AIBU to want to lose baby weight asap

[kiki22]

i'm thinking of joining slimming world pretty much as soon as babys here maybe after 2 or 3 weeks start the classes a friend done this and has lost all her baby weight her ds is only 15 weeks and tbh she looks better now that pre pg, but quite a few people have said it's far to soon and can't believe i'm even thinking about it yet (34 weeks) some have even suggested it wouldn't be healthy. DP's aunt (5 yrs older than me) had the cheek to suggest i should be focusing on my baby not myself like she did 4 dress sizes ago. Really want to know if i'm the only one that thinks it's ok?

To try to field any questions i won't be BF and if i did i would alter plan to allow for it (MW will advise), i want to do it because tho i am happy to get chubby in pregnancy i don't want to be afterward i want to feel attractive again (vain but i miss it) and i usually struggle to lose weight so don't want to leave it months gain more be unhappy and have a huge struggle to get loads of weight off.

Can i get some opinions on this??

I'm of the belief it takes 9 months to put the weight on and at least that to get it off again. You might find you don't want to leave your baby to go to any kind of class anyway, or you may find recovery from the birth harder than your friend. You may find you're too knackered to even contemplate leaving the house in the evening to want to attend a SW class for a long time! Don't underestimate what hard work it can be anything when you have a small baby, even with a supportive partner!

You should also wait until your 6 week check before doing a reasonable amount of exercise which coupled with a sensible, healthy, balanced diet is the best way to get the weight off anyway.

IMO there are more important things to worry about than getting thin again when you have a newborn

imo 2 or 3 weeks is a little bit too soon, give yourself at least a chance to heal from the birth you would still be bleeding by then normally... although slimming world is more diet based than exercise it may be okay, cos i would not think its the best idea to start an exercise regime when you are still recovering from birth maybe with stitches etc. i was intending to start slimming world at 6 weeks but i still havent gone back to it (my youngest is 4 months )
i do think its good if you can go to it quickly and get results you will probably feel much better about yourself but dont be so hard on yourself expecting to go at 2 or 3 weeks it is a bit soon.. 6 weeks+ is atleast more realistic

I think you need to re-evaluate your priorities! That is your baby! Also why on this earth do you not plan to BF if you want quick weight loss???? It is one of the few things that helps to shed the pounds! You do come across as very vain and ignorant imo. Believe me when I say that regardless how you feed you will be knackered and eating according to a diet/ doing loads of excercise is likely to run you down unless you have the funds for a chef and personal trainer
You need to examine why you don't want to BF imo. Breasts are the tools for the job, its what they are designed to do . Would you feed a dog sheeps milk or a cat dog milk? So why feed a human with cows milk?

Hi KiKi22
I can totally understand you wanting to be back to your pregnancy state, I too felt like that, I was 9st before pregnancy and went up to 11st by the end of my pregnancy but as soon as my son was born I was 9st again, breast feeding helped a lot too as I could have an occasional treat and not worry about piling on the pounds again!I would say wait and see what your body is like afterwards before you commit to SW, because it might be a case of needing to tone up rather than losing weight definitely follow a healthy eating plan and then go for walks when baby arrives for gentle exercise. I do agree with waiting until you have stopped bleeding and just enjoying your baby too, the time flies it really does.I'd hate for you to look back and feel that you missed out because you were at a SW meeting when you really wanted to be home. I'm still unhappy with my body and my son is 14 months old but I have told myself that by the time he goes to school I will be happy with myself, maybe set yourself a steadier goal too. Good luck with whatever you decide to do though

After doing lots and lots of diets, I've found that low GI is brilliant. You still eat sensible food without cutting out food groups, you don't feel like you're missing out, and it is really healthy.

YANBU to try and lose weight so soon after having a baby, but YWBVU to do a strict calorie controlled diet (because it won't work and will make you feel tired and shitty)

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I think after you've had your baby you'll find yourself not giving so much thought to your weight, you won't have the time or energy to go to Slimming World or anything like that for at least the first month! Seriously, it's great to keep that motivation to lose the weight but take the pressure off yourself and just eat healthily. It is extremely stressful and tiring having a newborn and you'll need all the energy you can get, plus it takes a fair while to recover from the birth.
I haven't breastfed my DS (now 7 weeks) and the weight has fallen off very quickly, but not in a good way - it's down to stress, tiredness and the knock-on effect of loss of appetite. Get through the first month (which is the hardest) and then think about this stuff.

If you eat sensibly in pregnancy you wont get any 'baby weight'. People who use pregnancy as an excuse to stuff their face under the guise of 'eating for two' are the ones that get fat.

