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1. Drink mint tea
Without getting carried away – one or two cups a day is enough. The mint in tea can help reduce hunger and help relieve bloating. Some women noted that mint tea helps to cope not only with increased appetite, but also with irritable bowel syndrome. And if you absolutely do not like mint tea, then ordinary mint chewing gum will help.
2. Observe drinking regimen
Right in the morning, before meals, half an hour after meals, and so on – throughout the day you should drink water regularly. You will not only save yourself from dehydration and do your skin a favor, but you will also get rid of the brutal appetite. However, if you drink too much water, it can affect the quality of milk. Therefore, observe the norm of 30 ml of water per kilogram of weight – this is the optimal amount of liquid that you should drink during the day. But the water must certainly be clean, without any additives.
3. Eat organic foods
If you focus too much on losing weight, you can hurt yourself. After all, a baby with breast milk will still receive all the nutrients that he needs. And if you do not replenish them with food, your health will certainly be shaken. Therefore, try to eat high-quality fruits and vegetables, foods with a minimum degree of processing, make sure that there are enough proteins and the right carbohydrates in the diet.
4. Do background exercises
Sport is great, but will there be enough time for it? But any exercise is better than nothing. Did you manage to carve out a minute to stand in the bar? Excellent. Walk in the fresh air? It is impossible to wish better, the main thing is that she be active, and not limited to sitting on a bench in the park. Some exercises can be done with your child, and then both of you will have fun. If only you were in the mood, the rest can be solved.
5. Get enough sleep
This is also from a series of science fiction – getting enough sleep when a baby is in your arms. But here it is still worth sacrificing some household chores and trying to sleep whenever possible, especially when the baby is napping during the day. Scientists have long concluded that it is the lack of sleep that prevents a woman from losing weight after giving birth. And at other times, too – due to the increased production of the stress hormone cortisol against the background of lack of sleep, we are more hungry.
6. Get rid of temptations
Keep healthy snacks close at hand: yoghurts, nuts, fruits. If there are sweets, cookies, dryers in the house, it is very difficult to resist the temptation. After all, we eat these delicacies not because of hunger, but because they are delicious. And one boiled egg will satisfy hunger much better, which will bring benefits and saturate for a long time. Unlike a sweet waffle, after which you will want to eat even more.
7. Have breakfast
It’s better to stay without supper than without breakfast. You need to eat well in the morning so that the body has where to draw energy from. But dinner should be easier. By the way, Margarita Simonyan, who lost 17 kg after the third birth, saw this as the secret of her harmony: she eats only twice a day. And for dinner – no carbohydrates, only protein. And for breakfast – anything except pastries and pastries. As for the time, breakfast falls at about 11 o’clock, and dinner – at 5-6 o’clock in the evening.
8. Don’t eat at night.
Fasting isn’t just a fancy diet, it’s a working eating pattern that really helps you lose weight without starving. It consists in the fact that between today’s dinner and tomorrow’s breakfast (sorry for the tautology) at least 14 hours should pass. You can even 16. That is, in fact, the same “grandmother’s” recipe: do not eat after six. Try it, it’s not that hard.
9. Take a closer look at protein shakes
Don’t think that “this is all disgusting chemistry.” Protein shakes are usually pure, natural, with no side effects. They can even be used instead of sweeteners for yogurt or cottage cheese. As a snack – just perfect. Just don’t substitute them for normal food.
10. More fruit!
It’s summer now, cherries and strawberries are in full swing, watermelons are coming soon. Fruit is generally the perfect food. They have a lot of fiber, they perfectly moisturize, regulate digestion, and there are so few calories in them that it is very difficult to gain weight on fruits. The only thing is that fruit should not be eaten for dessert in order to avoid bloating, and also eat more than 400 grams at a time – this is fraught with flatulence and intestinal upset.
“Excess fat, if you put on weight within the limits of your norm, after childbirth will remain very little – about 3-4 kilograms. But you also need these kilograms for speedy physical recovery after childbirth and successful breastfeeding, so you should not go on a diet. At least two months (this is how long the postpartum period lasts) you need a varied and nutritious diet. Even if you are not breastfeeding, it is too early to cut calories. But when these two months pass, you can reconsider your diet. “