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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had twins and while I lost the weight, my stomach will never be the same. [/quote]

I had 3 kids but after the middle one at 9 lb 6 oz kid at 22.5 inches and my stomach will never be the same either.[/quote]
Yep. My first was a ten pounder, 23 inches long and due to a tumor I didn’t know I had, he was mostly on one side of my abdomen. I have a lopsided, stretch marked stomach that’s not going to be fixed without surgery. I’m so glad that women like OP who have standard issue pregnancies know everything.

Not enough eye roll emojis for the likes of OP. [/quote]

Lol no one is saying pregnancy doesn’t change your body. The point is if you want to lose weight and do the same thing a woman who doesn’t have children does, you can lose weight. Even though you’ve had children.

Some of you are so defensive and there’s just no reason. If you are happy with an extra 10, 20, 30 pounds that is great. But if you actually want to lose weight there isn’t anything preventing you from doing it. [/quote]

I think you are just misunderstanding what “everyone” is saying. First, there are some women who come on here 2 weeks postpartum and wonder why they don’t have their pre-pregnancy body yet. In that case, it’s true they cannot expect to have the same body, for biological reasons. But when people tell a mom of a 5 and 2 yo she can’t expect to have a pre-pregnancy body, they’re talking about lifestyle. Sure, I guess you CAN be a mom and eat different meals from your family and workout an hour a day, but it’s really difficult and an unreasonable ask of most women. So I don’t see why you feel the need to go around telling women they can lose weight if they tried harder. Why is this so important to you? Is that your main source of identity and self esteem - that your body is the same as before kids??[/quote]

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