Getting Back To Your Pre-Baby Self

Congratulations on bringing home your baby (or babies). As you settle, take a look at you. How are you? Pregnancy is super-special, but is also very taxing on the body. Your body has changed drastically. It had been huge! The skin stretched like crazy. Your bosom became fuller. You gained pounds of extra weight from all those natural pregnancy cravings. Of course, you need to return to shape and the way you were. However, you must allow yourself some rest at first. Really, you deserve it! In fact, you need it.

Relax and Enjoy The Magic Of Motherhood

You get only a first few days after delivery as rest. Health facilities keep the newborn and the mother under supervision and maximum care for some days. They need to make sure you do not have any post-pregnancy infection.
The tiny human sure does pee, poo, burp, and sleep, and you could be wondering what is life all about! You have to feed your baby, wake up nights after nights, rock her to sleep, calm him when she cries, prepare food, change napkins, give bathe, and do a lot of laundry. Now, all these are exhausting. You soon have dark eye circles, an aching body, but you still feel wonderfully happy. Apparently, motherhood itself has amazing health benefits.
This phase allows complete relaxation for the mother. It is a strangely beautiful feeling indeed. You feel elated and proud. You feel happy, fulfilled, and relaxed like never before. You just want to sleep for some days before you hold your baby all the time.

Getting back in shape

Let’s put it straight: as a mother, you are not allowed for a quick loss of weight. Do not try too hard to loose too much of weight. Do not compare yourself with celebrity moms who seem to straightaway jump from the labor room to the treadmill – understand that you do not have the kind of resources that they have at their call and beck- ranging from personal trainers, dietitians and chefs. Instead, it would help if you would:
Eat well and eat healthy
The calories are burning for sure. You wake nights, walk her perambulator, do the laundry, and rock your baby to sleep. The trick here is not to deprive your body of the essential nutrients it badly needs, but to resort to healthy choices in whatever you eat.

• Occasional binge eating and parties are totally okay, but please do not make into a habit
• Avoid fast foods as much as you can, if possible fully
• Eat vegetables as these supply nutrition, are wholesome in satiety, and help in digestion
• Include fat burners and wholesome nutritious foods in your diet
• Drink a lot of water

Start exercising slowly but keep the rhythm
The easiest thing to do – get walking – the best postpartum exercise. Start a little bit of cardio when you feel fit for it. Only a few crunches and some minutes on the treadmill should do. Just keep up the habit every alternate day, if not daily.
Say NO to crash dieting
Crash dieting is actually disastrous. It depletes your body of nutrients by limiting supply. You do lose weight heavily but most of it is actually muscle mass and not fat. The worst part: your cells release toxins in your blood. You have to breastfeed your baby. Besides, after the diet is over, the urge to eat is too strong to refuse. You again gain weight rapidly.

Do not hurry

Your body gained all the extra weight in 40 weeks. That is a long time. You should at least allow six to seven months if you could follow balanced guidelines. Do not fall for those airbrushed celebrity photos where they restore six packs two months from delivery! You should not resume any kind of physical activity soon after delivery.