Losing weight too quickly?
rickiimarieee
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I went to the doctors on the 2nd and then went again on the 23rd and from that time period I went from 151 to 136. Should I be concerned or can it still be from having a baby 2 months ago? I’m eating about 1,500 calories a day and pretty sedentary besides chasing my 2 year old around and caring for my 2 month old. My height is 5’3.
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rickiimarieee wrote: »I went to the doctors on the 2nd and then went again on the 23rd and from that time period I went from 151 to 136. Should I be concerned or can it still be from having a baby 2 months ago? I’m eating about 1,500 calories a day and pretty sedentary besides chasing my 2 year old around and caring for my 2 month old. My height is 5’3.
Was that on the doctor's scale both times?0 -
Are you breastfeeding? If so, 1500cals per day isn't likely to be sufficient for you, breastfeeders typically need more calories.2
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No I’m nottiptoethruthetulips wrote: »Are you breastfeeding? If so, 1500cals per day isn't likely to be sufficient for you, breastfeeders typically need more calories.
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MichelleSilverleaf wrote: »rickiimarieee wrote: »I went to the doctors on the 2nd and then went again on the 23rd and from that time period I went from 151 to 136. Should I be concerned or can it still be from having a baby 2 months ago? I’m eating about 1,500 calories a day and pretty sedentary besides chasing my 2 year old around and caring for my 2 month old. My height is 5’3.
Was that on the doctor's scale both times?
Yes same scale0 -
That is a big drop, even if some of it was water weight. I would imagine that perhaps you're not sedentary if you're chasing around a 2 year old, and I imagine there's things like general house cleaning, tidying up, etc that you do?3
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MichelleSilverleaf wrote: »That is a big drop, even if some of it was water weight. I would imagine that perhaps you're not sedentary if you're chasing around a 2 year old, and I imagine there's things like general house cleaning, tidying up, etc that you do?
Yeah originally it has me set to 1,200, but I figured i probably burn 300 calories chasing my little one0 -
rickiimarieee wrote: »MichelleSilverleaf wrote: »rickiimarieee wrote: »I went to the doctors on the 2nd and then went again on the 23rd and from that time period I went from 151 to 136. Should I be concerned or can it still be from having a baby 2 months ago? I’m eating about 1,500 calories a day and pretty sedentary besides chasing my 2 year old around and caring for my 2 month old. My height is 5’3.
Was that on the doctor's scale both times?
Yes same scale
Same time of day, similar eating drinking beforehand, same clothes/shoes?
You might be losing faster than ideal . . . .0 -
I think it could just be normal loss (water?) after having baby. I lost over a stone within 2 months both times after having my two kids. My littlest is 4 months old now and I’m back down to 117lb which is where I was before getting pregnant - it comes off quickly with me.
But you prob don’t need to be so restrictive with your calories as you’re losing it so quickly!2 -
I seem to recall either thinking or mentioning that I thought you were over-doing your deficit for where you were post-partum. Your losses seem to indicate that too. Given everything that is going on in your life, is there a benefit to maintaining such an aggressive deficit during this somewhat hectic time?
ETA: too fast is based on you having dialed in a pretty low caloric intake and achieving weight losses that are in line to a large deficit.7 -
Normaly, health care providers would ask if the weight loss is intentional or not. If you tell them it's not, then it's when they start getting concern about it.0
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Based on my own experience post-pregnancy, it's not too fast. Every pregnancy is different and so is the weight loss afterward. I gained roughly the same with both pregnancies but with my first I lost nothing (not even the actual weight of baby+placenta) after giving birth and didn't lose much until about 3 months later when it started falling off. My second I lost almost all of the weight within the first 2 months.
How do you feel? Are you overtired? Feeling really hungry? If you don't feel good or healthy then it could be too fast for you. Listen to your body, especially with two little ones.0 -
Daisy_Girl2019 wrote: »Normaly, health care providers would ask if the weight loss is intentional or not. If you tell them it's not, then it's when they start getting concern about it.
I told her I was trying to lose the baby weight and counting calories.0 -
I seem to recall either thinking or mentioning that I thought you were over-doing your deficit for where you were post-partum. Your losses seem to indicate that too. Given everything that is going on in your life, is there a benefit to maintaining such an aggressive deficit during this somewhat hectic time?
ETA: too fast is based on you having dialed in a pretty low caloric intake and achieving weight losses that are in line to a large deficit.
