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.

I found the breastfeeding hunger outweighed any calorie lost!
But I started gently dieting from about 8.5m and it’s going well.
I’ve found I could do it until we were getting better sleep. I couldn’t summon the resolve to do it on tired days plus the associated cortisol makes it harder anyway.

Nearly Straight away after having a child but I just stopped eating food without nutritional value/ high calories (crisps,sweets,fizzy). If I wanted a snack fruit or nuts were at hand.

20 years

Immediately as having my insides all moved around during a c-section meant I could only eat small portions. Then a crying baby always knew how to interrupt meal times. Don’t own scales but was back in all of my pre-pregnancy clothes including jeans within 2 weeks.

Love how everyone is saying breastfeeding made them lose weight. It had the opposite effect on me. I’ve gained so much. It makes me hungry all the time and I’m much bigger than what I was when pregnant.

I agree breastfeeding makes you hungry but it doesn’t mean you can’t lose weight.

Little one is 8 months now and still breastfeeding.

I have been losing the weight slowly, didn’t go on a diet.

I just started walking more again as soon as I felt able and built it up slowly until I was walking the dogs as far as before.

The first couple of months I was very much for quick convenience foods due to having a demanding baby stuck to me all the time, but once she got a bit more settled I ensured I started eating healthily instead of snacking on cakes and biscuits and that speeded it along.

Still eat when you are hungry, just make sure it’s veg and fruit

It's been 27 years so far. But having two kids to wrangle and no car meant I was active enough every day anyhow - although I did relish my limited time at the gym, this was for mentally switching off and having a shower on my own more than for weight loss.

I started as soon as me and baby were discharged home. I had to go back to work at 6 months and we were completely skint - too skint for me to buy new work clothes. I breast fed and cut out all crappy food and tried my skirts on every week. I got the weight off with a fortnight to spare.

I think having a baby in general helps! I barely eat because dd screams unless she's held so I consider it a good day if I've eaten one meal. Although before I had my first I maintained a size 8 figure on one sensible meal a day and no snacks. Then after I maintained a size 10 figure on one sensible meal a day and no snacks! So I'm hoping I don't have to cut back further to avoid staying a 12 which is what I am with my newborn and I definitely look too big.

I agree breastfeeding makes you hungry but it doesn’t mean you can’t lose weight. it didn't make me hungry. I still couldn't lose weight, even eating 1000 calories a day or less!

I didn’t worry at all for a month, just decided to focus on adjusting to having a new baby, started half heartedly doing slimming world at 4 weeks (having done it before) then properly rejoined at 6 weeks, lost a stone and a half over the next maybe 2-3 months ish I think, and then completely plateaued, I’m EBF and just found I couldn’t help but give into the hunger pangs at times and have struggled to lose anything since then.
He’s now nearly 9 months and I’ve decided just to not worry till I’m back at work when I’m more organised with food, there’s less temptation than at home, and I’ll be doing more exercise as I’m on my feet all day.

I don’t think there’s necessarily a right or wrong time to start, if you’re intending breastfeeding I’d give yourself a few weeks to get settled with that first, then go from there

Almost straight away. DS was BF too which really helped.

I got my goal having lost 35lb when DS was 7months.

My exercise time is my head space time!

@AquaFaba of course your metabolism isn’t where it once was, or at its optimum- you’re a mere 9 weeks in. Your body has just grown birthed a baby!