Is it a myth (or excuse) that pregnancy causes weight gain?

[Anonymous]

I am a more or less a slim person that knows exactly how to maintain her weight(+- 20lbs..ok sometimes more but those times don't count cause I blocked them).
I eat what I feel like (most of the time I keep it under 1500 calories, +- 700-1000 more calories)
and walk just as I want (but not every day, just when I feel like),
and eat dates by the dozens (but not every day and never more than 10 per day, except yesterday when I ate a whole pack from Aldi!), (don't judge, it used to be ice cream, but now dairy allergy is preventing me from indulging in moderation (couple of times per day)
and I avoid carbs (except on days I fail, which is every single day!).
I also limit my meat cause it is so high in calories, but turkey and chicken and salmon is ok, and also ribs and steaks, who is going to refuse those?
I am available to give advice to all who want to know my secret!
After all, I certainly did not break all of my rules today! I had no bread as of yet!(But, I did have some carbs.....) I am at your pleasure to dispense wisdom! AMA!

[Anonymous]

^^ This was meant for the other thread! But, regardless, I am sure that when pps read my vast experience you will all clamor for my advice! I am not annoying, except when I am (most of the time!).

[Anonymous]

OMG YET ANOTHER SKINNY BITCH WONDERING WHY EVERYONE IS NOT SKINNY LIKE HER!!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OMG YET ANOTHER SKINNY BITCH WONDERING WHY EVERYONE IS NOT SKINNY LIKE HER!!!!!!!

You are not very bright, are you??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG YET ANOTHER SKINNY BITCH WONDERING WHY EVERYONE IS NOT SKINNY LIKE HER!!!!!!!

You are not very bright, are you??

I think it's you, honey. I don't spend my days worrying about how other people live their lives.

[Anonymous]

I have three kids and was never overweight. In my humble experience, the weight has to be lost within the first year or it “sticks”. The easiest way to do this is breastfeeding and eating moderately healthy. The most painful way to lose baby weight is 1. to get accustomed to the amount you get to eat while breastfeeding and 3. get depressed about the 20 extra pounds that won’t disappear until you 3. eat less and lose the weight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a relative who constantly excuses the weight gain of family members by saying they are “moms” and pregnancy caused the weight gain. Never mind the children are now like 10 or more years old. She gets defensive if anyone even mentions dieting and views the moms with Madonna like awe. Another woman who doesn’t have kids, is overweight because of menopause. I myself have children (more kids than the overweight ones in fact) and am now peri-menopausal but manage to maintain a sub-19 BMI, workout everyday (strength and cardio) and cook wholesome food every meal. I recognize it’s harder now to stay thin due to peri menopause and have to work at it. I think pregnancy is too often a cop out for weight problems especially when your kids are 8 or 20-years-old. These people eat too much, and don’t exercise enough. That’s the real reason.

You are a superficial person, and no one likes you much. Despite your BMI, can you believe it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I"m actually more amazed at all the women that let their minds go when they have children -- stop paying attention to the news, stopping learning new things, spend too much time gossipping and don't talk about anything except baby poop. I wish there was less judgement of people's bodies and more acknowledgement of all the other unhealthy and sad ways we change when we have children -- that are also preventable.

My mother called it the lost decade when the kids were little. She eventually started a new career when I was in middle school, made six figures when I was in college, then changed careers again.

Life is long. Eventually you'll outgrow your judgmental phase.

My point was actually that it's weird how judgemental thin people are about everyone else, but they never think about the ways that they have perhaps 'let themselves go' in other areas. It's like as long as your boobs are perky, then you get to judge everybody else -- even though there might be areas where you really don't have your life as together as you think you do.

