When to start dieting after delivery
Weight Loss After Childbirth | Oakdale ObGyn
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many women after the birth of their
first child are very anxious to reclaim
their figure and I encourage you to be
patient so that you can establish a
healthy breastfeeding schedule with your
baby give your body time to heal and
just adjust into your new lifestyle and
so a fair and realistic goal is to take
nine months to lose the baby weight from
your pregnancy one of the best
predictors of successful weight loss in
your postpartum time period is to
actually try to gain the appropriate
amount of weight that your doctor
recommends for you during your pregnancy
so if you have the opportunity to
monitor your pregnancy weight gain
throughout your pregnancy and ask for
support and assistance if you notice
that you start to gain quicker then your
physician would recommend that will be
immensely helpful for you in the
postpartum period one of my favorite
tools to help postpartum moms is to
really help them hone in to their own
intuition so that they can trust their
own hunger and fullness cues to guide
their bodies back to their pre-pregnancy
weight the intuitive hunger and fullness
scale is so useful because it's
something that you can intuitively raise
your awareness of at anytime any moment
in any meal and so you don't need to
necessarily be counting calories or
points to successfully lose weight after
you've had a baby in fact most of us
don't have enough time to do that I'd
rather have young women queuing in
becoming more mindful of their hunger
fullness cues and really trying to
develop patterns that keep them from
being vulnerable but also trying to end
a meal with a more of neutral or gentle
satisfaction and so you can kind of
think about neutral as the time after
you start eating when your hunger cues
have
you're no longer feeling those intense
rumblings or physical sensations of
hunger and so it many times when we
pause when we've kind of subsided those
cues the hormones will travel to your
brain and you'll actually feel gently
satisfied within 15 minutes or so when
those fullness cues really have their
full potential to register in your brain
if you're feeling a little bit hungry or
you can certainly eat until you're
gently satisfied again you want to just
make sure that you keep pausing and
appreciating how full you are throughout
your meal because you'll be surprised at
how getting consistent well-balanced
meals and snacks will really help to
curb the cravings and help you regain
your pre-pregnancy and weight and have
that successful weight loss of living is
next several months as you consider how
to craft a balanced nails and snacks try
to opt for Whole Foods as much as
possible because the more fiber that you
add into your meals and snacks the more
volume of healed feel which will help to
curb any cravings that will give you
that gentle satisfaction and it will
support your long-term weight loss goals
another important factor to help promote
weight loss in the postpartum period is
to consider breastfeeding not only is it
immensely
wonderful nutrition for your infant but
it actually will contribute you about a
500 calorie deficit for you every single
day so it's in essence like you're
walking five miles a day by just nursing
your child and having that incredible
bonding time with your infant
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