mother of two

[pamiepie]

Hi everyone,
I'm new here and I'm in desperate need to get in shape. I just had my second child (2 weeks ago) and my other son is 14 months old. I feel like I will never lose the baby weight, I didn't have time to even think about losing weight by the time that we found out that we were pregnant with baby #2. Before the babies I was 120lbs and never really had to worry about what I ate, I ran 6-8 miles a day because I was in the army, now I'm an army wife with a deployed husband that has no time to sleep let alone think about weight loss. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions of what kind of workout program would be most effective, what are the best fitness videos? I have also just signed up for weight watchers, but with breast feeding I don't know how well it will help, has anyone had any success?

 

[shae]

Hi there. I did not have my children that closely together but I do believe with good planning and some magic mommy motivation you can do it. God, where on earth do we get the energy from hey?

Do you have a pram that carries both of your children and an appropriate place where you can begin walking, jogging and increase to running each day?

After I had the second I put the baby in the pram and taught my son how to ride without training wheels along side me (he eventually for faster and so did I, great learning together). I did this 5 days a week.

Then I borrowed all sorts of dvds from the dvd store to find out which types of exercises I was most interested in that I could do at home (I prefer a gym, but this worked better with my breast feeding or if the baby woke up).

When you work out which ones you like, buy them and write up a plan for the week that includes them. I used yoga, pilates, some fit balls and weights dvds, bellydancing and other dance workouts. I did this at least 3 days a week.

For weight training, my husband trained me, but you could do simple exercises with hand free weights and look up exercises on youtube or rent dvds to guide you. I did this about 3 times a week, depends on other exercise.

For meals, I wrote and still write a meal plan each week that caters for all the different appetites in our house. I pre-make snacks, lots of homemade soup that I eat unlimited quantities of when hungry, freeze healthy left overs and meals so when the rest of the family want take away for a treat I don't have to.

I drink water, herbal tea, green tea and only juice I make myself.

If you can organize yourself you can do this. I hope some of this helps. Good luck. It would be very challenging with two young babies.

 

[SugarNSpiceX2]

Just give it time. It takes longer after the 2nd one. It took me 15 months after my 2nd baby was born to get back to my pre-pregnancy weight. Just give it time, you'll see results, don't give up. You JUST had your baby, so it's no big deal that you haven't seen much loss yet. And I know for me, breastfeeding made it actually harder for me to lose weight. But just keep working at it, you'll get there.