Women Pregnancy

Our celebrity blog reported that last week Britney Spears spotted in Malibu on a shopping spree for a wardrobe for her new slender frame and celebrate her new skinny body. The pretty star has lost over half the weight she gained after having two babies. She reportedly gained 40 pounds during her first pregnancy with son Sean Preston, which she found difficult to lose in between the birth of the two babies. Now she needs all new clothes for her newly size eight.

A spokesperson for Spears said she had dropped her pregnancy weight without a trainer, diet pills or a nutritionist. Just by doing one-hour training sessions twice a day and sticking to a diet of six small meals a day, basically cut out on carbohydrate intake and exercised. Her six small meals a day, consist of no fast food but only healthy snacks, like fruit, nuts and low-fat yogurt.

For any woman, after enduring nine months of pregnancy symptoms, including 5-6 months of extra weight, it’s quite natural to want to normalize your weight and regain your pre-pregnancy shape as soon as possible. When you give birth, you lose around 6 kilos (13 pounds) immediately. When you return home again, you continue to lose water and, once your uterus returns to its original size, you will lose another two to three kilos (four to seven pounds).
Life after giving birth typically throws up a new set of problems, which can cut across your plans to lose weight. Most of them are either being too hard on themselves or someone who should be supporting their wonderful mothering is being to hard on them.

It is important to allow your weight to come off slowly. This process should happen naturally as long as excess kilojoules are not consumed. Aim to give yourself around six months to get your figure back naturally before resorting to a restricted eating plan.
Celebrities like Britney who give birth are surrounded by dietitians, nurses and fitness experts. Plus, they often have major commercial commitments to safeguard. That’s why we should forget about celebrity moms who lose weight instantly, they are not a good example upon which to base your own postpartum weight loss goals.

This is few tips for getting into shape safely and a little bit faster on losing weight after pregnancy:
- Eat healthy foods. Some variety of foods including breads, cereals, rice, pasta, vegetables, legumes, fruits, milk, cheese, yogurt, lean meat, poultry, fish, eggs, nuts and seeds. With plenty of water, no soda and juice.
Avoid greasy snack foods and so-called healthy foods like cheese and whole milk.
- Try to build some outdoor activity into your day. Generally, exercise is a good method for countering that effect, but perhaps your walking is not intense enough to do that. This suggestion may sound counterintuitive, but I recommend you up your calorie intake to 1,800 to 2,000 calories a day (of low-fat, nutrient-dense food) and also increase the intensity of your exercising (try running instead of walking, or walk at a brisker pace for a longer time).
- Combining 100 to 200 fewer calories per day of higher fat foods (that’s just a couple spoonfuls of dressing or a piece of cheese) with 20 to 40 minutes of a good walk with your baby (200 calories out) will lead to exactly the weight loss and conditioning you want.

Remember, it is not safe or healthy to lose weight rapidly, especially while nursing. You do not want to risk a reduced milk production or a depletion of your bone and muscle tissue for the sake of getting back to your prepregnancy weight. After 2-3 months, when you feel your strength is returning and when your period has returned to normal, you can start following a healthy, weight loss diet, and taking more vigorous exercise.
This is not a contest nor a sprint. You are an extraordinarily important and extraordinarily busy person: a Mother. Get into shape at a pace that suits you, not the rest of the world.