Saturday, November 1, 2008

Ditching the Diet to Burn the Baby Fat

By Teresa Brown

Eating is something we have to do everyday of our lives. The how, when and what you eat are intimately related with your lifestyle. Obviously, we can't exist on cabbage soup or remove carbohydrates or fats from our diets for the rest of our lives. As a result, we eventually stop the diet and gain back the weight lost and then some. It's no surprise then that despite all these diets that claim to have the answer to burn the baby fat, that there still is a growing number of moms struggling with a weight problem today.

Variety is the spice of life and the same applies to our diets. A balanced diet is a must for healthy weight loss and management. However, when you are running a busy household, meals of convenience have a tendency to supersede healthy meals. This makes burning the baby fat a challenging task especially when you feel like you don't have the time or help to do so. This is what makes fad diets so attractive for moms to lose the baby weight but at the high price of physical and mental let down.

Food Deprivation Diet

You have to eat to live. Starving yourself is going against the natural activity of eating that is required for your body's sustenance. Not only will you deprive your body from the nutrients necessary for its normal bodily functions, you will be slowing your metabolism and your body's ability to burn the baby fat.

Severely reducing your caloric intake to burn the baby fat will "gear" down your metabolism into "starvation" mode and instead of burning the baby fat quickly, your body will hold on to your body fat by burning it slowly. As soon as you return to eating a regular diet, your body will still be working to save energy resulting in you gaining back more pounds than you started with. Burning the baby fat requires that you do the opposite of starving yourself which is eating a balanced diet in which you eat more often but fewer calories.

Celebrity Diets

Hollywood diets have been around for a while and they seem to be here to stay. Part of their "staying" power is the Starlets that use them to maintain the "fabulous" Hollywood look. Wanting to look like a Celebrity mom can lead to moms dieting like them to burn the baby fat. These diets usually claim to have a special ingredient that will make you lose the pregnancy weight fast but you'll only gain it back as quickly as you lost it.

Hollywood loves thin women and therefore, some celebrity moms have to find a means to lose their pregnancy weight as quickly as possible with a fad diet. You don't have to keep up with Tinsel Town's artificial and unhealthy way of being by going on a fad diet. A mother's beauty is more than skin deep. Your loved ones know how beautiful you are. You are a mother and being a mother brings out a the real kind of beauty that lasts.

Nature's Food

You have one life to live so why gamble away your health, time, energy, motivation and self-esteem on the false hopes of fad diets? Losing pregnancy weight for the long term requires perseverance and patience. Adapting to a healthier way of living to burn the baby fat is a wise investment that will give you long term dividends for you and your family.

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