Success Stories: Moms Edition!

I started in January of this year. I've had my ups and downs but I'm currenty doing Insanity and just started ChaLean Extreme on top of that.

I am a mother of twins and 2 singletons all delivered by C-Section

BEFORE: JANUARY 2, 2012


AFTER: JULY 9, 2012


SECOND ROUND OF INSANITY (MONTH ONE)


HOPING FOR AN AMAZING PICTURE BY THE END OF THIS MONTH!!

OMG! You are an inspiration!!!!!

I will be stalking this thread!! I am a c-section momma to a just-turned 1 year old baby girl! I am about 22 lbs away from my first goal, but ultimately would LOVE to get to 150lbs .

We have similar goals it seems. My youngest is about to turn 1 in about 2 weeks and I have about 20 lbs I want to lose! My oldest is about to turn 5 in January and both my boys were c-sections. Would love to have more friends on here with similar goals and stories!!! Gives me much needed motivation on down days

Great work mama's!

I had my 3rd baby January of this year, I have a 5 and 4 year old. I was overweight when I became pregnant w/#3. I'm 5'4 and I was 165 when I found out I was pregnant. I got up to 193.

As soon as I could, I started exercising and watching what I ate. I am at 141 right now, and my goal is 130. I'm doing the 30DS right now, and have ran and done other aerobic videos along the way. I'll post my pics after I'm done with the 30DS. I haven't been this fit and at this weight since before I got pregnant w/my 1st!

Mom to 5 (ages 13 down to 6), 37 years old, 5'6" tall.



Lost the weight since Easter by logging on to MFP, cutting out sugar and lots of processed food, and exercising (biking and c25k). I continue to run 3x's/wk on the track of a nearby high school. I've quit biking for now because I exercise when I get up in the morning, and it's too dark out at 5:30 to be biking on the road, even with lights on my bike, so I've been doing 2 rounds of the 30 Day Shred on the days I don't run. I take Sundays off from exercising. Still logging what I eat, but I'm slowly working on upping my calories.

You all look amazing! Thanks for sharing your success-very inspirational!!'

As of this week, 14 years and 5 months after I found out I was pregnant with my first, I can officially say that I have FINALLY lost ALL my baby weight (plus about 17 pounds I put on over and above that after my daughter's birth almost 11 years ago.) I still have some more to go to get to healthy range, but this was my first big benchmark goal and I have made it, most of it just since May (45 lbs. in 5.5 months when I started actually putting some effort into it plus 23 without really half trying or doing any exercise and only casual diet control in 18 months before that) And this morning....if it sticks....I am officially no longer "obese" -- just "overweight" in BMI. Time to call my doctor and make an appt to have this officially recorded so he will start thinking of new approaches to my knee and ankle issues instead of just blaming my weight.

I'm not quite a success story yet but I'm working on it! I was around 155-160 when I got pg with #1 and was just shy of 200 when he was born. Last summer, with the help of mfp, c25k & 30ds i was down to 129 & could fit back into my size 4 wedding dress. Then we started trying for #2 and I put on a couple lbs before finding out I was pregnant. Started pregnancy #2 at 136 and ended at 183. My daughter is 3 months & I am currently 143 lbs so I've lost 40 since delivering her I'm 5'5 (& a 1/2 )

These pics are AMAZING!! You ladies are all gorgeous & inspiring! If anybody wants more friends, feel free to add me!!

So many amazing stories on here!! Thank you to all the ladies who posted success stories and photos and good luck to all the mamas working hard at getting their pre-baby bodies back!
I'm almost at the one year mark after having my twin boys last November... I gained 55lbs with them and only lost 25 after their birth. Stuck at 193 for many months of breastfeeding... But at the 10 month mark I'd finished breastfeeding and decided the get serious with the weight loss! I'm currently down 12lbs so far and have another 38lbs to go to get to a healthy weight for me (5'6", medium build).
Good luck everyone!! :-). And if anyone's looking for a new mfp friend for support and motivation (especially fellow twin mamas!)... Feel free to add me! :-)

I also want to thank everyone who is posting for their inspiration and perspiration! I've had a bad couple of weeks, and am struggling to get back on the wagon again. It's good to be reminded that it can be done.

Anyone can feel free to add me!
My twin boys will be TWO (!!!) in a couple of weeks. I'm back at pre-pregnancy weight now, but that's 170 on a 5'2" frame. I've been overweight for a long time, so it's weird to think about being "normal." My next goal is to get 150, then we'll see from there. And yes, I have the dreaded c-section pooch too!

All you mamas are very inspiring!! Thank you for sharing your stories, I hope to be able to share my weight loss story within this next year!! Love this site!

I have a 7 year old little girl and a 5 year old little boy until I started losing weight a year ago for their entire lives I was 270lbs and above...they've never known a skinny mama til now ...and not only that I get to instill in my children a healthy lifestyle and all of the health benefits I have learned over these past 13 months so they will also be healthy adults!

I still have about another 41lbs to lose til I reach by goal weight, but I think I've done pretty good so far, and I will continue to do so for the rest of my life :flowerforyou:

I'm not close enough to a goal to post very interesting photos yet, but here's my MFP lovefest: I'm 5'7", was around 160 when I conceived #1, gained 55 lbs!, got back to 160 at one-year post-partum before conceiving #2 a year or so later. Gained 60 lbs!! to 220. Was around 184 within 6 weeks post-partum and stayed there for around 6 months, then lost only a few pounds over the the next year. I was fluctuating wildly between 173 and 180 despite sporadic exercise and what I believe was "being careful." Oh, and nonstop, extended nursing upon request up through today.

In mid-August of this year, when my daughter was 18 months, I buckled down and finally starting counting calories on MFP -- FOR REAL. Now I see that I was only fooling myself before that that I was really keeping track. I also began running in earnest then and got back to weight lifting, which I have always loved. With consistent tracking on MFP and regular exercise (4-5 days a week for three months now), I instantly started losing weight and kept losing it steadily. It really does feel like it's just melting off. I've lost about 13 pounds in 12 weeks and gone from size 14s (and lots of maternity clothes! <cringe>) to fitting in all my 12s and some 10s. I've also found that my body does not respond as drastically to indulgence as it used to. I'm eating net 1200-1400 and eating all my exercise calories (2000 a week), with an untracked overage day every week or two. I still drink beer and wine, I still eat cupcakes, I eat out all the time. I also have PCOS, which makes this a super uphill battle for me, but with MFP, it's been a cinch.

So I'm back to my pre-preggo neck of the woods, and I feel like continuing below that with MFP will be a breeze. It's so transparent! Unlike WW, which I did succeed with previously, but just couldn't commit to this time. It's just too much voodoo.

Wow.. there are some HOT mamas here!

I have 3 kids (6 years old and under) & I'm finally getting back to the weight I was before I had my first. I'm 6ft & before kids I weighed about 165. I got my body back pretty much straight away thanks to only gaining about 25lbs with my first, but with my second I gained well over 50lbs. I didn't let myself get any bigger with my third.. for the first 20 weeks I actually lost weight, so after I'd had him I was about the same weight as after my second. I got lazy, though, & put on about 10lbs a year after he was born. So I ended up 220lbs in May of this year.

Anyway, here I am now.. 175lbs. The lightest I've been in about 5 years!

At about 215lbs (with my beautiful family!)


And now, at 175lbs

You are gorgeous & I love that top!!