Fitness mantra of kareena after pregnancy

Mommy Kareena Kapoor Shared 8 Ways She’s Losing Her Post Pregnancy Weight!

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Kareena Kapoor Khan, like all moms-to-be, had a wonderful time during her pregnancy, enjoying all the attention showered on her by her family and friends. She indulged some of her crazy pregnancy cravings too and focused only on the health of the baby in her womb, not on gaining less weight. It is healthy – actually necessary – to put on weight when pregnant as your body needs to feed another little person too! But now, this mommy wants to get her earlier body back and shed those extra pounds.

Kareena has always been known for her tremendous body transformations, and she gives the entire credit to her dietician Rujuta Diwekar. In fact, she thinks ‘dietician’ is not the right word for Rujuta; she calls her a magician. Her amazing body transformation during her film Tashan brought Kareena and Rujuta both in the limelight. Recently, the duo revealed the post-pregnancy weight loss tips that Kareena has been using – and you just have to see her to know that these tricks have already started showing results!

Kareena’s Mantras To Shed Pregnancy Weight Post Delivery

1. No Crash Diets

While crash diets may seem like a quick weight loss solution, they are really harmful! Crash diets are a strict no-no for Kareena too, even though she is very determined to accelerate her weight loss. Rujuta explained the reason behind this:

“Because we don’t want to go one step forward and two steps back, which is what happens when you do a crash or extreme diet. It leads to a lot of lifestyle disorders, such as post pregnancy thyroid, because when you’re on a crash diet, you reduce the calorie intake so much that your body is forced to slow down its metabolism.”

The idea is to always take one step at a time and to remain focused on progressive weight loss. Instead of looking for a crash diet, stick to a healthy postnatal Indian diet that gives you sufficient nutrition while also helping you keep fit, especially if you are breastfeeding.

2. Stock Up on Iron and Calcium

This is one highly overlooked detail that interferes both with weight loss and overall health after delivery! Kareena shared this very important fact related to calcium and pregnancy:

“In one pregnancy, you lose five years of calcium in the body.” This is exactly why she has been stocking up on dairy products – especially yoghurt, and milk. She said she has one tall glass of milk every single night. Milk has CLA, or conjugated linoleic acid, and short chain fatty acids. Both these ingredients in milk help in the mobilisation of stubborn fat, especially around the tummy.

3. Don’t Avoid These Foods

Good news, moms: everything – from rice, sugar, to cashew nuts and jaggery, is good for your body. So do not eliminate these items from your diet. The reason behind this is that there is absolutely no point in going on a diet if in your head you are constantly obsessing over not being able to eat foods you like. In fact, there is no food that you should completely avoid. For example, Kareena shared how much she likes her tea and coffee with milk and sugar. Rujuta also agreed – cutting sugar out of your diet in completely unnecessary. It may seem hard to believe her when she says that. But well, one look at Kareena and you have no other choice but to believe her!

The main thing, as Kareena explained, is to feel happy and strong about your food choices instead of feeling tired and deprived all the time. There is nothing that you can’t eat, if you learn to control the portions of the food you are eating.

4. These Foods to Fight Dark Circles

Along with excess weight, another condition that makes everything harder is dark circles. A lot of women complain about developing dark circles -postpregnancy, and they seem to be permanent! Kareena and Rujuta listed the following foods for any and every woman to get rid of her dark circles in a healthy way. The best part is that some of them, such as buttermilk, also keep your digestion intact which means speedier weight loss.

Bajra roti, jaggery, and ghee

Aaliv (Garden cress seed)

Coconut and jaggery laddoos

Til (sesame) chikki or laddoos

Chaas (buttermilk)

Foods high in Vitamin B12 (chicken, fish and eggs)

5. Do NOT Ditch Rice

As unbelievable as it may sound, Kareena shared a critical part of her diet with everyone – two of her meals in a day include rice! Yes – Kareena is having rice post delivery in order to lose the pregnancy weight. Unbelievable, no? But Rujuta explained that rice in fact helps your gut to rebuild its microflora. A lot of good bacteria that get washed away from your body as a result of delivery,