July 23rd, 2010 
admin If you are looking at the mirror after deliver your baby and don’t really like what you see, I can understand if losing baby fat is your first priority now. But please note that it won’t happen anytime soon. As fat loss can’t happen overnight, your habits, lifestyle, and daily activities can’t be changed in short time either.
The first thing that you should change in losing baby fat is your eating habit (yes, that means you should go on a diet). Usually, the first thing that you will find is various hyped diet that promoted heavily on every media available. These diets offer quick fix and probably you have heard some of them: low-fat, low-carb, Hollywood diet, South Beach, Cabbage Soup, Grapefruit, and so on. These diets will give you quick weight loss, then a drop in metabolism and followed by a weight gain of more than you lost in the first place once you ended the program.
What you should do is eating supportively, which means you should have proper portion of protein and carbohydrates in each meal. Instead of three big meal per day where you’ll eat until you’re overstuffed, eat 4-6 small meal per day; this will keep you full throughout the day. Focus on healthy foods and beverages in each meal and make sure you enjoy them in moderation instead of excess. Check an example of a day meal plan at nutritious diet meal plans.
Replacing what you usually eat with healthier alternative is not something that can be done easily; do this by exclude several fat promoting foods and introduce some healthy foods every week. By doing it step by step, you safe yourself from frustration and grief that can make you stop halfway.
The next thing that you should pay attention in losing baby fat is your daily activities. Healthy diet will be useless if you won’t spare some time to have exercise session regularly. You have a baby to be taken care of, so you can’t go to a gym for a while, but there are many effective exercises that only use bodyweight or simple equipment that you can perform at your own home. If you do it correctly, these exercises can give you more benefits compared to being clueless at the gym.
Do not focus on the time that you spend during exercise, but focus on completing your whole training for that day. This way, you can focus more on the workout, not the clock. Remember that with resistance training, you don’t have to exercise every day since 2-3 times per week is enough. Read more about the true concept of fat burning exercise at how to lose tummy fat.
You’ll need both diet and exercise in losing baby fat, but suddenly forcing yourself to change your eating habit and daily activities will only make it even harder. The right way to do it is introducing new good habit and get rid of bad habit every week. Know your own body and mind; can you do better without forcing yourself too much? If you can include more than one good habit every week, it is even better. You should focus on progress, not perfection. When you're good progress every week, it will not be long until you get rid of excess fat. Read more about that specialize in programs designed to help busy mom to get her body after the birth to review the Fit Yummy Mama.
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