, which, in turn, means you’ll get your body back a whole lot faster after the baby is born. (I know that seems like a long way off right now, but trust me: You want things to be as easy as possible once your bundle of joy arrives!) I could list about a hundred more reasons, but the point is that everything you do now really matters. And a recent study (published in 2009 in the British Medical Journal ) found that most women don’t follow the lifestyle and health guidelines suggested for women who are trying to conceive. Oops. Let’s work on changing that. I want you to have the best and healthiest pregnancy possible, so here a...
