to think that slebs who lose their baby weight in 5 seconds " just running around after the baby"

[mummysaidno]

Are talking out their skinny arse's

[Antipag]

I put on about two stone with DS1 and it was hard to lose. I am from a family who don't lose weight through breast feeding, we seem to store fat lest we get caught in a desert and have to feed 500 babies for a month. Before DS2 I had been on steroids for a year for an autoimmune condition and was already heavier than I had ever been before so because I wasn't taking the steroids, I actually weighed less when i was 40 weeks pregnant than I had beforehand, but it still took me an age to get back to near pre baby weight. Plus my tummy muscles didn't knit back together so unless I have surgery, I will have to live with my pot belly forever. I also have an under active thyroid so my metabolism is snail paced. We are all different. I think it's great for women who are lucky enough to ping back or those who have the time/energy to work out and the willpower not to pick on food but I hate it when they gloat about it. (I'm not saying anyone has gloated here!)

[mantlepiece]

I'm another who just had a bump at the front for four babies!

Went straight back to normal after the births... ate like a horse and had an addiction to snicker bars during one of them too...

It must be down to rate of metabolism

[ProbationProbationProbation]

Said whilst rocking an angry teething 7month DD to sleep...

"Who the actual fuck has time to eat?"
Unless I start doing it in my sleep all measly three hours of it

[loofet]

I had 3 stone to lose after DC1. Had relied on bfing and 'running around after a baby' to lose it all. It didn't work. When he was 6mo I fell pg again. Ate sensibly and exercised so only gained a stone with her but that was 4 stone extra weight now. Then when she was 6mo pg AGAIN which was unexpected, once again another stone. So all in all 5 stone extra weight.

It was mainly the gluttony during my first pg and lack of exercise. But i'm certain if I didn't have three so close together i'd have lost the extra weight from DC1 after a year or so. Breastfeeding has never helped me lose weight though I've had to sort my diet out big style and have lost 1.5 stone in 5 weeks (still 3.5 to lose!).

I knew someone though who was tiny before her DS, had him and without breastfeeding or doing anything drastic she just pinged back to pre baby weight. You'd never even say she had a baby. So for definite some women are naturally blessed with that ability. But celebs have personal trainers and nutritionists, that helps a lot.

[loofet]

*Probably genetic. My mum had a hard time losing the weight after me too. She had to walk miles every day. It still took her a year, she had about 4 stone to lose. My family gain weight easily so only natural I do aswell. My DH is a pig and he manages to stay skinny. Jealous.

[Zoelda]

I'd also like to add that some people put on more weight than others while preg. Im carry like a fucking hippo and show from 6 weeks. Everyone was horrified the first time it happened.

[worsestershiresauce]

I'm 8.5 months pregnant and won't have any baby weight to lose. I've gained bump, and nothing else. In fact I swear some bits of me are thinner than before. I'm not genetically blessed, I'm just very active, and not a particularly big eater at the best of times. Acid reflux isn't helping me at the moment either. At ante natal classes I see a variety of sizes - and there are plenty who have gained far too much weight. It surprises me that midwives no longer weigh clients or advise them on healthy weight gain (at least mine doesn't). It may not be politically correct but it would help.

As for celebs, their body is their livelihood so they probably take more care with diet and exercise all the time, not just post baby.

[howdoyouknowjenny]

IABU to think that mums that don't lose all their baby weight within a year "just running around after baby"

Are talking out of their fat arses whilst eating a large slice of cake?

[mummysaidno]

Well bf didn't work for me , it made me hungry ! Also I have noticed they get no stretch marks. Yes I am a fat , green eyed monster that has a belly like London underground tube map .

[howdoyouknowjenny]

The no stretch mark thing on the other hand is definitely because slebs are the work of the devil, no other possible explanation. (I may very possibly also have a London Underground map on my belly)

[FreakoidOrganisoid]

Most of them diet and exercise before pregnancy, they eat healthily during pregnancy and keep up moderate exercise, then they exercise afterwards too.

It's not restricted to celebs. My friends who took care of their bodies before they got pregnant are exactly the same (I am not one of them although I did lose the weight very quickly)

[RubyGates]

Of course it helps if you can employ a personal trainer, a chef to provide calorie perfect meals at regular intervals. A cleaner so you can spend time at the gym without deciding which vital thing to do while Baby finally sleeps , and a nanny so you can actually get to the gym (you don't think they're "running after the baby" themselves do you? . And you can afford surgery if it all goes a bit pear-shaped.

I was back in my size 6 stretch jeans less than a week after DS1, so I know it does happen, but it doesn't happen with such alarming regularity.

[DesperatelySeekingSedatives]

I thought they were talking out their arses too. I put on over 3 stone with DD (depression while pregnant made me eat loads and I was retaining not only a 9lb baby but loads of water too apparently). Took me 2 years to lose the last stone and a half I had left.

DS on the other hand was a different matter! Less than 2st, 6lb 12 baby and stressed my entire pregnancy (threatened with homelessness and redundancy as well as relationship problems) and as a result only ate because my mum and friends made me eat. Was a approx 3 days before I could fit comfortably back into my size 10 jeans. If it makes anyone feel any better a year and a half after having DS I'm not a size 10 anymore

[Bunbaker]

"O that will be the breast feeding , gets you to size zero in no time"

Well it worked in my case. I was back in my pre-pregnancy jeans when DD was 3 weeks old. You don't have to eat for 2 when you are pregnant - I couldn't. DD took up so much space in my stomach cavity that I felt full after I had eaten half a plateful. I didn't diet, but I did a lot of walking pushing the pram up a steep hill. I also did a lot of stomach exercises after the MW gave the go ahead.

My sister put on 4 stone when she was expecting my niece. IMO you don't put on that amount of weight unless you eat like a glutton.

[Zoelda]

Urgh. Seriously, sometimes it is just the way you carry babies!

As I keep saying, I put on five stone and four stone with my pregnancies. I am a slim, extremely fit and active woman. I use a personal trainer throughout my pregnancies. I eat extremely well and have a balanced diet. I lost all the weight between pregnancies and all but 4lbs the second time. But I put on MaSsIVE amounts of weight and looked like a heifer after I had the babies (c sections).

You cannot attribute this to my eating too much. I didn't. And I didn't have GD.

[mrsjay]

it is all sensible eating though isn't it no dearie you have a personal trainer living at your house and wakes you up with a megaphone every day, tbh I dont think celebs are like normal new mums if they have to appear on telly or whatever it is all to do with how they look, it is really really shallow imo