I don’t think I’m overdoing my deficit. MFP has me set for 1200 and I’m eating 1500 sometimes more.0 -
generallyme2 wrote: »Based on my own experience post-pregnancy, it's not too fast. Every pregnancy is different and so is the weight loss afterward. I gained roughly the same with both pregnancies but with my first I lost nothing (not even the actual weight of baby+placenta) after giving birth and didn't lose much until about 3 months later when it started falling off. My second I lost almost all of the weight within the first 2 months.
How do you feel? Are you overtired? Feeling really hungry? If you don't feel good or healthy then it could be too fast for you. Listen to your body, especially with two little ones.
I’m always super tired, but that was even before I was dieting. I feel good and no I don’t feel hungry at all. I was at about 127 before pregnancy and after I was at 180, now I’m at 1350 -
rickiimarieee wrote: »I seem to recall either thinking or mentioning that I thought you were over-doing your deficit for where you were post-partum. Your losses seem to indicate that too. Given everything that is going on in your life, is there a benefit to maintaining such an aggressive deficit during this somewhat hectic time?
ETA: too fast is based on you having dialed in a pretty low caloric intake and achieving weight losses that are in line to a large deficit.
I don’t think I’m overdoing my deficit. MFP has me set for 1200 and I’m eating 1500 sometimes more.
MFP estimates pretty well for most people, but it can be off for a few (high or low), and materially off for a very few. With correct profile settings, it thinks I'd maintain around 1500 net. I lose handily at 1500 net, maintain in tue 130s at 2000+, based on nearly 4 years of logging experience.
MFP estimates your calorie needs; your body lives them. With a few months of (careful) logging experience, trust your results over MFP's estimate.7 -
The reason I don't think it's a great idea to start cutting calories immediately after birth is that during the first few weeks after birth you're dropping water weight like crazy and you're going to drop that anyway.
So before week 4-6 you have no real way of knowing how much you will need to drop to remove stored energy reserves
A logical amount of calories for a person who is overworked and under rested tackling her kids soon after a
new one has been born is about 500 calories (at most) aiming for a loss of about pound a week (at most) if they have to lose quite a bit once the water weight is gone. Otherwise -250 for half a lb a week might also be suitable.
MFP gives you 1200 based on YOUR inputs. Did you say you're sedentary? Did you dial in 1.5 or 2lbs a week?
As a mom of two including a newborn it is highly unlikely that you're anything below lightly active and you're probably active.
Let's arbitrarily exclude the first 30lbs.... how long has it taken you to go from 150 to 135?
You're now 7lbs from goal in less than ? months and continuing to aim for 1200 but eating 1500 or sometimes more.
And still losing at a rate of more than 2lbs a week. At 135 lbs.
And have health issues and are tired and two children with just yourself to care for them.
No reason to give yourself a break--right?
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I gained 55 lbs with my first pregnancy and was back to pre-pregnancy weight by my 6 week post-baby check up. I lost very quickly. I was 30 lbs down when I left the hospital 5 days postpartum (loads of water weight + baby). Then over the next 5 weeks I dropped 25lbs. I was breast feeding a baby that ate ALL day long and for some wonderfully strange reason, postpartum I craved fruits and veggies. I was still quite over weight so my Dr. was not concerned at all. This happened after my 2nd as well BUT NOT MY THIRD
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The reason I don't think it's a great idea to start cutting calories immediately after birth is that during the first few weeks after birth you're dropping water weight like crazy and you're going to drop that anyway.
So before week 4-6 you have no real way of knowing how much you will need to drop to remove stored energy reserves
A logical amount of calories for a person who is overworked and under rested tackling her kids soon after a
new one has been born is about 500 calories (at most) aiming for a loss of about pound a week (at most) if they have to lose quite a bit once the water weight is gone. Otherwise -250 for half a lb a week might also be suitable.
MFP gives you 1200 based on YOUR inputs. Did you say you're sedentary? Did you dial in 1.5 or 2lbs a week?
As a mom of two including a newborn it is highly unlikely that you're anything below lightly active and you're probably active.
Let's arbitrarily exclude the first 30lbs.... how long has it taken you to go from 150 to 135?
You're now 7lbs from goal in less than ? months and continuing to aim for 1200 but eating 1500 or sometimes more.
And still losing at a rate of more than 2lbs a week. At 135 lbs.
And have health issues and are tired and two children with just yourself to care for them.
No reason to give yourself a break--right?
I put in my stats, and I put active. It still puts me at 1200.
