Can't use the "I just had a baby" excuse anymore
MamaEggs
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Hello!
I am a 28 year old mother of a now 14 month old and I've finally gotten serious about losing weight, but need online support! I'm just moved in with family and noticed that as soon as I say I'm eating healthy everyone loves to shove food in my face even more. Does anyone else have that problem??? What's with that? Anyway, I used to be the "skinny girl" in high school and have just slowly been gaining more and more since graduation. Then I had a baby and lost a little bit of the weight, but the number on the scale has been creeping back up. I'm am 5'3" and 165 lbs... no, not horrible to some standards, but it is at the uncomfortable point for me. I want to lose about 35 lbs. Please help!
Erica
I am a 28 year old mother of a now 14 month old and I've finally gotten serious about losing weight, but need online support! I'm just moved in with family and noticed that as soon as I say I'm eating healthy everyone loves to shove food in my face even more. Does anyone else have that problem??? What's with that? Anyway, I used to be the "skinny girl" in high school and have just slowly been gaining more and more since graduation. Then I had a baby and lost a little bit of the weight, but the number on the scale has been creeping back up. I'm am 5'3" and 165 lbs... no, not horrible to some standards, but it is at the uncomfortable point for me. I want to lose about 35 lbs. Please help!
Erica
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Hi Erica! I'd love to support you and I need to lose around the same too. I have a 20 month old and actually GAINED weight after him0
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You are speaking my language!!! My son is now almost 9 months and I am the same!!! I am the biggest I have ever been although since being on here for the last two weeks I am finally shrinking!!! I want to lose 15 kilos (and have already shed 2.2 kilos - yay!. Good on you for making a change0
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Happens to me all the time. My mom always gets me my favorite junk food when I tell her I'm trying to be more healthy. My solution? This time around I didn't tell her.0
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Yep, my neighbors do that to me everytime I start eating healthy again. With this site I learned I can eat anything in moderation so I gladly take their goods now, lol.0
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Hi Erica! I'd love to support you and I need to lose around the same too. I have a 20 month old and actually GAINED weight after him
Hi Sara! I was just about to reply to your earlier intro post. It would be great to support each other! Add me, or I will in a few
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You are speaking my language!!! My son is now almost 9 months and I am the same!!! I am the biggest I have ever been although since being on here for the last two weeks I am finally shrinking!!! I want to lose 15 kilos (and have already shed 2.2 kilos - yay!. Good on you for making a change
I'm the biggest I've ever been too! So frustrating! Hopefully I'll see some shrinkage soon...
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I hear you! I have an almost 6 month old and I am 5'2"/155lbs and trying to lose the baby weight. I just want my old clothes to fit again because with a baby, I can't afford to go out and buy new clothing to accommodate my extra healthy hips0
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Happens to me all the time. My mom always gets me my favorite junk food when I tell her I'm trying to be more healthy. My solution? This time around I didn't tell her.
I told her this time because I was excited about my phone app, but then I came home from boyfriend's house to brownies with butterscotch chips in them!!!! Oh em gee! lol...
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i just sent you a FR. Im 5'2" have a 15 month old and im sitting at 174. Im in a bit of a slump though, and have been for the past month. I started off at 200 right after birth.0
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Yep, my neighbors do that to me everytime I start eating healthy again. With this site I learned I can eat anything in moderation so I gladly take their goods now, lol.
lol the moderation part is what I'm trying to learn. Smaller portion sizes and do I really NEED that soda or is a bottle of water ok. I'm doing ok so far at the bottle of water instead thing.
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Hi!
I am a mother of 2 (3 years and 1 year) so I know the "i just had a baby" excuse! haha, I would love to support you also! I will add you0 -
I hear you! I have an almost 6 month old and I am 5'2"/155lbs and trying to lose the baby weight. I just want my old clothes to fit again because with a baby, I can't afford to go out and buy new clothing to accommodate my extra healthy hips
Me too!!! I have tons of size 8 clothes that I want to fit into again. I'm not trying to be a size 2, I just want my 8's again!!!
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Feel free to friend me for some motivation - I am 29 years old, 5'4" and started this whole weightloss thing at 165 lbs. I have a 4 year old and a 19 month old. I've been doing this for 3.5 months and I'm down 25 lbs (just under 140), trying to ultimately get down to 125. You can totally DO this. I was so skeptical at first that I didn't even officially join the site until I'd already lost 10 lbs (that's why you see me saying 3.5 months but I haven't been a member that long - I was so scared I wouldn't be able to do it or that it wouldn't work). This is totally doable if you just keep at it.0
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i just sent you a FR. Im 5'2" have a 15 month old and im sitting at 174. Im in a bit of a slump though, and have been for the past month. I started off at 200 right after birth.
We can help each other I'm about to go accept the FR right now.
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Man, I'm gonna ride that one 'til the wheels fall off.
I "just" had a baby almost 12 years ago.