I remember at woman at work, she sent out for food all the time, forever sending an office junior to the cafe the get her bags of chip or to the sweetshop. It was relentless gorging for the sake of it. I remember her leaning over a desk and glimpsing the back of her knees - they must have been 10 inches across and reminded me of bread baps.

I vowed then, if I ever got pregnant I wouldnt be looking like that. And I didn't! I had two within a year and my diet was much better during pregnancy than generally, so I was two stone lighter after having the 2nd one and I didn't have any weight to lose in the first place.

I started WW when DD was six weeks. I went to a mum and babies session and it was a great way to meet non mummy group friends. I BF though which gave me 15 extra points and the weight dropped off. I could basically eat what I liked because of the BFing points.

trois.. FFS judgemental much?

Agree with trois "baby weight" is a fallacy: it is simply weight gained because someone has chosen to over indulge whilst using pregnancy as an excuse.

I don't see anything wrong with wanting to regain you pre pregnancy figure/weight especially if being overweight makes you unhappy. In fact that seems very sensible to me.

I don't think it's unreasonable to want to lose the baby weight so soon but I think you have to bear in mind that you might not be ready too.

2 weeks post birth I was still recovering from the heavy blood lose during the birth and was still finding walking difficult tbh. Also at that point I didn't want DD away from me for longer than 5 mins.

After 3 pregnancies i can say that each pregnancy changed my appetite substantially. Also, if i didn't eat i felt incredibly faint and nauseous. With my first i put on almost 3 stone but 8 pounds was in the last 4 weeks and it was mostly water. I lost it in 4 months.

My subsequent pregnancies i've put on 30lbs and 24lbs respectively but i have eaten like a horse and had the most bizarre sweet tooth which i don't normally have at all.

It's not all just mind over matter, your tastes and cravings change. Try to take the healthier options and don't let yourself get too hungry as it's a starving girl that eats a bag of chips rather than a baked potato.

I agree that tastes and cravings change: with my first I could have eaten mcdonalds hash browns and fries all day every day, whereas by my fourth I was craving a constant supply of snickers bars.

But it is a question of mind over matter: yes that is what I would have preferred to eat but I didn't, because had I done so constantly I would have ended up the size of a small country and that would have blighted my early weeks with my baby.

It's your body,your choice. I actually put on very little weight in pregnancy (over the actual weight of the baby). My diet was way better than usually & not drinking definately helped.
I was very unwell after having my baby & was readmitted to hospital. I lost a lot of weight & was lighter than I had been for a long time. I'm now 5 months on & a bit cross that I've put weight on again.
All I'm saying is you have no idea what you will feel like after the birth,if you manage it healthily then good for you. You will get very mixed opinions on here about it.

Go for it. I went back to sw at 2 weeks (after reaching goal when I conceived but stopped during preg)
I reached target again when dd was 15 weeks. It's very doable and in fact I give myself more treats now as bfeeding is using up so many calories.

Well, I know it doesn't work for everyone, but the weight fell off me thanks to breastfeeding. I lose weight most easily post-baby, and this is the reason.

A good thing, actually, as I pile it on during pregnancy.

A word of caution - I became complacent after DC1, as the weight just fell off me in spite of mainlining cake, and so as soon as I stated weaning at 6 months, it crept back on. Having learnt the lesson, I've kept the weight off (touch wood) after DC2. I'm the slimmest I've been since my wayward 20s, thanks to a lot of waling and not eating absolutely everything in front of me.

With each pregnancy I have started getting back into shape sooner and sooner post delivery...with DC3 I actually started eating much healthier during the pregnancy.

I went to slimming world at 6 weeks PP after DC3, any earlier and I was just too tired to get out of the door. Once I arrived there I was actually rather gutted to learn that I could have started when I was still pregnant. It's not about being vain in my opinion, it's about being healthy enough to look after my family and eating foods that give me energy to last the day. DH is out of the house for 12-14 hours a day so it's full on and after DC1 health eating (keeping blood sugars stable throughout the day and eating certain foods) was a contributing factor to my getting rid of PND.

Personally, I would sneak off to Slimming world now and start your habits early (not with a view to loosing weight now obviously , but their diet is all about healthy eating), with DC1 I put on far too much weight in the later weeks.

Alternatively if you have the money I would see a nutritionist, this is what I did after DC1 and the advice was fantastic, basically she told me what to eat for good energy levels. A lot of the snacks and advice she gave I used though my other pregnancy's and I felt much better because of it. She advised that she wasn't giving me a weight loss diet but that if I ate the way that she advised I would lose weight anyway, which I did but without going hungry.

Unless you have used pregnancy as an excuse to massively over-eat, then majority of women lose it naturally and very quickly. My entire NCT group loked like slim women who you would not know had been pregnant, a mere 4 weeks after giving birth (when we first met after all giving birth).

