How to lose weight after cesarean section?

The desire of a woman to recover from childbirth as soon as possible and to regain lightness and excellent physical form is understandable. At the same time, there is no difference in how a woman gave birth - naturally or by cesarean section. Again, all newly-made mothers want to be slim, beautiful, fit and desirable. But the process of recovery of physical form after cesarean section has its limitations and rules. How to lose weight after this operation, remove the stomach, we will tell in this article.

After vaginal recovery is also more natural. Usually the issue of weight loss is not acute, since everything happens smoothly and in due time. After a cesarean section, which is a serious surgical operation and a gross intervention in the nature of the female body, the recovery is more long and specific.

To lose weight quickly, of course, will not work, especially if a woman has gained a substantial reserve of extra pounds for pregnancy. In the first days after the operation, the puerperal shows a sparing mode of motor activity. You can only get up after 8-10 hours after surgical delivery.

The woman after surgery has two sutures. One outside, and the other inside, which she can not see. Only a day later, the internal, sewn up with special absorbable surgical sutures, the suture begins to tighten at the level of the fibrin filaments. A week later, he begins to acquire cells, myocytes and connective tissue, the circulatory grid is restored, collagen appears in the scarring area, which gives the scar to elasticity. Full healing of the internal suture takes about 2 months, and the formation of the scar continues for two years.

The external seam on the abdomen heals on average 20 days after surgery. The stitches are removed for 7-9 days, but this does not mean that a woman can immediately do anything, just to lose weight, because the inner scar has not healed.

The presence of scars as such greatly complicates the task of getting rid of excess weight, but nothing is impossible, the main thing is not to forget about the limitations that the rehabilitation period after cesarean section imposes on the whole lifestyle of the newly-made mother.

When the puerperal is interested in how to lose weight quickly after a delivery operation, she forgets to add to the question a simple but important word - safe. Lose weight after cesarean section is not necessary quickly, but first and foremost safe. Therefore, first, let's clarify what to do for losing weight categorically impossible:

• go to the gym, work out on simulators, raise dumbbells, barbell, rock a press (up to 7-8 months after surgery);
• lift any weight more than 3-4 kilograms;
• squat sharply, bend down;
• visit the pool, bath, sauna (up to 3 months after the operation);

• massage the abdominal muscles (up to 6 months after surgery);
• use vacuum cans on the belly (up to a year after surgery);
• sit on mono diets and strict fat burning diets, if a woman is breastfeeding a baby;
• take hormonal drugs to suppress hunger, all kinds of Goji berries and laxative teas, if the woman is a nursing mother.

As you can see, almost all the most popular ways to lose those extra pounds fall into the restrictions. But this does not mean that you need to put up with weight, learn to live with it, and for six months or a year not even try to do anything with extra pounds. It is possible to lose weight without exhausting workouts, exhausting starvation diet and setting a world record for the bench press. Let's consider the correct and safe ways to reduce weight after cesarean section.

The right approach to weight loss after surgery is always comprehensive. Do not think that only a diet or only exercise will help get rid of the hated kilograms. The approach should be multipartite and systematic. This will reduce to 2-3 kilograms per week. You can start after 6-8 weeks after surgery, when the internal sutures are already quite elastic and you can not be afraid of their divergence.

Fix the initial weight (in the morning, on an empty stomach, after a toilet and preferably naked). Get a diary, a notebook, make the initial weight and date, and for each day, plan the duration and type of exercise, diet and other ways to remove a sagging stomach and fairly heard the buttocks and thighs.

Start the morning with a light charge. It should include walking in place, torso to the right and left, forward, circular movements of the hips. In a sitting position on the rug, you can reach out to your knees with your hands. All exercises in which the press is strained are not allowed in the first six months.

After this period, physical therapy (and in fact, your light charge will be such) can be a little bit, smoothly add leg lifts from a prone position, and then proceed to the body lifts (the standard way to pump press). Even a light charge lasting 5-7 minutes in a couple of weeks will give noticeable results.

After removing the outer seams, the woman needs to start walking. Long walks are a great fat burner. Combine this process with walks with a newborn.

