To ask how long it took you all to get back your figures??

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I was a size 12 when I got pregnant with DS. I had always been a 14/16 prior to that (it took a lot of work and no food!).

I went up to a 18/20 during third trimester (and put on 3 stone!!) and am still a 16/18 nearly a year later I don't have enough time for massive gym sessions but i do take DS in his backpack for 3-6 mile walks every other day, plus the running around after a toddler! I eat a fairly balanced diet, but i know I could do better.

So ladies...how long did it take you to get back to pre-pregnancy size/shape/weight? and HOW DID YOU DO IT??

Thanks x

6yrs on & 2 kids, both 8lbs+, I have finally come to the conclusion that my body shape has changed forever. I have joined a gym and changed my diet, and even though the results havent been as quick as I hoped, I have more energy than ever, and sleeping much better. I have gone from a very tight 16/18, to 14 since Xmas, with the next aim to be a 12 this time year. OP there isnt a race, it looks like you have a healthy lifestyle, it will happen.

Ha ha LeQueen - My Mum told me after dc1 to "please stop losing weight, I'm worried about you." I wasn't too thin and I wasn't exercising.

dd is nineteen weeks and i'm a half stone lighter than i was before. She is ebf and eats like a horse though. My shape is totally different so none of my clothes fit.

I second what Shakirasma has to say about matabolism. I put on three stone with DS1 but within 6 months I was a stone lighter than I had been before concieving.

Before DS I had only to look at food, now I can eat anything and everything.

By the time he was a year old I was 2 stone lighter! I ate like a horse. I had to put on weight before I could concieve DS2.

I put on less weight with DS2 and it fell off even quicker.

I think pregnancy seems to reset your metabolism, although I read once that thinner people often over estimate how much they eat because they regularly have days where they eat virtually nothing. So I wonder if it is possible to fool your body into speeding up your metabolic rate.

I feel better and worse

Ziggyf i have special K for breakfast, pitta bread and salad, with either tuna, ham or houmous for lunch. Dinners vary, some options: chicken breast w. salad/veg, baked potato: ham, couscous and salad: pork chop (no fat!) with veg and new potatoes: pasta with chicken and spicy tomato sauce with salad, or with chicken and a cheesy cream sauce and brocolli.

I don't tend to snack during the day, I do drink lots of water and about 4 cups of tea a day (but i don't take sugar so not too bad)

My main weight is aroung my stomach, arms, back, hips and waist. As i say I put on over 3 stone and DS only weighed 6lb 3oz

Plus I was 20 when I got pregnant, i'm now nearly 22!

5 years and counting......

Within weeks - I was ebf and the weight just fell off, my DH was trying to feed me up cos i looked too skinny. Could eat what i liked. sadly put it all back on and more when she weaned.

Back in my size 10 jeans the next day. Though that's misleading, because I was never out of my (non-maternity) jeans.

Put on a couple of stone since though

Er still haven't, she's three. Have joined weight watchers online and lost a pound so far (one week). Have a lot to lose.

Took about 5 months and I was same shape and weight as before. I exercised quite a lot during pregnancy and then started gentle pilates straight away after birth, and gym 3 weeks later. Ate what I wanted and bf did the rest. Since I stopped bf I put a few pounds on. I found when I was a bit more careful with my portion size and the amount ofcarbs I ate, plus maintained plenty of exercise then I dropped the pounds again. Was a 12 before j had her 4 years ago- am a 10 now.

Heavier now than when I was pregnant

Immediately but wasn't slim to begin with (muscular 12-14) and only put on a stone during pregnancy. I also exercised right up to the birth. I suspect this is just my natural size and it takes radical lifestyle change to make me slimmer or fatter.

the general concensus seems to be the BF or EBF. i couldn't BF DS so maybe thats the problem.
Even with Ante-ND, PND and CD i haven't lost the need to eat.

Do any of the Diet clubs actually work??

i also managed to put on a couple of stone while exclusively breastfeeding ravenous large babies.

so unfair

22 years and counting.

Ididn't put on a huge amount while pregnant, about half a stone, but it didn't want to shift. Got flu last December, DS is 3.6, and lost half a stone, then ran a marathon last month, and has toned everything up again, feel like I almost have my old body back, but not sure my stomach will ever quite be what it used to be!

Yes, weight watchers works!

AtYourCervix You are so right. It is really unfair. I had worked so hard for my size 12, but I do not have the energy to do it again.

Thanks Jeeps I'll take a look x

dd1 4 months I was 13 stone just before I had her, walked a lot with the pram about 2 miles a day.
dd2 two weeks and I was in my jeans, I never put any extra weight on whilst pg with dd2, though I was 12.7 stone just before I had her.

dd2 is 18 months old and I am bigger now than I was when she was born, I had hyperemesis though an dlost loads of weight whilst pg

I never lost the weight I put on with dd1

Just started trying to sort it now