Lorelei Vitulli ate for two when she was pregnant with her infant son, Caelan. "I gained too much when I was pregnant," the Wesley Chapel, Fla., resident says, adding that she packed on 59 pounds. "I was too big to begin with."

Vitulli now exercises on the treadmill 30 minutes a day and breastfeeds her son. Her greatest challenge is being around her husband, Jason, who eats carrot cake, crackers and frozen dinners. "I love eating any kind of food," she says. "My problem is with dinners and my husband. The challenge is making something he will eat that's still healthy. When I'm home alone with the baby, I eat healthy."

While pregnant women have cravings and an increased appetite, members of the Pregnancy Food Guide panel hope to dispel the myth that women need to eat for two when they are pregnant.

Overeating and binging on the wrong kinds of foods during pregnancy can lead to postpartum obesity.

Kathy McManus, a member of the Pregnancy Food Guide panel and director of the department of nutrition at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, says pregnancy is an ideal time to review your nutrition because what you eat will affect your health and your baby's health for years.

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