It’s no secret that diet is a key factor when trying to get back into shape after having a baby – postnatal nutrition is key – but it’s not just about losing the weight. What the scales say makes no difference – it’s about 2 things:

1) Shaping up – dropping dress sizes, toning up, getting that waist back, reducing that mum tum and feeling like you look GOOD!

• 2) Feeling good – I mean on the inside! Balancing sugar levels, hormones, speeding up your metabolism, waking your body up again to feel great, burning fat and giving it some TLC.

When I talk about postnatal nutrition for mums, I’m talking about diet not ‘a diet’. These fads don’t work – no amount of drinking cabbage soup, eating cornflakes 3 times a day or cutting carbs completely is going to help you tone up and stay that way. These diets simply reduce what it says on the scales by losing water and muscle – neither of which is great for your body – or your motivation when you see it start to creep up again as soon as you start eating normally.

You need to build muscle and strengthen your body and you need to feed it, so your metabolism works properly which in turn makes you feel great, improves health and balances hormones.

With my Zipped Up postnatal nutrition programme, my mums learn to respect their bodies and nourish it with healthy food choices and not quick non – nutritional snacks and in return your body will look and feel better!

Postnatal Nutrition and Exercise Combined

I take a holistic approach to postnatal recovery – nutrition is 80% of it but exercise is just as important and will do the rest. My exercise classes, 121’s and videos work with the nutritional programme to get results that last. The effects of a better diet work with the exercise and toning work to help build muscle definition and drop the bloat, wobbly bits and waist/thigh/bingo wing inches.

I encourage my mums to try to join in with the exercise classes or book some 121’s. I even write gym programmes for those who attend a gym, tailored to their bodies and what they are trying to achieve and coupled with nutritional guidance.

If you want a programme to follow on nutrition, with support from other Zipped Up mums on the programme as well as myself and Mary Meadons, my life coach partner then join one of our “Missions”. The Supercharge Club runs as a 6 week “mission” with structured guidance to step by step healthy eating. It’s definitely not a diet – so if that is what you want, you are in the wrong place.

But if you are looking for a healthy eating programme that is a lifestyle change and choice, then the Supercharge Club is for you.