A member asked:

Im 14weeks pregnant and have put on too much weight. is the soup diet safe in pregnancy for 1 week as i am over 210lbs and don't want to get any bigger?

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Dr. Milton Alvis, jr answered

Specializes in Preventive Medicine

HF/LC, Ex ; Daily Wt: No "certain diet"; always an issue of quantity in, retained ; out. High fat foods, of natural origin, ↓ likely stored as fat; carbs most converted to fat ; stored. Exercise also a factor. With pregnancy, ↑ water retention for amniotic fluid (swimming pool for baby, if your will, also an issue). Weigh food ; self daily, after commode, nothing on, on scale to 0.1 lb, record food eaten ; experiment.

Answered 3/6/2014

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