Baby Weight - McKinney,TX

any kind of dance. I was 285pds when I was 18 and started dancing and lost 150 pds by the time I was 21

belly dance? I know my kids love to "dance " with mommy and it is really funny to watch them try!

I have videos from netflix I started with then bought some Shimmy ones after I got the basics down kinda.

Also, every time you are hungry drink a cup of water 1st. it makes you eat less.

Someone on here suggested "caloriecount.com" and I've found it to be incredibly helpful. I've lost 8 lbs and am finally back to my prebaby weight. It took about 6 weeks of calorie counting...but it's the only thing that worked for me. Good luck!

if all sensible approaches aren't working go for a sure fire formula; create a calorie deficit. Count calories and create approximately a 300-500 cal/day deficit. Don't eat less than your resting metabolism or your metabolism will slow. You'll have to journal to keep track of the calories and exercise can go a long way to create a calorie deficit. This is something I've done. I typically go to 1400 cal/day. As we age it gets closer to 1200 cal/day for weight loss. Its really an all consuming task to measure your food and stick to your calories. But like I said, if all else fails, this is a proven formula. The learning curve is rough, but after about 2 months, you hardly have to measure our look anything up at all. CalorieKing.com is a great on line tool for looking up the calories in food. I am waiting to wean and then I plan on loosing the last 10 this way. I've lost 17 this way before kids and got back to a size 6. I took advice from Gillian Micheals. She's rather popular these days, but she used to just have a radio program and I followed her advice on how to create a calorie deficit that didn't send my body into starvation mode. Though counting calories can suck really bad, it actually gives you a lot of freedom compared to other weight loss methods. If you really want to eat some cake, you can, you just have to take it from somewhere else. It becomes a numbers game and it can be a fun challenge.

It really is a matter of calories in vs calories out.

I lost weight really well after my first two, but a year after my third was born I still weighed almost the same as when I came home from the hospital. I took a look at my eating habits and realized I was snacking on junk way more than I thought, and my portion sizes were too big. I was eating as much as my husband, who is a foot taller and almost 100 lbs heavier. Way too much. I cut back on my serving size, stopped eating what my kids left on their plates, cut way back on dressings, dips, and mayo, and snacked on fresh fruits and veggies, and lost 15 lbs in 3 months. I also was exercising daily, at moderate to intense levels for 30 min. (If you can carry on a normal conversation, you're not working hard enough. If you can one short sentence at a time, that's moderate. A couple of words between breaths is intense).
Really, there's no other magic recipe to losing weight. All the diet drinks and pills and special diets are just temporary fixes, as soon as you stop, it creeps back up.

Do you do any weight resistance training?

Also, the body gets used to any exercise routine, in 6-8 weeks and plateaus. After that, you NEED to mix up your exercise routine. ie: increasing cardio, adding resistance training, doing interval training, doing different things.

Interval Training, is real good and does not take time.
Professional Athletes do this too.
It simply entails, doing an exercise in spurts in cycles. So say as you are walking, SPRINT for about 1 minute, then walk for 1 minute, SPRINT for 1 minute again, then walk for 1 minute. Alternating. Even if for only 15 minutes, if you can keep it up. It is real challenging and will make you sweat.
Look up "Interval Training" online.

I understand your pain! I was just exercising and watching my calories and nothing was helping so I started weight watchers and it has definitely been the best thing I did. I have been on since Jan. 30 and as of today I'm down 26.5 lbs. I only do it online and LOVE it. It's the easiest thing ever, there is an app on my phone and as long as you stick to it and exercise you can lose the weight! I also have a friend that started doing weight watchers 3 weeks before me and she has lost 53 lbs. I would seriously consider this program. If I have another baby I'm doing this immediately. Also on this program if you are nursing they take that into consideration ( I have been nursing this whole time while losing not affecting my baby) good luck I know how hard it is!

Lindsey Brin's Post Natal Bootcamp is a great workout dvd, it's geared towards beginners thru advanced and combines pilates, cardio, plyometrics, ab/upper/lower body toning. I did this workout 2-3X/week at the most and walked/ran on the other days...it really helped tone me up and lose weight. I needed to add something to my workouts other than just cardio and this was a great workout, you just need 5-8 lb weights to go along w/ it.

Ditto Weight Watchers. I have never had a problem with my weight - I've always been small and always been very activite, but after my second baby I could NOT get my eating under control and actually gained weight after the baby was born.

I tried walking and making better choices with food, but it didnt work. I used to run, before kids, but with two kids under two and a gynormous double jogger, it was just too hard. I was too tired, my schedule was too crazy, my son yelled at me that he wanted to go home the whole time... It just wasnt working. I work full time and didnt want to spend any more time away from the kids going to a gym or running without them.

I joined weight watchers and lost 4 pounds in the 1st week, and 1-2 pounds each week after. After two months, i am back in a size 4.

It was HARD the first week. i was so hungry and sad I couldnt eat all the food I wanted, but now it is really easy. I'm back to my old good eating habits and happy I look cute in clothes again.

You can eat anything you want, you just have to plan for it. Its not like diets where you are not allowed certain types of food. And you dont feel guilty eating desert or bowl of pasta if you have planned for it.

It is WORTH the money and worth going to meetings.

I started running and the weight is just melting off. I started with a couch to 5k program and now I just run for 45 minutes/4 days a week and it has naturally curbed my appetite for junk food. Once you start losing a few pounds, you get hooked and want to just see that weight continue to melt off. You can just google couch to 5k program and it'll break it all down for you. Good luck!