Nine things you were told that may be costing you the results you want. By Pranav Raut, postpartum coach for NRI mothers. The short answer Most of what women are told about lifting weights is either wrong or was true for somebody else. Strength training is one of the most useful forms of exercise for
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The canteen, the commute, the four o’clock gap, and what to do about each without cooking twice. By Pranav Raut, postpartum coach for NRI mothers. The short answer The trouble is in the gaps around the office day. A working mother’s day has four predictable failure points: a breakfast skipped because the morning ran out,
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The signs that often arrive years before anybody says the word, and what helps. By Pranav Raut, postpartum coach for NRI mothers. The short answer Weight loss with PCOS can be harder than average, but it isn’t impossible. What the evidence supports is fairly plain, and a good deal less exciting than the internet suggests.
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Not all weight loss is the kind you want, and a crash diet takes the wrong kind first. By Pranav Raut, postpartum coach for NRI mothers. The short answer A crash diet after a birth fails for a reason that has nothing to do with willpower. It takes the weight you needed to keep and
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Why dal isn’t the answer, and what a full vegetarian day looks like when you count it properly. By Pranav Raut, postpartum coach for NRI mothers. The short answer Hitting a protein target on an Indian vegetarian diet isn’t difficult, and you don’t have to leave Indian food to do it. It just isn’t automatic,
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The short answer The question assumes you need thirty minutes every day. You don’t, and that assumption is probably why you haven’t started. Three sessions a week is enough to begin. That’s about ninety minutes out of the roughly ten thousand in a week. Between those sessions, walking does the rest of the work, and
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The separation few mothers are warned about, and the work that helps it close. By Pranav Raut, postpartum coach for NRI mothers. The short answer Diastasis recti is a separation of the two long bands of abdominal muscle that run down the front of your belly, with the connective tissue between them stretched and thinned.
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Three separate things get called the mummy tummy. Only one of them is fat. By Pranav Raut, postpartum coach for NRI mothers. The short answer The belly that won’t go after a baby is usually more than one problem. It’s up to three, stacked on top of each other, and each one needs a different
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What you can do, when, and the four things that decide whether you are ready. By Pranav Raut, postpartum coach for NRI mothers. The short answer There’s no week number at which exercise after a caesarean becomes safe. There’s a sequence, and you move through it when your body and your doctor say you’re ready,
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Why there is no single plan that fits every mother, and how to build the one that fits you. By Pranav Raut, postpartum coach for NRI mothers. The Short Answer There isn’t one Indian diet plan for postpartum weight loss. There’s a set of requirements your body has after a birth, and a way to
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