Trista Sutter can easily run through all the ways in which her second pregnancy was different from her first. For starters, “as I think any woman who has been through multiple pregnancies can attest, your body just knows where the fat goes!” she says.
Then there was having to squeeze gym workouts around her 2-year-old son Maxwell Alston‘s schedule, not to mention “just being exhausted.” By the time daughter Blakesley Grace arrived in April, the 5’2″ Trista had gained 43 lbs., to get her to 153 lbs. “I saw that number,” she says, “and was like, ‘Oh, God – how am I going to lose it?’”
The answer: lots and lots of exercise, including daily 45-minute walks with the kids, as well as strength routines with a personal trainer three times a week. And while the former Bachelorette star didn’t avoid any foods, she kept rigorous track of her portions with Web site mycalorienumber.com, to keep her caloric intake to 1,750 a day.
Now, at 107 lbs., “my stomach is still a little poochy,” she says. “But I am proud of myself!”
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1. Push that pram!
“Because I had Blakesley via C-section,” Trista says, “I waited for the doctor to give me the go ahead before I got into the groove.”
But when the doctor gave the go-ahead to begin exercising, the former Bachelorette star found a good way to start.
“My double-stroller plus the two kids is about 70 pounds, so pushing that uphill is pretty hard,” she says of her regular 45-minute walks in her Vail, Colo., neighborhood.
2. Turn your house into your gym
Trista’s trainer Brock Fetch showed her how to do dead-lift exercises with paint cans, and she used crates and other objects to simulate a gym workout.
“I would put a ski pole above my head and do lunges across my driveway,” she says. “Max would be napping and I would bring Blakesley out and put her in the back of the minivan. It was great for me to not have the stress of packing up the kids and getting to the gym.”
(See video of Trista’s garage workouts on her Twitter page.)
3. Keep track of calories you consume and burn off
“That’s all it comes down to,” she says. Trista uses the Web site mycalorienumber.com. “It gives you menus and you can print out what you need to buy at the grocery store,” she says.
“It’s really helped me because knowing your number and then knowing how much it is to walk, how much you need to strength-train, the number of the calories your burning … It’s so easy.”
4. Get your protein in
Lower your carbs but don’t sacrifice taste, Trista suggests.
“My favorite meal of all time, if I had a last-meal request, would be a cheeseburger and fries. But you’ve got to take out the fries and have the cheeseburgers without the bun. Get rid of the carbs but have a protein in there.”
5. Remember that supplements are just supplements
Although Trista takes a natural supplement (Abdominal Cuts available at revolutionlifestyle.com) to help her lose weight, she says, “I’ve always believed there is no quick fix. A lot of people ask about it and say, ‘Oh, I’ve been taking them for a month and it hasn’t been doing anything,’ and I say, ‘Have you been working out?’ Because it has to be used in conjunction with working out if you are expending energy.”
