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To think that a woman who still has pregnancy weight 8 weeks after having a baby is normal?

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speedymama · 31/05/2007 14:25

Just read an article from a magazine left on the train. It was about Mel B and it said that she had been to some event in Hollywood and still had not lost all the weight she had put on after having her baby.

She had a baby 8 weeks ago! I know that in La La Land most things are surreal but having a baby is as real as it gets and a woman's body will invariably gain weight. It takes 9 months to go on so why the modern unrealistic expection by meeja types for new mothers to look like they have never had a baby?

I wish more slebs who have babies would lose weight properly instead of indulging in unrealistic diets so that they can fit into tiny frocks agian.

Grrr!

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speedymama · 31/05/2007 16:57

Allgonebellyup, you're not Katie from The Apprentice by any chance. It's the kind of clap-trap that she would spout.

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anniemac · 31/05/2007 16:59

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allgonebellyup · 31/05/2007 17:00

OOh do you know i was watching Katie on the apprentice last night, and was thinking THATs my kinda girl!!! we have a lot in common dontcha know!!

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speedymama · 31/05/2007 17:02

I was carrying twins so let nature take it course. When I was 7 weeks I looked 4 months pregnant and I was eating very little because of morning sickness which I suffered for the first 16 weeks. Urghh!

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allgonebellyup · 31/05/2007 17:03

Actually did have chronic morning sickness for four months so prob why i was so skinny for rest of pregnancy.
It is amusing when you see pregnant women and their FACE has gone all fat and bloated. How the f**K does that happen?!!

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speedymama · 31/05/2007 17:05

Ahh, that's nature taking its course and preparing them for the final push.

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JeremyVile · 31/05/2007 17:09

Oh yes, how i laughed when i got 'pregnant face'
Good point though, how does it happen?

motherinferior · 31/05/2007 17:12

Oh please. It's total luck, actually. It varies also, IME, from pregnancy to pregnancy. It took me over a year to lose my first baby weight. It took me three months or less second time. Sheer chance both times.

sparklesandwine · 31/05/2007 17:20

i think its perfectly normal to take time to loose the weight in a slow and sensible way the most important thing is to look after yourself and your new baby not which clothes you can/can't fit into.

Saying that i have naturally lost my baby weight over about the course of a year with each one, with my first i put on 4 stone (was 9st to start) but after DS1 I went down to 8st without trying and people thought I'd gone on a crash diet an slated me My normal weight has stayed at between 8 and 9 st after each one though

allgonebellyup · 31/05/2007 17:25

Sparkles, yes i had the people laying into me saying "ARE you eating properly??Hmm?" after i had both my kiddies as the breastfeeding made me drop to under 8 stone, and im quite tall. Truth was, i was stuffin my bleedin face!!
i hated the way they assumed i was on some crash diet, when , no, im just actually feeding my baby the way nature intended!!

sparklesandwine · 31/05/2007 17:31

I know AGBU even people who new me said it and they criticised me for not eating when i was, which was quite hurtful at the time with my hormones etc the way they were so i stayed indoors quite a lot

allgonebellyup · 31/05/2007 17:36

i would love to be a wetnurse, or be permanantly breastfeeding, stuff myself all day long with choc cake and big Macs (which i did!) and still be a size 6-8!! i even used to be proud i looked like a page 3 model, with v skinny body and out-of-proportion enormous tits!!

sparklesandwine · 31/05/2007 17:38

lol yup me too tits have gone and waist has got bigger - unless you didn't guess i'm no longer bf (now actually on diet instead!)

motherinferior · 31/05/2007 17:38

errrrrrwell, believe me, it's equally depressing if you're still hugely fat.

Judy1234 · 31/05/2007 17:39

I found part of the problem was the exhaustion of having babies makes you want to eat badly. I remember eating chocolate coins at Christmas during the 3am feeds. I went from about 9 to 12 stone with the twins and that wasn't all baby as they only just weighed a stone together.

sparklesandwine · 31/05/2007 17:40

Not saying it isn't Motherinferior and i suppose it may look like we're 'gloating' but can be a different side to it, sorry didn't mean to offend

allgonebellyup · 31/05/2007 17:48

sorry, also not gloating, am now sad to be bigger size 10 (even though its still slim) and not stuff myself with big Macs all day!! i worked out that when bfeeding i consumed around 3800 calories in one day!

obviously have weird genes.

seamonster · 31/05/2007 17:50

My mum came out of hospital in tiny 1970's jeans (size 8ish apparently) after having me and my brother. I have not been so blessed despite previously being thin and able to eat everything.

But fear not, Posh has brought out a diet book.

CorrieDale · 31/05/2007 18:15

I thnk Xenia has a point. Although I lost the baby weight within the first 8 weeks, I still had a heck of a way to go with the pre-baby weight, and only managed to start shifting it when DS began to sleep longer at about 11 months. And THEN I went and got pregnant. Please God send me a sleeper this time...

MadamePlatypus · 31/05/2007 18:22

I was watching that programme on Living TV about model mums a while ago and the doctor was advising the model to be induced 2 weeks early because her baby was so big - apparently it was going to be - wait for it - over 8 lb!

Judy1234 · 31/05/2007 18:26

I think it's the new post baby weight which is the hardest. I tended to eat better in pregnancy, no baby to look after, able to sleep, wanting the baby to be healthy but once it/they were here then you're exhausted and can eat much worse.

Rantmum · 31/05/2007 18:36

I had lost most of the weight by about ds's 9th month, but actually didn't shift the last 5-10 pounds until after that when I stopped bfing - I was SOO hungry the whole time I bfed and didn't feel I could safely diet.

Having said that, we try to eat reasonably healthily, so I did lose the weight without a "diet".

I suppose it would be POSSIBLE for a person to lose it more quickly if you are willing to suffer serious hunger pangs and put your health at risk.

HandbagAddiction · 31/05/2007 18:39

I have no idea how much weight I put on for dd2 but I do know that I had a real sweet tooth so it must have been a fair bit. After dd1 I did lose the weight quite quickly and was back in shape in 2/3 months. DD2 was a different story though and I knew I'd need help, so 7 weeks after she was born and still feeling very big and uncomfortable I started seeing a persnal trainer twice a week. Now 9 months further forward, it's cost me a pretty packet, but I've lost a stone and a half, have drastically reduced all my measurements, arms, legs, hips and waist, my body fat has reduced by 10% and can easily fit into size 10 clothes and in fact at the ripe age of 37, I'm probably in the best physical shape i've been in in years......

However that said, it still took 9 months of hard work and sensible eating.....

bamamama · 31/05/2007 20:19

Just read this thread and found I've eaten half a packet of biscuits in the process. Thank goodness it wasn't a really long thread... needless to say the baby weight is staying where it is.

Judy1234 · 31/05/2007 20:25

Just reading about 9 months of personal training was exhausting enough.