OK, so I need to stop for a second here and say that Jessica Alba looks absolutely amazing for just having had a baby three and a half months ago. She only gained 25 pounds total and since she exercised during her pregnancy, it was easier for her body to bounce back.
In a recent issue of US Weekly, her trainer Ramona Braganza sums up how this celeb got her body back in shape. Here are the highlights:
Her diet: Each day, Jessica eats between 1,700 and 2,000 calories, and her workouts help burn 550 calories. Nursing also burns an additional 500 calories a day.
Her workouts: Jessica works out for an hour, five or six days a week. She was big into the 12-week 3-2-1 Baby Bulge Be Gone workout since it kept her moving with 10-minute sets of cardio, circuit training, and core training. She also enjoys swimming, weight lifting, and using her treadmill at home.
Now that Jessica's back to her pre-baby body, she feels proud and isn't shy about showing off her body. It's nice to hear that she wasn't working out crazy hours or excessively restricting her diet. An hour a day for a workout may seem like a lot for a new mom, but as you can see, it really made a difference to this new mom. I say good for her.
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Nursing burns 500 cals a day? Are you serious? That just sounds like a lot...
1It does seem like a lot...and I wonder if pumping burns the same amount of calories.
2I just found an article where someone asked how many calories nursing burns and here's what it said
3It's really how much total breast milk the baby takes in over the period of the day. The average mom will make about 24 to 28 ounces of breast milk a day. It takes about 500 calories to make that much milk. Some of those calories come from fat stored during the pregnancy or previously, and some come from the mother's daily nutrition.
Jessica Alba annoys me so much.
...I thought I had more to say about this, but it turns out that was all.
4There's not way she only gained 25 lbs with that baby. She blew up when she was pregnant and has probably been starving herself ever since she had it.
5hahahaha - tlsgirl, I feel the same way.
It seems like it wouldn't be healthy for the baby for the mother to only gain 25 lbs total. But yeah - the thing about nursing is true. That's why when moms stop breastfeeding early and ween their babies to formula, they don't lose as much of the post-baby weight as moms who nurse for a while.
6Umm...I have no children and work out 4-5 days a week and my body doesn't even look like her's after the baby :
: Some girl's just have all the luck 
7I'm with you FoxyJo! I was just thinking I'd love to have her body pre or post baby!!
8I think that she looks better now than she did before her pregnancy. Also, gaining 25lbs is a NORMAL amount of weight to gain during pregnancy. It is recommended that you gain about 25lbs if you were a healthy weight before pregnancy.
9The couple of extra pounds she has left now compared to her pre-baby body make her figure MUCH sexier. She looks hot! But it's just hard to believe that she got that body back in such short time with that diet and exercise plan. Looking at how Halle Barry looked in those recent red carpet pictures, even for regular exercise and healthy eating, her tiny bump seems much more realistic.
10i cant even explain how jealous i am of her. i dont have kids, but i doubt id look like that after i do have them. hell i dont look like that now!
11I'm jealous of her too! She looks beautiful. I bet she's going to lose more weight even though she's already thin again.
12Sad. I'm contemplating getting that 2 3 4 baby bump be-gone thingy and I haven't even had a kid.
13Dang, I was kinda hoping her body would be shot to sh*t after having a kid (I'm not jealous or anything, lol), but she does look fantastic. It kinda makes sense though...she did work out all through the pregnancy and she's a pretty active person. Plus, yeah, breastfeeding burns killer calories. Think about it: You're providing 100% of the nutrition that a little baby needs. Breastfeeding is the time when you actually DO need to eat for two; not during the actual pregnancy.
14TinkerbellSF- You took the words right out of my mouth! I mean, good for Alba, but geez I haven't even had a kid, and I don't look nearly that good. Argh, this post is just depressing.
