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Being a mom today means you are a chauffeur, a cook, a maid, a tutor, and someone that doesn't always find the time to eat properly. Weight seems to creep up on women when they are so busy looking after everyone else, they forget about themselves. Implementing a few little tips on how to lose weight fast into your everyday life can help you stop the weight gain without taking more of your time.

Stop eating the leftover food on your kid's plate after mealtimes. This is one of the hardest things for some to do, because wasting perfectly good food is just not in their nature. And besides, they didn't have time to properly eat their own meal. However, you need to break that habit and get rid of the food, no matter how perfectly good it is. Those invisible calories will eventually show up on your waistline before you know it

Go ahead and start eating like your kids. Notice that they are ignoring the "clean your plate" rule and follow suit. You don't have to eat everything on your plate to feel full and get enough food. Sometimes it can be hard though, so switch to using smaller kid's size plates for your meals, that way no food is wasted and your smaller portions will look big.

Stop talking on the phone while you are in the kitchen, it is too easy to pick up a snack and start nibbling before you even realize you are doing it. The kitchen is full of temptations that your mind doesn't process before you are halfway through that cookie you find in your hand. Go outside or into another room to talk and make the kitchen off limits. Remove the phone from there if you have one to cut down on that temptation.

Do make sure that you eat a good breakfast. It's hard to find time to actually drink a cup of coffee in the morning, let alone eat breakfast. However, this is the one meal your body definitely needs. This may help raise your metabolism so that you are able to burn more calories throughout the day than if you didn't stop to eat.

Don't eat straight out of the bag or box. Doing that totally throws portion control out of the window and before you know it, you are left with an empty container wondering how it got that way. Always pour yourself a serving, doesn't matter the size, so you can see exactly how much you are eating.

When you're trying to achieve fat loss, do go ahead and splurge from time to time. It isn't good to deprive yourself of those foods everyone calls "evil". They are only evil if you go overboard and binge, and you will binge if you don't allow yourself to give into a craving every once in a while. With kids, this isn't as hard as you think. When you buy them ice cream, get yourself a child sized cone, you get to satisfy your sweet tooth in a controlled way.