Lose the Baby Weight: Get a Better Body After Baby

To develop a simple, supereffective workout and diet program for getting your best post-baby body, FITNESS teamed up with Parents magazine. "You'll be amazed at the results this routine can achieve even though you're doing every move in bare feet," says FITNESS advisory board member Alycea Ungaro, coauthor of the new Home Workout book and DVD set, who designed these total-body exercises to give extra attention to toning your abs. Our testers, who had tykes ranging from 2 months to nearly 2 years old, lost an average of 1 1/4 inches from their waists in one month. Once you've got the green light from your doc to start exercising again, do the workout twice a week and aim for three weekly cardio sessions. And don't worry, we're not going to ask you to hoist any babies like hand weights; all you need is a set of 3- to 5-pound dumbbells. The babes snooze, you lose!