I didn’t start calorie cutting til about 5ish weeks postpartum. I went from 151 to 137 in a month.
I’m currently at 135 now. I’d say it took me a month from 150-135.
MFP puts my maintenance at 1560 calories, obviously it’s not right but I have no idea how much my maintenance is2 -
oceangirl99 wrote: »I gained 55 lbs with my first pregnancy and was back to pre-pregnancy weight by my 6 week post-baby check up. I lost very quickly. I was 30 lbs down when I left the hospital 5 days postpartum (loads of water weight + baby). Then over the next 5 weeks I dropped 25lbs. I was breast feeding a baby that ate ALL day long and for some wonderfully strange reason, postpartum I craved fruits and veggies. I was still quite over weight so my Dr. was not concerned at all. This happened after my 2nd as well BUT NOT MY THIRD
When I left the hospital I was about 175-180 still after giving birth because water retention from preeclampsia. Within the first week I was down to about 160 within the next four weeks I was at like 151ish.0 -
rickiimarieee wrote: »I seem to recall either thinking or mentioning that I thought you were over-doing your deficit for where you were post-partum. Your losses seem to indicate that too. Given everything that is going on in your life, is there a benefit to maintaining such an aggressive deficit during this somewhat hectic time?
ETA: too fast is based on you having dialed in a pretty low caloric intake and achieving weight losses that are in line to a large deficit.
I don’t think I’m overdoing my deficit. MFP has me set for 1200 and I’m eating 1500 sometimes more.
MFP estimates pretty well for most people, but it can be off for a few (high or low), and materially off for a very few. With correct profile settings, it thinks I'd maintain around 1500 net. I lose handily at 1500 net, maintain in tue 130s at 2000+, based on nearly 4 years of logging experience.
MFP estimates your calorie needs; your body lives them. With a few months of (careful) logging experience, trust your results over MFP's estimate.
My maintenance is marked at 1560. I’m losing (don’t know if it’s from baby) at 1500.0 -
Just my experience, the first 3 months after pregnancy you have the potential to drop weight quickly. Your body is still moving out all the extra you had for pregnancy, whether or not you are breastfeeding. Within the first 3 months, as long as you are eating sufficiently (which for not breastfeeding, 1500 sounds sufficient for a 5'3" person, although 1800 would not be awful either).0
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You had pre-eclampsia? You were probably still losing the water retention at first. I had pre-eclampsia with my first, it took a couple of weeks for the tons of IVs I got to go down completely. Tons of fluid.
I don't think it's an item of concern. If I were you, I'd probably eat a little more, like 1800 - just because you can, and food tastes good, and you need energy for chasing two kids.
Your doctor was probably surprised because they don't see people 2 months postpartum very often, your rate of loss is specific to your situation, not what they normally see. Even most of the posters are here have not been postpartum recently (although many have), and an even smaller number have been through childbirth with pre-eclampsia.
For the record, I didn't get it with my subsequent pregnancies.3 -
I was 188 prior to delivering my first at 33 weeks pre severe pre-E, the next time I weighed I was like 156, so not that far off from your numbers. I was breastfeeding though, and I ate like crazy.0
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Excluding water weight count 3500 Cal effective deficit for every lb lost.
If losing 15lbs in 30 days, effective deficit is 1750 Cal a day. 10lbs in 30 days would be 1166 a day.
You can average out what you ate, add your deficit, the total (plus a currently unknown and person specific fudge factor) is your actual TDEE
I would take results from time frames of less than 30 days with huge grains of salt.
If you try to create a 50% deficit from TDER while in the normal weight range... you try to duplicate the Minnesota semi starvation experiment. Generally speaking, that's not a path to happiness!1 -
ExistingFish wrote: »You had pre-eclampsia? You were probably still losing the water retention at first. I had pre-eclampsia with my first, it took a couple of weeks for the tons of IVs I got to go down completely. Tons of fluid.
I don't think it's an item of concern. If I were you, I'd probably eat a little more, like 1800 - just because you can, and food tastes good, and you need energy for chasing two kids.
Your doctor was probably surprised because they don't see people 2 months postpartum very often, your rate of loss is specific to your situation, not what they normally see. Even most of the posters are here have not been postpartum recently (although many have), and an even smaller number have been through childbirth with pre-eclampsia.
For the record, I didn't get it with my subsequent pregnancies.
Okay awesome thank you!! I had it with both my pregnancies. I was induced with preeclampsia at 36 weeks with my first and went into preterm labor with my second at 34ish1
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