Wednesday, January 28, 2009

The Best Way to Lose Weight After Being Pregnant

By Ricardo d Argence

After you have a baby, it is natural to want to get back into pre pregnancy shape. The problem is how? You are trying to adjust to life with a new baby and maybe breast-feeding in the process. It can be a trying time to say, what is the best methods for losing weight after pregnancy?

Breastfeeding is not only the healthiest way of feeding your baby, in fact, it can help you a lot to achieve your weight loss goals. Breast feeding burns up to 500 extra calories per day! Gaining weight during pregnancy is vital to prepare the body for breast-feeding, which requires a great deal of calories to perform.

When breast feeding you have to realize that whatever you put into your body your child will also eat, so looking at nutritional content is important. While decreasing your calories, you need to maintain eating vegetables, fruits, whole grains and other healthy food.

There are foods to avoid when you are trying to lose weight. Losing weight after pregnancy is no different. You should avoid: Fatty foods, sugar in large amounts and fast food.

You can try with healthy food like: fruits of all kinds, vegetables (especially leafy green ones), whole grain bread, water and milk (particularly for breast feeding mom's).

Water is essential to the proper functioning of the body,it should be one of the major food groups. Your body becomes dehydrated when your body does not get enough water, and if you breast feed, it can harm milk production, because you cannot eliminate waste like you should.

You will want to drink as near the recommended eight glasses of water a day as you can. This will keep your body functioning properly and can even raise your metabolism. Studies have shown that 500 ml of water a day can increase metabolic rate by 30%.

Water will also keep you from feeling hungry all the time. Many times what you mistake for hunger is actually the body requesting water. In addition, you will feel fuller longer after meals.

No talk about weight loss is complete without exercise. You should of course consult a physician before beginning any strenuous work out, because the body has just gone through a major ordeal.

Walking is a good place to begin if you are not physically ready for a full scale workout. Simple exersices can be benificial as well, get a carriage and take baby for a walk around the neighborhood, use the stairs instead of the elevator or park further from the door at the supermarket.

The reason why exercise is so important is because it will increse your heart rate, and accelerate your metabolism. Many health problems can be avoided by healthy diet and moderate exercise. - 15634

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