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Anybody NOT back to their pre-pregnancy size?
Just wondering where I stand with other women. I have not weighed myself in a couple months but I think I have 8 lbs to go. Not bad after having gained 50 lbs the entire pregnancy!!! I still feel like everything is wider though. Some women have told me it took them almost a year to get back to where they were. Ladies, where are you?
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Re: Anybody NOT back to their pre-pregnancy size?
I have a muffin top that doesn't respond to anything. I've been told to just live with it until I'm done BFing. My weight is only a few pounds higher than prepreg, but that's deceiving because I've lost so much muscle mass since then.
None of my regular clothes fit the same... the tops don't come down far enough because of my boobs and my hips/butt is still a little bit wider. I think it's getting better little by little, but it's hard to see the change when it's so gradual.
Nope. I'm one or two sizes up (depending on the brand).
I started out at 170 lbs and a size 10. I'm now 170 lbs and a size 12 or size 14.
I gained 25 lbs through my pregnancy, but it was all belly. I'm now left with extra skin at my belly that will be around for awhile. Plus, my hips are wider.
I just donated what no longer fit or what didn't lay right anymore and I bought bigger sizes. I just bought some necessities (2 pairs of jeans, 2 pairs of dress pants for work, a bunch of shirts, new [cheap] underduds) to get me by for the time being. The dress pants are a little big already, but I haven't lost any additional weight. I guess things are just narrowing and shifting back in to place...? Who knows. I'll add in more clothes once my size is more stable.
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I still have 18 to 20 lbs to go. Super depressing having a gut. As I posted the other day on another board, my MIL grabbed my gut the other day and asked if I was losing it yet. So insensitive!!! So I turned, grabbed hers, and asked if she was losing hers yet!
This fat thing is soooo depressing! I am off to do walking lunges behind the stroller through the neighborhood! So what if I look like a weirdo- it will be worth it. I would take some appetite suppressants if I wasn't still BFing like a dairy cow.
wow, I'm not even close. I probably have about 25lbs to lose still. Breastfeeding did not do what everyone told me it was going to do. Just made me hungry and my body held on to every calorie. Once this engorgement goes down (just stopped pumping/nursing) it's back on the treadmill and calorie couting for me. I'm absolutely beside myself, and simply have NO CLOTHES! LO is almost 7 months and I'm still sporting my maternity pants for work.
ugh.
I still have about 18 lbs to go. I was between 112-115 lbs pre-pregnancy (I'm 5'1"), and at this point, I will be SO happy to be back to 120 when that happens.
Getting back into running has helped, but I haven't made it to the gym this week because it's mid-term week, and I'm non-stop grading. I've lost 10 lbs since I started back to running regularly about two months ago.
I was a size 4 petite pre-pregnancy, and I'm wearing some size 8 jeans a friend gave me. (She gave me all of her clothes that she wore for the year after having kids.) One of my co-workers said it took her a year; she's tiny-tiny (like 5'2", size 0), and she gained 60 lbs with each pregnancy and took a year to lose it all after each pregnancy. She has 3 kids.
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haha ... no. no where near it.
Pre preg I had put on about 20 lbs from where I needed to be. I was in a tight size 8. Then the first 3 months of my preg I was so hungry all the time every day (no MS here) that I gained about 25 lbs - so I was up to a tight size 10 by the time I went to maternity clothes. Over the rest of my preg I think I put on another 30 lbs or so (I have blocked the actual numbers) and am only down about 20 lbs since giving birth 8 months ago. That's because I'm lazy and I like junk food too much.
So now I'm in a 12
. But I'm actively trying to get back to a 10 (followed by going to an 8). I'm eating less & better and exercising more.
As I write this i'm wearing maternity capris. HA! I gained 50 lbs during pregnancy and I was already about 15 lbs over weight, so I had 65lbs to lose. I lost 20 lbs in 2 weeks then nothing. I'm working out now and have changed up my diet to healthy foods and low processed foods. I've lost about 5 lbs in 4 weeks.
I still have 25 lbs to lose.
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I weigh almost 20 pounds less than my pre-pregnancy weight but I'm still in the same size because everything is so much skinner except my tummy. It's pretty depressing to lose all that weight and not see the results.
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This. Except 40 gained, 20 lost, 20 to go and none lost since like week 3 despite eating well and working out. I'm chalking it up to the nursing - some people just keep it on until they wean. I'm crossing my fingers thats me (and you!)
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I only gained 30 lbs during pregnancy, but probably gained more before i got pregnant because i kept thinking i was pregnant and thus ate more
I have 10 lb to go to get to prepregnancy weight, but that's taking into account i dropped 23 in the two weeks after having the baby (yes, i've gained back). I just had a physical and they determined i have hypothyroidism. I'm on medicine now for it (a very low dosage), but i'm keeping my fingers cross that that will help me shed the last 10 lbs. Still breastfeeding though, so i don't want to diet, just make smarter choices in what i eat.
NO time to exercise unfortunately because of my commute.
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BFP # 2 - 06/05/10 EDD 02/17/11, DS1 born on 2/14/11
BFP # 3 - 04/10/13 EDD 12/21/13 - D&C 05/15/13 @ 8w4d
BFP # 4 - 07/27/13 EDD 04/08/14 - CP 07/29/13
BFP # 5 - 09/14/13 EDD 05/28/14, DS2 born on 5/22/14
I gained 30 pounds and it took me 7 months to lose it all! Sounds like you are doing fantastic.
At around 9 months, it just all seriously started falling off. I am 10 pounds under pre-preg weight right now. I am still BF though, I am unsure if that has a lot to do with it.
Things just shifted- it's not that I'm wider, per say, but my waist sits a little differently, my ribcage is bigger, and everything just...shifted...down a little. LOL
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I lost my weight with my daughter in the first 6 months. Then it came back , went away again and now is apparently here to stay. Moral of my post is that once its off keeping it off is HARD! GL and I am hoping for a better outcome with #2!
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