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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand what this post accomplishes other than talking smack about your wife behind her back. It's fine to be concerned about her health but talk to her about it.[/quote]

It doesn't accomplish anything except [i]letting me vent anonymously[/i].  I'll be honest: I'm not concern-trolling about her heath; I know perfectly well that obesity has adverse effects, but &lt;200 isn't really morbidly obese and at this point I'm more worried about just losing all attraction.

I do appreciate all the ladies who've chimed in with their different weight experiences with BFing, and with the fact that it was only [i]after[/i] they were done BFing that their bodies really got back to normal.  That's very encouraging. [/quote]

Thanks for writing that, OP.  I'm one of those PPs, and I think you should vent away (anonymously).  I don't know what is going on with your wife, I'm sure there are some people who just don't ever take off the weight.  But for the time I was post-partum and nursing, it just felt like I had a different body that I could not control and that acted differently than before.  I can't really explain it.  And then my babies stopped nursing and it was just...back to normal.  Here is a somewhat shameful, specific example- with both kids, I seriously could not eat enough oreos during my mat leave and for a while thereafter.  Like I would eat them in the middle of the night after being up with the baby.  No shame.  I hadn't eaten them since I was a kid, but all of a sudden I could eat like an entire package and for the first time in my life, I just could not resist.  It was truly gross, and I knew it, but I could not control it.  But the less I nursed, the less I craved junky things and thinking about it now, I haven't had anything like that for at least 5-6 months, and honestly the thought of it turns my stomach.  My DH joked about it when we were grocery shopping yesterday (he never got on me about my weight - in fact half the time he bought the oreos for me! - and it is honestly funny now).

My youngest child is 15 months old and I'm about 5 pounds over my pre-pregnancy weight.  It's not to say that I never eat bad things, but it's more like once every 2-3 weeks I'll share some ice cream with my kids from the upscale neighborhood place, or a homemade cookie from a party, etc.

My tummy is definitely not as flat as it used to be, but my weight just kind of drifted on down to where it was pre-pregnancy.[/quote]

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