Ask any woman who's dealt with them, and they'll tell you: Pregnancy cravings can be torture. Torture for you and also for your poor husband who you send looking--in the middle of the night--for that fudge brownie ice cream you just "had to have."

Nobody knows exactly why pregnant women feel such strong cravings, but common sense says it has to do with the crazy hormone changes we experience when carrying. These hormonal shifts heighten your sense of smell and taste. So when you get a craving, it feels so real that you need to satisfy it.

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Practicing good habits while pregnant can be extremely tricky. While we all know we need to avoid tobacco and alcohol, sometimes the changes aren't so cut and clear.

A lot of the foods usually good for us become dangerous when we're carrying a baby. As a Latina woman, I had to make some drastic changes to my diet when I became pregnant. I had to cut out a lot of the foods from my culture that I thought were good for me. I figured, since these foods had protein and calcium, they would be healthy and needed to create strong bones. But when you're carrying a baby, you have to be extra careful.

It's extremely important to know which foods are dangerous to eat. So that when the time comes where your hormones are going crazy and the cravings start kicking in, you can plan around this and find alternatives.

When you're changing your diet to try and lose weight, the first thing you need to do is cut out the empty calories. And while most people can easily understand that the cookies, cakes, candy, and ice cream need to go, eliminating those things won't get you the results you desire as long as you keep making this same mistake. Because when it comes to losing weight, the things you drink are at least as important as the foods you eat.

In many cases, they might even be more important.