Post-natal weight making me sad

[nailsathome]

My baby is 14 weeks old. I'm only half a stone over my pre-pregnancy weight but it's all sitting on my belly and thighs and I feel disgusting whenever I look in the mirror. I can find anything to wear that I feels comfortable in and it's making me sad and angry.

I am exercising and I eat healthily most of the time but I'm breastfeeding and get really light headed if I try dropping my calorie intake too much.

I also have a 3.5 yr old DD and I am knackered by the end of the day as it is. My baby is a whinge bag and feeds constantly so I don't get an awful lot of time to myself even though DP is wonderful and shares the responsibility.

I'm snappy with DP because he keeps telling me I'm beautiful and not fat and he's upset that I call myself disgusting. I don't know what I want him to say

Anyone else feel/felt like this and what did you do?

Anyone?

oh nailsathome don't be so hard on yourself and listen to your DP, carrying the extra weight around the middle is to be expected and 14 wks is still quite early on for it to have gone.

While bfing I would hold off trying to drop the calories, you can still eat a health balanced diet and the extra calories will easily be soaked up making the milk needed.
Having another child to run around after it's no surprise you are tired and it won't be helping your mood, do you have family/friends near by that can take her out for a couple of hrs to burn off some daytime energy?

I carried around 2st extra for a couple of yrs after having DD1 (I did drop to closer to what I was to begin with but then piled it on again), with DD2 I'm about 8lb heavier and I don't like the way it looks but I know that over time it will reduce and I'm trying not to concentrate too much on what I'm eating right now.