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?

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.

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.