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How long did it take you to lose the baby weight?
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Anonymous
I'm sorry you're offended by my post. I didn't catch the part in the OP that said please post only if you didn't lose the weight quickly. My post is very brief, so let me explain how I gained such little weight and took it off so quickly. I don't feel sorry for myself at all since I had a healthy pregnancy and baby, but I normally don't wish my circumstances on ANYONE - except maybe you now since you want to follow in my footsteps so badly! With pg#1, I started vomiting 4-5x/day at 6 weeks and by 11 weeks I was vomiting so much I was admitted to the hospital for dehydration and put on meds. I had actually lost weight the 1st tri. Then I started gaining weight with the help of the meds, but still vomited several times throughout the day. I landed once again in the hospital a few weeks before DD was born for dehydration. This ended, ohhhh, the day I delivered DD. Oh, the other half of the story would be that out of the 25lbs - DD was 10lbs of it! So, I guess I had a head start with that weight loss after the 30hours of labor. I am on the petite side, so I thank my DH's genes for the "big" surprise. My mother was also in town for the birth and doesn't like to sit still, so we were out of the house doing a lot of walking within those 1st 2 weeks. Also, since you think I am rubbing in my "good" fortune of weight loss, I'll throw in there that my DD was a "sleepy" baby and slept through the night before 7 weeks and now at 2.5yo still sleeps through the night and never gets out of her bed. I considered it God's blessing to me for not sleeping for 9 months due to the vomiting and serious case of carpal tunnel that I developed during pg. I am sorry that I upset you by posting my expereince and that my PP didn't have a better explanation, but if I recall I had to run to the bathroom to admire the porcelein god up close once again - now with a toddler in tow telling me to feel better mommy! If it makes you feel any better I am currently 17 weeks pg and the symptoms mirror my previous pg except that on top of the problems and working f/t I have a toddler to chase as well. At the end of the day I feel like I could drop on the floor and sleep for a week, but I dutifully throw up and then go make dinner, get DD ready for bed and wait for DH to come home sometime after 8pm. |
Anonymous
| Dear 12:47, wish I could give you a hug. Hang in there. |
Anonymous
I think that's awesome that someone lost the weight so quickly. I'm envious! Apparently the poster above is a little jealous. |
Anonymous
You didn't upset or offend me, I just think it's unecessary, if even a little unkind, when someone posts about having trouble losing weight for someone else to post that they lost the weight in 10 days, whatever the circumstances. Kind of like when someone asks for sleep advice that does not include CIO and everyone answers that they should CIO Sorry you have such a hard time with your pregnancies ... But if you had such unusual circumstances, why post at all? |
Anonymous
Come on, PP, the whole point of these boards is to share experiences and opinions, whether unusual or not. I do agree that the first post (25 lbs., 10 days) was not real helpful, but 12:47, you hang in there, and thanks for sharing. If nothing else, your post reminded us all that we should be careful what we wish for. My son is 15 months, and I am 5 lbs above pre-pregnancy, which is still probably about 15-20 lbs above what it should be. I gained about 45 lbs during pregnancy. The first 20 or so came off in two weeks, another 10 over the next month or so, and then another 10 slowly over the last 6 months or so, with my trying to eat right but with almost no exercise (who has time with a toddler?). |
Anonymous
I don't believe I was being unkind at all. The OP asked for everyone's experiences - which by the responses OP can see vary drastically - to gauge whether she was being unrealistic about her own weight loss. If anything my post may help her see that some of the women that tend to lose the weight quickly might have circumstances that she didn't think about that might be just as unpleasant as not being able to lose the weight. She can see that I may have lost the weight quickly, but I my "struggles" came in a different form. This may also help her not be so envious of those that lost the weight quickly. My post was not like the responses to those who ask for advice and specifically ask to exclude certain recommendations. The OP did not say - IF you lost the baby weight slowly please reply or IF you lost the weight quickly with no unusualy circumstances please reply. We all have such different experiences and my interpretation of OP's questions was more of a poll type question so she could gauge if she is being too hard on herself or if her weigh loss has been "normal". She is probably realizing that there are varied expereinces and most women may lose the weight but not their pre-pg shape. I hope this makes her feel better about herself in realizing that there is no "normal" in the weight loss area. Also, my circumstances may not be comepletely mainstream, but I have 2 friends who have had similar experiences with the vomiting until late in the pg. I posted because I don't think I have completely unheard of circumstances, we all have different circumstances that can affect weight loss (working, SAH, older children, diet), and OP didn't include parameters for who she would like to answer the question. If OP feels I was being unkind to her, than I apologize, but I personally don't believe I was. Next time you post a question, however, please include all circumstances surrounding the answers that you are looking for so I don't post my opinion or experience if it doesn't fall within those parameters. |
Anonymous
I thought the same thing! Were the gals that gained more than the 25 recommended pounds underweight to begin with? My doc. (first time preg.) made it very clear and cautioned that any weight over the normal 25 lbs. could lead to serious complications in pregnancy , giving birth, and PP period afterwards (shedding the extra weight, recovery from L&D, etc.). |
Anonymous
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I gained 26 pounds. Put away my maternity jeans after a few days and am 7 pounds lighter than when TTC.
