Weight Loss After Pregnancy – How Best Can I Help You?
Pregnancy Weight Loss survey results are in!
Between January and May 2010, we conducted an online survey that asked women seeking to lose weight what they wanted when searching and WHY they wanted to lose weight. After a thorough scientific analysis, the results are in and make interesting reading.
Women Want To Regain Their Confidence
About half of women who want to lose weight said they want to lose weight in order to feel more confident about themselves. This is a important statement about what being overweight or obese does to the women.
You will notice that being healthy is not in the top five. And when we have analysed all the results, only 10% of women want to lose weight for health reasons. This is also a massively important finding.
Women Want To Feel Better
It is quite possible that the statement that women want to “feel better” is synonymous with wanting to “feel good”.
Being overweight saps the feel good factor out of women who find they are carrying excess weight after childbirth. This is understandable. Pregnancy induces essential and significant body changes necessary to enable the mother adapt to the pregnancy. Without these changes, including the weight gain and stretching of tummy muscles pregnancy would not thrive. Childbirth exacts even more damage to the pelvic floor muscles, particularly if there is assistance with instruments.
After childbirth the woman is therefore naturally anxious to get back to pre-pregnancy weight, shape and beauty. The anxiety associated with these desires probably makes women unhappy and affects their confidence in a big way.
More significantly, women in the survey said they found very difficult to find solutions to their problems.
The scientific paper of the survey results and the implications to the Healthcare community were presented in London on the 23rd March 2011, at the World Congress of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Andrology.
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Table of Results:
WHY Women Want To Lose Weight After Childbirth: The Top 10
|
Reason
|
Freq
|
Percent
|
| feel more confident |
145
|
46.03
|
| feel better |
52
|
16.51
|
| fit in old clothes |
48
|
15.24
|
| feel good |
42
|
13.33
|
| be happy |
32
|
10.16
|
| be healthy |
32
|
10.16
|
| be attractive for my husband |
29
|
9.21
|
| be a fit mother |
26
|
8.25
|
| regain old self |
25
|
7.94
|
| be attractive for my partner |
13
|
4.13
|
