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7 Ways To Lose Belly Fat Post Baby

Belly Fat

Belly Fat

Pregnancy is the most beautiful feeling in the life of a woman. It gives her the essence of the creation of the life.

Especially, at the time of pregnancy, the family members shower all their love and care upon her.  In fact care and love comes majorly in the form of food. This fat rich diet often results in some weight gain during pregnancy.

Woman’s body is adaptive to minimize the energy content and create fat storage for further requirements of the body. So it converts the food and reserves as fat in the areas like midriff, buttocks and thighs for women which have nil or lesser physical exposure.

The midsection of a Woman’s body is the most suitable place for depositing fat. However, post childbirth, hormones come into play and start contracting the uterus.

In post pregnancy, the major concern of most of the women is how to get back into shape. Just keep in mind that it takes time especially belly to fully recover from pregnancy.

Dropping those extra kilos will take some considerable and dedicated effort too .

Here are some tips for all those proud mothers who want to live a healthy life. It is very necessary to have a never give up attitude.

Losing belly fat is a very hard task to achieve. It requires a level of dedication and patience to achieve the desired results. SO, here are 7 ways to lose stomach post baby.

  1. Breastfeed helps a lot:

Breastfeed

Breastfeeding not only benefits the baby, but also the mother at the same time. Nursing your baby has immense benefits. Breastfeeding is a one of the natural way of reducing your baby belly.

It activate the contraction in uterus to obtain its normal size to a great stretch. Breastfeeding also helps in burning the extra calories without even putting an ounce of effort on her part. You are losing your calories when you are relaxing – isn’t it awesome?

But as soon as you are going to decrease breast feeding or start weaning, you need to put up extra efforts to burn those calories.

  1. Monitor your snacking time:

proper foods

Say no to empty calories like cookies, candies, soda, chips and chocolates. You must be very careful with the consumption of the carbohydrates.

Carbs get converted into the sugar and are very likely to settle in fat friendly areas. Try introducing healthy food items like whole grain and low fat dairy products to your daily diet.

Also, Green tea is a good option for reducing your belly as it is known to aid fat burning process. In fact, Green Tea contains antioxidants that shell the cells from free radicals and also boost up the body metabolism.

This action of green tea facilitates the weight loss.  Regular intake of Green tea after exercise drastically  improve results.

  1. Have full body massages:

body massages

Massages are very beneficial  in reducing belly fat. In massages, specifically the cellulite laden areas are focussed. However, massaging in those areas  spread the fat into the body for absorption.

Massaging with lemon oil improve the  body metabolism thus burning up nutrients at a much faster pace which ultimately will lead to reduced fat.

Massage can be most beneficial if it is planned after exercise or any other physical activity.

  1. Warm Water:

Warm Water

A warm glass of water especially in morning flush out toxins and helps in increasing the temperature of the body. This increase the metabolic rate which burns calories.

Drink warm water all the time, you can also add lemon into it. This combination will help in breakdown of adipose tissue.

  1. Include cabbage in your diet:

cabbage

Adding the green vegetable  in diet helps in reducing your post pregnancy belly fat in “n” number of ways. These are considered as the best source of dietary fiber which not only improves nutrient absorption and but also at the same time retain healthy bowel movements.

Also it contains many essential vitamins such as riboflavin, pantothenic acid, and thiamin.

Spices are not only known for improving  taste but also work wonders in weight loss . Incorporating spices like cinnamon, turmeric, pepper, long pepper boost digestion and stop accumulation of fat inside our body.

  1. Avoid stress:

Stressed women

Try not to take stress. This is because cortisol is released into  bloodstream which causes, tiredness, irritability,  pain in back and weight gain or retention. High levels of cortisol can also increase your craving for sweet and fatty food.

A simple and effective tip  would be to  sleep when your baby is sleeping. This extra sleep will drain out stress hormone.  In many ways  you will feel better emotionally.

  1. Exercise:

workout women

Last but not the least hitting the gym may be some time away but light exercises like a walk can be started right away. You could do some abdominal exercises after  consulting your doctor.

When your body permits, plan a workout regime.  Start with pranayama as it is quite amazing and has effective benefits in toning stomach muscles. While exercising keep in mind to do in limit.

Think  like this, it took nine months to acquire that fat, it is but only justifiable to take as much time to lose.

 

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