So lucky June mom here with a rockstar sleeper I know I am lucky and am so thankful every day. Plus being rested makes me not easily offended. But I just want to say I have always been a healthy weight but and I guess I understand being glad to fit in your pants again but I don't understand why the need to put it on the Internet. And my new go to response when people bring up how I look post baby is thanks breastfeeding has been good to me.
Oops, I posted on FB when I fit into my old jeans again. It had just been sooo long since I wore anything but leggings! I felt good to be in any type of jeans, and never considered it could be construed as "shaming" others.
Maybe LO not sleeping is my karma for FB weight bragging. Womp womp.
Oops, I posted on FB when I fit into my old jeans again. It had just been sooo long since I wore anything but leggings! I felt good to be in any type of jeans, and never considered it could be construed as "shaming" others.
Maybe LO not sleeping is my karma for FB weight bragging. Womp womp.
Oh, goodness I think it's all in how you do it! I say good for you, girl! I doubt anyone here thinks for a second that you did so in a tacky way. I will be shouting from the rooftops if I get back into my skinniest jeans (I'm one of those people who has about 3 sizes at all times hahaha).
^^I still have *cough* 40lbs *cough* to go to hit my pp weight, so you best believe I will be posting about it if/when the day comes. . . Lol probably sometime in 2018.
Yeah... I'm down to 10# above my pre-pregnancy weight, but that means nothing because that weight is 15-20# overweight for my height and build. I only gained 15# total because of my starting weight. I actually LOST weight the first 6m of my pregnancy from the combination of no beer and better food. Also, btw, I was up 8# at my drs visit 2 weeks ago from my 6wk PP visit. So I'm clearly not trending in the right direction, lol. Net weight loss from baby birth to now - 5 pounds. And that's all I'm going to give a crap about my weight. I'd rather yield to getting one or two new pairs of jeans if I have to than stress about going to the gym.
I don't care what the number on the scale is I still look like shit. I look pale, thinning hair, and no amount of makeup makes me feel good. I'd rather be 15 lbs heavier than I am now if everything else didn't look...sickly.
TTC: 1/2014
BFP: 9/24
EDD: 6/8/2015
Sorry for the poor man's siggy...ticker won't load regardless of how many tips I read.
I totally agree. I want to feel different. My arms and back are getting ripped from carrying LO around but the rest of me is doughy and I swear joints are creaking extra loud daily. I get up from sitting on the floor like an old lady
I had to go through my closet to donate old clothes for a fill the van run to nyc this upcoming weekend, and it was not pretty. The amount of pants that are unable to zipper is shameful. I have been down to pp weight since LO was a month old, but I was way overweight to begin with. If I lost 50 lbs I would be super happy. Maybe I should take a look at that fit mamas thread.
A benefit of living with my parents (bah!) is they have a treadmill. I put LO in the Bjorn and walk on it when he's fussing. I can usually get 1.5 miles in by the time he settles down to sleep.
I would post this on the Fit Mamas thread, but it scares me...
Come over to Fit Mamas! Our standards are low (no offense meant) and it's more about encouragement than anything else. Most weeks my workout is typing about not working out. But it's a good reminder and we all share in each others' successes!
Honestly the more I run and workout the grosser the skin flap that is my abs looks. I looked down while driving yesterday and noticed it was folded over the seatbelt. GROSS. And I think I am probably one of the oldest here, that old skin may never tighten. I should just fill it back up with cookies and beer.
I think it's hypocritical when people are complaining about something on here like "I hate when moms wear pink nail polish" (just an example, I know pink is encouraged. Especially on Wednesdays) and then a regular will say "oh, sorry, I wear pink nail polish" and then the OP will say "oh yeah, but it totally looks good on you" or "that shade is totally okay"
Like, just own up to what you say. If you don't like something, then you don't like.
@mvargas12 I don't know if it's so much of a "regulars vs non regular" thing as it is this insane PC culture we live in where everyone's terrified to offend someone else. I'm definitely guilty of it (over the interwebz). It's hard to convey tone, etc online, whereas real life conversation is more conducive to varying opinions. That's just my take on it.
