The fact of the matter is that from a nutritional point of view, far too many pregnant patient’s eat too much of the wrong things and do not exercise. This is a recipe for far greater public health problems than Pregorexia could ever become.

Certainly there are individuals with eating disorders for whom professional intervention will be necessary, but, it would appear that the hoopla regarding pregorexia is mis-placed and that we as a society should focus far more energy and attention on improving nutrition for the vast majority of pregnant patients.

At first, this struck me as a whole lot of exercise for a pretty modest degree of weight loss.  Many of the patient’s that I see on a daily basis get far less exercise than that.  And (unfortunately) we see the results on a daily basis.

I began thinking, wouldn’t it be fantastic if we as a medical community made a push to really educate patients regarding how much is required to over come obesity with lifestyle changes. 

In digging through the article, I noticed that the authors used an electronic sensor to monitor how many calories the patient’s were burning each day.  I figured it would be great to test out this monitor in a pilot program in some of the postpartum (post delivery) patients that I see in the office.

I contacted the makers of the particular sensor (BodyMedia and SenseWear) but to date, I have not gotten a response.

The bodybugg ( http://www.bodybugg.com/) looks like the same kind of device.

Here is a Youtube video.

BodyBugg on Youtube

I will check it out and report back.