Salma Hayek Talks About Losing Baby Weight From Breastfeeding: "It's A Lie!"

Thank You Salma! Bravo. The girl tells it like it is. When I had my daughter, the only way I lost weight was to diet, and excercise. As for the huge boobs that men are like Thank You GOD for? Um, in my case, can anyone say they were suffocating? Hello. I already had a DDD chest and this just made it worse. If women gain weight, it will come off, but you can't sit on your behind and eat bon bons, you have to excercise and eat a healthy diet. No tricks or gimmicks, just the way it is. Salma you are looking as always, wonderful, and anyone who calls her fat I will potch. The lady has curves, get over it, she rocks it. Bravo.

Many women lose weight more quickly while nursing and some do not and who has nailed down the answer? I had five kids, nursed each til they were over age two, put on anywhere from 42-51 lbs, and lost most of it within a few months and all by 9-12 months. Women's bodies are designed to store fat for breastfeeding and for the energetic care that infants require, in buttocks, hips, abdomen.
If you exclusively breastfeed for 6 months (no food) and then have breast milk as the primary source of nutrition til age one, both recommended by AA of Pediatricians and WHO, and you are not eating junk, and are physically active, most women will lose the baby weight. One great trick is to carry your baby in a backpack when they are old enough to be propped up, while shopping, dishes, shopping, walking. That is many hours a day of calorie burning and gives you wonderful freedom as it benefits baby. You won't notice the babies increased weight because you are so gradually working up to it. Nature stores that fat so we have the energy to carry lug these dumplings hours a day for at least 15 months.

Salma Hayek is absolutely gorgeous, before and after the baby. I would rather a woman carry an extra 10 pounds and be curvy, than ten pounds underweight like too many actresses.

Rent "Dusk till Dawn". Nuff said...

oh, and because of that - I forgive you for "Bandidas"

Amen.
Finally, someone, a celebrity who speaks not with a forked tongue.
Awesome.

Because its absolutely true - the weight does NOT drop off miraculously just because you breastfeed. The only way these hyper-stick-celebs get back into shape within - what - 3 months - is by NOT eating and exercising like a bloody moron. She is absolutely right - 9 months to gain, at least 9 months to lose.
And whats wrong with that?

you rock girl.

It is working for my wife who is breast feeding our son. She eats twice as much as she used to, and maintains 130 pounds, which is 40 pounds less than her pregnant weight. It is the simple law of physics.

Well, I don't know what happened to Selma, but it was TRUE for me. My pregnancy weight was 172 #'s and afterwards I went down to 140. AND I ATE A LOT, especially pasta! But maybe the difference is how long it took to loose it. Some women only breastfeed for a matter of months, I did it for two years, and it was towards the latter that I noticed my clothes falling off.

For some reason, reading the words "breastfeeding" and "Salma Hayek" in the same sentence makes me so happy.

For anyone who thinks God does not exist, just look at Salma.

Salma is one smokin' hot babe!!!

Well, I was a young mom, and breastfed till my baby was 9 months. Salma is right!!!
The weight doesn't just fall of, it takes time..
GO SALMA!!

I had gestational diabetes too. That seriously affects everything as it messes up your metabolism. Also, losing weight doesnt necessarily make your stomach smaller. Exercise does that.

What a lucky baby.

With my 4 kids, I exercised all 9 months of pregnancy & resumed immediately afterwards.

THIS, accompanied with breast feeding will shrink up your stomach.

I'm thinner now than was in H.S.

You gotta exercise people. Esp. if an older mom.

I have 3 kids and have nursed 2 to self-weaning at 2 years, the third is still nursing at 18 months. I was 36 when I had my third and my metabolism has changed this time, it's taken longer to get back to normal weight with buffer (see below). Before I was actually underweight at their 8-9 month birthdays, when they started eating more solids. Your metabolism changes as you age and other differences with weight loss result from how much you gain during pregnancy/childrearing. Each one is different. My advice: eat the healthiest diet possible, exercise as much as possible, and not worry about it so much.

Also, my body always held on to 5-7 pounds of buffer weight, as someone noted above, just in case calories aren't available. This is probably a holdover from when we humans were living in subsistence societies.

I applaud Salma and anyone who has the courage to breastfeed in the fishbowl celebrity environment. Way to go, Salma, and I hope you encourage others to do the same. There are tons of books and websites if you have questions about this, too, among them kellymom.com, 'The Nursing Mother's Companion' and its 2 sequel books, 'The Book of Breastfeeding Answers' by the wonderful pediatrician Jack Newman, and of course La Leche League's many publications listed at their web site. They all can give you pointers on diet, exercise, and what to expect when you are nursing, particularly past 1 year.

Hmmm wasn't she just complaining about skinny folk on her 'Ugly Betty' show?

Salma lost much respect, in my eyes, about her longing for love when she married a European Billionaire.

I've no quarrel with the billionaire, just the arrogance that stars go on campaigns about finding true love when they basically were looking for the biggest wallet.

Gotta love how the media and the masses dwell on whether and how stars lose/don't lose their baby weight. No one can say the USA doesn't have its priorities straight when it comes to gender and motherhood, right?