Frustrated!! any post partum girls out there?

Your cheat day... do u still log? How long since u had ur baby?

I hate to tell you but if you are logging accurately then you are eating back your deficit on your cheat day. It is negating all your hard work

I'm almost 4 months pp. I've lost 29 pounds but still have 26 to go. I found that cheat days do nothing but go against me. If you want some encouragement and help, add me!

I really focused on increasing muscle mass while breastfeeding, tried not to worry about the scale to ensure baby's milk has everything it needs to have. I found that lifting heavy weights really did the trick-the change was very fast. I usually got very hungry at the afternoon when I did not eat enough at the morning...Is that a possibility for you?

aliciamahoney1251 wrote: »

maasha81 wrote: »

Are you actually eating at a calorie deficit? Using food scales to measure your food? Your snacks, sensible snacks and cheat days can have you going over unfortunately.

What do you mean by calorie deficit?

Is there a difference in the number of calories you burn and the number you take in.

Your cheat day could easily blow this difference for the week. Have a search of the forums for the sexypants thread and the one called something like 'you're eating more than you think'.

Your metabolism isn't screwed, you just gotta get into the swing of logging what you eat and making sure that its less than what your body burns through.

Plus - you don't need meal replacement shakes, just eat food, weigh and measure it, log it, shake your booty a couple of times a week and its all good! You can still have cheat meals and cheat days, you just have to make sure that they're not so large that they completely negate any calorie deficit you have for the week x

Are you taking measurements?
Did you just get back into a workout routine? (if so, you could be retaining water for muscle repair)
Do you weigh yourself under the same conditions every time? (like same scale, clothes/no clothes, roughly the same time of day, etc)
How long has it been since you had your baby? (your body could still be adjusting if it hasn't been long, might need to give it a bit longer...hormones tend to be all over the place after birth and they can impact weight loss)
Have you had your first period yet or are you still expecting it? (that lovely TOM can cause a bit of water retention in some women which will mask weight loss)

Definitely log your cheat meal from now on. Just for you to see how it's impacting your calorie deficit (the difference between what you need to maintain and what your eating).

I'm 3.5 months post partum. I started back with MFP when I was 1 month post partum, and I've lost 27 pounds since then. I haven't had any trouble losing weight. This is baby #4 for me!

I weigh ALL my food. Everything I eat is weighed, unless I go out to eat or something. I exercise 6 days a week and I eat back half of my exercise calories. I don't have cheat days or cheat meals. I do have big meals, but I log all of those calories. If there is a day that I know I'm going to eat a lot more, I do a bigger work out that day to make up for it. Since February 1st when I started MFP, there's only been one day that I went over my calories (Easter). Otherwise I'm always within my calorie range.

I love food, so my biggest motivation for exercising is that I get to eat more calories, lol. On the days that I don't work out, I am starving!! Those extra couple hundred calories seem to make a big difference for me, for some reason.

Not sure if any of that is helpful for you but that's just what I have done that has been working so far.