Losing weight faster after breastfeeding is related to factors such as hormone secretion recovery, reduced energy intake and increased exercise.
1. Hormone secretion recovery: estrogen can make women’s mammary ducts expand and promote milk secretion. Therefore, estrogen levels in breastfeeding women are generally high. Elevated estrogen will lead to water and sodium retention in the female body, causing weight gain. After breastfeeding, the hormone secretion level of women’s body gradually restores the balance, the water and sodium retention will be reduced, and the weight will be reduced.
2. Reduced energy intake: Breast milk secretion will consume the body’s energy, breastfeeding women to maintain a normal amount of lactation, the diet will generally consume more energy. After breastfeeding, if women eat a balanced diet and avoid high-calorie foods, they will usually lose weight faster.
3. Exercise increase: breastfeeding women due to breast lactation, will make the volume of breasts increased, not convenient for sports, thus reducing the consumption of energy, is not conducive to weight loss. After weaning from breast milk, if the breasts return to normal size, women can choose suitable sports according to the situation, so that the body consumes more energy, thus increasing the effect of weight loss.
After weaning women to reduce weight, must be gradual and scientific weight loss, do not lose weight too quickly affect the health.