Angela Avery is expecting her second baby on Dec. 29. A former Ringgold, Ga., resident now living in Savannah, she is determined not to become a statistic.
In her case, the statistic comes from a recent University of Chicago study that said 75 percent of women weighed more a year after giving birth than they did before they got pregnant. And, according the study, there’s a chance that they’re technically obese.
Avery, 30, says her commitment to daily workouts should help her get back to her pre-pregnancy weight soon after the baby is born.
“I don’t want to gain the unnecessary weight, which only makes it more difficult to lose after baby is born,” says Avery, a software engineer. “I read a lot of articles on how staying active makes labor, delivery and recovery so much easier on the body.”
This definitely proved true my last pregnancy and I did not work out nearly as much as this one. I had my daughter completely natural in under eight hours and, within an hour of giving birth, I was walking around the hospital.”