by BabyCenter Guest Blogger posted in Tips & Tricks

By Tatiana Boncompagni
You know those celebrities who seem to get their pre-baby bodies back within weeks (if not days) of giving birth" Yeah, that wasn?t me.
After having each of my three kids it was a struggle to fit back into my pre-partum jeans. The extra pounds would fall off quickly, at first, but then the weight loss would slow and then stop altogether. No matter how much exercise I did or how careful I was with my diet, I couldn?t seem to lose that last bit of flesh around my midsection and upper arms. And then I would just get pregnant again.

After baby number three, I sort of gave up. I stopped weighing myself, threw out most of my old size 4s and numbed the pain of my non-elastic waistbands with plenty of Sauvignon Blanc. (My joke was that with every kid, I added a glass.) I still exercised?a lot, actually, and mostly for stress relief?but you couldn?t really tell by looking at me. I had a mombod. There, I said it. Not feeling good in my clothes was one thing, but what I hated most about my shape was that I was making such a big effort to be healthy (I even ran a marathon), and that wasn?t reflected in my outward appearance at all. I mean, at all.

And then I met Heather Marr, aka The Model Trainer. For those of you for whom that term is not familiar (98 percent of you), model trainers specialize in training models, as in the goddesses you see walking the Victoria?s Secret runway and staring out at you fr...