TTC: 1/2014
BFP: 9/24
EDD: 6/8/2015
Sorry for the poor man's siggy...ticker won't load regardless of how many tips I read.
@mvargas12 I don't know if it's so much of a "regulars vs non regular" thing as it is this insane PC culture we live in where everyone's terrified to offend someone else. I'm definitely guilty of it (over the interwebz). It's hard to convey tone, etc online, whereas real life conversation is more conducive to varying opinions. That's just my take on it.
I'm a huge people pleaser so I totally get not wanting to offend anyone. I just think that we all have an opinion and should voice it loud and proud. I dont feel like anyone should back track or feel like they can't have that opinion or like they have to make exceptions. I do a million things other people don't like. It is what it is.
I'm so sick of pumping overnight..... I didn't pump from 6pm til 4am. Just slept on my back so my boobs didn't bug me..... I know I'm horrible and it can hurt my supply .... Which is why I'm putting this in fffc. X_X
^ when I read about you guys having to do your nighttime pumpings, are some of times I am most happy with my low supply. I would be so very pissed off to have to wake up just for the point of pumping. Mostly because it takes me SO LONG to go back to sleep (case in point, I've been trying to get back to sleep since 5am when I woke up to pee, and its almost 7)
@mvargas12 I don't know if it's so much of a "regulars vs non regular" thing as it is this insane PC culture we live in where everyone's terrified to offend someone else. I'm definitely guilty of it (over the interwebz). It's hard to convey tone, etc online, whereas real life conversation is more conducive to varying opinions. That's just my take on it.
I'm a huge people pleaser so I totally get not wanting to offend anyone. I just think that we all have an opinion and should voice it loud and proud. I dont feel like anyone should back track or feel like they can't have that opinion or like they have to make exceptions. I do a million things other people don't like. It is what it is.
I'm super guilty of this! Though sometimes it's because I had never encountered someone I liked "who wore pink nail polish" and then my due date twin @ElRuby will be all, "I only wear pink nail polish." Then I think, hmmm, maybe it's ok on Wednesdays and on @ElRuby
Part of why I like this board is it has changed many of my opinions. But yeah, sometimes they aren't changed, I'm just regulars-pleasing. Fair point.
FFC: IRL I often can't stand Cat Ladies (mostly because my crazy assistant had to take a month off when hers died "because of stress." And yes, obviously that's part of mental illness, but I hugely resented that and the farm girl in me found it completely ridiculous. I was raised that animals are animals and people are people. She wears its fur in an amulet around her neck and it makes me gag.)
This is a great example of a flip flopped opinion, because I love the crazy cat ladies on here (@mellymar being my IRL friend Erin and all)
I admit to being a crazy cat lady but I've been on the bunny slope when it comes to the downhill slope of crazy that some cat ladies can be. I was totally sad and depressed over the death of my cats, each one in a different way, and especially over the loss of Fun, but I would have NEVER missed that much work. And I would totally eyeroll someone who did (yes, there's mental illness in that situation, for sure). I know a gal who is a crazier cat lady, and she won't get onto fb because if she does she will go off on rants about the rest of us being so shallow when all she 'wants to do is grieve' (she just had her 2nd, and last, cat pass away a couple of months ago). At least she realizes that being on fb is a trigger for her, but if you realize that, then why do you go and basically bitch out everybody reading your feed for talking about the hot button issue at the time (the death of that lion)? Its not like we're all at home saying 'I'd better not talk about Cecil, otherwise this person will get sad because her cats are dead'. Cat ladies are some crazy, for sure. I'm crazy, but I'm not bad at all, comparatively.
Also, I might be guilty of saying something and then being like - 'oh, but its OK if you do it' (wear pink nail polish). But I think that's more because I'm used to being judged by others IRL, so I want it to be awfully clear that I'm not judging (because being judged sucks). If that makes sense.
