Finding time for yourself between carpooling, after school activities, and your normal household chores is hard enough for a mom, let alone trying to find time to exercise and eat right. More often than not, you are eating what you can, when you can and don't realize the weight gain till your favorite jeans can no longer be your favorite. Making a few changes that don't take up your time with these tips on how to lose weight fast can help you get back into those favorite jeans and feel good again.

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

Do eat like a kid though. You see they have food on their plate that you end up throwing every night, so go ahead and do the same for yourself. Forget about the "clean your plate" motto, when it comes to food, it isn't healthy to stuff yourself. Also, it is much better to leave food on your plate and feel full than to clean it and feel overstuffed in your jeans later.

Don't talk on the phone in the kitchen if you know you are going to snack while you talk. It is so easy to eat while you are distracted, and you don't even realize you are doing it till you notice the half eaten cookie in your hand and wonder how it got there. So the next time someone calls, go ahead and walk around the house talking, but stay away from the kitchen.

Go ahead and eat a proper breakfast. Kids are not the only ones that need to start the day off right with a good breakfast, moms and dads need to do it also. This will help raise your metabolism so you burn more calories during the day and cuts down on snacking.

Stop eating straight from the box or bag sitting on the counter. This equals snacking in its worse form because you have no idea how much you are eating when you don't see the exact portion. Always put whatever it is into a bowl or on a plate so you see what it is and how much it is.

When you're trying to achieve fat burning, 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.