Anyone else short????

[slipperyeel]

I'm 5ft 1 or 5 ft 2 depending on who measures me and my God it's getting hard to stay slim now I'm over 40.
I was always tiny until I had kids and ballooned to 10st 7 from a pre pregnancy weight of 7st8.

I'm gradually losing weight (mfp) on 1200 calories a day but it's slow going. I'm at a nominally healthy BMI now weighing 9st11 but don't think I'll be slim again until I get back to 8stone something.

Anyone else???

You are my people!

I'm 5ft exactly and currently weigh 10 stone 10 pounds.

I am fitting beautifully into my new size 10 jeans but the number on the sales bug me. Normally I can decided that I'm going to eat healthy and do it, no problem. At my 5 week postnatal check with DD 1 was 13 stone 11! (A pregnancy with sickness only eased by mainlining carbs and a separated pelvis saw off any fitness goals) she's 8 months old now so I've lost a lot and I'm proud of that but for some reason o just can't get my head into it this time.
I've given myself a stern talking too every morning and then only hours later I'm reaching for chocolate and a third breakfast!

I am breastfeeding and boy does she eat! She's suckles all night whilst we both co sleep but I wake up with hunger and thirst like no other. She does have solids but only a tiny bit, she's still very milk hungry.

I would try 5:2 but I don't think I can whilst breastfeeding and although I've done slimming world loads of times with great success, after about 6 months I get really low and fed up thinking that I have to do this plan for the rest of my bloody life or it's going to go back on, I can't sneak a chocolate bar without it showing on the scales and then o suffer a week of anxiety at getting weighed, it's manners and not healthy. I'm only 28! I don't want to be following a 'plan' for the next 50 years.

I try and do a small amount of something everyday be it excersise bike, walking or swimming but I have Elthers Danlos Synderome and any more than that and I end up incredibly unwell.

I'm not sure what to do at the moment, I'm scared that if I carry on as I am I'm going to have a real problem with my weight but like I said before I just can't seem to get in that headspace to say no to my craving for sweet things.

Sorry, I appear to have killed the thread with my self indulgent rant, please ignore and carry on chatting.

I don't think you should diet when breast feeding and nor should you over eat. I only started after I stopped breasting. You and your baby need all the vitamins you can get. I remember my Hv telling me to take supplements to prevent my bones being affected. I was a size 12 when breast feeding.

4ft 11" and 12st 8 :(

I'm 5ft 1 and my natural build, I thought, was slender. I was tiny into my mid 20s. I now wish I had done something when I went from tiny to "normal" - I was slightly underweight initially - and now I'm very overweight and losing at a really rubbish rate.

I'm 40, haven't had kids.

only comfort is that my mum got smaller again in her 40s and after menopause. But I struggle because I love to work out but feel really I should be on 1200 cals as normal, not as a diet, but find it hard to workout on 1500!