Losing Weight After Pregnancy - How to Diet After Pregnancy

By Kelly Aziz
You have your new bundle of joy, you are settled in your role as Mommy and now you feel ready to shift the excess weight you put on while pregnant. But how do you tackle this? How to diet after pregnancy depends on your determination to lose weight and how you incorporate weight loss (diet and exercise) into your life.

Some people go on crash diets to lose their pregnancy weight. This almost always results in putting all the weight back on, because no one enjoys a crash diet and one thinks they can go back to their usual diet once they are done. In order to diet after pregnancy effectively, the things you add into your life must be enjoyable. You must enjoy your weight loss process! This is the only way you can lose weight for good. Maintaining a proper exercise and diet program in your life is not only important in terms of losing that excess baby weight, but also in maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

Making your diet healthier does not mean making it less enjoyable. Before every meal you should try to eat as much fruit as you desire. Fruit should come first in any meal because it is very easy to digest and will give you instant energy. Fruit is very good for you too!

Now I could sit here and tell you the do's and don't when it comes to diets, but I know some of us don't want to get our heads around what is good or not. I know I didn't. Of course I did eventually, but to begin with I just wanted someone to do the working out for me, so I could easily incorporate my new improved diet into my life. This is why I found a lovely easy-to-follow diet program online. It has helped me lose my pregnancy weight very easily and I have kept it off. I am starting to learn a lot more about nutrition, but following a program has allowed me to slowly learn and therefore absorb the information in my own time (instead of panicking and feeling overwhelmed by all the information that is out there and not knowing if something is OK in my diet or not!). So while you are discovering how to diet after pregnancy properly, you can follow a diet program to get yourself ahead!

Another tip would be to simply keep all the junk foods out of your home that you definitely do know about - chips, chocolates etc. This is something you can easily do and is a start in changing your diet.

Exercise is crucial for weight loss and healthy living. Any exercise daily is a good start. Walking as much as you can (with baby intact) is a good start. Sunlight and fresh air are just as important to your health as exercise and diet. If you like running, run! This was my weight loss exercise. I love running and it worked for me. Pick something you enjoy doing. If you are not sure what you like then try different things (you will be exercising and losing weight while discovering new things you never thought you would enjoy). If you can't go out and join classes because you are unable to get a regular babysitter, then try things you can do at home. Yoga or Pilates are good areas to start and if you find stress gets to you easily these will help you with that too (reducing your likelihood to overeat when stressed! I mean we all comfort eat).

Try to enjoy every aspect of your weight loss. Enjoy your exercise, enjoy trying new recipes maybe and if this isn't motivation enough, think about how these new healthy living components you are bringing into your life will be so beneficial for your baby. For her/him to grow up around healthy food and you exercising, you will be setting them a good example and also possibly avoiding your baby from being a picky (or junk obsessed) eater!

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