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BOTTOMSLIM | POST PREGNANCY WEIGHT LOSS TIPS FOR NEW MUMMYS

Post-Pregnancy Weight Loss Tips Are you trying to get rid of your post-pregnancy weight? Starting a diet and a fitness regimen could easily help you lose the belly flap and loose skin. However, some women still struggle to shed off this excess weight. Well, before you go forward with any drastic decisions with regard to losing weight, first seek help and guidance from medical personnel. This will help you establish if your weight loss difficulty is because of a medical condition or illness. This read will help you understand why your weight loss journey is taking longer than expected. Reasons Why Post-Pregnancy Weight Is Harder To Lose Unrealistic period Most women have very unrealistic expectations with respect to weight loss. They tend to grow impatient especially if they cannot see their results after a while of working out. It would be beneficial to note that it is unrealistic for pregnancy weight to shed after a few days or weeks after the pregnancy. It is estimat...

BottomSlim | Can You Banish Chunky Calves?

Wearing heels for long hours can cause chunky calves, beware! Resistant to the usual body-fixing solutions such as slogging in the gym and a strict diet, chunky calves are one of the problems body-conscious women are most desperate to get rid of. Resorting to painful, costly and debilitating liposuction to remove excess fat from the area, is one option but the key question is whether this is a calf reshaping due to the amount of subcutaneous fat or whether this is a size of the calf muscle problem. If it is a muscle size issue, most liposuction procedures may not work for calf muscle reduction. Nonsurgical fat reduction is a procedure that uses specialised equipment to create a controlled injury to small volumes of fat. Currently, there are two types of devices used for nonsurgical fat removal: ultrasound and muscular electro-stimulation. Both allow outpatient treatment resulting in efficient and consistent fat reduction as well as enhanced body contour. After only one trea...

BottomSlim | Is Your Exercise Regime Causing the Gain on Your Hips?

Is your hip getting thicker as you exercise? You may be doing it wrong! Do you notice that even though you are exercising on a regular basis, you are still gaining inches or centimeters around your hips? You may actually be working on the wrong set of muscles, causing your bottom to grow larger than you desire. 1.        Aerobics Exercise While great for weight loss overall, this form of exercise like stairs climbing requires a particular group of muscles to go on overdrive, primarily, the glutes and hip muscles. Have you tried to intensify the workout by taking two steps at a time? You are activating an even larger portion of those muscles 2.        Walk or Jog on Treadmill Running is a great cardio workout, no doubt. In general, they also target your butt and hips. Using a treadmill recruits the highest amount of your hip and butt muscles – almost 50% on incline. 3.        Spin Cla...

BottomSlim | Post-Pregnancy Bulging Tummy, OMG!

The extreme fatigue, recurrent mood swings, inability to lose weight are often a shared experience for many women who just gave birth. Losing leftover pregnancy kilos and especially toning the lower body specifically is the worst. Keep Expectations in Check Depending on the size of the newborn and the weight of the amniotic fluids and placenta (which you deliver at birth), most pregnant women can expect to lose between 6 to 12 kilos during delivery. Given that most pregnancy weight gain is between 12 to 15 kilos, that’s a healthy start. Your breast tissue, blood supply, fat stores and enlarged uterus will not shrink until the first six weeks. So expect the belly to stay enlarged for a while. Don’t focus on "getting your body back" (it didn’t go anywhere!) instead create a healthy, happy, and — possibly slightly differently shaped — you. BottomSlim has some tips to get you started:- 1.        Weekly weight-loss goal As we shared last   w...

BottomSlim | Loose Skin After Giving Birth

Postnatal Belly? Is Abdominoplasty the only choice? Ju Ann is a mom to 2 lovely young boys and is a highly regarded blogger in Singapore who shares her views on parenting and beauty regularly. After giving birth to her boys in 2013 and 2016, she had a lot of flab and loose skin all over her body that she wanted to get rid of. Though she had lost the post-natal weight, she desperately needed tighten up loose skin that hung over her favourite pair of jeans.   Chances are, if you’ve had a similar experience to Ju Ann, you will know that your body can do crazy things when you’re pregnant—stretch marks, varicose veins, acne, spider veins on top of weight gain. Most of these problems will disappear after delivery including the excess weight. . Yet, you will find that excess skin still sit stubbornly in the belly, on the hips, or on your backside. Unfortunately, you will need some help dealing with the hanging dermis, aka loose skin. How does loose skin happen? Weight gain can...