What I mean is ....You can do it!0 -
Feel free to friend me for some motivation - I am 29 years old, 5'4" and started this whole weightloss thing at 165 lbs. I have a 4 year old and a 19 month old. I've been doing this for 3.5 months and I'm down 25 lbs (just under 140), trying to ultimately get down to 125. You can totally DO this. I was so skeptical at first that I didn't even officially join the site until I'd already lost 10 lbs (that's why you see me saying 3.5 months but I haven't been a member that long - I was so scared I wouldn't be able to do it or that it wouldn't work). This is totally doable if you just keep at it.
WOW!!! That is a great amount for just 3.5 months! How are you doing it? How much do you work out and how many calories do you eat?
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WOW!!! That is a great amount for just 3.5 months! How are you doing it? How much do you work out and how many calories do you eat?
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I have been sticking pretty close to what MFP tells me to do. I have my activity level set to 'sedentary' (b/c for real, some days I am LOL) - when I first started I set my goal to 2 lbs per week which gave me a 1200 calorie daily goal. For the first month or two I just ate between 1200-1400 calories per day, wasn't super-strict with myself, I mean I was eating more like 3000 calories per day before I started so it was a big change. Lots of learning about portion sizes and different choices that I could make so my 1200-1400 calories would stretch farther. Once I got a little weightloss under my belt LOL, I started exercising. Simple stuff - mostly walking on the treadmill (and pretending I could jog - was awful in the beginning and still not great, but it's a process). I bought a heart rate monitor so I could get a really accurate estimate of how many calories I burned when I worked out, and I always log my exercise calories on MFP and try to eat back a good portion of them. (when you log exercise, MFP tells you that you've 'earned' those calories back and ups your goal - so if you spend half an hour on the treadmill and burn 200 calories, if your daily goal is 1200 all of a sudden MFP tells you that you can eat 1400 that day). Sometimes I eat ALL of my extra exercise calories, sometimes I just eat part of them. Honestly half the reason I work out at all is so I can earn some extra snacks! LOL I'm just now getting into some other types of exercise - doing videos at home and using some small weights. It's hard but it makes you feel great to see how much you can do that you weren't able to do before. Just losing some weight gives you so much more energy. I can actually keep up with my crazy kids. LOL
A month or two ago (can't remember) I re-set my goal here on MFP to be 1 lb per week, b/c I'd lost some weight and it generally is better to go a little slower the closer you get to your goal. Re-setting put me at 1210 calories. Not a big difference, but that's b/c I lost weight and don't need as many calories for my body to stay the same anymore. I try to get in enough exercise most days to earn at least 300 extra calories, I like to eat small meals (like 200-300 calories usually) and have several small snacks during the day - mainly b/c it keeps me from getting super-hungry at meal times. Some people prefer big meals and no snacks, it's all personal preference.
Sometimes I actually lose faster than what MFP says even though I try not to skimp on the calories - I think it's b/c I'm trying to be more active with my kids now that I have more energy. But basically sticking with my MFP goals is what does the trick. I'm also still breastfeeding my 19 month old once or twice a day, but it's so little that I don't think I use very many calories doing that anymore, so I usually don't account for it. Sometimes if he nurses a bunch in a day I will eat an extra snack. LOL0 -
No kids here, just dogs But I will be great support for you! Feel free to add me! Anyone else out there looking for support feel free to add me as well!!0
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14 months is still totally young enough to use that excuse. I didn't start losing the baby weight until my youngest was 3.0
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Hi!!! I'm new too!!! I am a mother of 2. One is almost 6 months and the other is almost 21 months. I just started today and I'm not that bad off, but I wanna get back to the size I was before baby #1. I gained 10lbs with each baby. (This is obviously after birth weight lol and a while afterwards right after was a lot more) I am 5'7" and around 146. My goal is mid 120's. I started because I was consistently 143 6 weeks after the baby was born, but I've been putting on more weight recently.0
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HI!!! IM NEW TO THIS....I HAVE A 10 MONTH OLD AN AS U SAID CNT USE THAT EXCUSS ANY MORE I THINK I MAY HAVE THE MOST WEIGHT TO LOOSE RIGHT NOW BUT AS YOU SAID WE ALL NEED THE SUPPORT FROM EACH OTHER. IM WILLING TO HELP SUPPORT ANY ONE CAUSE WEL ALL NEED IT, DIDNT THING I WOULD HAVE GOT MYSELF THI FAR THEN BE ONLINE LOOKING FOR SUPPORT.BUT IM READY TO CHANGE MY LIFE GET MYSKINNY BACK..LOL...:laugh: SO PLEASE LADIES LET FR EACH OTHER IM SO WILLING TO SUPPORT.. THANKS0
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I have been sticking pretty close to what MFP tells me to do. I have my activity level set to 'sedentary' (b/c for real, some days I am LOL) - when I first started I set my goal to 2 lbs per week which gave me a 1200 calorie daily goal. For the first month or two I just ate between 1200-1400 calories per day, wasn't super-strict with myself, I mean I was eating more like 3000 calories per day before I started so it was a big change. Lots of learning about portion sizes and different choices that I could make so my 1200-1400 calories would stretch farther. Once I got a little weightloss under my belt LOL, I started exercising. Simple stuff - mostly walking on the treadmill (and pretending I could jog - was awful in the beginning and still not great, but it's a process). I bought a heart rate monitor so I could get a really accurate estimate of how many calories I burned when I worked out, and I always log my exercise calories on MFP and try to eat back a good portion of them. (when you log exercise, MFP tells you that you've 'earned' those calories back and ups your goal - so if you spend half an hour on the treadmill and burn 200 calories, if your daily goal is 1200 all of a sudden MFP tells you that you can eat 1400 that day). Sometimes I eat ALL of my extra exercise calories, sometimes I just eat part of them. Honestly half the reason I work out at all is so I can earn some extra snacks! LOL I'm just now getting into some other types of exercise - doing videos at home and using some small weights. It's hard but it makes you feel great to see how much you can do that you weren't able to do before. Just losing some weight gives you so much more energy. I can actually keep up with my crazy kids. LOL
A month or two ago (can't remember) I re-set my goal here on MFP to be 1 lb per week, b/c I'd lost some weight and it generally is better to go a little slower the closer you get to your goal. Re-setting put me at 1210 calories. Not a big difference, but that's b/c I lost weight and don't need as many calories for my body to stay the same anymore. I try to get in enough exercise most days to earn at least 300 extra calories, I like to eat small meals (like 200-300 calories usually) and have several small snacks during the day - mainly b/c it keeps me from getting super-hungry at meal times. Some people prefer big meals and no snacks, it's all personal preference.
