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[quote=Anonymous]Because I was horribly sick pretty much my entire pregnancy. It sucked. I was actually down 20 pounds from my pre pregnancy weight at my 6 week postpartum appointment. Would not recommend.

Because my body spent more than a year thinking it was in starvation mode (my baby was ravenous and I exclusively breastfed--and I know I was not consuming nearly enough calories), it caused me serious metabolism problems once my baby switched to getting the majority of his calories from solids. I felt like I looked at food and gained 5 pounds. After so long of struggling to even hold my weight steady, suddenly it was packing on. My thyroid function has been destroyed, too.

At my heaviest, I was nearly 50 pounds heavier than when I was 4 days before my baby was born. 70 pounds heavier than I was 6 weeks postpartum. I've managed to lose some of that weight, but not all of it. I'm no where close to that 6 week postpartum weight, and don't know if I'll ever reach it without resorting to a GLP-1. I'll be on thyroid meds the rest of my life.[/quote]

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