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!

Worra that would be an amazing twist

I know a couple of "celebrity mums" who had liposuction and tummy tucks just after giving birth. Then they are in magazines going on about how they have a healthy diet and mild exercise....

I lost loads of weight in the first few days after my vaginal births. Mainly baby, placenta, fluid etc. With my c-sections I weighed the same when I came out of the hospital as I did when I went in, despite having a 7lb baby, placenta etc taken out of me. No idea why but my mil was the same.

I had both my children in my 20s, gained no extra fat whilst pregnant and my stomach was flat immediately after giving birth
I remember the midwife remarking on it with my second child .......she said 'look at your flat stomach!' straight after the baby was delivered

I have no idea who she is but come on, give her a break!!! Her body, her business.

With ds1 and 2 I went from 9st 10 to 7stone by the six week check up. I didn't diet or exercise ( too knackered and was breastfeeding so needed to eat ) I just lost the weight.

@Alisvolatpropiis you wouldn't believe all the nutritional supplements that claim that they have it all, only for the label to disclose a very different situation on close reading. Very few are actually "complete", and pregnancy requirements are massive.

Within a week of having DS, I was back to my pre-pregnancy weight. I didn't do anything. It was just most of the weight I put on during pregnancy was baby-related.

@ArbitraryName this is so true! I had my first at a similar age and slipped straight back into a 28 inch waist jean

Fast forward 10 years and i'm pregnant with my second and at 35 weeks I'm just over 12 stone so I would imagine size 16 joggers this time post labour

@Zapdos

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

Why? Why did you cry?

Re the OP. I don't believe for a fleeting SECOND that someone has lost 2 stone since giving birth. But from the way it's worded.... 'since giving birth' does she mean she is 2 stone lighter than she was the day before she gave birth? Or 2 stone lighter than she was the day AFTER she gave birth.

Either way, I don't believe it.

My daughter is one of those young women who can wear her pre-pregnancy clothes within days of giving birth. She does nothing to make it happen. It just happens.

Chocolate

I was agreeing with you, the face was at her claims Herbalife is the full nutritional package. They and she, are full of shit!

7 months in, and I've lost somewhere between 20-25kg and 2 dress sizes from my pre pregnancy weight.

Not been trying. Walk a lot with kiddo in the sling, and probably burn a decent amount through that and breastfeeding. My diet is broadly the same.

Sometimes these things happen.

(Note I was very obese pre-pregnancy and now still overweight, but barely)

Probably not the case with this woman but certainly If your pregnancy weight was mainly baby/placenta/fluid retention then you would probably drop a lot of that very quickly after birth. Not everyone puts fat on (although is perfectly normal to). If you were very active fit and sporty pre pregnancy and had to stop you might put actual weight on and find that took longer to lose. But if like me you weren’t a big excerciser, weren’t very skinny (size 14) loved drinking wine and cooking and going out for lovely big meals and then got pregnant and very very sick throughout you’d find you really don’t put much weight on in pregnancy beyond the baby. I’m 17 weeks with DC2 and I’ve lost some weight so far. I put on more weight than pregnancy AFTER DS1 was born in the lying around at home with a sleeping baby on me eating junk food with one hand phase! I’d lost a stone in the week after his birth and aside from my belly not fitting in things wore some pre pregnancy stuff right away. I put weight on over the next year!

Also my mother is a tiny woman, just 5 foot in height and small framed. She was max 8 and a half stone when she gave birth to me and after a week in hospital she left in her pre pregnancy jeans. She didn’t do anything to make it happen.

Basically yes flogging diet shakes at a couple of weeks post birth isn’t great. But also generalising about all women who drop pregnancy weight quickly being body obsessed and not spending time with their baby is also wrong. Every body is different and every pregnancy is too.

I lost 2 stone straight away, between baby's actual weight and a tonne of water and expressing every 2-3 hours. Unfortunately I put on 3 stone whilst pregnant

MissDuke "business" being the mot juste there if she's flogging snake shakes off the back of it...!

Given she barely looked pregnant is no surprise she's back to how she was.

I’d say giving birth is the fastest weight loss plan there is. Aside from amputating limbs I can’t think of another way of losing a stone or two pretty much instantaneously.

Remove a large baby, large placenta, pints of fluid (visibly) and pints of fluid (retained) throw in the marathon of labour, zero appetite and being awake 24/7 with a baby sucking calories out of you I’d be surprised if someone didn’t lose significant percentages of their body weight.

hiphopchick asked :

@Zapdos

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

Why? Why did you cry? confused

Probably because she had PND and someone thinking you should be all cheery because you've lost weight seems just so trite.

I was pretty skinny 5 months post partum. Back at full time work, knackered, husband being an arse (long, long story).
When some random colleague suggested I was trying to lose weight I also wanted to cry. That was THE LAST of my concerns and it just felt so shallow. If it had come from a place of a concern from one of my friends then it would have been different, but this woman was someone who had her own body issues and conveyed them to me.

Mainly I just couldn't be bothered with her, but I can see why someone would cry.

Hiphopchick why do you refuse to believe it?

This is 28lb of actual baby weight, not 28lb of fat.

She's young, fit and slim by the look of her, so losing actual baby weight and not what we've come to call 'baby weight' - i.e weight gained during pregnancy by overeating/eating junk, is entirely possible and believable.

I was not overweight when I got pregnant. I had DD at 35 weeks having gained nearly 2 stone, and we were in hospital for 10 days. I came out of hospital weighing the exact same as I had been when I got pregnant.

Of course it's possible!

I ate normally.

i lost about the same of not more - most was just water. Different people lose different amounts. I dont know why she would boast about it to be honest. I dont even know who she is!

My ds is 15 and I definitely haven’t spring back!

@hiphopchick why dont you believe it? bizarre. You dont believe different women lose their pregnancy weight differently?