Weight Loss Tips for Losing Baby Fat

Follow these weight loss tips after your pregnancy and lose your unwanted baby fat. These are some ideas my friends and I have used and they fit all kinds of budgets. Make sure you check with your doctor though for what weight loss plan and ideas would be most suitable for your situation.

I also think that there is no rush to get into a weight loss routine too quickly. Your body needs time to adjust, you need a lot more rest than usual. Often just the daily around the house activity is all the exercise you need for starters. With my first child, it took me about a year before I felt I was ready to get a little bit more active. It was only 3 months with my second baby so it’s different with each pregnancy. You really need to listen to your body and take it slowly!

IDEA #1: WALK IT OFF! It’s easy and free after pregnancy weight loss tip and you can include ‘weights’ by pushing the pram. How about making it a social event and walk with other mums? The idea is to start with small distances and increase your distance each week. Example:

Week1 – walk 10 min 3 -5 times per week

Week 2 – walk 12 min 3 – 5 times per week

Week 3 – walk 15 min…. and keep building up until you can walk 30 min each day

Walking is a great exercise as it will:

- get your heart rate up if you walk long enough,

- will help promote healthy skin due to the blood flow around your body,

- will increase energy levels,

- is low impact so will not cause stress on joints or muscles and

- can be adjusted to match the level you are at by changing distance, speed and terrain.

When to walk:

- walk instead of driving and park a distance away from where you need to go

- use stairs instead of elevators / escalators

- make use of lunch breaks and walk for 20 min or around the block

IDEA #2: HEALTHY EATING

NO special diets should be taken when trying to lose baby fat. Especially if you’re breastfeeding. The best diet anyone can take is to make sure they are keeping to the Food Pyramid and keeping to the number of serves of each type of food each day. Evidence shows that when keeping to this Healthy Eating Plan you will lose weight if you are overweight and maintain a healthy weight when you are at your correct weight.

This of course is if you combine it with some form of daily exercise. Place a picture of the pyramid on your fridge and keep a tally of how many serves of each food group you have had. You can find your own copy of this in the Family Planner.

As I’ve followed this plan, I’ve been surprised at how much MORE food I was required to eat. (I wasn’t eating enough fruit and vegetables. Surprise Surprise!). The other thing that surprised me was that when I had made sure I’d eaten enough of the right kind of food, I stopped craving the other types of food because everything was in balance in my body and digestive system.

IDEA #3: DRINK MORE WATER

I know these sound really basic ideas but are you already doing them? No? Then this is a good reminder! For me too. My mum was a midwife many years ago and when she visited me after the birth of my first baby she would remind me, “Every time the baby takes a drink, you have a big glass of water too.” This is vitally important in keeping up a good milk supply as well as for your own health. You need to drink at least 2 litres per day and if you drink a lot of tea or coffee then that amount may need to be higher as they are dehydration agents.

IDEA #4: DO HOUSEWORK(or whatever!) VIGOROUSLY!

You would be surprised at what a great workout it is! For a guide on what you burn off with different everyday activities then check out the Housework Exercise Guide in the Free e-book “An Organized Woman’s Secret”. The only vigourous activity not listed there is sex – if you’re back into that again yet!

I’ll leave it up to you to work out how much you think you are burning off! Your husband will love that part of your exercise regime! And I can guarantee it will be good for your marriage too!

IDEA #5: EXERCISE ROUTINES

There are a couple of different options with this idea. You can go public and head down to your local gym. Many have child minding facilities or playgroups so you can have that fitness time to yourself. There is a wide range of classes so you can find one to meet your needs. Water aerobics are a great place to start after having a baby as they are gentle on your back and stomach muscles, don’t involve heavy lifting and yet can still really get your heart rate up and increase your fitness levels.

The benefit of a gym is the wide variety of options available to you, the inspiring techno music and other incredibly fit bodies to make you want to work harder!

The other option is to hide away in your lounge room and work to a DVD. You can choose what programs you want to do. Pilates are a great place to start and they offer advanced workouts too as you grow stronger. They often need to be combined with walking to help get that heart rate up. The difficulties at home include having the children involved and getting under your feet and getting into bad habits with the moves you are doing and having no one to be able to correct you.

The benefits include exercising at convenient times to you (even at 11pm at night!), having your own choice of music to exercise to and not coming home feeling depressed because everyone looks better than you (the people on the video have been doctored up to look like that so we don’t have to feel so bad!).

Weight loss tips will do nothing to help you losing baby fat unless you actually take action. Write yourself up a plan or use the Weight Loss Plan in the Organized Woman’s Family Planner.

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