Fitness for Mums - Vix's Response

Mum Zone's resident Professional Fitness Specialist Vix of Mama Moves is available to answer some of your questions about fitness.

Topics include: Getting back your pre baby body, weight loss, toning and defining, body shaping, improved fitness, general wellbeing, hormonal balancing, increased strength and fitness, improvement or elimination of urinary incontinence, reduction in the size of diastasis recti, making the abdomen more stable, reduction or elimination of lower back pain, improved energy levels, decreased anxiety and stress levels, greater ability to carry out daily activities eg. lifting bub and more.

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Reader's Question

I was back to my pre baby weight within two days of having my twins as I only gained 'baby weight'. Why is it now that I have put on weight and struggling to get back to my pre pregnancy weight? I'm eating and craving foods I've never eaten a lot of and my willpower seems to have disappeared! I am usually an eggs, fruit and veg health freak!

Vix's Response

Sounds like you may have a hormonal imbalance? Why don’t you go and get a blood test to check or see a naturopath who specializes in hormonal balancing. My other suggestion would be to increase your energy expenditure, because if you are now eating more than usual you are going to have to compensate this with more exercise. Remember it is calories in versus calories out for you to maintain your weight so to lose weight you are going to have to up the expenditure.

Vix

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