How to Lose Weight After Pregnancy – Celebrity Techniques
Updated: January 18, 2012
We constantly hear about celebrities such as Catherine Zeta-Jones, Reese Witherspoon, Gwyneth Paltrow and many others who lose amazing amounts of baby weight very quickly and are back to their pre-baby bodies within several weeks or a few months. How do they lose weight after their pregnancy so quickly? Is there something we can learn from them? Lets take a look.
Keep in mind that celebrity women are highly motivated to lose their pregnancy weight. They are under tremendous pressure from the media, the entertainment sector and the public. Their careers hinge on their looks.
They are generally in great shape prior to becoming pregnant and many of them, such as Nicole Richie, Samantha Harris, and Nicole Kidman continued to work out to some degree during pregnancy.
Celebrity Moms generally have two huge resources available to them that not all people have, and that is money and time. They can buy time by hiring nannies, personal trainers, personal chefs, etc. and they can spend hours a day working out if they so choose. Lets look at diet and exercise choices that celebrity Moms use to lose their pregnancy weight.
Celebrity Diets to Lose Weight After Pregnancy
Many celebrity Moms such as Jennifer Garner, Kate Hudson, Elizabeth Hurley and Catherine Zeta-Jones use a portion-controlled version of high lean-protein (ie. fish, chicken, lean beef) and low carb (ie. whole grains, nuts, fruit) diets with lots of veggies to lose weight after the baby. Some examples of the foods that Cate Blanchett, Heidi Klum, Jessica Alba, and Christina Aguilera used include brown rice, grilled chicken, steamed vegetables, and green tea.
Many celebrities such as Denise Richards, Uma Thurman, and Jennifer Lopez used a food delivery service that brought proportioned healthy meals right to their door. Jenny McCarthy choose to go with the commercial weight loss program, Weight Watchers. She liked it so much that she became a spokesperson for them. Still other celebrities will choose less healthy methods such as liquid diets or detox diets and some also choose tummy tuck surgery to get their shape back quick.
A large number of celebrity moms (or their trainers) suggest eating several (4-5) small meals a day rather than 3 meals a day or skipping meals. Eating frequently helps keep the metabolism up.
Celebrity Exercises to Lose Weight After Pregnancy
As for exercise, the type of exercise used by celebrity Moms to lose their pregnancy weight is quite varied. Some stars such as Madonna, Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie are fans of yoga while Jennifer Garner and Gwen Stefani primarily use running as their main form of exercise before and after their pregnancies.
Some other examples, Kate Hudson primarily used a treadmill while Heidi Klum used both strength training and cardio exercises. Urma Thurman included martial arts and sword training skills in her exercise routine. As you can see, the type of exercise is varied but nearly 100% of celebrities included an exercise routine in their plan to get back in shape quickly. The large majority of the ones I have read about used a personal trainer and spent many hours a day working out.
Obviously as “real” Moms we should be careful about placing extreme expectations on ourselves because in general we do not have the resources to accomplish weight loss in such a short time. We do ourselves, our children and our spouses and a favor if we have a realistic plan for losing our baby weight and enjoy spending time just being a new Mommy!
There is still much we can learn from celebrity Moms without pushing ourselves to an extreme. Since they absolutely must lose the weight quickly they must be doing some things right – so, what can we glean from this?
How to Lose Weight After Pregnancy Like the Celebrity Moms
Well, the huge majority of them used healthy foods and ate 4-5 small meals a day. They also participated in an exercise routine of their choosing. The final result comes down to healthy eating and consistent exercise. The key is to find the right diet that works for you and an exercise routine of your choosing that you can enjoy and stick with.
An Established Plan for Diet and Exercise to Lose Your Pregnancy Weight
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