I was having trouble losing weight after having my 2 kids. It was strange because I considered myself a healthy eater, organic, free-range, and generally l avoided eating bread. But that was not working.
Along with eating a ketogenic diet (high fat, moderate protein, very low carbs i.e., 20-50 grams net carbs), I started weight-lifting. Initially, I thought weight lifting was for men only - I don't know why, maybe it is cultural. I assumed women were best suited for cardio. That all changed when in my nursing practice as a home health nurse, I noticed a pattern in my elderly population and diseases. The females compared to the males had significantly higher rates of osteoporosis. I read an article and watched lectures from Dr. Doug McGuff who spoke about super slow weight training for elderly females in order to increase bone density and the results were astounding. The combined benefit of lifting weight slow (as opposed to fast and possibly bad form that can lead to injury) and the highest weight you can manage made the change possible.
And it should take no longer than 15 minutes to work out - although I recommend a 3-5 minute warm up (jumping jacks, jumping rope, etc) and some legit stretching. This would be a total of 20-25 minutes total working out once every 5-7 days. The goal would be to experience post-exercise soreness (DOMS, or delayed-onset muscle soreness). DOMS usually peaks 48 to 72 hours after a workout and the body looks to repair muscle fibers that were torn during exercise.
I go to a gym that does InBody scanner, analyzing body composition in measuring fat, muscle and total body water. I looked from where I started before super slow weight training and now - I lost 30 pounds of fat, decreased my visceral fat from a high to low rating, and increased my skeletal muscle mass to an optimal level.
As a mother of two kids, I can definitely afford 20 minutes of working out for better health and strength.
Check out the article:
https://www.alexfergus.com/blog/super-slow-high-intensity-training-is-15-minutes-of-strength-training-a-week-enough
http://ladygurusfitkitchen.blogspot.com/2014/07/women-and-weigtlifting.html?m=1 
#superslowweighttraining #fatloss #postpartum #lowcarb #health
I can attest that this works. My wife lost like 5 lbs in the first two weeks.
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