Chinese Medicine

What behind post-baby weight loss?

How to achieve post-baby weight loss? It is quite a simple question as per Traditional Chinese Medicine. First let me explain what is behind post-baby weight loss. Why women would gain weight after giving birth is a very complicated process. From the perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), the most immediate effect for post-baby weight is loss of both blood and qi after giving birth. An old saying goes like “one baby, three barrels of blood.” That saying implies at least three meanings included.

1. A baby is completely nourished by the mother’s blood;
2. Mother’s bleeding during the process of giving birth;
3. Breastfeeding similarly consumes mother’s blood after the birth of a baby.

The syndrome of sore lower waist for a lot of women after giving birth can justify that loss of both blood and qi is the main cause for post-baby weight. Moreover, in order to feed their baby with enough nutritional milk, mothers eat nutritional soup such as stewed chicken soups every day. That might be another reason why post-baby weight gained.

Food therapy for post-baby weight loss

After weaning the baby, mothers, who are not back into shape timely, should eat more those food which can replenish blood and invigorate spleen qi. At the mean time, mothers should eat less or no fruit to ensure enough body heat to help fat burning. Regulating the body imbalance this way for a few months, post-baby weight will gradually lose. The appropriate food therapy is to eat more shrimp, eel, black rice cereal and angelica powder, which can replenish qi and blood timely.

A folk remedy for post-baby weight loss

There is also a folk remedy for post-baby weight loss, which works really well since our mothers’ mothers. That is pickled soybeans, which is economical and simple to handle. First pick a pound of quality soybeans, and then soak them with half pound of vinegar, finally seal them in a jar for one and a half year. For those pregnant mothers-to-be who want post-baby weight loss can follow this method. These pickled soybeans can be taken when your child is about one year old. These pickled soybeans will be eaten up in almost half a year, twice a day and eight pieces each meal. When you have eaten them up, your body shape will be completely restored then. This method of post-baby weight loss works quietly and unknowingly. Yon don’t have to be on diet at all.

Note: Don’t eat fruit at the same time with pickled soybeans, and it is better to start after weaning your baby.