To think that a woman who still has pregnancy weight 8 weeks after having a baby is normal?

Oh shut up. No one want to hear from women who lose their pregnancy weight too fast. Shouldn't you be at Amida?

Just kidding, of course

amidawish, that is quite correct - although I'd be more worried about hormones than toxins, as they too are stored in fat - if you lose too much fat too quickly your skin and your periods go to hell and your emotions become somewhat.... turbulent!

speaks from bitter ex3peri3en3c6e0
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aargh the tiny one has found me! Will go before typing dinsintegrates urther....

my GP warned me not to lose weight too fast when bf.
because apparently if you lose a lot of fat, it releases toxins that have been stored in the fat? is that true, or was he just worried that i had seemed to lose quite a bit quite fast?

It has taken me 9 months to get back to my old jeans. One thing I noticed is that I ate a lot when I had my dd which mostly were cakes, sugary drinks etc...

In my case I indulged in all the stuff I did not touch during pregnancay and as a result I put a bit of weigth because of my eating!

I think that the secret is to be patient and eat a bit of everything withing reason, don't snack on fatty stuff and in 9 months we can all look how we did before having the kids!

My dad came round two days after my 3rd and patted my belly saying I had a long way to go. And kept on making references.
What did you say Cappuccino, I'm expecting the same again in Sept.

My doctor gave me a lecture about loosing my pg weight at my 8 week/6 week/whatever it is checkup.

I should point out that whilst I was heavier than pre pg (never wighed more than 7 1/4 stone before I had kids, I still only weighed about 8 stone at that point. I went home feeling simultaneously furious and told off

I was the same weight after giving birth 4 months ago as pre pregnancy - but don't shoot me yet - I've put a stone on since!

9 months on, 9 months off seems fair to me..dunno though coz I got pg ggain after 8 months...thats my excuse and Im sticking to it..suspect it will take me a little longer to lose the weight this time..if baby ever arrives, (7 days overdue)

I am pinning all my hopes on Charlotte Church..she seems the sort to sleb to keep it real!

my gp told me that I had a lifetime to lose weight but only one chance for DS to grow arms, legs and organs. which is a good way of thinking about it I think.

but rampant morning sickness keeps weight down a treat particularly if you have it for all bar 2 weeks and 6 weeks after birth I find!

Some of it I'm sure is to do with the body type you are....I don't put on much weight in pregnancy,( interestingly I don't notice much of an increase in appetite either, though I do in the first month of breastfeeding a new baby ),and I do go back to my pre-preg weight almost immediately.However getting back into shape, ie; toning is another matter That comes with lots of exercise I'm afraid....

I'm 18 months post birth and have been trying to loose the final 3.5kg for the past 8 months!

I lost mine in a month ... but I'd rather still be carrying it now than to have had the PND that made the weight loss possible.

What was left was also not distributed in quite the same way as it was pre-baby!

I did once read Sarah Jessica Parker on the subject of losing baby weight and she was saying she wouldn't say how she did it, there was so much pressure on her to do it and the way it was done wasn't natural, and she hated that that was the image that was given to other women by the media

still I didn't see her wandering around in a pair of tracksuit bottoms eating a donut, did you?

Well guys I lost all my baby weight 4.5stone in total (bar 4lbs) in 6 weeks so it can happen. HOWEVER and this is a big however (hence the caps), I had the follwoing mitigating circumstances

1 I was overweight before I got pregnant - so losing 4.5 stone after the birth still left me about 3 stone overweight

2 I did NOT diet in any way but I suffered from PND and despite being ravenously hungry most of the time as I was breastfeeding, I really had no desire/time to eat anything other than what dh put in front of me.

3 I then went to the U.S for six months when ds was 10 weeks old and came back to the UK having put on the whole 4.5 stone again.

So you could say I lost all the weight in 6 weeks but that 9 months after ds was born I was back up to birth weight again.

hey ho

My friend's sister was a nurse at an exclusive celeb hospital and confirmed that they had elective surgery's a month or more before EDD so they could have a tummy tuck at the same time.

My friend's sister was a nurse at an exclusive celeb hospital and confirmed that they had elective surgery's a month or more before EDD so they could have a tummy tuck at the same time.

In my view it is perfectly reasonable and right to retain baby weight right up till said baby moves out.....

I was once told by a girl that a mutual friend only had herself to blame if her husband started playing away as the poor woman still had some baby weight six weeks after giving birth..... she of course was back in her jeans two minutes after giving birth....I'm sincerely hoping she wont come to me with her sorrows if her husband leaves her because she's an utter cow.

amidaiwish, we are on the same wave length I think...

I was always told it's 9 months up and 9 months down. But still not pre-pregnancy figure after my second child, who's now 2!!!! I'm calling it middle aged spread now.