Trimming your tummy doesn’t have to include hours of hikes or weeks of just soup. Losing pregnancy weight for new moms can seem impossible but it’s easier when you just set up a weekly schedule that works for you. Here is a “heads up” of what’s Hot and what’s Not when you have to trim your tummy.

1. Cardiovascular Workouts

What’s Hot: Interval training is a guarantee when you want to trim your tummy. Instead of doing the usual jog around the block try some short sprints with speed walking in between. By always challenging your workout you are able to mix it up enough to lose the pregnancy weight.

What’s Not: Long winded runs on a treadmill will not get the results if your body is in its comfort zone. Instead your body gets used to the pace and your heart rate stays at a plateau during your cardio. You may be burning some calories but not challenging your system to burn off the reserve fats it holds. Break out of doing the same workout routine and trimming your tummy will be effortless.

2. You are what you Eat

What’s Hot: The classics never fade and that is the key when choosing your life long commitment to eating healthy. Moderation is the best basis for your diet to trim your tummy. You don’t have to cut out an essential food item like carbs or sugars out all together, just keep them in check. Make sure you don’t substitute real raw sugar for high fructose cornstarch or whole grain bread loafs for simulated white loafs.

What’s Not: Starvation diets just end up hurting you in the end and doesn’t help when you need to trim your tummy. If you take a week to just consume water or broth you are depriving your body of much needed nutrients. Within that week you end up slowing your metabolism and when you finally do eat your body stores the new food because it thinks it’s in starvation mode. You end up gaining that weight faster and in the end making your muscles weaker.

No matter what is the current pulse of the public, just try and remember that old wives tales dies hard. Being able to trim your tummy isn’t a new invention like these fad diets or exercise routines - women have been doing it for centuries and they did it without signing up at that expensive gym or buying into that vogue diet.