End of the road?

Lack of sleep, stress of a new baby, and not watching what you eat. It probably is mostly water though and will come off quickly once you get back into a routine.

You're going to give up after only a 9lb gain?

Weak bruh

I bet you 5 lbs is mostly water and and only 4 lbs fat, after 1 week in the gym or whatever you do you will lose most of it. Don't lose your head over it.

I gained back almost 4 pounds in a week, so I know exactly how you feel. I have been full of doubts about myself and that letting it go for a week did that to me. The combination of not eating well, stress from something new and maybe not exercising as much does take a toll on you. (It may even be mostly water weight like jjdevore said).

My advice is to take it one day at a time. Sometimes you lose, sometimes you gain, but no matter what, own up to your mistakes and be happy with the victories you've had this far. You've still lost over 30 lbs.!! That is so great! A thousand people would kill to have already lost that. (Including me lol)

Dust yourself off, forget about the bad 2 weeks you just had, and try again. You can do it--the weight you've lost shows that you can. Good luck!!

because you ate them!!!. don't give up, think of all the time and effort you have taken to lose
this weight, you don't want to go back to what you were, think of all the fun you are going to have with
your daughter when she gets older and you are nice and slim and fit.

Dude a lot of that could be water weight - please try to consider hanging on a little longer - Neil I don't know what my day would be like without one of your comments brother!!!!

I agree with everyone else.... Don't give up!! As a nurse I can tell you for sure that most of the weight you gained was from water. Did you eat lots of high sodium foods? fried food? Did you go out to eat? Did you drink liquor? For you to have actually gained 9 lbs of fat you would have had to eat an excess of 27,000 calories above what you "maintain" calorie level is since there are 3,000 calories in a pound. This weekend I had a big meal on Saturday and I drank alot along with another big meal on Sunday. When I weighed myself on Monday I had gained 5 lbs. I drank tons of water Monday and Tuesday, peed alot and today I was back at my normal weight. Don't give up!!!!

Sweetness you are experiencing a form of PPD, called 'trouble D'adaptation' in french, it means time to get used to this new family arrangement of 4 and try to get your act together and get some Neil time again, it made you happy and cheery... You can do this, you've done great so far, I know you wanted to reach that 50 so bad, but **** happens, now to get back on that horse and make you want it even more. I'm here for ya, we all are... don't leave and quit all together, you know what your mistakes/problem areas, you just need to work on getting them fixed...

hugs!!! this is not just a quick fix you are looking for being healthy is a long term project, i consider it ME time! you need to not forget who's important, YOU! wife and kids are too but you come first, I'm a mom of 2 and a spouse and fixed to get some me time in there...

hugs again, or would you prefer a Karen' kick in the A$s!

Thing is Neil. You spent two weeks and a lot of the time prior to this,running round while your wife was in hospital,then running ound loads more when she came out. You have looked after the kid's.lived on adrenaline for a number of days and generally been a great husband and dad. The term holiday may have been attatched to the time you had off,but as nice as it was to spend time with all your family,it was probably best given its best term of paternity leave. You had a constant stream of visitors and I know how that and did fry your brain. During all this time you looked after everyone and made sure that everyone was well and that life carried on as normally as possible. The one person you didnt look after was you my friend.
You didnt get that loss by not having the cajones for this and there is no doubt it will be tougher than before,cos you and your time will still be in greater demand.
But not having the balls for it...do me a favour,you have motivated yourself into a winning position and along the way have lifted others too. So lets not forget why you started this,she has just entered the world,so now is the time to step it up and get back at it.You wont be able to carry on with the same intensity,you will have to re-evaluate your goals and accept smaller losses and maybe smaller physical differences,but long term you can have it all and come out of this the winner.
Just do your best each and every day,take the pressure off and enjoy it along the way.
Take care my friend.

I believe in one month, you will experience one of the following:

1. Have gained even more weight from not living a healthy lifestyle of eating the proper amount of food and not exercising, and be experiencing even more of a guilty, shameful, beat up on yourself attitude toward yourself; or

2. Will have lost that 9 pounds of probably mostly water weight and an additional amount on top of that. You'll be happier emotionally because you will have fought the demon of despair and won and because you are a champion that cannot be beat!

Your family needs you to be healthy. I believe in you!!

S1 do you remember seeing my weight fluctuate up and down like a yoyo dude? It did my head in but I continued on. You know why? Cuz you won't ever see results unless you keep trying, if you stop the only result is not to move forward! This is a set back in your journey, but a temporary one - and usually weight that has recently been gained can be taken off very easily! You owe it to yourself and your beautiful family to pick yourself up, and begin to move forward again! Your kids and wife are going to respect you like crazy for it! We got your back dude! Time to muscle up and push push push through that wall my friend!! You got this!!!

Croz aka PC1