The best motivation is through example. So today our article will be devoted to inspiring stories of weight loss after the second birth. Elena – our active podistica, which managed to achieve outstanding results in weight loss through home workouts and proper nutrition.
Helen kindly agreed to answer the most pressing questionsthat concern most losing weight people. Where to start training? Where to find motivation to practice? How to organize food? Despite the large amount of information on the Internet, these questions do not lose their relevance.
But before we go to questions and answers, you need to speak separately about the numbers. After 5 months of training Elena managed to achieve results that are truly impressive. In brackets is how many centimeters reduced volume:
- Weight: 60,1 kg (-6.5 kg)
- Arm (bicep): 27cm (-3 cm)
- Breasts: 85 cm (-9 cm)
- Under bust: 71 cm (-5 cm)
- Waist: 68 cm (-6 cm)
- Hips (at widest point): 93 cm (-6 cm)
- Leg (top): 52 cm (-5 cm)
- Knee: 39.5 cm (-1,5 cm)
- The stomach (4 cm below the navel): 80 cm (-6 cm)
However, as she says Elena: “the Main thing is not the numbers, and good health, mood, body tone, improved power and stamina, and left me cellulitis, which appeared after the second pregnancy”.
“My motto in life – who wants, that searches for possibilities who does not want – looks for excuses”.
— Elena, why did you choose home workouts? What attracted and what challenges may be faced in the first place?
— I am on maternity leave while nursing. Regular opportunities to go to the gym yet: both in terms of constantly looking for someone to keep the baby, and financially. Decided to start doing at home at the time when the baby is sleeping. At first it was a haphazard exercise at different times, and then I started at the same time in the morning for the chosen course.
What were the difficulties? The child was awake and supposed to be doing. At first a terrible pain in my knees. It was hard to start, the program seemed complicated already with the workouts.
Now released a very large selection of training programs. With a complex you started and why? As soon as they notice the first results?
— I started, like many of the program “Slim figure 30 days” Jillian Michaels. Often heard rave reviews on this program from thinner after giving birth of girls, and never even engaged in anything like that before. I thought, “why should not I try? I don’t even have any training experience in the past.” Even then I did not know that there are many sites similar Goodlooker.ru where you can pick up any workout tailored to your level and preferences.
The results I began to notice after a couple weeks of regular exercise. I kept a training diary once a week we measured the volumes and weighed.
— What training have time to try during this time? Do you have any favorite programs or trainers? What programs would you recommend to our readers?
— Try different workout constantly. Favorite coach today Autumn Calabrese. The program 21 Day Fix and Fix Extreme — I liked the variety of exercises and design. And Autumn their appearance is very motivating.
I think you need to try different directions, and then choose your workout according to your preferences. For example, I used yoga and Pilates seemed boring, but after the course c Piyo chalene Johnson, I became interested in these areas and are now engaged not only for the body but for the soul programs at Body Balance from Les Mills.
— How many times a week do you do? What time of day you are comfortable to train and why?
— I do it every morning and at lunch. Choose a morning workoutbecause I’m a morning person, and I try to do while the baby is sleeping (although it often comes up behind me). I prefer to perform exercises in the morning, take a shower and go about their business.
— You’ve been doing for over 5 months. Do you notice progress in your workouts: endurance, quality of exercises, strength training?
— Of course. Progress is noticeable at every training – for the first time is terribly hard, the second is easier, and in later times already perceived as a normal load. The weight of the dumbbells starting dumbbells 1.5 kg, now almost all do with 3 kg Dumbbells 1.5 kg now seem so small and weightless!
— Elena, you have been actively engaged in home gym after the second birth. Are there any particular exercises for girls after birth in your opinion?
— I was terribly hard to start – the body absolutely I did not obey. I tried to download the press and cried, because even a few repetitions of the simple twists were given to me with great difficulty, I blushed as cancer and perspiring. I’ve read about diastasis and of course was diagnosed with it. That was my “excuse” from the beginning of the class I laid and waited, when the body itself will come in the form effortlessly.
