Tips to help shed those post-pregnancy pounds

Fit Pregnancy’s new mom workout

For this, we can do a workout that includes the baby, or show one that does not, and is for a little later postpartum, or both.  For example:

Four moves with baby: 

1.      Hold the baby squats
2.      Kiss the baby pushups
3.      Peekaboo crunches
4.      Baby bench presses (airplane)

Four moves without baby

1.      Walking Lunge
2.      One-arm dumbbell extensions (your biceps are getting enough of a workout)
3.      Ab Crunches – start with a Bridge first, then progress to a crunches
4.      Pushups, on your knees, then with straight legs.

Celebrities who did it right
Heidi Klum: Heidi was quite amazing and famous for appearing on the runway – in lingerie – weeks after giving birth.

Mariska Hargitay: She came back to Law & Order looking softer than before she had her baby, and completely without apology.  She’s losing the weight, but slowly.

Brooke Shields: She’s looking better than eve, and she also gave herself plenty of time to get used to being a mother – which was tough on her the first time, she suffered with post-partum depression – and didn’t take on a bunch of projects right away - -a good tip for regular moms.

Madonna: She took her time, stayed out of the limelight

Gwyneth Paltrow: She was very smart, staying in London so she wouldn’t be dogged by so many paparazzi, and took care of her kids, both of them.  She is a very good eater and seems to have good control over her diet. 

Ones we wonder about
Sarah Jessica Parker: She swears by breastfeeding, and swears that it was the secret to her weight loss.  But she also has a brother who is a trainer and she was looking really skinny really fast.  I’m just saying, we wonder about that pressure. 

Kate Hudson: She gained so much weight and really dropped it quickly, we are not sure it was healthy for her.

Denise Richards: We actually heard a rumor that she scheduled a C-section three weeks before her due date so she wouldn’t gain as much weight.

Britney Spears: ‘Nuf said? She is the example of what can happen between pregnancies, especially if you have never had to really watch your weight before.  Many of our readers are women in their late thirties or early forties, and while it’s one thing to bounce back when you’re 28 (or not), it is tougher when you are an older mom. 

For more information and tips, visit Fit Pregnancy magazine online.

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