postpartum

My strongest most sincere recommendation is to relax. Your body went through hell a month ago. Even the smoothest easiest delivery in the world is incredibly difficult on your body. Your hormones are still fluctuating dramatically and if you are breastfeeding, even more so. There is a reason we are told to wait until after the 6w postpartum check up to start trying to lose the weight.

Eat at maintenance until after the 6w appointment. Weight loss is not a linear process. One week is not a long enough time for you to get an adequate picture of your progress. It took 10 months to put the pregnancy weight on and it is reasonable to expect it will take several months for it to come off. That first 24 pounds of loss was a lot of water weight and likely did not include much fat.

Echoing all of that. At the minimum mama, it took 9 months to put it on, it's going to take 9 months to come off. And depending on how old you are? Shoot. I recovered from my pregnancies at 19 and 21 WAY FASTER than I did my pregnancy at 31, and I took much better care of myself this time. Babes is 8 months old, and even though my weight went down, my abdominal muscles are just now starting to move back into place.

Patience with yourself, and grace. You just made a person! That's a big deal.