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Stalled out with a 5 month old
Hi! I'm a first time mom with a 5 month old baby. I weighed 120 (my lowest weight ever as an adult) pre-pregnancy, which was a little too low for me (I'm tall). My ideal weight is 130. I didn't weigh myself at the end of pregnancy, but I think I ended up at 165. I'm currently 143, so I have 13 lbs to lose. I haven't lost…
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Finding time to workout
Hello everyone! In May of 2014 I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. I've been trying to eat better and exercise since our little girl arrived. The eating healthy part isn't to difficult, but it's the finding time to exercise that is the hard part. Our girl is 7 1/2 months old now and is always on the move. How do you…
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New Mom & New to Group
Hi Everyone I am Toni, 28 years old from Salt lake city and just had a baby boy on 12/ 13 / 14. I have always been heavy but hit my highest weight ever after I met my husband. When I got pregnant the first time I lost the baby and ate my feelings away after and gained 20 lbs last year. Well when I found out I was pregnant…
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Anyone here just have a baby in Sept or October?
My baby girl (#3) finally made her appearance Oct 5th! (I was due 9/25) While I won't be getting into exercise for another 2-4 weeks, depending on how quickly my body heals (stops bleeding), I am totally stoked to start up in November. At 2 weeks PP, I have about 50lbs I'd like to lose, though my main goal is getting a…
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Walk to Fitness! A Challenge You Can Do with a Buggy :)
So you're just starting out or looking for a way to ease yourself back into it after the Christmas break or after having a baby? How about a walking challenge? Do you think you could you walk for roughly an hour a day, everyday for a month? We walk a minimum of 100 Miles a Month for fitness and if you're up for the…
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Preggo w Baby # 2 six months after baby #1
We had our first baby in Feb. 14 and I just found out I am 6 weeks along w baby # 2! We are very excited as we wanted to have another one shortly after the first, but this is a bit earlier than we planned :) I have a few concerns about how this pregnancy will go as I had some complications with the first. I had placenta…
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11 month old no longer sleeping through the night
Help! I haven't been this sleep deprived since my son was a newborn. he has been sleeping through the night since he was 4 months old from about 8pm to 5am every now and then he would wake up and nurse for a few minutes then right back to bed, About a month ago he began teething and was waking up very frequently but it has…
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Getting back on track, again...
Hello mommies! My name is Stephanie, I'm 30 years old and mom to a 16 week old baby girl. I'm a stay at home mom and an Air Force spouse and still have quite a bit of weight to drop. I'm 5 ft 7 in and 175 pounds and would like to lose 30 more pounds. I'm EBF and my baby refuses to take a bottle of expressed milk so that…
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Walk 100 Miles in November 2014!
So you're starting out and need an exercise to get you going? Perhaps you've not yet taken a challenge? Or perhaps you're recovering from injury or pregnancy or perhaps just enjoy walking? Do you think you can walk 3.5 miles a day for a month? If so, come and join us and we'll help spur you along! Click here to join...…
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Success Stories for losing weight.
Hello Mothers. I had my 1st child 8 months ago and my goal is to lose 30 lbs by her birthday.. (My daughter was born New Years Eve).. And I would love to read any success stories of mothers who worked at losing the weight and how you did it... I am currently doing 30 min of Cardio 4 days and another 30 min of strength…
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Breastfeeding and strength training/weight loss?
I'm due in a few weeks and plan on breastfeeding for about 2 years. I lost weight breastfeeding my first daughter quite easily, and was below my pre pregnancy weight without trying within 6 months. With my second daughter, I didn't lose anything for several years, but I was in a bad situation at home and stressed. It took…
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Support & Advice
Hello! I am 6mo postpartum and just found out I have eosinophilic esophagitis in addition to a newly discovered Type 2 Diabetes. Needless to say, I have got to lose the baby weight or my health will only continue to worsen. Through my pregnancy, I gained a whopping 75 pounds. I lost 30 pounds straight away from by nursing,…
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Clean eating
hey all! I am so excited. I am going to start a 30 day clean eating plan October 1st. I plan on posting everyday about it, going over how I am feeling as well as my grocery list and weekly meal prep, and of course everything I am eating. I wish someone would have had something like this that I could follow when I was…
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a new me and i love it!
starting over... again. I have been on and off mfp for awhile now struggling trying to get rid of the last of the baby weight. I am back and more motivated than ever. I had such unrealistic expectations for my weight loss. I thought I would be back in my skinny jeans by 3 months pp well my son is almost a year and I still…
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The in between body!
