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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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to ask how much you weigh now compared to before kids and how old your kids are?

115 replies

munkeychops · 29/09/2011 17:31

basically as the subject says. I still have baby weight to lose and wondering what is hte norm

OP posts:

cecilyparsley · 30/09/2011 00:46

I was 8 stone 2, they are both in their 20's and I'm still 8 stone 2

CharCharGabor · 30/09/2011 01:04

My usual weight before having children was 10 stone 7. After having dd1 at 21 I was 9 7, but quickly gained weight due to comfort eating while stuck on the couch bfing. My top weight was 13 7 and I stayed that weight until after having DD2 at 24. DD2 is now 19 months and in the last 5 months or so I've lost 4 1/2 stone and am now 9 1.5, which is the lightest I've been since I was 11. I would like to lose around another 1/2 stone (am only 5 foot 1) and get more toned. DDs are 4 and 19 months.

GreenPetal94 · 30/09/2011 09:37

It is interesting that hardly anyone who is overweight is posting on this thread IMHO.

I'm tall and have finally got down to 12 stone something, this is interestingly lower than before I had kids (now 8 and 10). When youngest was 2 I weighed a lot more (15.5 stone) and then I decided to diet and really lost a lot that year.

rockinhippy · 30/09/2011 09:45

Pre - 7.5 stone & ate like a horse - didn't put much weight on & was back into my jeans within days of giving birth - I DID put weight on later though, after stopping breast feeding - not sure if it was that or came with my getting ill, which was about the same time -

now about 9.5 - 10 stone - eat like a gnat & very healthily too - though not considered to be over weight I do FEEL the extra weight on walking etc, but also don't mind the extra curves I now have - just wished they felt lighter & I might feel fitter -- I've never really tried to diet, but diets I've looked at would probably have me eating more than I do, so makes no sense

aldiwhore · 30/09/2011 09:54

I was 12stone pre-kids and a size 14/16 - sound heavy but I was actually VERY happy at that weight, and carried it well.

I shot up to 16stone after my first, and struggled to lose it... after 3 years I'd managed to lose just shy of 2 stone and then fell pregnant again. After my youngest was born I weighed 13.5stone so had lost weight, but due to polyhydramnious had stretched MASSIVELY .. I kind of gave up then and within 6 months was back up to 15 stone.

My youngest is now 4. I am now 13stone and getting smaller thanks to Slimming World. I'm doing it very slowly, 1 or 2lbs a week, sometimes nothing but have lost 2stone since the end of March. I've noticed as well that because I'm doing it slowly, the extra skin I was so scared of being left with is actually not too bad at all (just the rather normal mini apron and stretch mark scars!) and hopefully by Christmas I'll be back to 12stone once again.

So, quick answer to the OP is: its taken me 8 years!!

Bonsoir · 30/09/2011 09:55

I weigh 57kg, the same as I did aged 18. I am 45 and have a daughter aged 7.

redskyatnight · 30/09/2011 10:04

I was back to my pre-baby weight about 4 months after having each of my DC (result of b/f and walking miles with fretful babies).

I kept it off while they were young and I was running round after them all the time.

I have put on about 1.5 stone in the last year or so (my youngest is now 5) and have subsequently lost about half that due to dieting.

dreamingbohemian · 30/09/2011 10:18

Like some others here, I gained weight after having the baby! Three weeks after giving birth I could squeeze into my old clothes but within a few months I was up two dress sizes. I had horrendous sleep deprivation and some depression and I stuffed my face with carbs basically.

Now DS is 17 months and I still need to lose 6-7 kilos. I have back/hip problems so I can't really exercise, but through diet/walking it's slowly coming off.

In fact most of my body is just fine, I just can't shift the tummy weight. I understand this is the last bit to go though?

prolificwillybreeder · 30/09/2011 10:35

I need to lose a stone.
Hoping aquacise, walking and not eating cake and biscuits...and wine.

prolificwillybreeder · 30/09/2011 10:36

...will help I should of added!

Witherhills · 30/09/2011 10:40

I was overweight before I found out I was pregnant, didn't put much weight on, even though DS was 10lb and was back down to my pre-baby weight in a couple of months
I actually think my body returned to normal quite quickly, I have no idea why

loveglove · 30/09/2011 10:41

I have no idea what it's like to weigh single figures. No matter what I do (including a period of not eating and exercising like a maniac in my late teens) the lightest I have ever been is 10.5 stone.

