The Healthy You

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Losing Weight After Pregnancy

It is normal for you to gain weight during your pregnancy stage. During pregnancy, you have a lot of food craving, you do not have much exercise, you have a lot of mood swings and you most of the time eat your mood swings away. It is really not that easy especially now that you have a new born baby to take care of.

Society dictates that when a woman enters motherhood her body changes. Yes it does change. Temporarily! Ever noticed that not all mothers change into a mother figure? Yes, you could still have a great body. Only if you have the determination to get back to your healthy and sexy self.

Here are some of the things you need to focus on to loose weight:

  • Self - you need to admit that if you do not do anything, nothing will happen. You have to admit that something is not right.
  • Goal - focus yourself to your goal. What is your goal? just loosing the pounds? or adapting a healthy lifestyle
  • Nutrition - are you aware of what you are eating? or do you need more info on what are the food groups that you do need to eat?
  • Exercise - what are some of the exercises that you could do without injuring your self? Tip: walking.
Some women just rely on breastfeeding to lose those extra pounds. It is not a mystery that most of the women who gave birth lose a lot of their calories when breastfeeding but breastfeeding alone does not really apply to all women. Women differ in metabolism and those with low metabolism would need exercise to really burn those fat away.

Even if you would like to exercise, you really do not have that much time as you are taking care of your new born baby. Before you even start exercising or even jumping into diet plans, there are lot of factors that you would need to take into consideration. There are a lot of fitness plans that are available today but not all of them are designed for mother who just gave birth.

You would need a system that is proven and designed for women to lose weight after pregnancy. Not only does this system support you in loosing weight, this system should allow you to adapt a perfect and healthy lifestyle.

To put simply, you cannot just exercise, you cannot just fit into a diet plan. You would need to find a system that would work for you.

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Here you will find more information on how to lose those pounds safely. This is a good investment for you and your family.

Your life is very important.

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Thursday, June 19, 2008

Living it right

Do you feel a little frustrated from all of these advices regarding weight loss?

Let's keep you motivated, here is what I felt after loosing a couple of pounds (FAT).
  • I've already lost about 37 lbs of fat and have actually gotten stronger in my whole body at the same time! *Do take note that you need to loose FAT and not Muscles.
  • I sleep earlier and I wake up feeling great.
  • I feel I have energy to get through the day. - even without coffee ^_^
  • I am able to do more things than I never could before. No heavy feeling.
  • I am beginning to feel better and more confident about myself.

What I did to achieve this?

I first started by purchasing this really cheap Weight Watchers E-book Collection. The information I got really helped me achieving my goals.

If you feel that purchasing e-books wont help you, well, I too felt the same way. You only need to realize that you do not have to fight obesity alone. And with the e-book, I got to start a group with the same goals and I used that information and shared it with them.

I think you could start by first admitting to your self you indeed have a problem. Many of us think that you have to lose weight just to be more attractive. You really have to realize that its not about being attractive its about your life. LIFE.

In a recent government study, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that obesity is fast approaching tobacco as the top underlying preventable cause of death in the USA.

Thirty-four percent of U.S. adults are considered overweight, and an additional 31 percent are obese.


Now... Do you really think that its all about looking good?

I have tried to look for more information regarding the proper dieting. What
food groups to eat, when to eat, and why do you need to eat this... I only got fascinated with this Weight Watchers E-book Collection I purchased. It is a collection of e-books that would get you to start right. All you need to know about the diet plans and what you should really eat to lose those unwanted fat.

Would you like to
lose weight fairly quickly but not give up your carbs, so long as they are "good" carbs? Can you monitor your intake of foods to measure their Glycemic index, so that you are not only getting healthier but are also losing weight? Can you be disciplined about what you learn to eat as good fats and good carbs? I think you would be more interested if you visit the site yourself here.

If you would rather keep your motivation up, here is another book that could help you.