Emma McVey - 28lbs Weight loss 10 days after giving birth

[2ndTimeMother]

Just been reading about Emma McVey in the paper - she has managed to lose 28lbs just 10 days after giving birth & is back to the weight she was before being pregnant!

Now I don't really care about celebrities & the stories printed about them. I always think each to their own & whatever makes you happy, but this has really got my goat!

AIBU to think that this is completely ridiculous? Why the hell would you be so concerned with losing weight straight after giving birth? Surely you would have more important things to think about & you'd be enjoying your new baby!

I was 9st7 when I got pregnant in May with twins, I put on 4st4 total. My twins are now 15 days old and this morning I weighed 10st2 so I have lost 3st9 in 15 days with zero effort apart from breastfeeding and horrendous night sweats. Sure I still have a big pouchy belly but the weight is falling off me as it was mostly babies and a LOT of fluid retention.
So anyway I totally believe this story... it’s good luck and genes and perhaps breastfeeding too.

Wouldn't!!

Oh for goodness sake. The last thing I was thinking about 10 days after giving birth was whether or not I had returned to my pre-pregnancy weight. Good for her! That's great, really. But at 10 days post partum, I was definitely so tired I could barely see & still popping ibroprofen and paracetamol for the old stitches.

If she weighed herself before going into labour, then had diarrheoa in early labour, vomited in late labour, had a 8 lb baby and 7lb placenta, pph of 800 ml, then sweated and urinated the excess water, and then had a 5lb post-birth shite - well, that's well on the way to 28lb lost.

When I went to have my stitches removed when DS was 5 or 6 days old, I had lost 10kg. But DS himself was nearly 5kg and I had so much fluid retention. But then I'd gained 25kg during the pregnancy so was hardly back to my pre-preg best.

I just googl d her as I have no idea who she is.
She does have a small bump but a long body, a bit like the duchess of Cambridge.
I do think she is exaggerating the 28lbs. I would imagine she put on a stone, mainly baby whilst pregnant.
She is part of the instgram generation who always try to look perfect & she's basically got something to flog.
I just feel sorry for other mothers of her age who may think she his is real....

I'm not sure it's possible to lose 28lbs of fat in 10 days, even if you ate absolutely nothing. 1 lbs is around about 3000 calories - if the average person eats 2000 calories a day (for the sake of a nice round number), you couldn't lose that much even if you ate absolutely nothing. Ergo, either she is lying to make women feel bad about themselves, or loads of it was water that her body had retained.

I lost 24lb in the 14 days after giving birth (but I did put on over 4 stone. However, I was retaining a lot of Water so i literally peed the weight out! Was eating and drinking loads as well as had never been so hungry and thirsty!

That has to be a typo, or an exaggeration!

There’s no reason to assume that the 28lbs were fat.

I bloody wish I was one of those who lost weight through breastfeeding. First few months maybe, but not anymore.

After I had DS1 people made a big fuss over how quickly I 'lost' my baby weight. It was a combination of not really putting any baby weight on (apart from the actual weight of the baby/fluid/placenta etc) and horrible PND which meant I had no appetite at all.

I was stopped by a man in the street who asked how old DS was (5 weeks or thereabouts). When I told him, his response was "well you've managed to shift the baby weight quickly, haven't you? Well done!" I started to cry, which hopefully put him off making such idiotic comments to strangers in the future.

I was 10 1 when I got pregnant (but drank lots of wine and ate shite)

I was 9 1 when I left hospital with DD..... I genuinely ate so much better and drank virtually nothing (small glass of wine once a week from about 28 weeks). I was healthier than I am now.

I lost it all almost straight away due to being so uber paranoid about being healthy in pregnancy and no alcohol , junk food, anything that wasn't nutricious etc... the weight was the baby and placenta only more or less.

I had a flat stomach five days after giving birth! All baby weight gone. Genuinely ! I took a photo I was so shocked. And I had massive boobs for first and only time in my life. Ahhh glory days. I'm a skinny bugger naturally though, I lost so much blood I had also this 90s pale chic about me too 😂 I looked hot! 6 years down the line though.... sigh. Anyway.

From the size of her bump I'd venture she had very strong core muscles to begin with, so (again like the Duchess of Cambridge) would, anecdotally, have had an easier time "springing back".

I had no idea who she was until I just Googled her though

Same here Quim, in fact my first thought was I think she's my local Cllr

She isn't, obviously

I was quite careful about the weight I put on during pregnancy. I went from 10 - 12 stone over the nine months. I was 10 stone 4lb about 2 weeks after I had DD. I didn't do anything special after I had her - just normal mum stuff! It was just that healthy eating was an ingrained thing by then. Then she didn't sleep and I was back up to 12 stone again by the time she was 18 months old. I've been fighting that 2 stone over since. I lost is all 3 years ago and kept it off for a long time but it is back now! It has to go though - I'll just go back to eating as I did during pregnancy!

I was one of those freaky ladies whose bump literally disappeared as soon as baby was out. I looked like I'd never been pregnant. It was actually very disconcerting for me (I felt like I'd never actually had a baby and the labour was all a horrible terrifying dream). I actually weighed a few pounds less on discharge than I did before I was pregnant.

Mat leave made up for it though! I put on about a stone in the year after DS was born and then have spent the past year losing that stone again.

There's about 7.5 pounds of baby weight, 1.5 placenta weight, average 4 pounds amniotic fluid, up to 9 pounds in extra blood and lymph fluid, 2 pounds in uterus weight, 2 pounds in breast tissue. A total of 26 pounds. So she lost a grand total of 2 pounds in that time and should be sued for deliberately misinformation to sell her shakes. Not to mention that she risked her baby's development by not having enough nutrients during the pregnancy, but I doubt SS will be interested in that

I had someone question whether my newborn son was mine when, about a week post birth (can't quite remember exactly for some reason!) I simply did not look like I'd had a baby.

Didn't put any extra weight on so once baby and water had gone I was back to pre-preg size (with plenty of loose belly skin of course!).

It happens. Certainly didn't try and didn't show off about it. Yeah, it was nice to get into my regular clothes, but not really because I was that size, more than they were MY clothes.

Shes obviously comparing her weight loss just before giving birth. Theres no way shes lost 28lb of weight from what she weighed after giving birth. Thats quite obvious to anyone with half a brain by looking at the size of her. She is tiny and was tiny at the end still with a tiny bump. So really trying to sell shakes by saying she's lost 28lb which likely is the weight of the baby, placenta, blood volume, fluid loss is a total con.

Not only do you lose the weight of the baby, the placenta and the amniotic fluid at birth; in the days following birth, the extra blood your body has made to do all the extra work of pregnancy is dumped into your tissues as fluid, and from there you just wee it out. So you can lose a decent amount of weight in that first week without even trying.

I weighed less after giving birth to my first than I had pre-pregnancy. My second? Definitely not!

Ah but she did, Chocolates! She had Herbalife shakes so all the nutrients required

If she's flogging sugar shakes then class every word she says as a lie and you won't be far wrong.