How to lose your pregnancy weight & flatten your tummy | weight loss post pregnancy | postnatal exercises and postpartum exercises
A few weeks ago I introduced you to Catherine, AKA MummyLion who is doing the 12 week MuTu System programme to lose her mummy tummy, alongside her Thinking Slimmer Slimpod to conquer destructive food habits & drop extra pounds. She has taken on the challenge with gusto & has videoed her 50 burpee challenge for your entertainment motivation. Read MummyLion's MuTu / Thinking Slimmer story … [Read more...]
When it comes to losing your mummy tummy, baby belly, jelly belly, pooch, muffin top or whichever is your preferred affectionate name ;) there are a number of areas of confusion. A quick search on YouTube & Google produced the following: an exercise for diastasis recti which showed a pregnant woman doing oblique crunches; an eminent plastic surgeon stating categorically that a mummy … [Read more...]
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Is there an average time it takes to lose your baby weight? If your youngest is at school, can you really still blame the jelly belly on your babies? How long does the 'post natal' (or post partum if you're reading this in the middle of my night) bit last? Well in my experience (& my clients'), a correctly prescribed postnatal exercise programme will put your body back to where you want … [Read more...]
I have read in lots of places today about the magic mummy tummy cream that sold out in an hour at Harvey Nics - rub it into your mummy tummy & it disappears! *Slinks off without a job* I'm impressed - this cream 'burns fat' (I've always loved that phrase... what with? A blow torch?) & gives results 'comparable to surgery'. Wow, not bad for £18.85. The list of celebrity endorsers … [Read more...]
Diastasis Recti symptoms & information can be confusing. A particular area that often causes concern is when your post pregnancy belly is not squidgy, or jelly-belly like, but rather hard & protruding, as if you were 5 months pregnant again :( Is this diastasis recti? Or could something else be causing it? This can be more confusing when the rest of your body is relatively lean or slim, … [Read more...]
Diastasis recti is without doubt a major culprit in the mummy tummy stakes. But make sure you don't overlook diet, excess fat storage & maybe a lack of motivation or a feeling of hopelessness about your situation too :( Here's some ideas & strategies that might help. If you have a post pregnancy belly which bulges or protrudes, & seems to form a cone shape when you get up from lying … [Read more...]
Karin at Cafebebe & her food confessions start here... This is how to eat to lose your Mummy Tummy, the MuTu way! Want postnatal fat loss? Even if you're not so postnatal anymore... that's OK. Please join the *really-quite-a-few-months-postnatal-now* lovely Karin on her journey to a smaller stomach! I have a few days of food diary from Karin now, & so have added my suggestions, … [Read more...]
How do you eat to lose your baby weight & your mummy tummy? Karin, mummy blogger at CafeBebe is a good few months (years... ;)) postpartum, but still has baby weight & mummy tummy she'd like to see less of. And I'm a sucker for one of the sisterhood in tears, so when she came to find me at the CyberMummy conference for a hug & some support because yet another person thought she was … [Read more...]
Trying to lose your baby weight fast can feel like a long old road. Your 'Mummy Tummy' is wobbly for a number of reasons, all of which are covered elsewhere on this blog, but here we're talking about the specific foods you need to avoid if you're ever going to see that flat tummy. These foods will make or keep your mummy tummy looking fat & bloated, regardless of how much you exercise! Of … [Read more...]
"I'm Wendy, pre & postpartum exercise specialist & flatten-er of mummy tummies! Also mum to a gorgeous little boy & to a feisty little girl who might just rule the world one day...
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