Hello, Baby  Good-bye, Baby Fat
"The time after delivery is the best time ever for you to lose weight!" writes Sheldon Levine, M.D., inHello, Baby! Good-bye, Baby Fat!Not only can you lose the weight you gained during pregnancy, you can return to a body that is trimmer than before, says Levine. Your body undergoes metabolic and hormonal changes that allow you to lose weight effortlessly, he claims, as long as you know how to work with your body rather than against it. He divides the "biological window of weight loss opportunity" into three phases: "the three postpartum trimesters of weight loss." The book takes a few too many chapters to get to what you want to know--how to harness the body's ability to lose weight after pregnancy--but it finally gets there. In the first postpartum trimester, your metabolic rate is burning high and your appetite is suppressed, making it easy to lose weight. However, postpartum depression can interfere, and Levine explains how you can combat mild cases by raising serotonin levels with dietary changes and more severe cases with medication. Likewise, Levine shows you how to use diet and easy toning exercises to accelerate the weight-loss potential of the other postpartum trimesters. The book includes 14 days of menus and a dozen recipes, plus tips for avoiding excessive weight gain during pregnancy.--Joan Price--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.