Just as it's best to put on weight slowly and steadily during your pregnancy, you need to be slow and steady
in losing weight after your pregnancy.
Not exact matches
But bear
in mind that gaining too much
weight during
pregnancy means you'll have more to
lose after your baby comes along, as claire0412 from our community discovered:
I took about 3 months to
lose my baby
weight (I'd put on 10 or 12 kg
in pregnancy — not sure exactly, I stopped weighing myself
after 10), but then kept
losing weight while I fed my son.
You'll likely
lose about half of your
pregnancy weight gain
in the first six weeks
after delivery.
After my first
pregnancy, I went on a diet for the first time
in my life and
lost all the baby
weight — plus ten more pounds.
Right
after giving birth, a new mom has to face a new chapter
in her life that involves waking up at 3 am, changing poop - filled diapers, and figuring out how to
lose the
weight gained during
pregnancy.
So when I see moms week
after week putting their sleep needs last on the list, or I see a breastfeeding mom who is so dedicated that she is
losing beyond her
pregnancy weight, hasn't taken a shower
in a long time, and cries every time someone looks her
in the eye... I get a bit more serious.
After my LG was born I
lost the
pregnancy kg's
in 3 weeks, what I then did was make the fatal mistake of giving into my breastfeeding cravings of sugar and chocolates, within a few months I had picked up all the
pregnancy weight again and some.
I
lost weight after a year and again put on
in same way during second
pregnancy and breastfeeding.
was engaged
in modeling business,
after pregnancy it was necessary to quickly come
in shape, but with my metabolism it is difficult to
lose weight.
Breastfeeding bonds a mother to her baby, stimulates important hormonal activities
in her body, helps her
lose weight after pregnancy and protects her against future breast cancer and osteoporosis.
Find a couple pieces that you can wear and feel sexy
in right
after your
pregnancy and down the line when you've
lost some baby
weight.
You will
lose a good chunk of your
pregnancy weight in the first few weeks
after giving birth, the rest of the
weight loss depends on many factors.
Thus,
in the Diabetes Prevention Program,
weight loss
after GDM reduced future diabetes incidence by 16 % for every kilogram
lost.77 The Nurses Health Study found that healthy diet patterns such as a Mediterranean diet, a Dietary approaches to stop hypertension (DASH) pattern diet or an Alternative Healthy Eating diet reduced diabetes incidence by 40 % — 57 %
in women who had GDM 14 years before.78 Evidence of the Gestational Diabetes» Effects on Moms study shows that a lifestyle intervention that starts during
pregnancy and continues postpartum is feasible and may prevent
pregnancy weight retention and help overweight women
lose weight.79 80