Losing weight after childbirth cannot and should not be fast. Pregnancy is a huge stress on the body due to the lack of vitamins and minerals, changes in hormones and decreased physical activity. The recovery period can take from six months to a year.

Balance your diet during and immediately after feeding

Undernourishment during feeding is not allowed. So you can deprive the baby needed vitamins and even provoke the appearance of toxins in the milk. Daily breastfeeding will require a lot of energy – about 500 kcal per day. “It is worth remembering that breast milk comes from the lymph and blood of the mother, so all the preservatives, dyes and stabilizers can get into the breast milk, causing negative reactions (including skin reactions) in the baby,” says Evgeniya Maevskaya. – Therefore, it is necessary to build your diet with a minimum of such products, and it is better to exclude them. For a gradual weight loss it is necessary to reduce the caloric content by about 300-350 kcal from the original, given that with breast milk a woman releases up to 40 grams of fat per day, and then the weight loss process will not make itself wait.

Here are some general dietary recommendations from Eugenia Maevskaya:

• It is necessary to include in your diet proteins, fats and carbohydrates, as well as fiber in the form of non-starchy vegetables (about 400 g);
• It is not necessary to starve yourself;
• It is important to drink enough fluids (about 1.8-2.0 liters including water and other drinks);
• Limit the amount of simple carbohydrates at the expense of sweets and baked goods (contain a lot of fat and sugar);
• Leave natural sugars in the form of fruit (about 250-300 g);
• In addition, take prophylactic doses of vitamin D;It is acceptable to take iodine, iron, calcium and multivitamins, but only after consulting your doctor.

Also remember that a breastfeeding mother’s diet should be fractional – 4-5 times a day. It is necessary to eat right! The diet should include complete proteins (lean meat, fish), products rich in calcium (for example, low-fat cheese 10-17%), fruits and vegetables. Exclude boiled meat broths, fish soup, and borscht: they contain a lot of extractive substances, which are slowly digested, making it harder for your body to recover.

Eat small portions every two to three hours, so it will be easier to avoid overeating.