Why Your Workout To Lose The Baby Weight Isn’t Working

Eat Smart

“As a rule of thumb, weight loss is generally 75 percent diet and 25 percent exercise. An analysis of more than 700 weight loss studies found that people see the biggest short-term results when they eat smart. On average, people who dieted without exercising for 15 weeks lost 23 pounds; the exercisers lost only six over about 21 weeks. It’s much easier to cut calories than to burn them off. For example, if you eat a fast-food steak quesadilla, which can pack 500-plus calories, you need to run more than four miles to ‘undo’ it!

Get this, exercise can even cause you to eat more than you should if you are trying to lose weight. Your body doesn’t naturally want to let go of the weight, so you have to keep your mind above how you feel at times, and know where you are really at with your intake and output. See what New York City nutritionist Dana James, MS, CNS, CDN has to say on the matter in an article published on Elle magazine.

I always tell my clients that it’s 80 percent diet, 20 percent exercise,” she says. “It’s definitely most important to get the diet right, especially since we tend to underestimate what we eat and overestimate what we burn. Moreover, the more we lose weight, the lower our calorie burn (a 200 pound woman will burn far more calories in spin class than a 120 pound woman).

Focusing on Nutrition To Lose The Baby Weight

Your diet and meals is going to get you the most success when losing the weight after having a baby. I like the article, Eating vs Exercise: Why Your Food Choices Always Win to help bring the point across. If you want to get rid of the extra pounds, focus on whole, natural, clean foods and consider the amounts you are consuming. Find an eating plan that works for you and focus on that to achieve the weight you want to be at.

One game-changer for me was adding protein shakes

with this amazing, clean protein powder. It is PERFECT for breastfeeding mamas because it offers milk-boosting ingredients. It is also free of chemicals, plant-based and no artificial sweeteners. I’ve gotten a lot of great feedback from the hundreds of moms who’ve tried it! I also wrote a post that goes over the ingredients, as well as another post comparing a few different brands of protein powders for breastfeeding moms.

This Smoothie Challenge has some delicious recipes for you to try!

Work Out For Health, Energy and Sanity

This post is not to diminish the importance of working out in any way. The goal is to bring to light the role your diet plays in your weight loss and the need for exercise in your life, not for weight loss. Exercise brings more than a method to burn calories. It shouldn’t be seen as merely that. Exercise is your natural anti-depressant and mood-lifter. It gives you more energy than you had. It builds and maintains muscle, so you can live and move without injury as you age. Working out will keep you young. It tells your body your alive and moving. Workout to build balance in your mind, soul and body. They all connect in the moments you are challenging yourself through the cycling class or boot camp. That’s why you work out. Working out just to burn calories is almost offensive. Its so much more than that for your life and longevity.