How Can I Loose Baby Weight

Track all the food you are eating including snacks and beverages. I used loseit.com to do this and was floored by the roll up. My problem was too many carbs not enough veggies but if you asked me I would have sworn that I was eating well.

I would focus on activity. Get that stroller out, if you haven't already, and hit the parks. Join a gym with child care?

You didn't mention what kind of meals you eat but I'm a big fan of smaller, more frequent meals comprised of lots of veggies and fruits, and minimal carbs. But that's just me.

And I can relate about having an active little one. They do burn calories for us moms!

There have been so many recent studies on dieting and they all had one result: working out/activity alone does not do a thing!
I will be you that what you think are normal meals are actually portion sizes that are at least 30% to 50% larger than what they should be. Don't feel bad about it - we all do it. Only very few people know what a healthy serving of food actually looks like!

What can you do? Record your food intake for a week or two to get an overview of what you actually consume. Food and drink! Many people get a large chunk of their daily calories from drinks!
Then eliminate all the junk that you were not even aware that you were eating and start measuring your portion sized, either with cup measures or with a kitchen scale.

Exercise will improve your shape, but if you want to lose the weight you have to reduce your calorie intake.
Good luck.

I have a close friend at work who went through the same thing with weight. FInally she said enough is enough and she decided to lower her carb intake add lots of salads, fruit & veggies to her diet and started a running class. Her girls are pretty much grown adults so she is able to take more time for herself. I am not sure what your schedule is like but maybe you can start walking and work your way to jogging. Put the baby in a stroller and go for it.
It is harder after 30 to loose the lbs. Baby weight isn't easy to get rid of so a lot of effort is necessary.
Good luck

ETA: Be careful of the types of fruit you eat some are natural sugar such as bananas. Also take a look at the dressing you decide to use.

As we age, it's more difficult to take off the weight BUT IT CAN BE DONE

The best way is to incorporate 30-60 mins of cardio 5-6 days a week.

Start w/3 days a week at 20-30 mins each time.

Track your heart rate to make sure you are in the burning fat zone
(google what your heart rate should be at for your age)

It is better to eat 6 meals a day to boost your metabolism
Having said that: they must be healthy, well rounded meals.
3 reg meals (brkfast, lunch, dinner)
then
3 small snacks almost like a whole wheat toast w/peanut butter or
a boiled egg or 5 whole wheat crackers & 5 oz of cheese etc.

Drink 5-8 glasses of water throughout the day

Incorporate some weights and all over body sculpting: pushups, tricep dips, abdominal crunches, lunges, squats etc.

Don't drink sweet drinks (juice, iced tea) and try to cut most sugar out of your diet. Try to eat very little or no potatoes, bread, white rice, and pasta. Do eat oatmeal, brown rice, quinoa instead. Try to eat smaller portions at each meal. Try not to snack between meals. If you do snack eat something like an apple or carrots and hummus. Try to get exercise daily! Can you join a YMCA and go to classes? A weight lifting type class where you work out your large muscle groups will help you lose weight faster (Here it is called Power Up). Alternate that with running or swimming or biking on the other days.

Oatmeal diet works for me. You can try it. I suggest avoid eating foods rich in carbohydrates and have a 30-minute exercise everyday.

I agree with some of the other moms that activity alone won't do it. Go to a free online calorie tracker and keep track of what you eat. While activity won't melt the pounds away, it makes me feel healthier and causes me to eat better. With my son I took him for a walk almost everyday from the time he was about a week old. After I went back to work it got harder, but my husband and I would take him for a walk every evening if it wasn't cold or raining. The fresh air did both of us a lot of good and just knowing that I got myself up and moving helped motivate me to choose an apple with peanut butter over the chocolate cookies in the cabinet. Plus hubby and I got to reconnect a lot on those walks because we actually talked and weren't distracted by email or phone or TV. Good luck!

Swim 30 min a day 3 times a week.
If you do that and skip pasta, potatoes, chips, and rice, you'll be all set.
Once you drop the weight, if you continue to swim, you'll be able to add those things back in in moderation and small portion sizes. I did well doing that until I went to a camp and drank full sugar iced tea for a week... gained 10lbs! Haven't been able to get back to the pool...
I'm ready for summer -- going to swim every day for 30 min. until I drop those 10lbs. AND - no more iced tea for me!!

So here's what I have come to see as the rule of thumb. Any extra weight you carry past babies first birthday is not the kind of weight that wonderfully and magically melts away in time. Its the kind that has to be worked off with effort and persistence. Its an all consuming pain in the butt, but a sure fire way to succeed it to count your calories and eat your resting metabolism based on your sex/ height/ weight. That way all movement equals weight loss wether you exercise or not. But its just enough calories to keep your body from going into starvation mode. The average American woman eats 700 calories more per day than she thinks she does. Scary thought hu?

Exercise and eat right.

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The two links above are from beachbody. I have been doing P90X for a very long time and it has really started to shape me up....I really started to loose the weight when I started eating better and substituted one meal a day with Shakeology.

I like it so much I became a beachbody coach.

Good luck in what ever you choose.
Jen

Honestly, for me, and this is probably terrible advice so don't take it, but I just came to the conclusion that if I wanted to stay thin, (i wish I was one of those women that felt good about myself at any size-i'm not) i just need to not eat, ever. On average, I eat about a fist sized portion of food, once a day, and that is it. I've got 'fat genetics', so after years of trying different things (like running every single day for ten miles, followed by two hours of weights and swimming 30 minutes 3x a week and I got down to the size I am now) I figured out that's it's just easier, cheaper, and more time saving to just starve. Now, if I eat more than a tiny little amount of food, i get horribly ill and I also stay plenty active. I'm always moving. I don't sit down for the entire day until afer 10 pm, too.

Please get this book: "The Perfect 10 Diet"- it refers to the 10 hormones that must be functioning in order to be fit, healthy, happy and thriving. This is not a gimmick or a shocking deprivation diet-so if you want that-go on Atkins-on Atkins, after a long period of what the body perceives as starvation, you will be thin, and your hair will be falling out, and your skin will lose elasticity, and the health of your arteries will be compromised, but, by God, you will be thin.