Post Pregnancy Belly: What Is The Quickest Way To Achieve Weight Loss After Pregnancy?

The new love in your life has just arrived and now that you have recovered from the birth you have that "post pregnancy belly"

, so how soon can you get back to normal?

Chances are you're pretty sore and tired immediately after your baby's birth, so you may not be able to jump right back into strenuous workouts. You can however, do a few things even immediately after birth to begin to lose that post pregnancy belly and to begin weight loss after pregnancy too.

Breast-feeding

It's true; you're going to achieve weight loss after pregnancy much more quickly if you breast-feed your baby than if you don't. If you are able to breastfeed, it is great for you and your baby but if you can't, don't feel bad about it.

Not only does breastfeeding give your baby important immune boosting nutrients like colostrum, but it is an amazing bonding experience and provides the best nutrition for your baby too.

Breastfeeding is also good for that post pregnancy belly and for weight loss after pregnancy because you use significant calories when you make milk, and you "give calories away" to your baby, too, when you nurse. So go ahead and nurse if you can, and watch your post pregnancy belly melt away.

Which Exercises Are Good For Weight Loss After Pregnancy?

Take your doctor's advice as to when you can start exercising, you may not be advised to exercise right away, especially if you have had a C-section, stitches or other complications.

Pelvic Tilts, Crunches, Yoga and Pilates

Subject to your doctor's approval, crunches are one good way to get started on firming up those abs, great for reducing post pregnancy belly as is yoga or Pilates. However, if it takes you a little bit to get going or you can't do significant exercises right away, you can still do pelvic tilts and isometric contractions.

With pelvic tilts, you are sort of doing "internal crunches". You lie with your back flat on the floor with your legs bent, feet resting on the floor, and tighten your abdominal muscles as you roll your pelvis upwards. When you do this, breathe deeply and focus on using your abdominal muscles to roll your pelvis instead of your gluteus maximus (your buttock muscles).

Take exercise steady to start with and gradually increase the frequency, duration and intensity over time, it is important not to overdo it at first. Maintaining fitness will help you manage the lack of or those little interruptions to your sleep.

Doing Kegel exercises

"Kegel exercises", will help strengthen your pelvic floor, make those bladder related "urgency accidents" much less likely, even though they're very common in women after childbirth and will also help reduce your post pregnancy belly.

Here's what you do. Lie on your back on the floor, and pull your pelvic muscles "up and in", count to three or four, relax, repeat, count to three or four, relax, and so on. Do this 10 times, counting to three or four each time, and do these sets of 10 several times a day.

Weight loss after pregnancy doesn't have to be that hard, especially if you breast-feed and make time for exercise -- with your baby, too. As you heal after birth, you can slowly incorporate exercise back into your day and work on getting rid of that post pregnancy belly.

by: Steve Barker

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