To ask how the hell I weigh less than I did before getting pregnant with my first child...

[ImABIGgirl]

I had my second DC early this year, and even though I apparently am lighter than pre pregnancy, I still can't get into my size 10 trousers/jeans, or my size 12 tops/cardigans. I'm size 12-14 for trousers and size 14-16 for tops now.

So please tell me how the bloody hell I weigh 48kg, when I weighed 55kg BEFORE EVER getting pregnant?!

I can't see where I've lost weight. Since having DC2, I have fat rolls on the back of my waist, my upper arms have become so chubby that the arms of some clothes get stuck. I have the inevitable mother jelly belly. My breasts are MASSIVE thanks to breastfeeding. So how the hell am I 48kg?

I never weigh myself normally, because I feel health isn't defined by weight, but DH weighed himself at Boots so I thought I'd do it too, and now I'm wishing I hadn't. Weighing yourself is a serious headfuck.

Btw, my height is 5ft4. So I'm not even a tall person. Just average, with an average build.

We had a thread a while ago where people said how tall they were, how much they weighed, and what clothes sizes they wore.

Even accounting for different sizes in different shops, it was very variable.

But 48kg at 5'4 is not very much at all - I think the scales malfunctioned.

Perhaps you have just forgotten how you looked or felt before, when you weighed more? Perhaps your memory is letting you down re how much you did weigh?

I'm not sure.
Before I got pregnant with dc3 I weighed less than I did pre-dc1. Of course I weigh a lot more now as I'm nearly 5 months pg but it's perfectly possible to have this much variation during your life - your metabolism changes, your shape changes and you probably are busier now than before you had children.

Btw I have no idea what is normal for your height.

I'm 5ft7 and weighed about 55 before this pregnancy. My BMI was about 19 I think. (only looked it up because of a thread on here)

My weight tends to vary between 55ish and 60ish. I may end up entirely different after this one though.

48 kilos is just over 7 1/2 stone.

At 5'4 the BBC BMI calculator puts that at underweight

You are probably not 48 kilos.

I would be very surprised if you are a size 14-16 and only weigh 48kg.

We need to see a photo of you!

In regards to your pants, I'd say your hips have spread. Regardless of your weight, you probably won't fit into your pants the same way ever again. Also, what about loose skin?

But agree, 48kilos is awfully small. I'm 5 foot 6 and at my smallest I was 58 kilos and classified as underweight. (won't say what I am now. ;P )

Trills, you're right, I think the scales MUST have malfunctioned!

LadyMargolotta, that's why I was shocked too!

I'm going to go and weigh myself again in another shop. We don't have scales at home for this reason.

I might add that at 55kg I was a 10, maybe an 8 occasionally.

I'm now around 60 I think and a 12 - which surprises me but I guess some of the weight is in the baby region, and maternity trousers are stretchy.

So being a 14-16 at 48kg sounds a bit odd.

In general it is possible to weigh less but feel "fatter", it depend on where you are carrying it, and of course muscle weighs more than fat by volume.

But in this case I think something was broken.

I am 5'0, weigh 57.7kg, which is a BMI of 25, and wear size 10 trousers at the moment, so I agree with others that maybe 48kg isn't accurate.

Having said that, my Mummy friends and I do feel our hips are wider after having a baby/babies.

Chunky than I would like to be atm mind you.

*c.hunkier even

Oh never mind, blooming phone.

Yes my hips do feel wider this time round. That may be partly due to suffering from SPD too.

My sister and friend both went up a shoe size after their babies, which I thought was weird.

Your bones all change position. My waist is larger now despite the fact that I weigh the same.

Your scales are broken, 48 kilos is only 7 and a half stone, which at your height would be about a size 6, your not 55 kilos (8 and a half) either, that would be an 8 - 10 (at the most) for your height, not 14 - 16. Get yourself a proper scales, there are some very accurate ones from weight watchers in Argos. Prepare yourself for a fright though. It's going to be a massive jump

The machine was definitely wrong. Weigh yourself elsewhere as you are bigger than your pre-pregnancy weight, not smaller.

Oh it won't be a fright bobbledunk! I know I'm not a super model!

it is possible - I weighed 46kgs a few months after DC2 was born (am 5'6") and looked shocking...I wasn't eating properly, was under stress and exclusively breastfeeding a very greedy baby.

am now 55kgs ish, and a size 8-10 (but some styles just don't suit me anymore, and I can't get skinny things over my thighs etc., so my shape has changed - also its 13 years since I was pregnant )

Ok, will be re-weighing myself today, and reporting back later!

I'm betting on the scales in this case. Do you have a friend with a set you can use, rather than going to another shop.

From what you're saying, you almost certainly have put on weight. Sorry!

Can I have your scales

4 weeks after giving birth I was a stone lighter than when I got pregnant. Was the slimmest I had and for years and I looked great. Same happened to a few of my friends its on. Uncommon to lose weight rapidly after birth. Shame I have put on a stone since then!

In your case its broken scales -sorry!

you aren't 48 kg.

Ooh dunno, but I have the same thing. Only one DC but for the four or five years prior to getting pregnant I weighed in around 61kg. When pregnant went up to 68kg.
20 months later, I am 53kg. (Thinking that when I was working, and going to the gym twice weekly, and jogging twice a week, I was flabby and my target weight was 55kg)

I haven't changed my eating habits, and don't own scales - I only weigh myself when at people's houses who have them.