Losing weight after having a child

[Sammy76]

Hi, I had my son 2.5 years ago, and wondering if there are other mums who are still finding it very difficult to shift the weight gained from being pregnant - even if it is a few kilos!!

I put on 20 kilos when I was pregnant, then really wanted to get down to my pre-pregnancy weight, which was about 60 kilos. But after heaps of yo-yo dieting, I just seem to stay at around 65 kilos and just can't get down to what I was originally, no matter what I do ie. better diet, and I've taken up cycling, but neither seem to make a difference.

I don't have any stretch marks, but have cellulite - it seems worse than what it was before I was pregnant, does anyone else find this too??

[Pax]

i did after my 2nd and 4th babies.. the others i dropped the weight pronto.

to be honest i dont know why i gained with 2 and not 5 of them..

stress has been bad this time.. so not feeling very hungry i guess helps. breast feeding has taken off the weight too.

after 4 i tended to enjoy a wine or 3 and i think that is what kept the weight on.. amazing how cutting out alcohol and also sugar out of coffee can help..

[cindye]

Sammy - after I turned 30, I found that my metabolism slowed down quite a bit - I've actually read that after 30, it's much harder to maintain your weight. Before I was 30, I would hover between 57-61kgs, depending on how much exercise I did, and how well I ate. After 30, I weigh more - between 63-66kgs. I'm sure it would take a lot more effort to get under 60kgs these days...

Maybe it's not so much baby weight anymore, but more of an age thing - it certainly sounds like you're doing everything possible to shift it.

[tired*mummy]

With DD1 i didn't really have time to lose the extra weight cos i got pregnant with DD2 not long after she was born but i put on 20kgs with her & lost all but 4kgs before getting pregnant with DD2. With DD2 i put on 6kgs so when she was born i weighed 67kg. After she was born i lost the weight pretty quickly & i was 60kg when i got pregnant with DD3
i found that after having DD3 it was a lot harder to lose the extra kgs. I stayed around 64-65kg for a year & i dont know whether it was cos i went straight on the pill or because i had a c-section with her & not the other 2.

In the last couple of weeks i've started drinking heaps of water with lemon & exercised a little more than usual & i came off the pill last weekend & now i'm down to 61kg. My usually weight before pregnancy was 56-58kg. Hopefully i can get back to that. I think i need to tone up more than lose weight though.

[abbyandsamsmum]

I put on 20 kg with my first and then fell pregnant with number two when dd was 5 months old. I was 63 kg when i fell pregnant with first and 84kg the day i gave birth to my ds!! i've been on the tony ferguson diet for about 8 weeks and am back down to 60kg, highlly recommend it. i'm not as strict with it as they recommend because i'm still breastfeeding. want to get back down to 55kg which is what i weighed before i got married. the tf diet is hard to begin with, but you get used to it pretty quickly and it's not very expensive. hope that helps :)