Has your contraception ever affected your weight?

[TheIckabog]

I’m just curious because I’m really struggling to lose the last of my post-pregnancy weight. I’ve upped the exercise and have cleaned up my diet and I should be losing weight but I’m absolutely not budging at all. I’m on a par with pre-baby exercise and eating, and I didn’t find it as difficult to lose/maintain my weight back then but I’m struggling now.

The only difference to then and now is that I’m on a different kind of contraception due to breastfeeding. Could this be a contributing factor? The leaflet that comes in the packet does actually list weight gain as a common side effect.

I’m just wondering if anyone else has found their contraception has made any difference?

Yes I think I had the same issue as you, different pill because of breastfeeding. I wasn't eating any more than before, in fact I probably had a healthier diet due to breastfeeding. I was doing much more exercise than before because I was on maternity leave so had time to do loads of walking. Still gained weight!

Are you still on that pill now? Or did you come off it and did you notice a change in your weight? My DD is turning one soon and I am sick of being a fat frumpy mum, I just want this weight off, but short of actually starving myself I don’t know what else to do!

I swapped to a different pill because it also gave me acne, I didn't really connect it to the weight issue at the time! The new pill has sorted the acne but I can't really say it's helped with my weight- but in fairness I have done minimal exercise over the last few months! And may have baked too much bread and cakes while on furlough 🙈 so I'm not a reliable example really!

It can I don't know if it has as I've been on various forms since 15 and have gained weight steadily. But that could just have been going from 15 to 25

I have found that Iv put on a stone of weight that won’t budge, and my contraception is also showing lots of other symptoms suddenly (intense mood swings, acne, feeling lethargic and strange periods)

However i have the implant so don’t know if they would affect the same.
I did breastfeed after my first for a long time and didn’t have birth control (condoms only when we did eventually have sex!) and lost a ton of weight. So it does seem strange that your weight isn’t budging.

Iv heard from other women that when they stopped their birth control they lost weight x