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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I lost about 145 lbs before I got pregnant; I went from 280 to 135. I actually hit that final goal weight two days before the FET that finally worked, so I had literally *just* finished losing the weight. There was no time for my body to adjust, and unfortunately I started gaining immediately when I got pregnant - I was 8 lbs up on the scale before I even had my beta (all water weight, clearly). I gained rapidly and steadily throughout the pregnancy, about 30 lbs per trimester for about 95 lbs in total. There was no controlling it, I just kept gaining steadily no matter what I did. I had a really hard time with it, especially in the first trimester. It felt like all my very hard work had been for naught. But, it did all come off, plus a little extra. I was down 75 lbs by 6 months postpartum (without any effort), and the last 20 or so I lost slowly over the following year (with a little effort). For about a year now I've been maintaining at 5 lbs below my lowest pre-preg weight.

Congratulations on your loss!! If you've been able to maintain your loss I wouldn't worry too much about losing weight postpartum... you've already ingrained new, healthier habits that you'll be able to return to when your body is your own again.

You are awesome! How did you lose the weight each time?

Thank you - I was pretty determined to lose it, which helped a lot. The first time around it was very strict calorie counting, plus exercise. I started with the calorie counting, then added in regular but only very moderate exercise, primarily walking - that was all I could do at the start. I ramped up the exercise later as I gained stamina and strength. After the baby I did very little to lose the weight again; mostly I just returned to the good eating habits I'd developed while losing the first time. I think a good part of what I gained was water weight, to be honest, and I also had a postpartum thyroid condition that I think helped me shed some of the weight (the only upside to that!). The first 75 I lost postpartum can probably be chalked up to those two things, and the good eating took care of the next 25 lbs over a year's time. My food intake is a constant daily thought for me, and always will be, but I've been able to maintain my loss without doing any tracking, so I've been lucky.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I lost about 145 lbs before I got pregnant; I went from 280 to 135. I actually hit that final goal weight two days before the FET that finally worked, so I had literally *just* finished losing the weight. There was no time for my body to adjust, and unfortunately I started gaining immediately when I got pregnant - I was 8 lbs up on the scale before I even had my beta (all water weight, clearly). I gained rapidly and steadily throughout the pregnancy, about 30 lbs per trimester for about 95 lbs in total. There was no controlling it, I just kept gaining steadily no matter what I did. I had a really hard time with it, especially in the first trimester. It felt like all my very hard work had been for naught. But, it did all come off, plus a little extra. I was down 75 lbs by 6 months postpartum (without any effort), and the last 20 or so I lost slowly over the following year (with a little effort). For about a year now I've been maintaining at 5 lbs below my lowest pre-preg weight.

Congratulations on your loss!! If you've been able to maintain your loss I wouldn't worry too much about losing weight postpartum... you've already ingrained new, healthier habits that you'll be able to return to when your body is your own again.

You are awesome! How did you lose the weight each time?

Anonymous wrote:I lost about 145 lbs before I got pregnant; I went from 280 to 135. I actually hit that final goal weight two days before the FET that finally worked, so I had literally *just* finished losing the weight. There was no time for my body to adjust, and unfortunately I started gaining immediately when I got pregnant - I was 8 lbs up on the scale before I even had my beta (all water weight, clearly). I gained rapidly and steadily throughout the pregnancy, about 30 lbs per trimester for about 95 lbs in total. There was no controlling it, I just kept gaining steadily no matter what I did. I had a really hard time with it, especially in the first trimester. It felt like all my very hard work had been for naught. But, it did all come off, plus a little extra. I was down 75 lbs by 6 months postpartum (without any effort), and the last 20 or so I lost slowly over the following year (with a little effort). For about a year now I've been maintaining at 5 lbs below my lowest pre-preg weight.

Congratulations on your loss!! If you've been able to maintain your loss I wouldn't worry too much about losing weight postpartum... you've already ingrained new, healthier habits that you'll be able to return to when your body is your own again.