When did you return to prepregnacy weight?

[Anonymous]

When my youngest of 3 left for college. First time I could truly focus on me in 23 years

[Anonymous]

15 months. Started going to the gym regularly at 13 months and lifting heavier weights / squatting and everything came off.

[Anonymous]

Years. My youngest is 2 and I’m edging closer to my pre pregnancy body (although I’m not going to get there unless I find time to exercise way more than I currently am). Related question for parents who are further out from breastfeeding: do you ever get your boobs back? Mine are still bigger and saggy.

[Anonymous]

Never but I was very skinny.

I was still healthy bmi so I never thought to try to be my exact prebaby weight

[Anonymous]

Never

[Anonymous]

It took about 1 month to lose 20 pounds. I breast fed and pumped. It burned the calories so easily for me without even exercising. I did it with both kids and got back to pre pregnancy weight pretty quickly.

[Anonymous]

I am not trying to be funny, but I finally got back to my pre-first-pregnancy weight last year, 14 years after my last was born. I wish I had done it sooner, but I just didn't have the bandwidth to eat as little as it required while working a stressful job and raising my kids.

[Anonymous]

Before I ever had kids, I weighed 140 pounds. With baby #1, I gained 80 pounds and was 150 when I got pregnant with baby #2, when baby #1 was nearly 2 years old. I gained 50 pounds and was 175 for a long time after baby #2, but got down to 142 when #2 was about 2.5 years old.

Years passed and I gained weight with Covid, life stresses, drinking etc. I was 175 when I got pregnant with baby #3, whom I lost at 4.5 months gestation - gained 25 pounds. Lost ten of those pounds (down to 190) and got pregnant one month later, gained ~45 pounds, was down 35 pounds within a couple of months. Now down to 185, baby is 11 months, and I am working to get into the 140-150 range. I am a little older (38) and have a pretty demanding in-person job so focused mainly on diet.

No more babies!! I can tell losing all of this weight is going to be a bear but I am excited to get back to my original weight and shape. I’m happy to say that despite gaining and losing so much weight I have kept my figure, my boobs look good etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It took about 1 month to lose 20 pounds. I breast fed and pumped. It burned the calories so easily for me without even exercising. I did it with both kids and got back to pre pregnancy weight pretty quickly.

Same. I lost the weight and then some while breastfeeding. I always gained back 5-10 lbs when I stopped. It was good while it lasted. But I was below pre-pegnancy weight at the height of breastfeeding a few months after delivery.

[Anonymous]

I was 10 pounds under my prepregnancy weight by 3 months. Nursing burned calories intensely, and I worked out while baby napped. Easiest weight loss ever.

[Anonymous]

Within about 3-4 months for my first 2. Since my third, I’ve seemed to hold on to an extra 3-5 lbs no matter what. My middle is definitely softer/deflated now compared to after my other babies, but I was late 20s/early 30s vs late 30s so some of this could be age related.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was 10 pounds under my prepregnancy weight by 3 months. Nursing burned calories intensely, and I worked out while baby napped. Easiest weight loss ever.

I’ve heard this happen to so many people, but I was the opposite. I clung on to some extra padding while nursing, but then immediately dropped the last few pounds once I weaned. I always tell friends who are worried about their weight to wait and see how things shake out once their hormones are normal again. The people I know who lost while nursing tended to gain to back later.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was 10 pounds under my prepregnancy weight by 3 months. Nursing burned calories intensely, and I worked out while baby napped. Easiest weight loss ever.

This. It took some discipline (who wants to train hard when you are so TIRED), but I was determined not to make excuses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The first time I had an experience like yours, although it took about 7 months.

The second time I held onto the last 10 pounds.

The third time I started +10 and it looked like the same thing was going to happen again and possibly worse. Started WW at 5 months pp and lost it all (including the final 10 from my second) by 11 months pp.

My advice is not to get complacent because of your first experience. But at the same time all bodies are different and the timing is different for everyone. But to directly answer your question — no, the weight never fell off again like it did for my first.

Interesting, wish we were friends because I plan to do exactly this after baby 3 is out but the tricky part for me is when to start it and wondering if I’ll loose milk supply if I start WW. What’s been your experience?

[Anonymous]

I didn’t start trying until 10 months postpartum. In the past 8 weeks I’ve lost 16 of the 24 lbs I gained during pregnancy.