Food blogger Tiffany Brien sure lost that “baby weight” fast.
Brien is gaining attention for two photos she posted on Facebook showing how she can go from bloated to flat abs in just a few hours.
In the first photo, as you can see, Brien’s stomach is sizable.
In the second, she has a flat belly while wearing the same outfit – a transformation that earned her 15,000 shares and 3,000 comments.
Her secret to the dramatic before-and-after shots seen above?
“No I’m not 6 months pregnant. It’s just my food baby,” she wrote. “These two photos are 12 hours apart, left before bed and right when I woke up.”
Taking the words out of our mouths, she added, “I know right!!”
“We are not all what we seem on social media. I thought I would share a bad day with you to show you nobody is ‘perfect’ and it is OK.”
Sometimes, she says, “we have an off day where your body just decides to not play ball. Don’t worry girls, it happens to the best of us.”
“All part and parcel of being a female! It is a delightful cocktail of lack of sleep, stress, hormones and food intolerances.”
“A mixture,” Brien laments, “for a whole lotta bloat.”
She joked that “to make matters worse it seems to happen at incredibly inconvenient times. On a evening out for dinner in a lovely tight dress.”
“I could be half way into my main course and I suddenly feel uncomfortable and now really unattractive with a big bloated belly!”
Luckily, Brien looks great either way, but she offered some tips she’s discovered on how to avoid such extreme swings in either direction.
“Get plenty of sleep, keep track of when you bloat in a food diary, don’t over exercise (exercising will most likely make it worse)!”
“Drink peppermint tea and try out health supplements such as multivitamins and probiotics,” she adds, but the simplest thing is easiest.
“Relax and be happy.”