Hello, Baby Good-bye, Baby Fat (Paperback)

by Sheldon Levine (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review
"The time after delivery is the best time ever for you to lose weight!" writes Sheldon Levine, M.D., in Hello, 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.

From Library Journal
Weight-loss guides are perennially popular with library patrons, and Levine, a weight-loss specialist and author of The Redux Revolution (Morrow, 1996), has written a common-sense addition to the category. His guide to postpartum weight loss blends sound nutritional advice with information on women's hormones and metabolism that may affect weight management. A sensible diet coupled with portion control is recommended. Levine discourages the use of impossible exercise programs and fad diets, including the recently popular high-protein and high-fat diets. His advice encompasses the range of postpartum women, breastfeeding or not, seriously obese or only marginally overweight. Levine also includes a 14-day simple eating plan, a small recipe section, and a guide to fast food. His upbeat tone and you-can-do-it attitude make this a fine choice for diet book and pregnancy collections.AElizabeth A. Williams, Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Ctr. Lib.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Harper Perennial (December 22, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0688175783
• ISBN-13: 978-0688175788
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #776,061 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars nursing mothers beware, August 29, 2001

By	NJ Mom (NJ United States) - See all my reviews

This book is mostly for non-nursing mothers. Only one chapter is dedicated to nursing mothers and it isn't very encouraging. If you are planning on nursing your baby I wouldn't buy this book. I was disappointed.

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Book to get your pre-pregnancy weight back fast!, February 9, 2000

By	Beth Fuller "baf714" (Clarksville, TN) - See all my reviews

This book is a total must for any woman looking for an easy way to get back your pre-pregnancy shape fast without drastic changes to be made to your diet or exercises! I started to read it in my 9th month and by the time my son was born I knew exactly what I needed to do to get started. Here I am 3 weeks later after having a c-section, I have done no exercising just following Dr. Levine's eating tips,and I weigh less than I did before I got pregnant(148 to 127), and I am still loosing(this is baby #2 for me also)! This book is great because it gives guidelines on what those of us who are nursing and non-nursing moms can do to loose your post-baby weight, a great 15 day menu to follow with normal food products, no diet stuff all easy things to prepare, so important for the mom who has little time with a newborn. I highly recommend this book for anyone wanting their old body back super fast. My body looks better than after my first child and my husband is still shocked by how easy this is for me to do. Buy this book if you want your old body back and maybe even a newer better shaped one. It will not be a waste of your time or money even if you had a baby 6 months ago!

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Easy and practical, January 25, 2001

By	"kangarex" (Keokuk, IA United States) - See all my reviews

The advice is very easy, and the menu plans quite realistic for a new mother. My only real gripe is that nursing moms with babies over about 4 months old need to go read chapter 8 FIRST, before he scares you to death. I was beginning to think that I'd shot my chances of ever being back to my pre-kids weight again (my baby was 6 months old when I read the book) when I hit chapter 8. In chapter 8 he basically declares that the entire timetable as written thus far doesn't hold for nursing mothers. To give the author credit he does tell nursing mothers to check chapter 8 several times earlier in the book. I still would have appreciated even half the time spent on the schedule for nursing mothers that he spends explaining things for non-nursing mothers. After all, there are a lot of us out here.