4 Easy Ways To Lose Fat In Legs After Pregnancy

Shedding all that pregnancy weight is a usual concern that most women have. The U.S. National Library of Medicine claims that many women shed about half of the pregnancy weight soon after delivery. If you are nursing mom, you might find yourself losing pregnancy weight fairly easily and quickly. However, for some women, it may take much longer to lose that weight, specifically in the limbs. By incorporating the necessary diet and regulating your eating habits with considerable amounts of exercise, you can burn the fat throughout your body, which includes your legs. If you had a C-section, do consult your doctor before you embark on an exercise regime.

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1. The Right Diet

Low-fat dairy products, whole grains, lean proteins, fruits and vegetables are a must. Stay away from carbonated drinks, desserts, fried foods, and alcohol. These are rich in unhealthy fats and have more calories than needed. To lose weight, you must burn more calories than you consume. So, if you want to shed one pound of fat, you must burn out 3,500 calories. Every day, you must have a deficit of 500 calorie to burn one pound of fat in a week. Drink lots of water – the usually recommended consumption of 8 cups of water a day is the standard advice.

2. The Right Workout

A thirty-minute cardiovascular exercise routine for at least five days a week will help you lose weight in your legs. You could go biking, running or brisk walking in the neighborhood. Train yourself on steadily increasing endurance. Adopt internal training between every intense exercise. Keep it as rhythmic as possible. You might want to cycle vigorously for few minutes first, and then reduce the pace to a moderate for the next few minutes. Repeat the cycle multiple times during the workout. You could apply the same with running or jogging.

3. Focus On Your Legs

Try a few strength-training exercises that place emphasis on your legs for alternate days in a week. Strength-training exercises not only enable you to lose fat just in your legs but also the fat in your entire body. These exercises typically increase your metabolic rate, which helps you burn the excess fat and calories. Moreover, your leg muscles also become strong and toned. Although strength training won’t help you to reduce fat just in your legs, it can help you lose overall body fat. Do squats, step-ups, and lunges that work on multiple muscles at the same time. As you work out, make sure you also pay attention towards exercises for your abdomen and upper body as well during your workout regimen.

4. Safety Tips

It is recommended that you wait at least six weeks after delivery to try losing any pregnancy weight. In the case of a C-section, you might have to wait for few more weeks. The old methods employed in C-section would mean that you wait six months. But with the latest technology, many doctors recommendworking out a month after the C-section. But, do remember to confirm this with your doctor. In either case, you could harm your recovery period and impede regaining health if you try working out very early after delivery. So, while you still seem all puffed up, you need to be patient. All that excess flab has been the work of nine months of making a baby. So don’t think it will all vanish in a jiffy. It will take its course and time and of course, some action from your end too. Also, bear in mind that as a breastfeeding mother you will have to nourish yourself well, to generate the adequate amount of milk for your baby. Any attempt to lose weight drastically will impede your baby’s milk supply and also be less beneficial to your health because you need to make a postpartum recovery. So, you might want to aim at not losing over two pounds a week. Make sure you are taking healthy snacks if you think you are losing more weight than you think.

Tell us how you toned your limbs post pregnancy.

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