Francagoestohollywood · 30/09/2011 10:45

I am usually fluctuating around 59 kg (though at the moment I am 56). I was roughly 54 kg when got pregnant with our first. My dc are now 9 and 7.

ativa · 30/09/2011 10:47

I remember being 10 stone 4 when about 8 wks pg with dd1 which was 12 years ago. I am 11 stone now after three kids. I am 5' 7 or 8. So I have put on about a stone I guess, would like to lose half but not that bothered.

Applemartini · 30/09/2011 10:47

I am 9st 10 now, and was 10st 2 before getting pregnant with dd1. I have 2 now, and the youngest is 2 and a half. I put on 3 stone with that last pregnancy and tipped the scales at 13 stone. I think I lost weight because do more exercise now, and am constantly getting up and down wiping bottoms and looking for lost things.

TapselteerieO · 30/09/2011 11:04

dd is ten, I was 28 when she was born and weighed just over 8 stone, ds is 7, now I weigh about 9 stone, no scales in the house so I haven't weighed myself for a few months, I think some of my weight gain is age related, it has been a very gradual, I know I could do with losing a few pounds.

bibbitybobbityhat · 30/09/2011 11:11

My oldest child is 10 and I am about a stone and a half heavier (and I was a stone overweight anyway).

But I actually put the weight gain down to giving up smoking 3 times in the past 10 years, and also going from 38 to 48 years old and facing the dreaded middle aged spread.

azazello · 30/09/2011 11:18

Pre-kids 10st 6lbs. Ate out a lot, drank a lot- no exercise.
Post DD (now 4) 10st 8lbs
Immediately after DS was born 14st (SPD)
Now 9st 5lbs.

I made a big effort to lose the weight and was bf so it fell off pretty much. I still eat too much but don't drink as much now and exercise a lot more.

Forcasi · 30/09/2011 11:21

I weigh about 11 stone now.

Pre-kids I weighed 15 stone plus. I gained 1.5 stone with DS1 which came off immediately plus more for luck, stayed the same weight with DS2 (so ended up lighter when he was born), and gained a stone with DS3 which again came off quickly, though the c-section overhang didn't!

I find it harder to lose weight now but I think that's an age thing!

gaaagh · 30/09/2011 11:31

I'm 11.5 stones roughly last time i checked

but i'm quite short so it looks worse than it sounds

not going to pretend it wasn't the DCs that started this slippery slope but i seem to have a problem getting back to my settled weight (about 2 stone less)... i genuinely think that having DCs (10 and 14, btw) has shifted my "settled weight"...

i've always been the sort of person where i seem to stay the same weight no matter how active i am or how much i eat, it just seems that having DCs shifted that point 2 stone higher

ho hum, never mind

i don't begrudge it, i'm healthy enough.

i do think that we shouldn't be so quick to judge others for worrying about this sort of stuff though, i remember a few months ago when someone on here posted an article where a childless woman was worrying about the effect of having children on her body... so many people were so quick to shoot it down with "omg how vain is she" and "she's so super ficial"... when the fact is that it is a fact that for some women it changes their weight for the worse. not all, but some. and that's not a bad thing, it's just different.

so, yes, i'm one of the unlucky ones, but i'm comfortable with that, if not neccesarily happy about it.

Robotindisguise · 30/09/2011 11:32

I weigh the same. DD is two. While BF, I was about seven pounds lighter. Got totally used to it. Slightly crushing when I stopped BF at 13 months and the weight came straight back on.

VeryLittleGravitas · 30/09/2011 11:42

I was 8st3 at my first MW appointment (weight prior to pregnancy varied between 7st7 and 8st). I put on 3 1/2 stone each time I'm pregnant, which takes the best part of a year to shift.

20 years and 4 kids later, and I'm 9st2, so a much healthier weight for my hight (5'8)

tinkbig · 05/10/2011 10:54

i weighed 7st6 before dc2
i weighed 9st6 after having dc2
now weigh 8st2

so not too bad
have abit of baby tummy still
did wii fit alot after having dd2 lost loads

tinkbig · 05/10/2011 10:56

dd2 now 2.8 years

Trills · 05/10/2011 11:00

You need a control group of women who have not had children to ask them their weights at different ages.

How much of the weight gain is 3 children and how much is the 7 years?

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