— Surely you had to change food. What are the main changes you have made to your diet? Have you changed your eating habits?
— I think this is the first thing you need to start everyone. Despite the fact that I was not the first year try to eat, minimizing the consumption of sweets, fried, fatty and junk food, starting to count KBZHU I realized that this is not enough. And I began to gradually develop new eating habits:
- Breakfast always, and tightly and properly (slow carbs, proteins). Earlier for Breakfast I had a half-liter mug of sweet coffee with rolls or sandwiches with mayonnaise, sausages.
- Meals during the day should be 5-7, ie, every 2-3 hours. I used to have one or two main meals, comes the second half of the day, and between them a chaotic “enough”, it would have, without hesitation.
- Nutrition should be balanced in protein, fat and carbohydrates. In order to figure it out, I personally must now consider the KBZHU, but in the future, I hope I will be able to plan their menu without calculations.
- Their attitude to many of the products had to reverse. Thus, I loved milk, especially cheese (which could get there only during pregnancy for the unborn child), boiled eggs, dry chicken, cereal (grits before in my house is eaten, but simply lay from time to time replaced with new ones), liver, beef.
- Dinner should be light, consisting of protein and fiber (vegetables) and not to satiety, as before. For this you need to eat evenly throughout the day, and that evening arose a terrible hunger and desire to eat everything that comes their way.
- You should always keep on hand the right products and food for snacking (PP-pastries, fruits, dried fruits, nuts), fast food and different hazard better at home do not keep.
- Had to be adjusted and drinking regime: to unlearn everything to drink and begin to drink water instead of soft drinks, fruit drinks and juices and to do it during the day and not during meals.
- Loved before pastries, fresh bread, sugar cookies and various candies, but now with confidence I can say that all this harmful food habits, not real needs of the body.
- Opened a lot of new products for themselves – fiber, bran, buttermilk, corn, rice flour, Flaxseed.
— Do you try to adhere to any special eating plan before and after workouts?
— At least half an hour (preferably an hour) before exercise eat carbs after a workout, it is advisable to eat protein. For example, the cottage cheese + milk/yogurt/buttermilk + fruit + spice. Since I train in the morning, I have to get up early to have Breakfast and to wait at least half an hour before training. I try to eat Breakfast slow and fast carbohydrates, slow carbohydrates as you will not have time to give energy to the start of the workout. Of fast carbs I generally banana, but you can afford to eat s’mores-waffle-cookie.
— What can you say about motivation? What makes you move forward and continue to do fitness?
— Personally, I’ve always had enough, my internal motivation, i.e. I don’t need someone’s support or “pinky”. A big part of my life I had a good figure, and when suddenly there is extra weight or cellulite, I felt very uncomfortable, and I started to make efforts to return her figure to its former state. When your body is in good shape, you feel more confident, it’s nice to go shopping and to buy new things, not looking for a garment that will hide the stomach-side or something else, but rather will emphasize all your curves.
— How you consider, what you still need to work on yourself? In any of the training aspects you expect progress from you?
— First and foremost, important to me now that will help my body become healthier. This flexibility and joint mobility, stretching, but also I need to work on developing strength and endurance.
— Would you advise the girls who are just starting to train at home?
— You are the first person that finds it hard to start who is experiencing difficulties and issues. Now a lot of information, which is not difficult to obtain, it is necessary only to want. Study the information on the Internet, do not hesitate to ask advice from more experienced trainees. Do not be afraid of challenges and problems to solve as they are received. My motto in life – who wants, that searches for possibilities who does not want – looking for reasons.
Here on this inspirational note, the interview came to an end. And we once again Express our gratitude to Elena for motivating and useful information, which she shared with our readers. If you want to tell your story of weight loss, then please contact us on email: info@goodlooker.ru.
See also: Nutrition when training with Jillian Michaels – personal experience losing weight.