15I'm a medical student... and i agree with cfp's comments that jess's weight gain during her pregnancy is healthy... Everyone should gain about 25-30 pounds during pregnancy and if you gain more, that's unhealthy and well... it also means that's how much more you gotta lose post baby isn't it?
Plus it's healthy to have a work out programme in place (which you should have started before you were pregnant) and kept going through pregnancy which is the recommended steps to take by experts. What her trainer is saying is true in that if you involve exercise you bounce back post baby a lot faster, and combined with the fact that she also eat healthy and was a healthy weight prior pregnancy, and that she is also still young... well, worked out well for her didn't it?
16It's hard to imagine a baby was growing inside that belly. She's soo tiny!
17I heard that you're really only supposed to eat like 300 extra calories a day while pregnant...I don't know if that's true or not. It definitely makes me want to be fit before pregnancy and exercise during it!
18My cousins gf had her baby nearly a year ago
19She's really too lazy to do anything about the weight gain
WHOA! Those numbers don't add up, or I should say subtract down.
First, a women of her size simply does not burn 550 cal. in an hour workout, even if she's at the top of her aerobic training zone. I'd guess the real number is more like 400 calories.
And remember, that even if the treadmill reads that you've used up 400 calories, it doesn't mean that you've lost that amount in fat. Why? Because you would have burned about 20% of that amount anyway, just being alive and going through your daily activities. Workout numbers on exercise machines are deceptive, don't take them at face value.
Breastfeeding can take up to 500 cal per day, but only if you are breastfeeding exclusively. But here again, the number is deceiving. Taking care of an infant, (who is feeding for 30 minutes every 2 or three hours) an is a fairly sedentary lifestyle and this lowers maternal metabolism. And since stored fat is mobilized anyway, breastfeeding shouldn't be thought of as more that a zero-sum gain (or in this case loss).
And lastly, if you take the largest number that she eats per day, 2,000 and subtract the exercise amount of 550 and breastfeeding 500, you get the shockingly paltry and unhealthy number of 950!
No one, not even the most petite of us should go below 1200 calories per day. Lots of negative health effects occur at this point.
To get the real facts on how to stay fit and healthy during pregnancy and how to properly rehab the abdominal wall afterward, to to http://www.befitmom.com
20Right... I have to work out an hour a day five to six days a week to lose weight — I'll try this!
21If I had a NANNY and a MAID and a PERSONAL TRAINER and a COOK then I'd freaking look like that too! She makes me sick.
22I remember when I kept on reading how Jessica was so scared she wasn't going to get her body back! Why she was worried I don't know... after all she is a celebrity and has money to shell out on a trainer! Common! ha ha!
23christina aguilera work out 1 and a half hours to loose her baby weight. on the otherhand tho, jessica alba is too afraid to gain too much weight. after all she is the epitome of a great sexaaay abs haha is her baby a healthy one?
24SparkleStar, I totally agree!
seriously...it's UNREALISTIC to think those results would be obtainable to anyone but celebs and people who were born with nice bodies.
Honestly, I've come all long way with weight lost...in High school, I was over 220 pounds and my prom dress was a size 20. Not being able to wear the brands I wanted to or go shopping in the same stores as other girls my age was HEART BREAKING.
gaining 25 pounds for a baby is NOTHING!!
Now, I weigh 130 and stuck with skin. : (
25Couldn't you keep pumping milk out to burn more calories? That's what I would do if I was lactating. Give whatever to the baby, and chunk what goes bad, but I would be pumping 24/7.
26I have to just ask...where are her stretch marks? I always wonder why these celebrities don't have stretch marks. I guess Jessica Alba only gained 25 pounds, but Angelina Jolie gained sooooo much and had twins in her belly...so what the heck is going on here people? You can work out all you want, but stretch marks don't just go away...unless you have the lasered away I guess?
27She's not at her pre-baby bod for sure because it was so so skinny but she looks super SUPER hot here nonetheless
28SHES SOOO EFFING HOT! Good work Alba!
29talk about workout motivation.
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