Here's what Jessica Simpson has been doing to lose her pregnancy weight — plus an adorable pic of baby Ace!
Jessica Simpson, 33, took to Twitter the other day to share this adorable photo of her six-month-old baby boy, Ace Knute, in a swing. Say it with me: Awwww!
The designer/singer tweeted the pic on Saturday, January 4, with the caption, "My snuggle bug...."
Jessica and her fiancé, former NFL star Eric Johnson, 34, are also parents to 18-month-old daughter Maxwell Drew, and they've begun preparations for their wedding — which is apparently happening at some point this year.
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This explains Jessica's eagerness to get back to her pre-pregnancy weight (in addition to the continued media fat-shaming, which she says is getting old). Jessica says she's been dropping a lot of weight as a Weight Watchers spokesperson and by chasing her "back-to-back" babies around the house — and doing somersaults with Maxwell.
Photo: Romapress/FameFlynet“With both kids I’m running up and down my stairs a million times,” she tells USA Today. “Kids can keep your metabolism going.”
As soon as the doctor gave Jessica the go-ahead after Ace was born in June, she says she "jumped" on the Weight Watchers new Simple Start plan, which is a two-week plan that doesn't involve counting points — you get a grocery list and menu plan with lots of options (including treats!). She's now back on the regular Points Plus program.
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In addition to "weight watching," Jessica's exercising a ton to help her deal with hormones. "Working out and being active overall makes me a happier person to be around," she shares. "I let out so much more anxiety if I go out and walk and talk to Eric, who is basically my therapist on our walks."
For exercise, she says she does a lot of walking, and works out with celeb trainer Harley Pasternak for 45 minutes, four times a week — "resistance training, lots of lunges and squats . . . bursts of cardio throughout."
Sounds like Jessica's figured out what works for her. It's great when that happens. After finally losing my pregnancy weight (five years later...), I can safely say there's no one-size-fits-all as far as diets go; different ways of eating work for different people — at different times of their lives. That's what I've learned, anyway.
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Haley Overland is a writer/editor at Today's Parent. Our resident celebrity queen, she dishes out all the sweetest scoop on celebrity families at our Celebrity Candy blog. She has interviewed celeb moms like Jennifer Garner, Jessica Alba and Jillian Michaels, and has shared her expertise on CTV’s ETalk. Haley also has an award-winning personal blog, CheatyMonkey.com, where she writes about everything from motherhood to yoga, her dog “Betty White” and what it's like to be Clive Owen's girlfriend. Haley has two kids, whom she fondly refers to online as “The Monkey” and “The Rascal.”