How fast you lose weight will depend on a number of factors, including the amount of weight you gained during your pregnancy.<\/p>\n
Most women will lose anywhere from 10-14 pounds within the first 2 weeks of delivery. This weight may be attributed primarily to the loss of excess fluid in the body, the baby’s weight, the placenta and amniotic fluid. Some women might lose a little bit less, and others might lose a little bit more.<\/p>\n
As the uterus shrinks back down to its normal size and your hormone levels continue to fall, you will lose weight<\/a>. Most women gain at least 7 pounds of fat during pregnancy<\/a>. This fat is meant to help women store energy while breastfeeding. How fast this weight comes off will depend on a number of factors including: genetics, your overall health, diet and exercise.<\/p>\n You should expect that it will take a little bit of time to lose the weight<\/a> you gained during pregnancy. It did after all take you nine months to put that weight<\/a> on! Many women have successfully lost weight however, in just a few short months after a delivery.<\/p>\n Some women will hang on to the last few pounds they have to lose until they stop breastfeeding. Your body may want to cling to a few extra pounds to ensure you have enough energy to provide adequate milk for the baby. Every woman’s<\/a> experience is unique with respect to this.<\/p>\n The good news is that with a solid nutritional program and with moderate exercise, you can expect to lose the weight you gained during pregnancy<\/a> within a reasonable time frame.<\/p>\n Most women will be back to their pre pregnancy weight within nine months of delivering IF they follow a regular exercise program<\/a> and eat healthily after delivery. That said some women will lose their pregnancy weight in as little as six to twelve weeks<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How fast you lose weight will depend on a number of factors, including the amount of weight you gained during your pregnancy. Most women will lose anywhere from 10-14 pounds within the first 2 weeks of delivery. This weight may be attributed primarily to the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pregnanthealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pregnanthealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pregnanthealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pregnanthealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pregnanthealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.pregnanthealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1095,"href":"https:\/\/www.pregnanthealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/1095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pregnanthealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pregnanthealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pregnanthealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pregnanthealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}