How to Lose Baby Belly Fast

The birth of your baby brings joyful and exciting days brimming with moments spent caring for your new addition. This new time leaves little time to think of yourself or work on losing your baby belly. Do not let your newfound joy be dampened by your extra belly weight. Take a few simple steps to get your body back without taking any time away from your new bundle of joy.

Instructions

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Cut out sweets from your diet. If you are breastfeeding, your body needs 300 to 400 extra calories each day, but make these extra calories count by selecting healthy food to nibble on. Replace your snacking with healthy options like sliced veggies and hummus, an apple, string cheese or a handful of almonds. Choose foods that are packed with protein to fill you and keep hunger away.

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Put on your tennis shoes and start walking.The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommends starting to exercise one to four weeks after a normal delivery. (This does not apply to a C-section birth or one accompanied by complications.) Even if you exercised regularly before the delivery, start out slowly and at a low intensity.

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Plan to exercise for a total of two to three hours a week. If you break this into 30-minute sessions, you can break a sweat four to six days a week. Begin with a steady walk, then after a few weeks start power walking and, when your body is ready, break into a full run. These will be your cardio sessions and will increase your calorie burn, decrease your baby belly, multiply your energy and lighten your mood due to the endorphins released during exercise.

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Perform strengthening exercises that tone your muscles and shave away fat. Go to your local gym or lift weights at home to strengthen your arms, back, legs and stomach. Perform exercises such as the plank, mountain-climbers, front leg kicks and windshield wipers for unconventional exercises that will blast your belly fat.

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Tighten your transverse abdominis muscle. Usually this muscle separates during your pregnancy. Strengthening and healing this muscle will protect your back and flatten your belly. Sit with your back flat against a wall and your legs out in front of you. Rest your hand on your belly button and tighten your stomach muscles so that your belly button moves back towards your spine. While holding your stomach muscles in this position, force short breaths out of your mouth for a count of 50. Release your stomach muscle and take a deep breath. Repeat this exercise. Work up to performing four sets of 50 breaths each day.