To wonder how soon you started to diet or whatever after having a baby?

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Quick background. Dc 2 is 20m. I gained 2.5 St with her. I never really lost it.. Pure laziness.
Now 32w have only gained 7lb..but in my eyes that's 7lb on top of the 2.5 St.
I have always been bigger but 4 yrs ago I got to a size 10. Felt great.
I want to get to a 12..
When is best to start after baby..
It's making me feel crap.

Dd was 3 and a half and i got down to within half a stone of my goal before gettong pregnant again. Dd2 is due monday - going to start being sensible on 5th jan and start serious dieting at 6 month when i start the weaning process (planning to ebf)

Pretty much straight away and lost 4 stone.

I put on loads after DC1, then after I had DC2 I planned to give myself one years grace ( while I was breastfeeding) then diet. I actually started my diet after 9 months, but have lost all the weight and then some, feel great now!

Personally I think the biggest thing to make you feel better is to stop focusing on clothing size and lbs, ditch the scales and instead focus on changing your eating and exercising habits long term. Changes to your figure and mood will follow. Best way is find something you enjoy so you maintain it, going on a hugely restrictive diet and extreme exercise won't help your mood and you'll not be able to keep it up. Put a plan in place once you know where you're at post-birth (everyone's different) for short term and long term goals and remember you are growing a human so don't put too much pressure on yourself! My hubby does running and did the couch to 5k, lost 6 stone in the process and now he's running half marathons regularly and gets a buzz from it. I started post birth with gentle pilates and graduated to rock climbing recently (DD is 14m). I gained 3 stone, all gone now finally if you want the figures (realised at 13m when I got weighed for a work health exam 😂!)

Once I had my last baby (4 DC in four years) I began dieting when my youngest was four months old. He was ebf but my milk supply was well established. Lost three stone in three months! Good luck.

My absolute honest best advice? Go meat free.

I was an avid meat eater, I started with trying 2 meat free days a week and then it escalated. I still eat meat if I go out, but when im giving myself food its all meat free.

The benefits ive found are that it makes you think about what your eating, and it makes me feel good after a meal rather than slumping into the sofa. Ive lost a bit of weight (but then I didnt have that much to loose) and generally feel so much better in myself.

I dont want to sound preachy or anything, its just what ive found has done me well

Pretty much straight after. Found it easier on maternity leave to come time to cook and exercise.

Didn’t diet. Breastfed exclusively for 6 months then kept feeding alongside food for another year. Lost all the weight and then some.

Thank you. Meat free is an option tbf 8 generally only eat chicken anyway.
And never get that slumpy feeling. I'm always on the go.
I do often snack on the wrong things. But last time I made sure I brought the treats that I don't like much but everyone else does.

I wanted to start dieting straight away but think that's unrealistic?

About 13 years

About 12 years or so.

7 years. Seriously. Only way i can lose weight is sticking to 1300 calories a day and eating a chocolate bar every night.

I gained almost three stone with each pregnancy. It had gone by the time each child was 9 months old. I didnt diet. I just ate what i normally ate. I also EBF which helps massively.

One week after baby. Ive always ate very healthy anyways. Junk food makes me feel pretty crap afterwards.

I had winter babies, so around three/four months, when it was spring. I did WW and ate the calories that BF burns, on top.

I wouldn't advocate WW now, though.

You've got o find what works for you. I'm presently losing weight by giving up processed carbs and rarely having potatoes.

My choice of exercise has always been walking and weights. I can't take to anything else.

Weights do a lot in terms of changing your body shape.

My DD waited around 14 months. Joined a gym, had a PT Session and has gone on to do martial arts. She stopped BF around 18 months.

I think the BF and exercise helped burn body fat.

I didn’t diet, I carried ds in a sling, so the calorie-burning effort was gradual. At two weeks he weighed 9lb so easy to carry. At 9 months he weighed a tonne and so carrying him in a sling all day meant I burnt off the extra weight. Plus I bf which helped a lot.

For everyone here saying breastfeeding helps, I’m afraid that’s not always the case. I’m currently 9 weeks postpartum, ebf and am a stone above my usual fighting weight.

I’m eating healthily and I’ve started to go back to the gym for the last couple of weeks (rowing) as well as buggy walks, but I just feel that my inner pilot light (metabolism?) isn’t what it should be. Haven’t lost any more weight since the initial post birth drop.
This is my second child...in my experience with first, I didn’t (couldn’t) lose any weight until I stopped breastfeeding. Very odd!

DD is 5 months and have lost just over 2 stone so less than a stone to go.

I put on 2.5 stones with my first as well. Nearly due and have put on the same. Obviously I wanted to lose weight but so much of it came off effortlessly from fluid loss and breast feeding. The last few pounds were off by the time he was maybe 4 or 5 months. Breastfeeding made me hungry and thirsty. In the crazy first few weeks, I definitely wasn't eating enough. Not deliberately! Just felt like I couldn't prepare food while DS was crying. That changed of course.

Planning on breast feeding again and hoping the weight will all be off by max 9 months later.

In contrast, to the other poster who went meat free. I always found lowering my carbs, eating more veg, protein and fat helped me.

My last child was born 4 months before my 40th. I was determined to lose the baby weight by then. 4 weeks after the birth I joined slimming world and ate myself slim whilst breast feeding. You can follow slimming world whilst breast feeding and pregnant. They adjust your intake.

I waited to see if I lost weight breast feeding but that was a myth . I was asked to be a matron of honour and when the dress I picked came in the January when my DS was 1 it didn’t fit I started then (I was 4 stone heavier) by the September I was back to a size 12 and I had to get the dress taken in but it took dedication and 4 years later 2 stone went back on. Diet and exercise before my 40th and school reunion back to a 12. Still a 12 but at least a stone heavier now due to surgery this year but I am better maintaining than I used to be.

I couldn’t lose weight until I stopped breastfeeding. As above, my metabolism massively slowed (and also I was starving all the time).

Daughter is nearly three and I’m getting there, terribly slowly!

My ds (dc2) was born 6 weeks ago and I’m back to prepregnancy size and weight. I made sure I didn’t gain too much, like you have, and I’ve made sure we’ve gone for at least 30mins walk every day since he was a week and I’ve tried to eat healthily.

No diet and those 30mins walking at first was not far at all because I was so slow! But good habits have meant that it’s been easy to get back to it. So I imagine those 7lbs will easily go again. Then the 2.5 stone will go slowly over time.

Don’t rush at it but if you stick with walking, eating well and, if you can/want to, breast feeding it’ll go in sensible time x

I’ve just seen some people say breastfeeding made things worse. I’ve found the opposite with both dc. But you do have to avoid your cravings because it makes you crave cake and sugar like mad!