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I recently have a baby and gained a lot of
weight. How can I loose my weight safely and fast?
Women who breast feed exclusively for the first
4 months and continue nursing until at least 6 months will experience
a greater weight loss than mothers who choose to bottle-feed their
baby. A day's worth of breastfeeding your baby, 8-12 feedings
a day, will generate an energy loss of 500 calories or more. The
energy required for you to breastfeed your baby comes from the
fat stores you accumulated during your pregnancy. So all the fat
that you had been putting on during those 9 months had a real
physiological purpose - to provide the energy required to breastfeed
your newborn! It took some time for you to put it on, so don't
expect to take it off overnight! The first 6 weeks postpartum
is NOT the time to start dieting like crazy and training excessively
to lose those extra pounds. During this time following pregnancy
and childbirth you need to rebuild your strength, rebuild the
nutrient stores in your body and get accustomed and adjusted to
breastfeeding and your new life. You can promote a gradual weight
loss with the following tips:
(1) follow a healthy diet with well-balanced meals
(2) drink lots of fluids, especially water
(3) eat nutritious snacks throughout your day, and
(4) resume or start a light physical activity program
Visit CAAWS' new website Mothers
in Motion for more information
Please note that this information is intended
to provide general information on common nutrition/physical activity/medical
topics. It is not a comprehensive medical review and does not include
all the potential medical conditions, issues, or considerations.
Therefore it cannot and should not be relied upon as a substitute
for seeing an appropriate health care professional (who can provide
individualized and comprehensive assessment and advice).
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