How To Lose Fat If You're A Busy Mom

Are you a busy mom wanting to lose weight?  If that is you, then you need to approach fat loss a little differently than dads, or even other women who are not moms.  Read on to discover how to lose fat if you're a busy mom.

By: Ed Scow, NSCA-CPT: Certified Fitness & Nutrition Expert to the True Superheroes - Busy Moms & Dads and author of Fat Loss To Go

About a year ago I had a woman named Anne come see me because she wanted to know how to lose fat.

She was a mom with a busy family-life and career and didn’t have much time to spend working out.

She wasn’t out to hire me as her personal trainer, rather she wanted me to design a fat loss program where she could do all the workouts from home and that didn’t take much time.

She was in luck because this was my favorite type of fat loss workout program to design!

However, before Anne left my office, we also talked some more about how to lose fat and how that differed for a busy mom as opposed to a dad or someone without kids or someone who had more time to devote to fat loss workouts.

Not many people realize this, but answering the ‘how to lose fat’ question does differ for busy moms and here’s how:

Moms need to schedule some alone time. It doesn’t need to be a lot of alone time, just enough to get your workout done and get a little sanity break. I understand that you have things to do or that you want to spend time with your family, but when it comes to how to lose fat and succeeding with losing fat, you need to get that alone time in, otherwise your fat loss workout won’t get done.

So, shut your bedroom or home gym door, turn on some music or your favorite TV show and get your fat loss workout done.

The next step you need to focus on when it comes to ‘how to lose fat’ is you need to steer clear of the needless exercises. By that I mean you should stay away from the isolation moves like triceps kickbacks, hip abductor/adductor moves (thigh master movements) and endless amounts of crunches and cardio.

Those exercises are fine, but they really don’t help you lose weight and get a toned, sexy body because they require a lot of workout time in order to really and truly work and there are better, more time-efficient ways to spend your workout time. They’re largely wastes of time when time is of the essence.

You also need to spend some time and focus on healthy, on-the-go snacks that will help you lose fat rather than gain it.

You’re on the go a lot and that often means you either forgo eating until you get so hungry you splurge on something, or you graze on unhealthy snacks that are there for the taking.

Get over both of those situations by preparing portable snacks that will help you lose fat. Snacks like almonds, apples, pears, peanuts, protein bars, etc. Things that travel easily and don’t make much of a mess, and most importantly help you lose fat.

Fat loss for moms really comes down to maximizing the time you have and doing the most you can with it.

As you can see, what I recommended to Anne wasn’t Rocket Science, or some whacko fad diet. It was common sense advice that could be implemented by any mom, all she needed to do was do it. And she did and she lost over 15 pounds in the first 6 weeks!

Do you want to be like Anne? 

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