During pregnancy:

1. Keep a check on what you are eating. It is true that your baby gets nutrition from your body. This doesn’t mean that your keep gorging on food. Eat when you are hungry and ensure the food you are taking is healthy. All the junk food taken during this period would just pile on the pounds and offer no nutrition. Eat a lot of fruits and vegetables to provide you with fiber, proteins to help you with energy.
2. Be physically active. Even during pregnancy, you can exercise. Avoid high intensity exercises during pregnancy, but walking is not restricted. And continue doing the work in your house or other activities that you were used to, pre pregnancy, unless medically advised.

Post partum period

1. During post partum, adequate rest is essential to aid the body to recover from the effects of the delivery. Also, this period would be tedious because of the demands of the small baby. Get in as much period of rest as you can.
2. Eat a balanced diet during the post partum period. Include veggies, fruits, proteins and adequate amount of carbohydrates. Avoid junk food.
3. Start exercising as much you can. Start at lower intensity and for a smaller period of time. Increase the duration and intensity as your tolerance improves. If you are not able to manage the whole exercise at one go, split it up. Instead of exercising 30 minutes at a stretch, you can do 10 minutes of exercises three times a day.
4. Start doing strength exercises. Include core exercises in your daily routine in addition to other strength exercises. Get adequate rest in between the strength training schedules.
5. Include Kegel’s exercises in your daily regimen. Kegel’s exercises help in strengthening the pelvic floor. This may seem a trivial matter when you are young, but would be really helpful as you age.
6. Include your husband and other family members in your efforts to lose weight. Taking care of the baby and exercising in the mean while may become tedious for you, any little help you can get might go a long way.
7. Breast-feed your baby. Studies have proven that breast feeding aids in weight loss after pregnancy. The longer you breast-feed, the better for your baby as well as for your efforts at weight loss.

These smaller tips and measures would go a long way in helping you to lose weight that you gained after pregnancy.

Do not be discouraged. The celebrities are constantly under the scrutiny of the public and their career is at stake, hence they lose the weight after pregnancy in no time. And to achieve this end, they can afford to have all the professional help they want. Most of the celebrity moms have at least a nutrition expert as well as a physical trainer to help them with their workout regimes and diet patterns. Hence all the positive effects in what you consider no time.

It does not mean only celebrity moms lose baby weight and a common woman is stuck with all the weight they gained during pregnancy.

Any woman would gain at least some weight during pregnancy. 25 to 35 pounds of weight gain during pregnancy is considered normal. Immediately after delivery 12-14 pounds are lost, as this would be the weight of the baby and the placenta. She is left with another 12-20 pounds to go.

Follow a regular eating and exercise pattern and you would be able to lose weight in some months. Some points to be kept in mind are

1. Be realistic in your goals of weight loss. Aim for a loss of one to two pounds a week. Losing more than this would mean a depletion of nutrients in the body and might affect your well-being as well as breast-feeding of your child.
2. Eat a nutrient rich diet. Include a lot of fruits and vegetables for fiber, adequate amount of proteins and carbohydrates. Control your eating habits. Every meal should be adequate to keep up the metabolism, but take care not to overeat.
3. Drink adequate amount of fluids. Water is the best fluid you can give to your body. If you do not like the taste of water, you might try having some fresh juice as well. If you do not have any other option but to have canned juice, try diluting the juice with water. This would reduce the number of calories as well as provide fluids to the body. Avoid soft drinks. They are just calories with no nutritive value.
4. Be physically active. You require a period of rest to recover from the pregnancy and delivery. After a month or two after the delivery, you can start exercising. Start slowly and at a lower intensity level. You can increase your intensity as you improve your stamina and tolerance. But take care to not overdo the exercise, in order to lose weight in a jiffy. You have a baby to take care of. And your body would need a lot of rest during the first six months after the delivery, to cope with the demands of taking care of a small child.
5. Take care to stretch before and after the exercise. Stretching is very important to avoid cramps and soreness of the body.

Involve your family in your efforts of weight loss after pregnancy. They would be able to contribute in small ways to your efforts and might be of great help.

Once the ecstasy of this is over, you face the turmoil of losing all those extra pounds you have gained over the nine months. It seems impossible, but it is not.

If you follow a regular routine of exercise and follow a balanced dietary regimen, you also would be able to lose all the weight in some time. The rate of weight loss after pregnancy is proportional to the individual’s genetics and life style.

What should you eat after delivery so to lose weight?

Your body needs replenishment after the efforts during the delivery. Also you would be breast-feeding your baby, and to produce adequate amount of milk, sufficient amount of nutritious food is required. Keeping this in mind, you might feel not able to lose weight. Concentrate on certain factors mentioned below and it would not seem a hectic task.

1. Eat a lot of fruits and vegetables. A minimum of five servings of fruits or vegetables is recommended for every one. When you are breast-feeding the child, it is quite possible that you would feel hungry more often than others. Instead of digging into a pack of chips or chocolate when hunger pangs strike, try snacking on vegetables and fruits. They are rich in fiber, fills you up and also supply a lot of antioxidants and minerals needed for the body.
2. Avoid the temptation of having junk food. Not eating junk food is a secret to weight loss after pregnancy. Resist the temptation to open a pack of chips or candies. In case you cannot resist the temptation, satisfy it by having only a handful of chips rather than the whole pack.
3. Control your portions. This is another major trick to attain weight loss after pregnancy. Eat smaller meals at frequent intervals. This would help you to keep your metabolism at a higher level, as well as control the hunger pangs.
4. The most important fact to keep in mind is to not starve. If you avoid taking food at all with the aim of losing weight, you are doing your body much harm. Starving does not aid in weight loss after pregnancy. It always has a rebound effect. If you starve yourself for three or four days, the fifth day you end up gorging on food. And when this craving strikes, it is only for junk food. Also when you starve, your body goes into a famine mode and the metabolism is slowed. Later when there is food intake, the body tends to store it as fat as a coping mechanism against the famine.

Along with these points, remember to keep your water intake at a higher level. Water plays an important role in the body, helping it to clean out all the toxins.