Start Them Early: Teaching Yourself and Your Baby How To Eat Right

Everyone agrees that proper nutrition is necessary in losing weight and keeping a healthy body.  Weight loss plans do not work if you do not supplement it with the right nutrition.  What’s amazing is whatever nutritional principles that apply to mothers, apply to their babies as well.  Teaching your little angel to eat baby food is a significant developmental stage so you would want to start it right and start them early with introducing the right nutritional food for your baby.    And if you incorporate it with your daily nutritional plans, it will help you with pregnancy weight loss as well.  These early lessons in infant feeding will lay the necessary foundations for nutritional choices later on.
The right nutritional meals are necessary for the growth of your little one.  It is during these first 2 years that they grow faster than at any other time of their lives that is why it is important to feed them nutritious meals to help them grow.  The best advice to give is to use the same nutritional principles used and practiced by adults into your baby’s diet.  Here are some tips to help you lose weight quickly with the right nutrition.
Always start your days with a healthy breakfast.  Adults need a full and healthy breakfast to get them nutritionally going through a busy day – try our smoothies for a great start.  Your babies spend time exploring and learning in the morning as well.
They would need a breakfast that will provide energy and a solid nutritional basis for the rest of the day. Your breakfasts should provide a healthy balance of carbohydrates from whole grains without added sugar.  A mashed fruit or vegetable is perfect during this time.  A choice between mashed potatoes or bananas would not only provide good nutritional intake but will fill them up as well.  Not starting with the right breakfast makes you (and your baby) feel hungry throughout the day, thus causing you to eat extra amounts that your body does not need.
Go natural as much as possible, and choose complex carbohydrates such as those found in oats and oat bran.  These are good sources of soluble fibre and have a low glycaemic index. Soluble fibre is slowly absorbed by your baby, enabling a steady supply of energy over a longer period of time. This is just like the effect that eating a bowl of porridge or oatmeal.  It gives you the necessary nutrients that you would need to get going until your next meal.  It prevents you from feeling hungry and eating before your next meal.  Stay away from artificial and sugar filled food.  These would give you or your baby a quick but non lasting supply of energy.
As a parent, you should realize that what your baby eats plays a big role on their nutrition for the day.  And what you feed them today will definitely influence their food choices in the future.   And these food choices will give them the potential to be fit and healthy kids just like their mums.