Penny Lancaster reveals her secret of losing baby weight

London, Jan 15 (ANI): Rod Stewart's wife Penny Lancaster has revealed how she got her figure back after giving birth to her second child.

Almost a year after giving birth to Aiden, a brother for six-year-old Alistair, the 40-year-old model has shed nearly all of her baby weight.

She began her fitness campaign in September, weighing 121/2 stone.

"My goal is to have lost 20lbs by the time Aiden is one in the middle of next month," the Mirror quoted her as saying.

"And I'm getting there.

"By the beginning of December, I'd lost 10lbs, slowly and steadily, which meant I was halfway there," she said.

While pregnant with Aiden, Penny tipped the scales at 15 stone.

But, of course, a lot of that was baby, and she started losing the extra weight as soon as he was born.

"I breast-fed him for seven months which helped the weight drop off," she claimed.

Lancaster found that motherhood and fitness were a tough combination, so she took her time before starting to get her figure back.

It was only after seven months of enjoying bonding with her baby that she decided to go back to the gym, under the instruction of personal trainer Gary O'Connor.

She also stuck to a balanced diet and took to drinking a type of green tea called Cho Yung.

"What impressed me about the tea was that all its ingredients were natural.

"No chemicals were involved, and it was mild.

"I also liked the fact you don't need to add milk and sugar, unlike with the breakfast tea I normally drank.

"What's more, it cleanses your liver and speeds up your metabolism, the equivalent of a detox.

"Because I felt I'd flushed out all the toxins, it meant I wasn't tempted to order chips, for instance."

Initially, on her regime, she didn't lose any weight because she was just toning up.

"It took a few weeks of gaining muscle and then getting toned before my weight started gradually to reduce.

"More importantly, after 10 weeks, I'd also lost two and a half inches from my waist," she added.

She currently exercises for an hour three times a week but is planning to increase that to four sessions. (ANI)