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Hi guys, welcome back to my channel.
Today's video is going to be a
how I lost the baby weight video.
So many of you have requested this on Instagram.
So today I'm gonna tell you what I've done.
I'm finally there.
I still have five more pounds left to lose
but I am still feeding Jackson
and in my experience I tend to lose that last five pounds
when I actually stopped nursing my baby.
This video should be helpful
if you just wanna lose some weight.
You don't have to have just had a baby.
This is about weight loss as well.
Jackson is now eight months old.
He's eight moths old today
and my goal was to try and lose the baby weight
by the time he was nine months
because lots of people say you know,
nine months to have a baby,
nine months to lose the weight.
I am the type of person in pregnancy
who puts on a lot of weight.
I just carry big.
Everyone always comments on my bump.
I really get big.
And with each baby I have put on three to four stone.
What I do is I stop weighing myself
when I put on three stone
and then I normally, at the end bit
I am assuming, put on another stone.
Yeah so in the last six years I have put on
and lost three to four stone every couple of years
so my body has really taken a beating
and this is our last baby
so I am desperate to get back into shape.
I really don't wanna be one of those moms
that people are like, "Oh well, she's had three kids,
"so you know, you've had three kids."
I want people to be like, "Wow, she's had three kids?"
So when I gave birth I'm pretty sure that I lost a stone
in liquid, placenta, baby
and all of that stuff straight away.
For the first eight weeks
all I did that might've helped with weight loss
was breastfeed and try and eat well.
Yeah so after eight weeks of just enjoying my baby
and being in this beautiful baby bubble
I was like "Oh my gosh, I need to do something.
"I am still wearing leggings and maternity clothes."
So that is when I started to eat cleaner.
I started to have more wholesome meals
and I just cut out some processed foods.
The weight did start to come off.
So over the next four months I lost another two stone
just from eating a bit better,
getting out with the buggy a little bit
and obviously running after my three children.
So I lost three stone in weight which is 45 pounds
quite quickly in the six months
but then the last stone in weight
which is 14 pounds just wouldn't come off.
I just completely plateaued with that last 14 pounds
and I just couldn't lose it.
So I knew I had to up my game
and just work a bit harder really.
And to motivate me I found a really, really good app.
It's called 8fit, it is this green one.
Yeah so I downloaded the app
and what you do is you put in your details.
So I put in my height, my weight, my goals
and then I went through
like a little questionnaire on my fitness
and at the end of that questionnaire
my fitness score was two out of eight.
So that is how bad my fitness was and how really not good
I am at working out.
So then it comes up with a plan specifically for you.
And it has meals on it,
it gives you a meal plan
and then it also gives you a workout plan.
The workouts on the app are so, so good.
They are hit routines so that is high intensity
so is a 10 to 15 minute blast of workout.
It's on your phone so you can do it wherever, whenever.
If the baby has a random nap in the morning at home,
I'm like, "Right, I'm just gonna do a nine minute routine."
And it's really, really clever.
It tells you exactly how much you're gonna burn
so if I do this nine minute routine today
I will burn 252 calories
and it shows you exactly how to do it.
So if you don't know how to do a move
it will just walk you through it.
You can do it along with a video
and yeah, I just found it really effective for me
because I have very little time
and sometimes I would do the workout
and the kids would even join in.
They really started enjoying it.
So we would sort of run around the garden
or run around the living room
and do my little hit routine
and it was a great way for me to get started
because I am too scared to go to a gym.
I just feel really embarrassed at my fitness levels
so to have it all, like my own personal trainer
on an app, has been incredible
and I can just do it whenever I want to
and if I don't fancy doing hit one day
they have yoga sessions for 15 minutes to 25 minutes.
The meals are really great on it as well
because they just give you some inspiration.
I get stuck in a rut and stick to my own staple dinners
and these are meals
that I wouldn't have even thought of
and you can choose on the app if you want to have easy meals
that are boring but effective
or you can have simple meals
or you can choose meals
that only take 10 minutes or 20 minutes.
You can choose how much time you have
and they will just come up with a plan for you
if you want to but then if you don't fancy one of the meals
you can just click change
and then you'll get another meal idea with ingredients
and how tos and everything.
It just gives you new snack ideas
and ways to be healthy
and it also set me a target
of trying to step 8000 steps a day
and when I started doing the app
I was doing about 2,500 steps a day.
So I was quite far off of that goal
but it's amazing.
When you are challenged by something like this
you get a bit competitive and you're like,
"Oh, I only have to do another 2,000 steps today.
"I'll just go out with the buggy and I'll do those."
And it definitely makes me more active
by using something like this.
So I have really, really loved it.
Yeah I do other things like I am still breastfeeding
as I said, so I plan to do that for at least a year
'cause I did that for the other boys
and then I also baby wear.
So I'll put him in a sling
and obviously Jackson's a 22 pound baby.
So it's just having that extra weight on me.
Bending over, picking stuff up,
just having that weight I think helps as well
and I've also done silly things like
I bought brand new, fitness clothes and active wear
because that has made me want to put it on
'cause I think it looks nicer.
And sometimes at night I will leave my active wear clothes
out on the floor and laid out
so I have to put them on
or I will be like, "Right, I'm wearing active wear today."
because then I'll feel really silly
if I wear it all day and I haven't worked out.
Yes but that is all I'm really doing.
It is common sense really.
Eating cleaner and better, less processed foods,
drinking more water and doing little hit routines
as often as I can.
If I can start working out and losing the weight
you totally can as well.
I am the most unfit person ever.
I'm not sporty.
At school I was that girl that hated PE class.
So if I can start doing this and losing weight
you totally can as well.
And I think just start small.
Small little steps and changing habits
and you will see results.
So yeah, that is it for this video.
I hope you liked it and got something from it.
If you want to download the 8fit app,
definitely try it.
You can try it for free for 30 days.
See if you like it and see if you see results
but I have really, really enjoyed using it.
Ask me any questions you have in the comments below
and I will hopefully do an updated video
in another six months time
because my goal now is really to tone up
because although my weight is back
and I'm back in my size 28 jeans
I'm not that happy with the shape that I see.
Yeah, I hope you enjoyed it
and I will see you in my next one, bye guys.