ITS MISERABLE! I'm 4 weeks pp tomorrow, and I have a two year old. I'm back to my pre-pregnancy weight (which is still morbidly obese, but hey it is what it is!) but have a looooooong way to get to my goal weight. Yesterday I emptied three full bins of fall/winter clothes and absolutely none of them fit, even the stuff I…
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looking for motivating mfp friends!
Hello! I'm a first time mommy. My LO is 6 months old. We are breastfeeding and I'm having such a hard time losing weight bc I feel like I'm hungry around the clock! I am looking for motivating friends who are also in the same boat (but perhaps a little more successful at dieting than myself) to add me! My diary is open to…
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Post breast feeding madness
So I've quit breast feeding and my period has returned... Well sort of. I'm on my third half-arsed period in six weeks. Very peculiar, but my hormones are all over the show and I've had three days of not being able to curb my eating. Dangerous territory. My google research shows that irregular periods and hormone madness…
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Exercising Again
Alright, so I'll be 4 weeks PP tomorrow. I was wondering how long did all of you wait before working out again? And when you started, what did you start with? I'm wanting to slowly get back into it, but definitely don't want to push my body...still having sore/achy left hip flexor pain (suffered with this pretty bad during…
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BFing and can't lose the last 10 pounds...
And it's killing me mentally. I've always had problems with body image and I'm barely keeping it together. This is my second baby and I just want those last 10 pounds to go awayyyyy. I'm 8 weeks post and I started at 106 and got up to 136 lbs by 39 weeks (I had a repeat c section.) I'm down to about 115-116 and the scale…
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MOMMY POUCH
Has Anyone actually lost the Mommy pounch with certain exercises? Like from a pouch to completely flat? I've had two c-sections and After my first my weight dropped easily and my stomach went back down. But after my second my pouch stood and it seemed to be this big dead blob of fat :/ . I have heard stories that it never…
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So Tired
Hi I'm a SAHM and my previously sleeping angel has for the last 2 weeks not been sleeping. I'm feeling almost as groggy as I did when she was a newborn. She's 18 months now. All I want to do is slob around in my jammies and eat cookies. Any tips for staying on track? Lx
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Do I eat my exercise calories for weight loss?
Im so confused. According to the freedieting.com calculator for lactating, it says I can eat 1789 calories a day in order to lose weight gradually. Now what I'm confused about it net vs gross calories. Do I eat 1789 total calories or do I eat back my bfing and exercise calories too? And also, I wear my baby a lot. Like…
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Pregnant again!
Hi Ladies - Has anyone in the group found themselves pregnant again? Thanks to MFP, I was able to return to my pre-pregnancy weight after my first baby. I swore I would not let myself gain 40lbs if I ever got pregnant again...but here I am, just getting into the second trimester, and my weight gain is on track for another…
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The Depo is killing me!
I became pregnant on my IUD so after the birth of my youngest girl (14 weeks old) I decided to try the Depo shot once again. I did gain 60lbs as a teenager on it, but thought I would attempt it once more. I'm almost up on my 3 month mark and for sure I'm going back to an IUD. I would rather become pregnant again then gain…
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doing the right things but no weight loss!
Hi Moms, I am 3 1/2 months postpartum. I had a vaginal delivery complicated by very extensive tearing and I was unable to do much of anything for about 6 weeks. Because I was so exhausted for weeks from the pain, breastfeeding got off to a very bad start and I always had to supplement. Once I was feeling a bit better,…
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tramatized
Hello ladies, I am new here, and would like to share my story. I was a little over weight when I got pregnant with our now 10 month old little girl. I tried very hard to eat right when I was pregnant so I wouldn't gain extra weight. I only gained 12 lbs during my pregnancy, when Ruby was born I weighed 15 lbs less than…
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Newbie...sort of :)
I'm 34 & just delivered my second child 3 weeks ago. I've been sort of in & out of MFP over the past couple of years but I'm determined to buckle down to get this baby weight off. I weighed somewhere around 250 at delivery, dropped to 223.5 after delivery & after 3 weeks at home I'm at 214.5. I love my FitBit & it really…
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Calories burned in Tracy Anderson Post-Pregnancy Workout?
Hi! I'm doing Tracy Anderson's Post-Pregnancy Workout and want to know approximately how many calories I'm burning so I can log my workout. TIA!
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How many calories should I be eating?
What do you think? If I use a calorie calculator for a regular woman its says I should be eating 1650 calories. If I use the nursing calculator it says 2100. I am nursing around 3 times a day. My daughter is not living off of my breastmilk. Each feeding is followed with a full formula bottle. My milk is not fatty at all,…
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Flying with 4 month old
Hello! I am going to be flying with my 4 month old by myself! I am super nervous! Please give advice, tips, suggestions, helpful hints, anything!