I was in my pre-pregnancy jeans (size 6/8), 5 weeks after giving birth.

I did nothing. Absolutely nothing. Other than breastfeed. You eat loads because you are bloody hungry, but the weight literally falls off you.

Don't worry about it. Enjoy the new born baby time. I too had been worried about it before I gave birth, but then the baby comes along and you have no inclination to start working out, both becvause you are shattered and becasue you don't want to leave your baby!

Sorry to hijack- I am 38 weeks pg and did SW before I conceived, am intending to go back on it when DC is here, but aiming to give myself a bit of time after the birth (to finish up the Xmas chocolates).

Just wondering how bf changes your SW plan? Are you allowed more syns? Or options A/B?

GI is great for losing weight but not great for rebuilding your system following childbirth. Low GL is healthier: Low Glycemic Load. You can still eat carbs on this plan alongside healthy protein. Your carbs will all be wholegrain / wholewheat & you should always eat protein alongside them. follow the plan properly, cut out caffeine & you will see the weight drop off without you feeling starving all the time.
There is a book by patrick holford called something like 'nutrition in pregnancy & for breastFeeding mothers and young children sorry can't remember the exact name but you can google the gist of it.....
It's aimed at breastFeeding women but I'd imagine your body is still going to be depleted until @ least 6 weeks post pregnancy so it'd be the healthiest plan to start now then switch to the Low GL diet when you're back to normal.
With this being a healthy nutrition plan rather than a diet you won't have all the psychological issues which come with dieting and you don't have to run the gauntlet of people telling you you're thoughtless and selfish to watch your weight while pregnant or to diet so soon after having your lovely baby.
I've breastfed throughout following this plan and my baby is bigger than some babies twice his age so don't let your healthy eating plan prevent you from breastFeeding if that's what you want.
Also the natural foods promoted in this plan have left me feeling re-energized and the best I've felt in at least 3 years following two pregnancies and ill health.
I wish I'd known about this plan getting pregnant.
The icing on the cake is that I've lost nearly 3 stone, + get compliments wherever I go, none of my clothes fit anymore, honestly ALL my trousers keep falling down! I still have a big belly but my youngest is only 4 months & with two under two the opportunities to do toning exercises are very slim.

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GI is great for losing weight but not great for rebuilding your system following childbirth. Low GL is healthier: Low Glycemic Load. You can still eat carbs on this plan alongside healthy protein. Your carbs will all be wholegrain / wholewheat & you should always eat protein alongside them. follow the plan properly, cut out caffeine & you will see the weight drop off without you feeling starving all the time.
There is a book by patrick holford called something like 'nutrition in pregnancy & for breastFeeding mothers and young children sorry can't remember the exact name but you can google the gist of it.....
It's aimed at breastFeeding women but I'd imagine your body is still going to be depleted until @ least 6 weeks post pregnancy so it'd be the healthiest plan to start now then switch to the Low GL diet when you're back to normal.
With this being a healthy nutrition plan rather than a diet you won't have all the psychological issues which come with dieting and you don't have to run the gauntlet of people telling you you're thoughtless and selfish to watch your weight while pregnant or to diet so soon after having your lovely baby.
I've breastfed throughout following this plan and my baby is bigger than some babies twice his age so don't let your healthy eating plan prevent you from breastFeeding if that's what you want.
Also the natural foods promoted in this plan have left me feeling re-energized and the best I've felt in at least 3 years following two pregnancies and ill health.
I wish I'd known about this plan getting pregnant.
The icing on the cake is that I've lost nearly 3 stone, + get compliments wherever I go, none of my clothes fit anymore, honestly ALL my trousers keep falling down! I still have a big belly but my youngest is only 4 months & with two under two the opportunities to do toning exercises are very slim.

Like bbface I was back into pre-pregnancy clothes only a few weeks after having DD, mainly due to breasfeeding. It uses up loads of calories and when your baby latches on you can physically feel your uterus contracting. According to the midwife mine was back to pre-pregnancy size within 10 days. If you choose to formula feed then it will take a little longer. Do follow the midwife's advice about exercising afterwards. I religiously followed the exercise sheet when it was safe to do so, and found that my stomach muscles were back to normal pretty quickly.

If you end up having a section then you will have to be more careful and don't overdo it until you have healed completely.

There is nothing wrong with wanting to shift your baby weight but wait and see how you feel after the birth and don't put too much pressure on yourself.
I lost most of my baby weight in the first 2 weeks and after 6 weeks was 7lbs lighter than pre-pregnancy weight without doing anything other than breastfeeding.
Don't forget that it takes a while for your womb to shrink back and to lose all the extra fluid and bloating. I would give yourself some slack for the first 6 weeks then join slimming world if you still think you need to.