Giving Birth is a great experience for a mom. It is common to maintain additional pounds after giving birth and many women cannot wait to regain their pre-pregnancy shape as soon as possible.

Dont too hurry to cut down your calories even you are not breast feeding. Your body require a lot of energy to take care of your new born baby especially at night. The new mom have to wake up frequently for night feeding and all the other demands of a new infant. Besides that, new mom completely exhausted after giving birth and being responsible for a new baby can also be very tiring and stressful. Don’t be too rush. It normally takes up to 6 months after pregnancy for your body to regain to pre-pregnancy body shape.

It is important that you make sure that you concentrate on eating healthy food enriched with enough calories and nutrients to give you the energy and nutrition to take care your new born baby especially if you breast feedings. Breastfeeding burns about 500 calories per day, so the longer you breastfeed, the more calories you burn.

You can start a light exercise when you feel ready but not too energetically exercises. It will damage your health being too vigorously exercises. Some new moms wont have much time to exercise; you can just take a 10 minute walk with the baby every day and slowly increase your time to 20 minutes per day or by running up and down the stairs a few times.

Don’t too rush! If you are a new mom, and you can’t wait to get back into shape, take Strip That Fat’s advice and “Go Easy!” When you feel your strength is returning after 2-3 months; your period has returned to normal, then you can start following a healthy weight loss diet and begin doing more energetic exercises, such as running or some gym workout.

How long it takes to regain to pre-pregnancy weight? It is depends on how much weight you gained during your pregnancy. The average gain in weight during pregnancy is 25-35 pounds. Mothers typically lose 12-14 pounds after pregnancy, leaving a remainder of about 12-21 pounds of weight to be lost which should easily be lost within 6-8 months. Every woman is different, however, so use this as a flexible guide, and remember the main goal is to be a healthy, happy mom!

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