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

Go ahead and start eating like your kids. Notice that they are ignoring the "clean your plate" rule and follow suit. You don't have to eat everything on your plate to feel full and get enough food. Sometimes it can be hard though, so switch to using smaller kid's size plates for your meals, that way no food is wasted and your smaller portions will look big.

Stop talking on the phone while you are in the kitchen, it is too easy to pick up a snack and start nibbling before you even realize you are doing it. The kitchen is full of temptations that your mind doesn't process before you are halfway through that cookie you find in your hand. Go outside or into another room to talk and make the kitchen off limits. Remove the phone from there if you have one to cut down on that temptation.

Do make sure that you eat a good breakfast. It's hard to find time to actually drink a cup of coffee in the morning, let alone eat breakfast. However, this is the one meal your body definitely needs. This may help raise your metabolism so that you are able to burn more calories throughout the day than if you didn't stop to eat.

Don't eat straight out of the bag or box. Doing that totally throws portion control out of the window and before you know it, you are left with an empty container wondering how it got that way. Always pour yourself a serving, doesn't matter the size, so you can see exactly how much you are eating.

Occasionally when you're working toward fat loss, say yes to treating yourself to something sweet or "evil". Don't deprive yourself of everything deemed bad in a good diet. When you deprive yourself, you end up binging on that "bad" thing and regretting it later. The next time you get your kids ice cream, indulge yourself in a kid's size cone, that way you satisfy your craving without overindulging.