[Anonymous]

And my neighbors are all like "Oh, I haven't read a book in ten years! I have no idea what's going on in the news! I don't even vote!" like that's a matter of pride.
Wonder what would happen if I were eq

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a more or less a slim person that knows exactly how to maintain her weight(+- 20lbs..ok sometimes more but those times don't count cause I blocked them).
I eat what I feel like (most of the time I keep it under 1500 calories, +- 700-1000 more calories)
and walk just as I want (but not every day, just when I feel like),
and eat dates by the dozens (but not every day and never more than 10 per day, except yesterday when I ate a whole pack from Aldi!), (don't judge, it used to be ice cream, but now dairy allergy is preventing me from indulging in moderation (couple of times per day)
and I avoid carbs (except on days I fail, which is every single day!).
I also limit my meat cause it is so high in calories, but turkey and chicken and salmon is ok, and also ribs and steaks, who is going to refuse those?
I am available to give advice to all who want to know my secret!
After all, I certainly did not break all of my rules today! I had no bread as of yet!(But, I did have some carbs.....) I am at your pleasure to dispense wisdom! AMA!

I have to tune into this subject forum more often. Are you for real? Are there really people out there who spend their lives focused on this crap? I pity the life you lead.

[Anonymous]

if I were all like "Oh, I've gained fifteen pounds. My ass is so big."
Why is it OK to be proud of letting your mind go, but shameful to let your body go? just weird.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG YET ANOTHER SKINNY BITCH WONDERING WHY EVERYONE IS NOT SKINNY LIKE HER!!!!!!!

You are not very bright, are you??

I think it's you, honey. I don't spend my days worrying about how other people live their lives.

No, it's not me. You are a humorless, soulless drone that screamed all over dcum just bcs you have no sense of humor. I can imagine how you fly off the handle at your kids, for most minor things, or bcs you lack something. Not recognizing sarcasm is nothing to be proud of. Some people think it indicates the lack of something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a more or less a slim person that knows exactly how to maintain her weight(+- 20lbs..ok sometimes more but those times don't count cause I blocked them).
I eat what I feel like (most of the time I keep it under 1500 calories, +- 700-1000 more calories)
and walk just as I want (but not every day, just when I feel like),
and eat dates by the dozens (but not every day and never more than 10 per day, except yesterday when I ate a whole pack from Aldi!), (don't judge, it used to be ice cream, but now dairy allergy is preventing me from indulging in moderation (couple of times per day)
and I avoid carbs (except on days I fail, which is every single day!).
I also limit my meat cause it is so high in calories, but turkey and chicken and salmon is ok, and also ribs and steaks, who is going to refuse those?
I am available to give advice to all who want to know my secret!
After all, I certainly did not break all of my rules today! I had no bread as of yet!(But, I did have some carbs.....) I am at your pleasure to dispense wisdom! AMA!

I have to tune into this subject forum more often. Are you for real? Are there really people out there who spend their lives focused on this crap? I pity the life you lead.

It is clear that American educational system is a failure. Or is it genetic?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have three kids and was never overweight. In my humble experience, the weight has to be lost within the first year or it “sticks”. The easiest way to do this is breastfeeding and eating moderately healthy. The most painful way to lose baby weight is 1. to get accustomed to the amount you get to eat while breastfeeding and 3. get depressed about the 20 extra pounds that won’t disappear until you 3. eat less and lose the weight.

The easiest way for some women to lose the weight postpartum is to breastfeed. For me, and many other women I know, it was to stop breastfeeding. Once I weaned, the weight fell off within two weeks. Bodies respond differently to the hormones of pregnancy and breastfeeding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG YET ANOTHER SKINNY BITCH WONDERING WHY EVERYONE IS NOT SKINNY LIKE HER!!!!!!!

You are not very bright, are you??

I think it's you, honey. I don't spend my days worrying about how other people live their lives.

No, it's not me. You are a humorless, soulless drone that screamed all over dcum just bcs you have no sense of humor. I can imagine how you fly off the handle at your kids, for most minor things, or bcs you lack something. Not recognizing sarcasm is nothing to be proud of. Some people think it indicates the lack of something.

Oh, it’s humorous to make fund of others and judge them for being overweight. And you think I’m a soulless drone???? Are you even reading what you wrote. You literally gloat you are so great and perfect and skinny and wonder why everyone else can’t be as perfect as you!!! And then you get offended when someone calls you on your shit. Go do something positive with your life. Do a good deed instead of judging women for the way they look and eat. It’s none of your god damn business.