How Duchess Kate should lose her baby weight

How does this make you feel?



I know it's difficult to stomach, but it really is on the cards that Prince Harry and his girlfriend Cressida are moving in together. I'll keep you up to speed with any updates.

In other not so surprising news, the Duchess of Cambridge has had a baby, our future king has been born.

During this special time for the country, uproar is brewing over the suggestion that the Duchess is ready to consider a post-natal exercise and nutrition programme so soon after having given birth. Social media in particular has exploded, with Blue Peter's Katie Hill starting a twitter campaign #dontbuyok in an attempt to punish the magazine for its sins.

Do people not understand that all publicity is good publicity?

What really baffles me, through all of this hoo hah is that anyone is surprised by what this medium will do to get much needed attention.

So what I will offer is a list of things to do when considering getting in shape after a baby:

1. Do everything in your own time, you know when you feel up to it.
2. Ignore celebrity weight loss stories, they are exceptional circumstances and probably exaggerated.
3. Start with food first. The chances are your nutritional habits will have changed while you were pregnant. Create a routine that gets you feeling better and works with your lifestyle before you attempt anything active. Also the better your nutrition, the better the baby's nutrition.
4. Keep your nutrition simple, don't rely on any supplements. Go for healthy fats (fish/nuts/avocadoes/seeds), protein (beef/chicken/turkey/legumes/pulses) and as many vegetables as you can manage. If you can avoid anything processed at this point you will be doing yourself a huge favour.
5. Get an all clear from your GP.  
6. Start exercise slowly, allowing your body time to adjust, it's taken 9 months to get to where it is now and it will (and should) take at least that long to get back to normal. Go for a walk, or go swimming; just do something which is relaxing but invigorating.
7. Focus on eating and exercising to feel good, not to 'burn fat' or 'push yourself', feeling good will get you looking good eventually and you will be much healthier for it.
8. Stretch carefully. Pregnancy will almost certainly have altered your musculature. To avoid the effects like back pain etc. make sure you stretch out any tight spots like the front of your hips and chest/shoulders. Again don't overdo it, especially in the first few months. The hormone changes will leave you more supple in certain areas.
9. When you feel ready and you have spoken to your GP, you can begin controlled resistance training again.
10. Have a goal in mind, discuss it with a professional who can guide you as to what is realistic and safe.

This is almost certainly what the Duchess will actually be doing. In fact, with this kind of attitude and diligence this programme alone will give you the results you deserve after all that hard work with the baby.