Losing Baby Weight

Hello!!

My name is Michelle, I am a mother of 4 just had my 4th in November a little girl... I had my first two children very young and recovered very well, lost almost all of my pregnancy weight right away. We waited 8 years for the third and I gained a monterous 80 pounds!!! I had only lost 25 pounds(at the most) in 5 years and then found out I was pregnant with my fourth. Through the pregnancy I ate very healthy and watched my weight. I am still overweight and need to lose what I had gained almost 6 years ago I've been at it on MFP for about 4 weeks and have lost 10 pounds so far. I still have 48 more pounds to my end goal

so i just had a baby 9-14-09 and well im at 150 trying to get down to 140. my goal is to try to lose atleast 5 lbs a month. but how often do you workout. i have a 5mnth old and a 2 1/2 yr old. so when i workout for more than 45 min i feel like i am avoiding them i guess and i work full time. so how often do you workout?

I did it either before she wakes up or after she goes to bed or naps.!!! Just hang in there. I am still dropping the weight even though I am down to 1114.

Kristin, try A&D for the Diaper Rash, usually clears Mason's up within a day (it's a little smelly, but works great).

I've hit my 10% mark! 10% lost!!!!

Hi gals,
I had the LONGEST day at work today and go home super late. Luckily, my husband took care of dinner! As I mentioned before, I'm doing P90X, so I was supposed to do my scheduled workout tonight. I can't tell you how much I did NOT want to do it. It's cold, rainy, and honestly, I just wanted to sit down and polish off a bottle of wine. But.....I did my workout!!! Not one of my best days, but who cares, at least I did it!!!! I feel much better now and at least I don't have to feel guilty for the rest of the night....
This isn't easy, it sure does take commitment, especially after a long day!
That being said, my "fat pants" were loose today! YAY!!!! The scale is moving slowly, but I know I'm losing inches. It's so great to see results - keeps you motivated!

Kristen - Congrats on your awesome results so far!!!!!
Jess - I'm an account manager for a healthcare company - and one of my clients is in H-burg. I talked to someone there today and she was bracing for the storm, but nothing yet. Hope you're not getting too much snow!

Well, I'm going to go watch the Biggest Loser!
Catherine

the shots are the worst but i learned an awesome technique! shelby and i got our H1N1 shots together and i went first so she could see that i could do it without crying. so when it was her turn she didn't even cry! and then her last round of shots for 18months worked out great. she got 3 and cried for barely 30 seconds and then was over it. stickers really help toO! :-)

Hello! I have a seven month old I carry around all day, not to mention this extra 40 lbs that I have not been able to lose! I am no longer nursing my son so I am really hoping to shed some weight. I think this site will help a lot but I worry that even if I lose the weight my stomach will still be saggy. Any suggestions on what to do?

Melissa,

One thing that has finally started working for me is not eating off the kids plates. I was finishing whatever they did not eat. i came from the clean your plate club, well now we have the dog cleans the plate club and that has helped a lot. Good luck

Michelle

Gooooood morning ladies!!!!

I am in such a dumb good mood right now. I just had a delish breakfast that was just what I needed. I got a good sleep last night and I am just feeling energized and refreshed! School is closed here through Tuesday, so 5 kids locked in the house is sure to change that, LOL. But they are having fun outside right now. One of the huge piles of snow I was shoveling onto runs right along our driveway. The kids mashed it down and made it into a sledding hill. It is higher than our cars! Probably about 8 feet tall when they started but now down to about 6 feet. I calculated that I burned almost 2000 cals yesterday shoveling snow (close to 4 hours). Cris, I went to a bunch of different websites with calculators that included entering weight. The results were pretty consistent among different websites. I believe the one I ended up using was from Sparkpeople. I think that gave me 532 cals/hr. I swear I can see a difference in the mirror this morning, but I am sure that is just my positive perception of my hard work . I cannot WAIT to weigh in tomorrow! How much snow did you get Cris? I am not sure what our final tally was here, it's hard to tell because the kids were playing in it all day, and there was a lot of blowing. I guess we've got a total somewhere between 3 and 4 feet on the ground right now.

