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Secrets of How Celebrity Moms Lost Their Baby Weight

Posted by Karen Sugarpants

 

The other day, Sassy showed you pictures of celebrity moms before and after the births of their babies

How did they lose the weight?

Read on!

Christina Aguilera - The boobs have it!  Christina credits breastfeeding, kickboxing and strength training in shedding pregnancy pounds.  Not all at the same time I hope!

Nicole RIchie - often critisized before pregnancy about her possible eating disorder, now that she's a new Mama, she's not dieting at all.  Richie also breastfeeds and it's not recommended that you diet while nursing. 

Jamie Pressley - Hard core!  She has said she worked out two hours a day, five days a week, using resistance weights. She also credits the cabbage soup diet, which consists of eating nothing else but cabbage soup for seven days.  Sounds awful.

Naomi Watts - Watts credits breastfeeding and the use of a personal trainer.

Milla Jovovich - gained 70 pounds while pregnant.  Jovovich turned to celebrity trainer Harley Pasternak within two months of giving birth. Pasternak had her working out every part of her body five days a week and following his 5-Factor Diet, which consists of eating five meals a day.

Mel B - concentrated on calorie control and hiking, swimming, running hills and, of course, Dancing With The Stars!

Tori Spelling - used Nutrisystem after the birth of Liam.  Mmm prepackaged drywall.  Why can't people just eat healthy without the use of crap like this?  YUCK.

Jenna Elfman - also blames her breastfeeding for slimming down.  She also walked, ate healthy, and used light weights.

Salma Hayek - has had a really hard time losing her baby weight, she says.  Breastfeeding really didn't do much for her (me either Salma, since I was always sitting on the couch!), so she resorted to the only safe way: eating properly and working out.

Bridget Moynahan - says walking and cutting sugar out of her diet helped her.  She also nursed her son, John Edward Thomas.

 

 


Comments

 

Jules said:

I lost all my weight by breast-feeding, but put on weight when I stopped because I wasn't burning those calories anymore.  I am on the NutriSystem diet right now and it doesn't taste like drywall, it is actually very tasty.  For a busy mom it's wonderful because all the fat, calories, carbs, protein etc. are all calculated for you.  Now I've lost almost all the weight I've put on and started running again.  It ain't easy!

May 3, 2008 4:45 PM
 

mtlmama said:

I breastfed and since we don't own a car, walking everyday, using the metro and hauling 2 kids up to our second floor apartment helped too!

May 4, 2008 11:13 AM
 

giggleup said:

The last 5-10 pounds hung around until I STOPPED breastfeeding. Am I the only one with that experience? Unfortunately, a few months later, I put them back on. For me, the recipe was: full-time work + scarce husband + toddler = high stress and low self-discipline. I'm sure lots of moms can handle it gracefully and find time/money to go to the gym, but not me. So I'm trying to make friends with those 10 extra pounds for a while. I focus on the positive: my kid is healthy, I'm a good mom, and my marriage is intact. But I sure do look forward to getting fit again someday!

May 9, 2008 8:45 PM
 

kaceysmama said:

 I remember taking that first real shower when I got home from the hospital. I felt like the marshmallow guy from ghost busters. Who is this person? Certainly no I had recognized.

There is so much pressure to look great right after giving birth. It's tough to watch your body expand over nine long months. Then to have unrealistic expectations of what women should look like four weeks later put upon us.  

I gained about 45 pounds during my pregnancy. It's been two months, and I have 8 more to go. I walk, do sit-ups, push-ups, and am accountable for everything I put in my mouth.

We as women give up so much of ourselves to be mothers. Sleep,coffee runs, (With out having to pack a bag),showering with the door closed, and of course our body.

I don't have time to work out 4 hours a day. The only reason I am up at 4 am is to feed this little thing that I love endlessly. I don't have a personal chef, or a personal trainer. What I do have, is the drive to look better then I did before I got pregnant. And for one reason alone...me.

May 11, 2008 12:03 AM

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