Exercise is very important for many people. Obese people can take part in sports to lose weight, and people with poor physique can exercise through sports. No matter whether they have these needs or not, it is always right to have exercise habits. However, not everyone is suitable to participate in sports. For example, female friends should not do too intense sports during menstruation, including during pregnancy and just after birth. However, for women who are pregnant and give birth, recovering their bodies is also one of the focuses of postpartum. Can they exercise to lose weight during the breast-feeding period?
Can you exercise to lose weight during breastfeeding
During pregnancy, the pregnant mother ate more food and supplements in order to supplement enough nutrition for her baby, resulting in her body being bloated compared with that before pregnancy. After giving birth to a child, the mother’s body can not recover immediately. Some mothers even take too many supplements during the month of confinement, resulting in their body being even fatter than when they just gave birth, causing anxiety. Therefore, many mothers start to lose weight just after giving birth, even during breastfeeding. As long as they lose weight, how can they get less exercise? They just worry that exercise during breastfeeding may increase the burden, so they should consider safety.
In fact, from the perspective of safety, it is not recommended that pregnant women lose weight during lactation, let alone through diet. The pregnant mother’s milk comes from fat conversion. If the pregnant mother goes on a diet, the mother has no fat source and will not have enough nutritious milk to feed her baby. Although dieting is not advocated, after 6 weeks of delivery, mother’s body basically recovers. We can achieve the effect of slimming by adjusting diet and simple exercise, and the speed of weight loss should not be too fast. It is necessary to develop a scientific eating habit, eat meat and vegetables, eat more foods with high protein content, avoid high-fat and high calorie foods, and try not to eat sweet and fried foods. At the same time, pay attention to chew and swallow slowly, protect the gastric mucosa, reduce the desire for food, and help to control the amount of food.
Can you exercise to lose weight during breast-feeding? It’s not totally impossible, but it’s mainly soothing sports. As a matter of fact, for mothers, breastfeeding itself can help them lose weight, because babies can absorb more nutrition through breast milk and also enhance their resistance. For mothers, sticking to breast-feeding can not only consume excess fat in the body, but also promote uterine contraction and stimulate prolactin secretion, which is conducive to body recovery and avoid postpartum obesity. This is also one of the main reasons why it is recommended that pregnant women should adhere to breastfeeding after childbirth.
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