Alba sheds baby weight, trainer tells all

I don't know how celebrities do it, how they drop loads of baby weight in no time at all. Wasn't so easy for me to melt away my 50 and then 42 pounds. Somehow, though, it seems effortless for people like Jessica Alba, whose trainer is sharing the secret to her 25-pound post-baby weight loss.

It took just two months for Alba to shed 25 pounds after giving birth to daughter Honor Marie. Two months to go from a size eight to a size four, thanks to a low-fat, low-carb diet. Trainer Ramona Braganza calls it her 321 Baby Bulge Be Gone plan and in addition to a healthy diet, Alba is sweating a lot. The 27-year-old is using an elliptical machine and treadmill at home and keeps a regular routine of core exercises and circuit training.

Six days a week Alba is working out. Maybe that's how she's made such great progress in a very short time. And why I didn't -- there's no way I could have devoted six days to hard-core fitness, with fussy newborns, sleepless nights, and my full-time mommy job. I'm good now, though -- seven years after I had my first baby. Patience, my friends. Patience.