Weight gain - I want to cry!!

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I met my husband 10 years ago, I was a size 8-10 and was for a while, I slowly crept up to a size 12 due to Covid and I actually preferred this size on me, then went a size 12-14 after my first baby in 2022, and now after my second baby who I had 4 months ago I am now a size 14-16 and I feel so sick and angry at myself! I am having to buy size XL 16 clothes, especially jeans and trousers and I feel so crap about it! I look big too, my arms, my belly, my chin, I’ve just gained all over! The crazy thing is I hardly eat, I don’t have time to really eat so I have no idea why I am gaining weight!! I have put on 5 Ilbs since after the birth of my baby so I am doing something wrong!

Has anyone else gained weight after children even though nothing has really changed or gained weight more after birth?! I feel like a don’t have time to go gym at the minute but I must do something about this asap because I feel disgusted when I look at myself. I actually want to cry.
Why am I not loosing weight but gaining when I eat hardly anything and always running around after a 3 year old and a baby!

Cut the booze
Weigh/measure EVERYTHING
If it's not on your plate then don't eat it
It's is not on any plate then don't eat it
No 'handful' of anything, you can't quantify it
Cut fizzy drinks
No grazing

My comment was made BEFORE op came back to clarify exactly what the breakfast consisted of.

@SpigTheFishno it wasn’t.

im not sure why anyone needs to cry over weight gain anymore with the medication available online. Why go through that trauma?

Wow, eggs on toast is not 2 breakfasts You have serious food issues.

Hi OP, there’s some good ideas on here to try and find out the cause of the gain which will help guide your options. For me my hormonal landscape completely transformed in (2nd) pregnancy which I didn’t find out until later. I couldn’t understand what triggered such huge weight gain when my eating hadn’t changed, coupled with inability to lose even with tried and tested methods that worked before. Also exhaustion and fatigue that went beyond the normal realms of sleepless nights with baby / toddler. Our hormones can honestly have such a massive impact on us and not just in weight but organ and brain function, everything.

Going back to thyroid and I see there’s a couple of pp with thyroid or suspected thyroid issues. When I started my journey to diagnosis one common thing I found others struggled with was the battle to get diagnosed, most GP’s are hopeless with thyroid stuff and it gets misdiagnosed all the time. Our health service is inadequate in recognising and treating thyroid disorders.

In my case my Dr was dismissive over several months and argued with me that my TSH numbers were ‘fine’ even though I was so sick by that point I could hardly stand, walk and developed slurred speech. Extreme fatigue, heart rhythm misfiring, swollen neck and couldn’t breathe lying down (one symptom of hypothyroidism is relaxing of the breathing muscles so your airways close). I had cognitive disorientation (what room I was in, how to dress myself) and skin became so dry it cracked and bled. I saw 3 different Dr’s at my GP and they were all useless.

It was when and only when the lab results came back from a blood test I had to specifically ask for and chase (discovered about when searching online in desperation) that I was begrudgingly diagnosed Hashimoto’s disease and given treatment. This was the thyroid antibodies test (my anti bodies were off the chart). It is not a standard test they do for thyroid and I had to convince my GP to order it.

An ultrasound scan later confirmed the advanced state of disease, basically thyroid had been eaten away. All this but my TSH was only elevated and Dr’s would have done nothing had it not been ‘proven’ to them with the TPO-Ab and ultrasound. nothing to do with the patients severity of symptoms.

I found out that every single cell in our body needs thyroid hormone to function. It explains how seriously ill we can get when starved of this vital hormone.