Postnatal Group - November 2010

Boopa - Welcome to the group! How many kids total do you have? How old are they? Just curious :-D

Shoppingqueen - erg! haha

I have 5 boys, 12,9, 3(1/2), 2(nov 26) and 9 months.
Back to back pg's and nursing hasn't helped bring the scales down lol.

Good afternoon all!! I hope everyone is having a good Friday! I weighed in today and was up to 243!!! I don't know how I gained 5 lbs in a week!!! I must be retaining water because I have been a little lax about the sodium lately. I almost threw up and fell off the scale! But I held it together and it is what it is and this week is a bright new step on the journey. This week just has to be better than the last one, so I am thinking positively and absolutely WILL NOT let it discourage me!!! Have a great weekend all!!!!

Waiting to weigh myself tomorrow. I've been bad and weighing myself almost every day hoping to see the numbers change. It goes down 2.5 lb and then back up....makes me sad. :mad:

Congrats Ang - with your weight loss! I'm sure the breastfeeding is helping. I had to stop, because my little munchkin was way to hungry for me to keep up. I was super sad about it. But I did it for 8 weeks. I guess it's better than nothing.

I running a 10k race on Thanksgiving morning. I set this goal when I was preggers. I told myself that I would get back in shape (based on how my delivery/recovery went) in time to run again this year on Thanksgiving. I must say I'm pretty proud that I stuck with it. I don't think my time will be the same as last year, but my goal is to run the entire 6.2 without stopping. I've done it twice since I started running a few months back, so I'm hoping to have a good run that morning. Wish me luck!

I like this thread as well!

My baby girl is 15 months old. I started the pregnancy at 5'5'' and 150 lb, I delivered at 190 lb. When she was 6 months old I was back to 150 lb (yay me) however since then I have gained weight (up to 165 lb) I am currently working on losing it. My current weight is 152, however I would like to be in the 140s NLT Christmas and look GOOD in a bikini by February (3 year anniversary trip to Hawaii).

I officially lost every ounce of the baby weight Saturday-11/13/10. Now I have the 30 pounds that I needed to lose pre-baby to concentrate on. I know that it took a while to put on but wow I just want to be able to be happy with my body. Deep down I wonder if I ever will be since it looks like my stomach was attacked by a tiger due to the lovely stretch marks.

Congradulations! I have 3 more pounds left to be saying the same thing. Can't wait to get there.

Welcome to the new ladies!, I am new to the thread too with plenty to lose to get to a healthy BMI

Hi, I'm glad this group is here. Sounds like just what I need. I had my second (and final) child last May, so she's 6 months old. My older daughter is a little over two years old now. I only gained 16 lbs with this last pregnancy b/c I ended up with gestational diabetes. I gained 36 with my first prenancy. I had another 10 lbs or so to go when I got pregnant with my second child before I finally had a healthy BMI. So here I am today. I have just stopped breastfeeding. I think my boobs each weigh a couple pounds each. They kinda hurt when I move so I haven't been doing too much in the way of exercise for the last week. I was hoping once these puppies dry up to try the couch to 5K routine. I've always wanted to do one, but I am so utterly out of shape it's ridiculous. So I'm 5'8" and I currently weigh in at 172.5 lbs. which is a pound shy of my PP weight, so close enough. I would love to get back down to 140. Thanks for starting this thread!!

Melanie

i havent read all these posts yet but ill join! with my first son, i started at 135 lbs and lost all the baby weight within a few months after, going down to 135 again. then once i got back to work i gaiend 30 lbs then decided to get pregnant. my prepregancy weight with my daughter was 167.

i got up to 200lbs when pregnant, after giving birth, and about a week later i was 185. i am not 167 again (well 167.8 but ill count it as less :P)
so i have lost all the "baby weight". now just want to kick that other 32lbs out of here before my wedding in may, and hopefully keep it off!!

my daughter is almost 3.5 months old. i didnt start actively working out until just over a month ago and lost 8lbs just in that time, so im doing pretty good it hink, but seem to hit a wall every few weeks where the weight doesnt move BUT the inches are definitely coming off since people are noticing and commenting on it.

but with 32lbs to lose i want it to show on the scale too! anyone else having that problem? or do you have ideas on how to shed the weight faster?

i am NOT breastfeeding. did for a few weeks at the beginning but stopped.

thanks! and great idea for starting this group

i have been having some frustration the past week, I don't officially weigh in daily or weekly but I do check on days I am feeling particularily "skinny". My scale has gone up. I am pretty sure I am retaining water as someone is expected any day now. Its frustrating because I think the last 15 days I have worked the hardest I ever have on exercising and eating properly and it doesn't seem as tho anything is budging. I am not giving up just venting about the frustation. I am on day 4 of the p90x and am keep up pretty well, my hrm has been a tremendous help in calculating calories burned. Today I partake in Yoga X but think I may have to do some cardio outside of the p90. It can't hurt right . Hope everyone is having a great weekend!