Melb- I think the way your stomach will look eventually depends a whole lot on your genes. They say to look at your mother and it should give you a pretty good indication of how you will eventually look. I personally just have tons of stretch marks all over my belly. The skin is destroyed. I went quite a few years between this past pregnancy and the previous. I think 3 or 4 years afterward, the "flop" was gone, but the skin never got tight again. I long ago came to the grips that I would never again wear anything that showed my belly. Which is fine by me, there's a ton of cute tankinis out there. The thing I hate the most is seeing that floppy area under your shirt, and having it sag over the top of your pants in the front! I know no ways around it. No matter how much weight I lost, I always had it. It's something I guess you just have to come to terms with. At least for me, that's how it was. But every person is different! think the best you can do is tone up your abs, and wait for some time to pass to see where you end up. I don't mean to sound discouraging, this just has been my personal experience.

LOL, you never forget the first fall! I still remember my oldest's first fall. He was 6 months old, and sitting in the middle of my double bed. I was there with him of course, and knew better than to sit him on the bed and turn around to grab something, but that's what I did. Hey, I was young and dumb back then! (Now I am old and dumb ) Just that quick there he went and rolled off the side of the bed. He fell face down, with his arms and legs all sticking out like superman flying. He just landed like that and started crying. It was so cute that I must admit I giggled a little picking him up. But I was mortified and cried! I wonder if that's why he has turned out the way he has today

Shots are the worst, but my daughter Kira never cried from them. I guess she's just a toughie!

Good Morning Ladies!!!

Tomorrow is my weigh in day I have been sick all week so I have exercised that much or ate the well so I'm hoping that doesn't impact my weight loss too much especially since I just broke through my first goal...

Beside being sick I am having a hard time between work my commute home and 4 kids finding time to work out I do walk during lunch for 20-30 minutes but I'm thinking maybe that's not enough I should be doing more... I feel like my day is so jam packed that I don't have any time to do extra do any of you have any ideas on how I can work in a little workout?

cat1110- where do you get the baby age ticker? that is too cute

Michelle

How awesome. I just entered my dinner, and after entering line after line after line, I glanced down at my total for the day and was shocked to see I am only at 932. LOL. I guess I have some snacking to do tonight! That's sure not an awful thing!

Michelle, my name is Jessica. I keep meaning to add it to my signature, but I can't remember where I go to edit it. I know I would find it if I looked around, but I just haven't done it. My kids are as follows:

Austin: 11
Vance: 10
Kira: 9 (next week)
Avery: 7
Josephine: 5 months

We have talked about #6, but I don't know if I want to go there or not. It is so much fun to just have ONE baby. The others are old enough to help, and then there's only one to chase when they're wandering off and stuff as toddlers. If we had the room though, I'd probably say let's have 5 more It is crazy busy, but what would I do with myself if I wasn't busy scrubbing an entire tube of toothpaste out of the sink, or trying to figure out whose undies the dog is chewing on.

It's funny, because for whatever reason, I can't seem to remember that mich in michfitzhome is your name. I always think Michigan!

Michelle Owens- good luck at weigh in tomorrow! I am a Friday weigher too

Cat, I laughed out loud at Carter's back flip story. I can just picture how he must have looked falling off. It's a good thing kids are built to be parent-proof! LOL

I live in Dacula, GA,

Jessica I understand wanting 2 small ones to have each other, I love that mine are close in age, and i am with you I would have number 6, but not allowed to and IVF is a little more money than we need to be spending right now, I am just sad as the trips keep growing, i am not going to have a baby around for much longer. it goes by so quick.

off to watch some tv while i have some quiet!

Michelle

Hi Gals -
Looking for some ideas! Even if we don't get snow tonight, it is bound to be cold and icky and a great night to stay in and watch a movie. After eating healthy all week, I don't want to blow my diet, but would love some comfort food...or something that seems like a cheat meal, but it's not. Maybe a healthy makeover of a normally unhealthy meal.
Anybody have any ideas? The only thing I can come up with is a pizza on a wheat crust.....I would love to do something in the slow cooker, but the meats that usually get really tender are full of fat.
If anybody has any ideas, send them my way!
TGIF!!!!