Finally, this long-awaited moment has come, and a small miracle has appeared – your baby. Now you are waiting for another equally important moment – breastfeeding.

Most women at this time also do not think about losing weight, but in vain. After all, it is during this period that it is easiest to lose weight, especially if you were slim before pregnancy.

Moms need to be skinny too

Yes, indeed, young mothers, if they change their diet correctly, not only provide their babies with all the necessary vitamins, but manage to lose up to 10 kg of excess weight in the very first month after pregnancy!

For effective weight loss, you also need to add fitness to the diet (if there were no serious injuries), yoga, or increase the time of daily walks and try to move as much as possible during this time.

Seriously getting down to business, you will see that the result will not be long in coming.

Despite the fact that there is an opinion that after childbirth it will not work to lose weight quickly – it is possible. The main thing is not to forget about the crumbs and do everything wisely.
Where to begin

Of course, we are not world-class stars and we do not have nannies, personal trainers and the ability to lose weight on expensive diets.

But the experience of weight loss of star mothers proves once again that an effective diet for postpartum weight loss exists, and you can get in shape within a few months after the birth of a child.

But not all of these recommendations and diets are useful and possible when breastfeeding. For example, one of the domestic stars recommends eating a little buckwheat, fat-free kefir, boiled fish and vegetables per day.

For the figure of a young mother, such a diet can be useful, but not for a baby, because at such a pace, milk will simply disappear in a few days.

Thus, it is not worth looking for a way to lose weight in the recommendations from the stars, because they most likely do not breastfeed. Yes, and such diets are not recommended even for women who have not given birth, but here, along with losing weight, it is necessary to restore the body.

In general, it is better not to start losing weight with diets and fitness in the first month and a half. Give your body time to get used to the changes, get used to the new state. Often, women change their eating habits, develop allergies, and all this you need to know. And yes, it doesn’t hurt to just relax.

During this time, you will get used to the baby in the house a little, learn to cope with everything and then you can take care of yourself. It also happens that mothers themselves do not notice how, in all this turmoil, they returned to their former forms.

During this period, you will also learn what you can eat and what you can’t. Yes, there is a specific list of foods that are forbidden to eat during feeding, but individual characteristics are always added to it. But the most important thing is that during the period of conditional rest, your tears will heal, and you will be able to do exercises along with the diet.

When compiling your diet, pay attention to the fact that lactation also contributes to weight loss, because about 500 Kcal is spent on milk production per day.

Diet after childbirth. General Nutrition Recommendations

The best nutritional option for a nursing mother will not be any particular diet, but a proper, balanced diet, taking into account the needs of the baby and the mother herself. So you can’t do without counting calories.

The minimum allowable level of calorie intake is 1200 Kcal per day, but for each the number of calories is individual and is calculated by the formula: ideal weight, multiplied by 30.

But taking into account the needs of the body of a young mother, another 300 Kcal must be added to this value, so that the total calorie content is not less than 1600 Kcal.

Drink more water, watch your diet, try to write down everything you eat and keep yourself busy so that you don’t reach for the refrigerator once again.

Recommended products for weight loss:

fruits (except bananas and citrus fruits);
vegetables, but do not forget about those that cause diathesis in children;
beef, chicken, lean fish in boiled or baked form;
milk, cottage cheese, kefir;
limit, and it is better to completely exclude sweet, starchy foods. It is recommended to eat some wholemeal bread and pasta once a week;
refuse fried, smoked, canned, fatty foods. Try to eat as little as possible in the evening.
And of course, do not forget about foods that you can not eat while breastfeeding.

In general, following such recommendations is not difficult at all, and the nutrition of a young mother is not much different from proper nutrition at any time in our lives. At the end of feeding, you can connect various diets if the result does not suit you, or you can continue to eat right by including other healthy foods – legumes, cabbage, some dark chocolate, citrus fruits.

Combine diet and exercise, more move and very soon you will be the same as before childbirth, or even better!