Lose Weight and Keep it Off

Lose weight after pregnancy sensibly. Image by Africa/Freedigitalphotos.net So, it’s Fitness Friday – as I’ve started calling it – and it’s time to focus on losing weight after pregnancy. I’ve finally lost my pregnancy weight and I wanted to share some insights and how to lose weight after pregnancy sensibly! It’s taken just over six months to lose the weight and this is a good amount of time – after all, it took nine months to gain it, right? For the record, I still have a lot of weight to lose but that was weight I already needed to shift before getting pregnancy back in September 2011. ·          Lose no more than 2lb per week: I hate seeing all these diets that tell you that you can lose a stone in a month – actually, I saw a diet on Facebook the other day promising two stone in two weeks! This is not a healthy way to lose weight and will do nothing for you in the long term. You may lose two stone in two weeks but will ...

Set sensible goals for weight loss. Image by Alan Cleaver When you start losing weight, you need to have goals to reach for. Weight loss goals will give you something to work towards to help you stay motivated, even when you feel like packing it in after a bad week. Here are some top tips on setting your goals for weight loss. Make Them Challenging Having goals that are too easy will not give you the push that you need. You have to have a challenge so that you feel the achievement once you have reached it. You don’t need to have a goal each week, this is probably excessive and will not be as challenging. It is worth setting goals for each month. Be Realistic It is easy to set a challenging goal that is simply not realistic or healthy. When setting goals, bear in mind that a healthy weight loss is between 1lb and 2lb per week. Setting the goal to lose 10lb in two weeks is unrealistic and not healthy. It will be difficult to reach that goal in the first place, and ...