Poll: Did you lose weight while breastfeeding or after you stopped?

[Blondeinlondon]

Did you lose weight while breastfeeding or after you stopped?

Hi

Just stopped (after a marathon 10mths)3 friends that were also breast feeding lost loads of weight - I'm still waiting to loose my weight!!!!

I made a totally unselfish (or selfish, depends on how you look at it) decision not to diet until I had finoshed breastfeeding my dd2. I easily lost a stone in 6 weeks after I got her onto a bottle and I have absolutely no regrets about 'staying fat' whilst I was feeding or 'slimfasting' after I stopped. Each to their own, combine doing the best for your little one's with getting your life back.

Neither

Jumble, good for you for considering yourself as being 'unselfish' because you didn't diet when breastfeeding, but it does depend on what your definition of dieting. Medical advice is not to diet when breastfeeding. However, 'dieting' in this context means restricting your calories. This is not to be confused with eating in a healthy manner and doing some exercise; medical advice is to do both of these while breastfeeding for the obvious reason that you're passing your nutritious or otherwise food onto your baby. I would argue that breastfeeding while shovelling in the chocolate - and I was guilty of this at times - is not exactly to be congratulated on the grounds you're doing the best for your baby by not dieting.

I'm usually thin-ish, but NOT when I'm breastfeeding! I GAINED weight both timeswas ALWAYS hungryand concluded, along with several of my friends, that this idea that breastfeeding aids pregnancy weight loss was the biggest myth ever sold!

But I do know one person who went practically skeletal when she breast fed, so I think it probably works both ways & is one of those things that depends on the individual.

Both, lost weight while br'feeding & afterwards.
Not sure that the question makes any sense for people who do extended breastfeeding, though, does it really count as "before" and "after" when you've got down to just 1 feed/day for 6 months or so?

I put on a stone before my first ante-natal check and another 3 afterwards. I didn't lose anything breastfeeding, but that's becuase if unleashed I eat more than a small african nation on a daily basis.

Weightwatchers have got me down to a size 8, but I still mourn 'normal eating'. Jammy doughnuts RIP.

Tai Tai, think you've got the wrong impression, I've been a vegetarian for the past 20 years and have never been overweight in the obesity sense of the word, just was happy to carry an extra stone as an insurance method of making sure I had maximum milk. I also swim 4 times a week and did throughout both pregnancies and asap after both emergency ceasereans.

if i spoke about my weight issues on this thread i would don a tin hat first and then make a quick exit from this thread.

Oh, I eat for two while bf! Needless to say, no weight lost! In fact, think I have probably gained weight since having ds3

,

I gained about a stone over my two pregancies/breastfeedings (went straight from bf ds to being pregnant with dd) not sure when though. Lost it when I started to exercise about six months after dd. Tummy pretty much as it has always been, breasts sad and droopy

Nooka, sympathise totally with sad and droopy reference. My boobs shrunk to nothing after stopping bf dd2, and my tummy, whilst passing for normal when standing up, quickly disintegrates to waterfilled clingfilm as I noticed today when bending over the bath to wash my hair. Console myself by feeling sorry for all those young, fit perfect things that don't know the joy of using their perfect bods to produce something even more unimaginably perfect.