4 Helpful Tips To Help You Lose a FUPA Post-Pregnancy

Women often develop a FUPA, also known as fat accumulated in the upper pelvic area post-pregnancy. It's the area below the abdominals, and for women, it's a hassle.

During pregnancy, the stomach skin stretches as the child grows. After the child is born, loose skin reduces back to its usual laxity, but not all of it retracts in some cases.

This entails that you have excess fat and flappy skin in the area that's tough to eliminate. Many women consider getting surgery, but there are other things you could opt for before going under the knife.

How to Get Rid of FUPA

The key to removing a FUPA is understanding how fat loss works. 

When you gain weight, fat is stored in the cells throughout the body. Depending on the specifics of your genetic makeup, you can have more or fewer fat cells in specific areas.

During pregnancy, women tend to gain more fat in the pelvic area.

This leads women to directly target FUPA fat with lower body exercises, but unfortunately, spot-targeting fat does not work.

Fat reduction occurs with weight loss, which only happens in a comprehensive manner. You can't just lose weight on your upper body, right? The same works with fat — over time, the fat content within the cells reduces, thus 'shrinking' all body areas, including your pubic mound.

One of the optimal manners to lose fat in the belly area is through a healthy diet and exercise plan. As 'simple' as it may seem, implementing these aspects into your lifestyle isn't as easy as it looks. It requires commitment and consistency on all fronts. 

Tip 1: Eat Fewer Calories

As we mentioned before, targeted fat loss isn't possible. 

You also need to understand that fat is created by consuming excess calories beyond your maintenance level. And due to your pregnancy cravings or post-motherhood joy, it is common to consume more than you need.

That's where most people get confused; they believe that eating healthier foods will magically help them lose weight. But they seldom consider the amount of calories they're eating.

That's because you have a calorie threshold to maintain your weight. If you exceed that amount of calories (say 2000), the excess will be stored as fat. Therefore, it doesn't matter if you eat a tuna salad or a red velvet cake slice; eating more calories than you need causes fat to form.

That said, the best and only approach to dieting is entering a caloric deficit. That means you're eating fewer calories than your threshold. 

To make up for the lack of calories, you use the excess fat from your body to reach your threshold— and voilà, you've started losing weight because now you have less fat.

To quickly eat fewer calories, pick healthy, unprocessed foods. They will generally have fewer calories than their packaged and processed counterparts. 

Over time, these healthier food choices will lead to weight loss, which burns fat, thus removing your FUPA.

Tip 2: Exercise Consistently for Less FUPA

Diastasis Recti After Pregnancy

FUPA can also be caused by diastasis recti, the scientific term for your abdominal muscles separating. This happens during pregnancy to make room for bearing your child, but sometimes, it's so far stretched that the muscles do not return to their original positions.

Because of the weakened abdominal muscles, tissue can droop over the vaginal area, which can create FUPA.  

While diastasis recti cannot be entirely prevented, you can lower the risk of it occurring with pelvic tilts and kegel exercises.

FUPA Exercises For Mothers

Truth be told, if you're not doing something active at least 30 minutes a day, a FUPA is likely going to be tough to shed. Exercise is essential for several reasons, but in this case, it helps with burning calories. Therefore, coupling exercise with a healthy diet will yield much faster results.

But remember, you'll never be able to target FUPA with exercise directly. Spot training is a myth and will always be. Therefore, while great for strengthening your midsection, forearm planks and leg raises will not be as helpful for FUPA.

Exercises to Reduce FUPA:

• Cardio: Whether hiking or swimming, cardio efficiently burns calories, leading to pubic fat loss.

• Abdominal exercises: Strengthening your core, coupled with the proper diet, will give you a chiseled midsection, which reduces the appearance of pubic fat.

• High-intensity interval training (HIIT): This training alternates between high-intensity and low-intensity movements to help burn calories.

Tip 3: Normalize That Your Body Changes After Pregnancy

You must normalize how your body changes after pregnancy. It's also just as important for you to understand that these changes are not permanent and that several surgical procedures are designed to perfect your new mom-bod.

If you've got a mom butt, a Brazilian butt lift will take excess fat from your hips or abdomen and re-lift the buttocks with added volume. 

If you've developed a 'belly pooch,' a tummy tuck will revamp your midsection to its pre-pregnancy days.

Nonetheless, you must have mental peace with these changes that happened to your body to help protect your child during the gestation period. 

That said, it is also essential to have realistic expectations when considering plastic surgery to treat cases like FUPA. The failure to do so will likely cause even more psychological distress, which is never helpful to have on your plate a new mother.

Tip 4: Get Pubic AirSculpt® by AirSculpt®

Don't confuse it with fully invasive liposuction surgery. It's among the most precise cosmetic procedures to help you lose FUPA fat.

The Pubic Area AirSculpt® doesn't use a scalpel, needle, or general anesthesia, delivering significant results with a minimally invasive technique.

The downtime for this procedure is only 48 hours, with most patients beginning to take walks even before then. Compare that to traditional FUPA liposuction, which requires waiting months to enjoy your results.

At AirSculpt®, we take great pride in our patented process because it doesn't leave our patients second-guessing their decisions.

We will ensure you will walk out of our doors feeling as confident as ever. Every mother deserves to feel enamored with their body, even after the beauty of pregnancy. 

If you want to look your best, then work with the best. Head to our AirSculpt® Nashville office or the body sculpting center nearest you for your first consultation.