Sometimes I actually lose faster than what MFP says even though I try not to skimp on the calories - I think it's b/c I'm trying to be more active with my kids now that I have more energy. But basically sticking with my MFP goals is what does the trick. I'm also still breastfeeding my 19 month old once or twice a day, but it's so little that I don't think I use very many calories doing that anymore, so I usually don't account for it. Sometimes if he nurses a bunch in a day I will eat an extra snack. LOL
This is pretty much exactly what I'm doing now (well for the last week or so) so you're really giving me hope and motivation. Thank you so much for taking the time to write all of it out for me. I can't wait to see the pounds start coming off!
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14 months is still totally young enough to use that excuse. I didn't start losing the baby weight until my youngest was 3.
Haha well I just feel like I'm lying to myself when I use that. I "just" had a baby over a year ago!0 -
Hi!!! I'm new too!!! I am a mother of 2. One is almost 6 months and the other is almost 21 months. I just started today and I'm not that bad off, but I wanna get back to the size I was before baby #1. I gained 10lbs with each baby. (This is obviously after birth weight lol and a while afterwards right after was a lot more) I am 5'7" and around 146. My goal is mid 120's. I started because I was consistently 143 6 weeks after the baby was born, but I've been putting on more weight recently.
I hope you're finding as much support here as I am! This place has been great so far for motivation. I'll send you a FR and we can help each other out also
Erica
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Hi there My name is Terry. My friends call me Big T. I just joined his site on Mon Nov 14th. I am a 45 yr old male, 6'0 tall, 304 lbs. I have a 23 yr old daughter who is getting married in May 2012 and I do NOT want to walk her down the aisle looking like the stay puff marshmallow man !! I welcome any encouragement and also have 2 good ears and 2 big shoulders to help you through any rough times. Keep up the fantastic work you are doing You really are an inspiration. I just hope I can stay the course this time. I am finding eating breakfast in the morning is the hardest part. That and drinking water.
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hi I am 30 years old i have a 3 year old and a 5 month old I had taken phentermine and lost about 50 lbs but was in the process of gaining it back when i got pregnant now i have a lot of weight to lose and i want to do it without med b/c i was gaining as soon as i quit taking it..0
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hello
im charlotte 21 with 2 kids daughter whos 4 and son whos almost 6 weeks and i need to get myself back on track as i have put on 2 stone in the past nearly 2 years since meeting my partner! so started yesterday on getting my weight down :bigsmile: and my plan is to loose atleast 30lb
i find everyone trys to feed me if i say im trying to eat healthy go round to my mums have dinner which is fine then anything left she puts onto my pate!!!!! :grumble: not even my older brothers plate who could do with some fat on him. my bloody plate! my partner yesterday decided to buy me 2 bags of sweets the tonite says we are going to watch film with loads of snacks :grumble:0 -
Hey! lol My daughter will be 4 in February and i didnt start loosing weight till last year so i hung on to that " baby weight" for 3 years! (very depressing 4 me) but at least ur here making an effort to better yourself and your child so keep ur head up and keep fighting for what u want and never give up! I always tell people- when ur truely ready and willing thats when the change will happen, u gotta ask urself how bad to u want it? ive tried for years to diet but it didnt work cuz i gave up and didnt really want it that bad but here i am almost a year later and im down 76lbs! So Dont give up!! And use ur baby as ur inspiration as well! add me if ud like! And good luck on ur Journey!0
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I get it! I am the mother of 2 boys (4 and 6) and just stopped using the baby weight excuse.0
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I love seeing all the mommies on here. I am here for the same reason. I have three children ( ages 7,4, and 25 months) We are done, and it is time to feel comfortable in my clothes again. I hate the mommy belly, and let's not even get started on the hips!0
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