I am an avid runner and ran throughout my preg. (but I followed my body's cues) so I guess I had sorta a lean body to begin with and a high metabolism. At the 6 week PP mark, I got approval from my doc. that I could resume running. At 11 months PP, I took my baby with me in the jogging stroller (it makes for great resistance training, by the way). |
Anonymous
How is this post in the least bit helpful to someone who has already had a baby and has gained weight? (Frankly, some can argue it's unhelpful to someone who is pregnant too). Btw, by doctor said the range was 25-35 pounds. I gained 37 lbs, and my doctor never uttered a word. |
Anonymous
The recommendations are different nowadays. If you are underweight and/or petite, docs say between 30-40 is OK. I gained between 30-35 and my docs were not at all concerned. After I lost 15 lbs in the first trimester and got down below my COLLEGE weight (so I really gained 45 from my LOWEST point), I was on the verge of being hospitalized, so they actually TOLD me to eat everything in sight once the meds stopped the vomiting! Anyway, I believe the "only 25 lbs" rule has been amended based on your body type. |
Anonymous
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My mom had four kids from 1962-1970. She was told not to gain more than 20 pounds! And she was skinny to start with! Thank goodness they have amended this "rule"!
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Anonymous
| Wanna all feel better? I put on 68 lbs with twins (10 weeks of hospitalized bed rest did not help at all)... and I was 10 lbs overweight to begin with. I am 17 months out and have only lost 36lbs. I breastfeed till 16 month. I am at least 9 months away from being able to fit in my pre-pregnancy clothes despite working out for 45 mins / 5 days a week. |
Anonymous
| Well I lost most of it at around a year... although never had the same body. (Never kept it all off either) Now I am PG with #2 and the belly is popping again. |
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responding to the poster who asked how people managed to gain 60 pounds...
...hopefully i won't gain a full 60, but at 34 weeks, i have gained 37-38 pounds. every time i get on the scale at the doctor's office, i do a little Homer Simpson-esque shriek and avert my eyes.  and yeah, my doctors have lectured me, but at this point there's not much i can do!
my situation might be kind of unusual, though. I went into pregnancy in EXTREMELY good physical shape - daily workouts (sometimes twice-daily) for years, very low body fat, lots of muscle. Because I burned off upwards of 5,000 calories a week through exercise alone (lots of running), I was able to eat just about anything I wanted. My diet was healthy, but I definitely ate more calories than most people, and stayed at a healthy weight. and then i got pregnant. i've stayed active - still work out every day but i had to decrease my mileage considerably, and have gone from 40+ miles/week to about 5-8 very slow miles/week - if i'm feeling good. (i still weight-lift, do yoga and cross-train on the elliptical.) i probably could have avoided gaining more than the recommended 25ish pounds if i'd realized i needed to actually cut my calories when i got pregnant, but it's really hard to cut calories when pregnant. i don't really know anyone else who's had to do that! so for now i've resigned myself to gaining whatever weight i'm destined to gain. and i suspect that this may be the payback for me secretly thinking "WTF?" when a couple of my friends gained 50 pounds while pregnant... maybe God is punishing me for being judgmental!
on the bright side, people have a really hard time believing i've gained that much weight, and they say i look great, and my maternity clothes still fit. So it could be worse. and hopefully i'll be able to bounce back once i can get back to the gym, though i know i won't be doing daily workouts anymore! anyway, good luck to the OP and the other posters, and congrats to the ones who made it through and are still happy w/ their bodies! |
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I am one of those who gained 65 lbs during pregnancy. Prior to getting pregnant, I had been on WW and working out 2x a day and lost about 20 lbs. When I found out I was pregnant, I had to stop doing WW, and although I still worked out for the first 5 months, it was nowhere near the intensity of my prior schedule. So bc my eating and exercise drastically changed (on WW, I was eating approx 1200 calories a day, when my dr said it should be closer to 2000 while pregnant), I put on 15 lbs almost immediately. I also thankfully didnt have any morning sickness so I gained weight in my first trimester. I still walked/biked about 3 miles a day during my pregnancy, but compared to the 2 hrs of cardio I had been doing prepregnancy, it definitely did not compare.
Through my first 2 trimesters, I ate very well and healthfully and still gained a lot of weight. I easily got discouraged and figured (wrongly) that if I was gaining weight anyways, I might as well use it as an excuse to eat whatever I wanted. BAD IDEA, ut it happened bc I felt out of control. At the end of my pregnancy I has preeclampsia and gained about 20 lbs of water weight in the last few weeks, at which point, I really gave up and ate whatever I wanted. DS is now 11 months and I am almost back to my prepregnancy weight - about 10 lbs left (thanks to WW and a regular gym routine again). Hopefully the next pregnancy will be easier with the lessons learned. |