POST-PARTUM PACK - October 24

skusky01

Hello every one! I am new to the group, I have a two month old and a two year old and I am finally ready to get rid of my baby weight. My family, especially my husband, are unsupportive, so previous attempts at dieting have failed miserably. I could use all the support you ladies are willing to offer!

dinnae

I'm just going to reply to this now, because I want to come back later and chime in! I have one helluva cold right now, and it's 11.22pm, and I NEED to get to bed, but I SO need this! LOL I'm 11.5 mos PP with baby #3, and have almost all of my baby weight still to lose. Am looking forward to joining the fray! I'll answer the questions tomorrow I hope.

carolina_r

dinnae - Welcome to the group!!! Looking forward to reading your response - hope the cold gets better soon!

skusky01 - Welcome! Sorry to hear that your family is unsupportive...Do they just make it hard to live healthier because of their own choices, or do they actually discourage you from what you are trying to do? I hope this group will provide you with some of that much needed support! Is there anyone that you are "friends" with on MFP that you know personally? Someone you could use as an "MFP partner" to check in with you daily? Looks like you could use something like this if you are not getting the encouragement from home.

feydruss - Well said!!! (As always, my dear...)

arlygyrl

Hi! My husband is neutral. He'll eat what I cook most times. He's not a vegetable person, so as long as there is some meat he's fine. Although it has been difficult this week because for the first time ever I'm trying to eat fruit, veggies, & grain only to jumpstart some weight loss. Normally i do low-carb. My mom and sister are supportive. Although at times my sister might eat something very tempting infront of me. I would love to have a partner to keep me accountable.

ally5586

hi may i join the group too. my children are 6 4 and 1 (last week) and it hit me on my baby's birthday that i was the same weight now as when i was 9 months pregnant - something seriously wrong there.

my husband is fairly supportive ( this time) but he has a lot to take in as i have only just admitted how serious my binge eating disorder is ( i can honestly say mentally im on the road to recovery now time to shift the damage) i was very good at hiding things for a long time.

i dont know anyone personally on MFP and would really love a weight-loss buddy. please get in touch it would be great to support someone full-time and motivation for me to do well

Lisahorstkamp

Does anyone know how to log breastfeeding as an exercise? Ive been trying to find it but i cant..thanks!
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carolina_r

Lisahorstkamp - You can do one of two things:

1) Add breastfeeding to your food diary - there are options for various situations - and it will subtract a certain amount of calories from what you have eaten.. i.e. My guy is also having solids, so I only subtract 300 cals.

2) If you want to add it under exercise, then you could just create a new exercise for yourself and call it breastfeeding The tricky thing is that it will ask you how many calories you burn for a given amount of time (and it is in minutes!!!) Good luck with the math there...I started off with putting it in as an exercise that was 100 cals per minute, and then I would just enter the number of minutes that gave me tha calorie burn appropriate. However, I got annoyed when it would update my wall with "burned 400 calories doing 4 minutes of breastfeeding"!!!! So, I switched to entering it into my food...

Hope this answers your question...good luck!

carolina_r

ally5586 - Welcome to the group!!! I'm sure one of the moms on here will be happy to partner with you! I would do it, but I've already got a few partners (and I just joined a challenge, which means a bunch of new people to monitor...:)

Lisahorstkamp

My husband wants me to lose the weight BUT he is skinny and is constantly trying NOT to loose weight. So we have opposite goals. This is very hard on me. He wants to eat chinese buffet and Cici's pizza at least once a week. And LOVES to eat cartons of ice cream in front of me. Our to be nice get the cookies I like, cook breakfast (eggs, biscuits, butter,sausage). I keep saying all I should have is a bowl of cereal, but he says he feels bad if he doesn't make anything for me.
My sisters, mom and friends tel me I'm looking great for JUST having a baby, but I want to just look good.

Lisahorstkamp

Thanks looking it all up the math I find was 2.5 ounces X his weight (8.13)= 22.04. This is the number of ounces I make a day for him for his weight. Then take that 22. 04 X 20 (number of calories burned with each ounce of milk made)= 440.8 this is the number of calories I burn each day breast feeding. This is a calculation a and not exact but it may help someone else. This only works if you are exclusively breast feeding.

McCallsmommy

Hello, friends!

Tonight, my husband asked me to not bring any sweets into the house! I was so thrilled, because I always use him as an excuse to buy myself sweets. I didn't really acknowledge it to myself until he said it to me tonight. So, now, when I'm at the grocery store, I can't tell myself I'm slipping the chocolate into my cart for my husband!!

carolina_r

Tonight, my husband asked me to not bring any sweets into the house! I was so thrilled, because I always use him as an excuse to buy myself sweets. I didn't really acknowledge it to myself until he said it to me tonight. So, now, when I'm at the grocery store, I can't tell myself I'm slipping the chocolate into my cart for my husband!!

Thanks for sharing this!!! So great to see your husband supporting you like this!! (And I like your honesty and sense of humour about the situation!)

My hubby brought home onion rings last night and ate them in front of me (he was at work late for P-T interviews, so I understand why....) Interesting thing is, I didn't want one! All I could think, when I looked over and saw him eating them was "ugh, I can't believe he is putting those greasy things in his mouth!" Two months ago, I would have asked him for some...:)

So, ladies, I NEED YOUR HELP! I have had my first week of the dreaded **plateau**...No weight loss this week, after a steady 1-1.5 lb drop since starting with MFP. Do you have any advice for me? Anything that has worked for you in the past? I have just started my first challenge here on MFP, and I guess the timing is kind of good - because the challenge gives me the motivation to try to tackle this problem head on (rather than just waiting it out).

feydruss

A week does not make a plateau, IMO. But I understand the frustration! I'm not expecting much this week. I've barely worked out the last two weeks thanks to injuries and illnesses. Boo!

I'm sure there are November challenges about to start up, or maybe we should make one of our own here on PPP? We could somehow incorporate our kids into it. God knows doing squats the other day holding one of my 20lb boys was fun (for him, not so much for me).

Jaytee79

okay ladies...the kids and I have been sick with colds for just over a week. So I haven't run since last Tuesday, and no Jillian Michaels to kick my *kitten*. I got on the scale today just to check...and I'm up 1 lb already. So I'm cranky and feeling sorry for myself. I need someone to give me a kick in the *kitten* please. Before I eat something I'll regret.....

carolina_r

feydruss - You are right...I shouldn't worry so much about just one week of stalled progress...Thanks for putting it into perspective!

Jaytee32 - CONSIDER YOURSELF KICKED!!!!!

carolina_r

Here is the link to the next thread...Happy Halloween to all those who celebrate it!

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/380993-post-partum-pack-october-31