Had a nervous breakdown!!!

He is right ! gret job on the 5lbs !! your baby took 9 mths so give your self at least that much time. keep up the good work.:drinker:

Umm... YES, you do need to cut yourself some slack! And 5 lbs in one week is really good progress! But I understand where you are coming from. I've lost 10 lbs but I still have a long way to go and I still don't feel very attractive in a lot of things and I tend to beat myself up as well. I find it easier to go shopping without my husband, grab a TON of things at once then try them on. I know I'm going to hate the way I look in 95% of them so I might as well take a huge stack so I don't have to keep running back and forth. Then I don't want to go back in the dressing room. (I'm sure this sounds crazy and a little neurotic to some people but it really does work... lol) Out of the huge stack of maybe 20 things I took in I will usually find two that I actually like. Sometimes if I'm really lucky I find more. But I always grab at least two sizes in most things because as your losing weight you never know how different sizes are going to look on you either. Or how you will feel in things. Also, don't stand there and beat yourself up or point out everything you don't like about yourself in every outfit. As soon as you put something on and you don't like it, take it off and try on the next one. Not only will this keep you from leaving in tears, it will keep you from spending all day in the dressing room with that huge stack of clothes you just carried in!!

oh little monkey....sometimes outfits just suck. cuts of clothes just aren't flattering sometimes. we always blame ourselves when clothes don't look good on our bodies when in fact, the designer or manufacturer is to blame.

i say you put on some makeup and touch your hair (you'll feel better when you face the mirror if you're gorgeous to start with), get your best girlfriend and you go BACK to find a great outfit!

just because you are a size *insert number here*, doesn't mean all clothes are made alike. go up a size if it's too snug and you like it. **going up a size in a dressing room does not = gaining 10lbs in 30 seconds, it's just trying on a better fit. we now return you to our regular programmed message**.

get beauty and feel great tonight so it will show in your smile!

I know that nothing I or anyone else say will change what you see in the mirror, but It took you 9 months to gain all that baby weight it is not going to fall off in one day. Give yourself a little time 3 months is a very short time to expect to lose all that weight. And also, the slower you lose the weight the more likely you are to keep it off! You can do this, just take it one day at a time. I have been where you are 4 times, it is not fun, but it is doable! Chin up!!

There is beauty in everything. Stretch mark's have beauty, they mark how your little one grew inside of you, that jiggle has beauty, it marks how much cushion you provided your child. You are beautiful, and you are simply developing it into something even more extraordinary!
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that just made me get a lump in my throat...it's so very true!

Keep your head up mama! We're here to help motivate you! You'll get there...u really will. We all will!

Rule #1 Ignore the size! Your body is going to be different that soon after a pregnancy. Screw what size you are, you want to feel good.

Rule #2 Fit the largest part of your body. If your more worried about your "muffin top" then fit that. Then work around it.

Shopping sucks until you find the perfect outfit. But you need a good outfit when your feeling down. Last time I went to go find a pair of jeans....20 try on in the dressing room and HATING it! The 20th pair made me feel AWSOME. Left feeling great, not defeated. Just be paitent.