Craving Spicy Food While Pregnant Resources

Are you and your family craving that spicy, south-of-the-border cuisine? Well, skip the local burrito joint. Those "burritos as big as your head" can contain more than 1,000 calories—even more depending on how many fixings you add...  Read more

Caring for your health before you become pregnant may help you identify areas that put you and/or your baby at risk during pregnancy. First, schedule a pre-conception counseling appointment with your doctor. This discussion can educate you on things...  Read more

Compared to women of normal weight, women who are overweight or obese are more likely to become pregnant while taking birth control pills. A study published in January’s Obstetrics and Gynecology showed that 5% of overweight women (compared to...  Read more

It's common knowledge that eating spicy foods or even being pregnant can result in heartburn for many people. But when heartburn or acid reflux becomes a chronic problem—the cause is often something more than the buffalo wings you had a...  Read more

I’m not sure when it was that I first heard about hot yoga, but I just assumed that it was one of those passing exercise fads. Only…I kept hearing about it. My friends were raving about it. Then my sister became a convert and told me tha...  Read more

normally I would eat two bowls of pasta salad and would go way over on calories and fat. well today I only ate one bowl and actually feel really full from it. this is a huge milestone for me....  Read more

Ive been a long time Sparkpeople user, and I am now pregnant. I know there is babyspark but I didnt know if I could still use this account and if there was a setting to just adjust it to a pregnancy type mode? Right now I have lost weight and am supe...  Read more

How much of an impact does this tend to have on calorie and fat content? I always blot the grease out of turkey burgers or sausage patties, for example, but I'm curious as to how much this affects the nutritional content of the food - whether it actu...  Read more

Hello, I started on SP a couple years ago, did well for a bit, then got sidetracked and back into my old habits. About 3 weeks ago I decided to give healthy eating and portion control another try. I didn't really want to track my food, because...  Read more

About a week or so ago, I saw on the Insider Tab on the Start Page, an article about a new way to track one's meals. It had several pull down menu bars for each meal...a sort of a meal planner in a sense. For example, for Breakfast I think it showed...  Read more

When you want chocolate try something very spicy, and I mean HOT instead. Your body's mental response to spicy foods is the same as it is with chocolate. What your body is craving is the intensity of flavor. Use Tabasco brand pepper sauce, or your fa...  Read more

I add spicy spriracha or Frank's Hot Sauce to my food at every meal and I see a big difference in my weight loss!4...  Read more

Are you PASSIONATE about chocolate? Do you see it as a food group?! Join other Chocoholics for discussions, recipe-swapping, & help in keeping this important food group alive!...  Read more

If you’ve read any of my blogs over the past few months, you know that I recently had my third child.  I was always jealous of the women who said they loved being pregnant and felt so great, because I never did.  Food was not my frien...  Read more

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