Hello, could I join you here? I'm 5'3 and this morning weighed in at 9lb 6 (and a quarter). At 6 weeks post natal, at the start of February, I was 11 stone 2 (eek!) so am quite far into my weight loss journey, but finding it a bit of a slog.
My 'natural' weight is probably a touch over 8 stone (I'm quite small framed, size 4 feet etc), but I absolutely piled on the pounds in my last pregnancy - hyperemesis gave way, at about 20 weeks, to the kind of low level nausea that only eating could stave off, and this lasted until delivery (so I had almost another 20 weeks of really hitting the carbs). I remember saying to myself at the time that I'd just deal with the consequences later, but I'm finding the 'dealing' quite hard. And despite quite a decent weight loss to date, I'm still miles off fitting my normal clothes (bf boobs partly to blame!), and my "big" clothes are far too big, so I'm just slobbing about in yoga pants and feeling quite sad.
I did a month of Weight Watchers online at the start, which depressed me too much. Then I did a couple of months of 5:2ing which I quite liked, but stopped when I got a bad cold for a couple of weeks and the baby stopped sleeping. Now I'm just "trying to be careful" but considering going back to 5:2.
With my elder DCs I did drastic meal replacement diets (w8) to shift the last 10lbs or so, but I wouldn't do something like that while feeding, and I plan to feed her to at least a year. I don't really have a goal weight in mind this time either - just aiming for slim, and to fit into my old wardrobe (partly for financial reasons!). We're going on holiday in July, so that's quite a good motivator.