Importance of losing weight after losing child birth

Posted by Felix Okoli on Friday March 14, 2014 at 12:4:36:

During the Pregnancy period and immediately after Child birth, a new Mother adds a lot of weight. This is due to the fact that the body was expanded during the pregnancy period to accommodate the new baby, also major hormonal changes took place during that period, and fats were accumulated from wrong eating habits.

After Childbirth many women do little or nothing to loose Fats they accumulated during pregnancy due to some reasons; Fatigue, Busy schedules , or because they are ignorant of how to go about it. This article will outline some benefits of loosing weight after Childbirth, in order to encourage women who had just put to birth to do something about loosing Childbirth fats and get back to their original shape.

Benefits of Losing weight after child birth:
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- Prevents Health Related Problems: Excessive fats accumulated during the pregnancy period can be dangerous to the health of the new Mother if not checkmated. Loosing Weight after Childbirth helps to prevent some health related Problems such as Obesity, Health Attacks, and other health problems that occur as a result of excessive fats in the body.

- Helps to Shrink the Body to its Original Size: After Childbirth, a Woman’s body still remains in its expanded size with excessive fats. Loosing weight helps to shrink the body back to its original size, and this should be done soon after childbirth, before the muscles takes the shape of the expanded body size. That is why it is more difficult for a woman to loose Childbirth related fats if she doesn’t do so immediately after the first Childbirth.

- Regains Self Confidence: Another importance of loosing Childbirth weight is that, it helps the woman regain Confidence in her body once more ,after she has gone down to her original size. Being fat and over weight makes People loose their self confidence and this leads to low self esteem, and the same thing applies to a Woman who had just given birth. Loosing weight helps boost her self esteem.

- Get Rid of Ugly Stretch Marks: Stretch marks appear on the body when the muscles on that area of the body are stretched to their limits. These stretch marks most times leave blackish ugly marks on the body. During pregnancy, the muscles are all stretched to accommodate the baby, and this causes Stretch marks to appear in different parts of the body, like the lower part of the abdomen, the hips and thighs. Loosing weight after Childbirth restores the muscles to their original position and in turn the Stretch marks disappear.

It is better that a new Mother looses Childbirth fats using natural means like; controlling her diets, and doing a lot of exercises, than for her to opt for the quick artificial means that comes with side effects, such as undergoing surgeries, drinking fat loss teas that will make her burn fats fast. Using natural means helps the body to adjust and shrink back gradually to its original size.