I'm so sick of pumping overnight..... I didn't pump from 6pm til 4am. Just slept on my back so my boobs didn't bug me..... I know I'm horrible and it can hurt my supply .... Which is why I'm putting this in fffc. X_X
@klkonwi I'm right there with you sister. I pump at night to work on my freezer stash for returning to work. If I pump during the day in between feedings I get maybe 1/2 to an ounce each time and I feel like my day is either feeding LO or being stuck to that stupid pump. If I do one pump session at night, I can get at least 3-3.5 ounces. Pump out a little throughout the entire day and sleep at night or get one good pumping session in at night and lose out on sleep? Ugh. The sleep has been winning lately... b-(
Come over to Fit Mamas! Our standards are low (no offense meant) and it's more about encouragement than anything else. Most weeks my workout is typing about not working out. But it's a good reminder and we all share in each others' successes!
Another plea for people to come check out Fit Mamas. We all just had babies, too! We aren't talking marathons and 100 lb deadlifts (and I was never even close to either of those) just tiny steps to recovering our bodies.
(Two gif choices today, cardio or strength training)
I don't care what the number on the scale is I still look like shit. I look pale, thinning hair, and no amount of makeup makes me feel good. I'd rather be 15 lbs heavier than I am now if everything else didn't look...sickly.
Amen. I can get my pre pregnancy jeans on, but I'm pretty sure the flab hanging over the top did not used to be there.
I would do the fit mama's thread if I could ever make progress. I don't think anyone want to hear my daily accomplishments every week, "I walked one mile and did my physical therapy." Exhilarating.
I would do the fit mama's thread if I could ever make progress. I don't think anyone want to hear my daily accomplishments every week, "I walked one mile and did my physical therapy." Exhilarating.
You're doing even better than me. Mine would read "I parked half the length of the parking lot away from the doors today"
I think my goal for tomorrow will be to find my Fitbit and work to beat the previous day's steps. I do a lot of toddler chasing so that's got to add up to something! Oh and I had a lactation smoothie for breakfast and a salad with grilled chicken for lunch (and half a cookie) today so that's a step in the right direction!
I'm looking forward to getting two cavities filled tomorrow because it gets me out of work but isn't being at home. That's messed up, yo.
Haircut next week though!
I totally used to do really heavy deadlifts, now I just nap a lot. I think walks are a huge accomplishment. I'm jealous of you all that won't be enduring winter
My daughter keeps spitting up on me, so I just sang a song about how gross she is to tune of "you are my sunshine". This way she won't know I'm talking badly about her.
Re: FFFC!
Maybe LO not sleeping is my karma for FB weight bragging. Womp womp.
I would post this on the Fit Mamas thread, but it scares me...
I think it's hypocritical when people are complaining about something on here like "I hate when moms wear pink nail polish" (just an example, I know pink is encouraged. Especially on Wednesdays) and then a regular will say "oh, sorry, I wear pink nail polish" and then the OP will say "oh yeah, but it totally looks good on you" or "that shade is totally okay"
Like, just own up to what you say. If you don't like something, then you don't like.
I didn't pump from 6pm til 4am. Just slept on my back so my boobs didn't bug me.....
I know I'm horrible and it can hurt my supply .... Which is why I'm putting this in fffc. X_X
Part of why I like this board is it has changed many of my opinions. But yeah, sometimes they aren't changed, I'm just regulars-pleasing. Fair point.
FFC: IRL I often can't stand Cat Ladies (mostly because my crazy assistant had to take a month off when hers died "because of stress." And yes, obviously that's part of mental illness, but I hugely resented that and the farm girl in me found it completely ridiculous. I was raised that animals are animals and people are people. She wears its fur in an amulet around her neck and it makes me gag.)
This is a great example of a flip flopped opinion, because I love the crazy cat ladies on here (@mellymar being my IRL friend Erin and all)
Also, I might be guilty of saying something and then being like - 'oh, but its OK if you do it' (wear pink nail polish). But I think that's more because I'm used to being judged by others IRL, so I want it to be awfully clear that I'm not judging (because being judged sucks). If that makes sense.
(Two gif choices today, cardio or strength training)
ETA: Nor did the bags under my eyes