Step one - move
There is no point living somewhere that is not conducive to a life.

Is there a gym with childcare in your area? YMCA is the big one. Once your kindergartener is back at school, maybe you take the toddler to the Kidzone at the Y and work out.

Also be kind to yourself: It is really hard to work full time, have two little kids who need you 24-7, and shift from very urban lifestyle to very rural life. The bears in New England are no joke!

In the meantime, I would think about ways to make yourself feel better that don't necessarily involve weightloss, because I think the weightloss will come naturally when your life feels more in balance and like you have enough time for yourself.

I think you'd feel better if you bought a few new outfits--you deserve something newer and nicer than pregnancy wear that is probably 5 years out of style by now! Get a great new haircut. Find some time alone every day or a few times a week. Your partner needs to step it up and help you out.

Anonymous wrote:All you need for exercise at this point is your yoga mat and YouTube (or the peloton app, free trial). Body weight exercise can still be challenging! Push-ups, body weight squats, planks, all sorts of great exercises. You don’t have to do a ton or a long time, and it’s hard to start because you haven’t done it in so long that your body isn’t used to it. Just start with 10-20 minutes.

And cut the bread and pasta as much as possible, that will make the biggest/quickest difference visually because those carbs hold water in your body and make you look more bloated. Nothing wrong with eating them on occasion but if you want to look a certain way for an interview I would cut them until then.

Good luck with the bears!

Yes to this.

I did Yoga With Adriene videos on YouTube all the time when I had little kids in the house. Very effective. Also cut out carbs.

Anonymous wrote:All you need for exercise at this point is your yoga mat and YouTube (or the peloton app, free trial). Body weight exercise can still be challenging! Push-ups, body weight squats, planks, all sorts of great exercises. You don’t have to do a ton or a long time, and it’s hard to start because you haven’t done it in so long that your body isn’t used to it. Just start with 10-20 minutes.

And cut the bread and pasta as much as possible, that will make the biggest/quickest difference visually because those carbs hold water in your body and make you look more bloated. Nothing wrong with eating them on occasion but if you want to look a certain way for an interview I would cut them until then.

Good luck with the bears!

OP thank you I guess I wrote off exercise because it’s not the intense cardio one but I’ll have to try something in my living room after kids sleep. It’s for the interview but also for a new position if I get this , it’s an executive position and I just want to make some transformative changes for short and long term.

Yes the bears they’re starting their prehibernation foraging these coming weeks so more frequent sightings (getting my bear whistle ready lol…things I never thought I’d say).

Anonymous wrote:I am confused. Why can’t you absolutely not exercise?

+1 you live in the woods? Take hikes ffs.

Cut off pasta, bread, rice, potato, sugar, soda, processed and junk food.

Lots of sautéed veggies and big salad as your first course for each meal. Follow it with protein with lots of herbs and spices.

1/2 hour before your lunch and dinner, mix 1/4 tsp of INULIN (not Insulin. Inulin is a tasteless, odorless fiber that is a prebiotic) in a glass of water and drink it.

Yoga is fine. I would say that you should walk 3000 steps immediately after each meal in your own house.

Drink a lot of lemon water throughout the day. It curbs appetite.

Anonymous wrote:Weight Watchers.

+100

All you need for exercise at this point is your yoga mat and YouTube (or the peloton app, free trial). Body weight exercise can still be challenging! Push-ups, body weight squats, planks, all sorts of great exercises. You don’t have to do a ton or a long time, and it’s hard to start because you haven’t done it in so long that your body isn’t used to it. Just start with 10-20 minutes.

And cut the bread and pasta as much as possible, that will make the biggest/quickest difference visually because those carbs hold water in your body and make you look more bloated. Nothing wrong with eating them on occasion but if you want to look a certain way for an interview I would cut them until then.

Good luck with the bears!

Weight Watchers.

Yardwork around the house did it for me, but I was 23. Walk around the house lifting heavy buckets/dumbbells.
The pasta and bread have got to go. I walk 15-20k steps at work, but any bread, pasta or sugar will undo it all.

Anonymous wrote:In fairness, being chased by a bear would be excellent cardio.

Very good high intensity training.

Anonymous wrote:I found this really straightforward to follow and had a lot of health markers improve too. It's written by a doctor who runs a metabolic health clinic at Duke. Skip the Auduble version, you will miss key lists and graphics and much of the point. One huge benefit besides weight loss is my energy really rebounded, made all of life a lot easier. Good luck!

https://www.amazon.com/End-Your-Carb-Confusion-Customize/dp/

What is the name of this book? The Amazon link did not work for me.

Home exercise videos. Barre3 is great. They even have 10-15 workouts. Start slow. Feels great to start your morning with one. Eat clean.

Look up walk based workouts on YouTube. I aim for three 15 minute videos a day. One cardio, one strength/tone and the last one depends on how I feel (stretching, HIIT, low impact). You don't need much space.