I also noticed that it is not recommended for people trying to get pregnant. So that is a major thing...soon they will be trying, at least we hope so!

All my 3 girls gained weight in their 20's about the time they started on hormonal type birth control. Same as me. I didn't get fat until I went on the pill. I was not a dieter, and had a fairly healthy, home cooked diet, with a heavy emphasis on ethnic food. All my kids eat and love veggies, but we also love pizza, pasta, and rice dishes. Actually that's what a lot of the world eats and mostly they don't get fat. But our family, descendants of peasant farmers who went through war after war, we have the epigenetics to gain weight as soon as we start reproducing or our bodies think we are because of the birth control hormones mimicking pregnancy.