Need mom friends for support! Losing baby fat!

Hi! I put on about 3 stone when I was pregnant. I like to call it 'baby weight' but in reality it was just food food and more food! I managed to shift about 40 lbs by walking 4-5 miles every day. I started when LO was about 2 months old and if i could roughly co-ordinate with nap times, he would just sleep in the pram. I had a few different routes I would do, each with somewhere I could go at the half way point- (even if it was just to the supermarket to get a drink!). I had no time to do anything more organised like workout dvds or the gym. For me, this was the only practical way of getting me out the house and exercising at the same time!
I also got a pair of shape up trainers (not sure how much difference they made) and a nike plus bracelet and shoe chip for measuring distances/calorie. I would really recommend getting some sort of pedometer like this, or you could install runkeeper app which does the same thing provided you have reliable coverage whilst out and about.

As soon as LO was into more of a routine and couldn't tolerate long stints in pram, I started 30 day shred. As soon as he went down at night, I would grab 20 mins for this and hubby would be on baby monitor watch.

Hope some of this helps!

Hi, I understand you in every way. I gained 50lbs, with my pregnancy. I turned to food for comfort, and gained an extra 20lbs. pounds. I put my all to my family, and i forget about myself. I look like a mess, but i lost 10lbs, these 2 weeks. So im in a good start rite now. It's hard but nothing is impossible.

You're doing great, Millybjump! I took off 70 lbs when I was approaching 30 but it's come back on through two kids, one just a year ago (like tyhayden, I'm now 42 with a six-year gap between kids) who is the survivor of identical twins, so believe me, I was packing in the calories during my pregnancy to keep them going and then after with some struggles with depression. ANYway, all that's to say, that through my experience with weight loss in the past and now the present, I find that if I just count calories, squeeze in 20 minutes a day of some kind of exercise (add a couple of perimeter laps to the Sam's/Costco shopping trip; do the stairs a few more times; get out and walk with the stroller during the morning nap) and (and here's the real key for me) weigh only once a week, things move along. I think the other key for me is that I have to stop thinking about it too much. It's kind of like finding your partner in life; the minute you stop looking, BAM, it happens. I also wonder if, as a first time mom, you might be interested in the MOM's club in your area? It's an international organization that divides its chapters up by zip code and then that group of moms (usually great women although sometimes you do get the insecure/competitive mom; just ignore that; she's struggling and overcompensating) plans outtings and play dates and activities and everybody or just a few get together. You might find a group who wants to do stroller walks with you, etc? I love my group and have been with them since my daughter was about a year old. Here's the website if you're interested: http://www.momsclub.org/
And just hang in there! Like I said at first, you're doing great! Just keep on trying!
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I'm with you!! I was way overweight to start with, but I dropped almost 50lbs before getting pregnant (using MFP and a nutritionist through work). I gained 30 back during pregnancy, lost 23lbs by Christmas (BabyPeavs was born 10.10), and now am suddenly up another 10. Well, not suddenly. I ate like CRAP during my maternity leave - I was wearing sweatpants and baby barf all day. Why would I care what I looked like?? But now that I'm back at work and finding that I just look like junk, I'm getting back into this whole weight loss/better life thing. I definitely need more motivators in my life. I'm like you and just trying to figure out how to do it all. The worst is understanding how my caloric needs are different because I'm breast feeding, and trying to figure out how to exercise without it killing my supply. For now, my plan is to just start tracking my food and doing light working out to ease myself back into it. I miss the pride I felt after dropping those 40+ pounds!