New research has hinted at the psychology behind weight gains during pregnancy. Yet public health messages can’t seem to get beyondbeing patronising or punitive
One third of pregnant women “lose control” of their eating, according to a researcher at University College London, and gain an additional 3.7kg, a figure that made me laugh out loud, because if you can count them in single digits and they’re not stones, such weight gains don’t know the meaning of “losing control”. The researcher, Nadia Micali, said something more interesting about her findings than you’ll usually find in the overeating business: “We often imagine that just telling women: ‘Don’t eat for two, don’t eat for two,’ is going to be enough. But loss of control needs to be treated slightly differently in a more psychologically acute way.”
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