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August 2016 Moms
ShawnaLynn83
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PP Fitness
ShawnaLynn83
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A thread for PP fitness idea sharing. What are you all doing to get back in shape after baby?
Re: PP Fitness
I use my Fitbit daily again. After a week I try and increase my goals of stepping and how many miles a day. It's helped slowly help me get back into moving. I was on 4 weeks of strict bedrest. It really took a toll on my physical capacity.
Can we do body weight stuff now?! (I am 4 weeks pp). Id love to do squats and lunges!
DD: Aug '16
10/2017: Twins confirmed with TTTS at 22 weeks.
10/10/17 Twin B passed after in utero placenta surgery
11/2/17 Twin A & B born
11/26/17: Twin A passed after 24 days fighting in the NICU
Benched 6 months
BFP: 6/28/18 MC:7/16/18 BO
BFP: 10/2/18 EDD 6/15/18
Also thinking about doing some light arm weights (5 lbs or so) while sitting on my exercise ball for a few minutes every day to try and keep some tone in my arms.
Diet has been bad thus far but it has only been 4 days so I will start to clean that up next week. Surviving right now!
**edited due to typo
Once I'm cleared I'll be getting back to CrossFit. I did it my entire pregnancy but took it easy on the weights and high intensity stuff. I can't wait to get my strength back that I've lost over the last 9 months. I also gained 40 lbs while pregnant. Eating has been better now that I'm not pregnant but still not really watching everything. Breast feeding definitely makes me hungry.
I've always been a big swimmer for fitness (not to mention how crazy hot it is here right now). I'm looking forward to my 5 week pp appointment this week to find out when I can swim again.
Like @BrunetteBabe722, the weight loss has stalled out for me and I have about 18 pounds left to go. I've never really dieted or lost lots of weight before so I have no idea how this will go.
He's right. I can barely walk without feeling sore on my heels after we go on walks around our neighborhood. Thinking of my nana down there and sitting on a bike may not be the best right now.
I am going to start light jogging in the AM right after I pump and lift light weights.
Also, I am definitely not over eating but I wonder why my weight is still the same after I lost my initial 20 lbs within 2 wks PP.
I heard for some women, breastfeeding actually does the opposite and shed the lbs after they stop breastfeeding (contributed to hormones). Idk, I'm going to see if my light exercise routine does anything in the near future.
And in the last week or so I've noticed I don't eat as much as I was the first few weeks, and now that I'm cutting out dairy I have a hard time finding something decent to eat when I am actually hungry. I think I need to go shopping tomorrow and get creative
Going to try and keep this up. Entering wk 7 PP.
I can't wait to be cleared to do more exercise.
Also, depending on how my supply is affected, I may do some BeachBody workouts from the DVD that came with my 21 Day Fix kit. When I stuck to those, I actually had ab muscles. I feel like I need those to get my belly fully back to where it was. I'm fitting into my "fat pants" again at 3 weeks postpartum so hopefully soon ill get back into my regular clothing.
the weight has come off relatively easily but I am still 15 lbs above prepregnancy weight.
I am still losing fluid. I have no idea exactly how much weight I need to lose until all of that comes off. I have a ways to go before fitting into anything prepregnancy. I'll get there though.
You get to be all cute and fully pregnant in the summer (I thought that I would be self conscious of the bump at the beach in June/July but it was awesome). Then in the end of summer/beginning of Fall, you just had a baby and everyone says you look amazing even if you don't! Finally you get to roll into Fall and Winter sweater weather and not show skin again until late Spring, at which point we will have had close to 9 months to get back into shape!
By the time next summer rolls around, we'll have had the maximum amount of time to physically recover and get our bodies back. I like having lots of time... takes the pressure off!
I've lost most of my pregnancy weight, but I know these last 8lbs will be hard to take off (took me almost a year and a half with DS1 to finally get rid of them). Honestly, I'm not even really concerned about getting back to my PP weight, I just want to get to wear all my clothes again!
Well, it happened again just now. The weight fluctuation isn't from body fat...because how can it change that frequently?
I think there's still a good amount of fluid in my body. I look at my feet - though smaller than before, still swollen. Same for legs. And the level of swelling changes throughout the day - much like my pregnancy. Now the question is, how to control this?! I'll drink a lot more water and see if it helps.
I an trying out this thing called Shrink Hips to see if it helps me lose the extra two inches there. It is just a band you wrap around your hips that should help stabilize them and hopefully shrink them with all the relaxin in our bodies. Fingers crossed it helps!
This: https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/big-fat-breastfeeding-lie-shouldnt-buy/story?id=30279680
In case some of you are also wondering but after doing some research, I think I may be one of those that my body is just holding onto the weight while breastfeeding.
"...I’ve also had to come to terms with the fact that for me, breastfeeding means hanging onto a little extra weight and being patient with my weight loss journey."
@LWC1112 let me know how it goes, I would definitely want to try something like that.
I thought for sure this was going to be so much harder being baby 3 and now being 30. But we'll see how it goes. The weight could come back.
That description is exactly what I looked like a week and half ago trying on other pre pregnancy shorts. It was so scary I won't try them on again until next year! Lol
Hopefully since this is kid 1 for me, they'll go back.
i ended up about 10lbs lighter than my usual pp weight about a year after DS1 was born. I'd really like to stick to that as my "normal" weight.
Guess I'll be getting knocked up again soon and then by the time that baby comes, DH husband will have a job and I can buy some pants!
(I feel like I shouldn't even joke about that, please Lord don't let me get pregnant again for a while, I was just kidding...)