A walk in the park for half an hour, and then an hour (provided that the woman does not stand still, sit with the neighbors on the bench in unhurried conversations while the child sleeps), allows you to burn almost a third of the calories consumed per day.

If a woman has the opportunity to leave the child for a couple of hours with a nanny or grandmother, you should definitely use this and add swimming to the physical activity program (3 months after surgery). When the baby grows up to 7-8 months, the mother can safely sign up to the gym closest to the home and practice with a gradual increase in load. At first - only mobile dynamic exercises on an ellipsoid, exercise bike, then you can optionally include dumbbells in the program, but only under the guidance of an experienced trainer.

As already mentioned, fashionable and advertised monodiets for nursing mothers are not suitable. Her food must be balanced, multi-component, so that the baby with breast milk can get everything necessary for their growth and development. In drawing up the menu, it is necessary to take into account the individual reaction of the baby to certain foods in my mother's diet.

Eating to lose weight when breastfeeding will have at least 6-7 times a day. Portions, respectively, should be reduced to 300-400 grams (the total weight of everything you plan to eat). In addition to such a fractional diet, you need plenty of drink.Best of all, if the liquid is at room temperature, it is also more beneficial for lactation and for metabolism. Daily fluid intake is at least two liters. When you plan a menu for yourself for a week, remember that balance is the presence of all groups of substances in each meal. In general, proteins need to be consumed per day about 40% of the total, carbohydrates and fats - by 25 and 35%, respectively.

Completely exclude:

• canned, pickled products;
• factory sweets, cakes and pastries, sugar;
• large amounts of salt and salty foods;
• smoked, fried, fatty;
• sausages, sausages;
• flour;
• alcohol, carbonated drinks.

What we eat: vegetables and fruits, both fresh and boiled / stewed, boiled, baked, stewed and steamed meat, fish, poultry. A small amount of whole-grain bread, porridge from various cereals, both cooked in water and dairy, dairy products, dairy products, cottage cheese.

This is quite enough to make a tasty and healthy menu for the mother and child, in which the baby will not have a lack of vitamins and minerals, the mother will not be hungry and angry, and the weight will gradually go away. The main thing to remember about 400 grams. That is, the dinner will be as follows: 100 grams of vegetable soup with meatballs, 100 grams of stewed zucchini, 120 grams of boiled chicken breast and about 80 grams of apples, pears or gooseberries. According to this principle, make 5-6 meals every 2.5-3 hours; at the last meal, before going to bed, make it easy - just yogurt or only an apple.

Additionally, if you have time, money and desire, you can use the achievements of cosmetology and physiotherapy. Faster weight loss and bring the skin on the stomach back to normal will help the following procedures (all apply after three months after surgery and not before!):

• wraps (honey, chocolate, kelp, etc.);
• ultrasonic cavitation on the thighs and abdomen;
• vacuum massage by cans (after 12 months from the moment of operation);
• laser lipolysis.

Before you decide on one or another auxiliary method, you should definitely check with your doctor if you can already carry out such a procedure after the surgery or you should wait.

According to the reviews of women, in a sparing mode of weight loss, it is possible to lose about 3 kilograms a week. Moreover, in the first weeks of weight loss occurs more intensely than later. But you do not need to stop, then you will be able to achieve a lasting effect and excellent results.

According to reviews of young mothers whose children were born by caesarean section, the most difficult part in the process of losing weight is the abdominal area, or rather, the skin-fat fold over the postoperative scar. With the right lifestyle, it is usually possible to achieve its significant reduction, but, alas, no complete extinction.

In general, women note that within 8-11 months after the operation they managed to return to the weight that was characteristic of them before pregnancy. Some even manage to lose weight more than that and they weigh less than before pregnancy.

Lactating mothers lose weight a little more slowly than women who do not breastfeed. This is due to the special hormonal background of young mothers associated with lactation. But during the year they also manage to return to their previous forms. Reviews of the complete ineffectiveness of measures to lose weight after surgery may be associated, most likely, with laziness.

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