Get back to your shape after pregnancy - post pregnancy weight loss

Posted: Aug 25, 2009 |Comments: 0 |

Having a baby might be a wonderful experience for all women but after having endured nine months of pregnancy of which 5 to 6 months you were busy gaining excess weight, we understand if you feel like you have had enough and want to go back to your normal size and lose all that extra weight. Your pre pregnancy shape might be urging you to go back to that old look you loved yourself in as soon as possible. However you should not be impatient as post pregnancy you initially have a few new problems to take care of than to worry about going back to your normal looking self. So if you have become mommy for the first time ever, take our advice and take it slow as shedding all that extra weight suddenly and too rapidly might actually have a counter effect on you, something that you really have not been looking forward to! You are not a celebrity mom and you did not have the ace nurses, dieticians and fitness experts next to you to guide you through your term of pregnancy so it is pretty silly for you to think you will look as unaffected as celebrity mummies do.

It takes almost half a year after your delivery for your body to return to its normal state. So even if you have decided to not breast feed your child which mind you is not a very wise decision in the first place, do not be in a hurry to cut those calories you are eating at present. The process of delivery is not only exhausting and tiring but also pretty much traumatic and if you leave your body under nourished and do not give it enough food to recuperate back to its normal healthy self, you will be the only one to face the brunt of it all. Also running around and taking care of your baby after the delivery will exhaust you quite a bit for which you cannot afford to feel alack of energy or any of the like. You will find it difficult to get those regular sleeps as well as your regular meals amidst all this change in your schedule so eat as much whenever you find time and gradually slack in on your meal to regain the beautiful body you once possessed.

In fact let us take this opportunity to tell you that since your body is quite weak after the delivery takes place, exercising very rigorously to shed extra weight just immediately is not a very good idea either. We are not telling you to be static and lazy and neglect your health completely either because if you do that like most mothers who begin to gain weight during pregnancy and never shed it you will become obese too. But start gentle and avoid rigorous exercise. Consult your doctor about the food you need to eat. Your doctor should be the best guide to help you out with the pros and cons of the different kinds of exercise that you can take up just now. However you should know that exercising is a healthy practice and does not intervene with your capacity to breast feed. So do exercise but do not torment your body!

Now if you are the mother who is breast feeding her child, you would be producing almost 850 ml of breast milk every day. For this generation, you would be needed to take in at least 500 extra calories every day while you are lactating. Also this is considered as your nursing period and you would be in need of the extra nutrients so make sure you follow the diet chart provided to you by your doctor. The right time to start cutting down on your calories is 2 or 3 months post your delivery when you feel as strong and agile as before. Also the resuming of a normal period is an important condition. Now you can adopt a stricter diet as well as a more vigorous exercise regime. Losing 1 pound of weight every week should be just perfect and in sync with what you had gained while you were pregnant. So do not rush and take it slow. Allow your body to feel human.

If you are wondering how long it will take for you to shed all the fat you gained, this rate varies from mother to mother. Since you must have gained 25 to 35 pounds during the past nine months, you would have lost 12 to 14 pounds of this already during delivery and the remaining 12 to 21 pounds should not take more than 8 months to lose. If you gained up to 35 pounds or 47 pounds, in the first case you would have to go in for a severe diet and in the second case, you will have to work out very strenuously too!

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