"Real Housewives of Atlanta" cast member and new mom Kandi Burruss says she's even more petite now than before becoming pregnant with baby Ace and shared her post-partum fitness tips with Dr. Oz.

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Kandi Burruss with husband Todd Tucker and baby Ace on the Dr. Oz show. Photo: Sony Pictures Television

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"Breast feeding is a major contributor but also, I did not drink anything but water, no juice, no soda, nothing for the first month and a half," she said during a recent visit. "And no sweets because I’m a sweet eater, I love sweets; I can eat dessert after every meal. So I didn’t eat any sweets."

It was a struggle that paid off, Kandi said.

"It was extremely hard," she said. "But .. doing that with breast feeding it just made the weight come off. And I’m actually smaller now than I was before I got pregnant.”

"Dr. Oz" airs at 3 p.m. weekdays on WSB/Channel 2 right before Channel 2 Action News at 4 p.m.