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[siobhankerry]

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[EloiseAndBump]

Hello sweetie, i'm 9 months pp and feel exactly the same as you! I really don't like my overhang or the fact i'm covered in stretchmarks but to be honest I don't really care anymore! It will get better I promise! Soon you will just get used to how you are and stop giving a crap! But I wont lie there is days where i'm like blaah, I feel so fat and unattractive but everyone has them!

 

[iwantabub]

hey hun... if your doc has cleared u try the normal eating healthy an excercise... i dont think in any circumstance theres any special cure for weight loss even after pregnancy....

bfing can help but seriously even getting something in your house that weights 3 pounds and doing some bicep curls or whatever can burn calories ...

just dont be too hard on yourself and eat good healthy food and excercise to your comfortable levels ...

i have plenty of friends who look dead set same 12 months pp after a section...

but it takes motivation and excercise ...

goodluck

 

[Girl20]

Hi There Lady..

I usually don't reply (lurker, sorry ) but I felt like I had to share my "secret"...

My name is Adriana, I am 22 years old with a 7 1/2 month old son.
I gained like 30kg when pregnant so I was huge... Before pregnancy I was a size 8 or 134 pounds (61kg) , hmm during I was squeezing into a 16 (200.62 pounds or 91kg!!!!)!!!

I have alot of close friends that had weight issues and went on Duromine 30mg and actually lost ALOT of weight so I decided that I was also going to try it (unfortunately in South Africa you can only get it by a doctors prescription) So when my GP prescribed it without hesitation he just told me to check my blood pressure regularly because of the pill really making u forget to even eat it can mess with ur sugar levels - but if I eat small meals during the day I'd be fine and lose 1kg (2.2 pounds) a week without excersize or even changing much of my eating plan - sounded great!

So I tried it ( you can only use it for 3 months at a time and should take a month break in between if u want to continue or else ur body gets use to the Duromine) Anyway in 5 weeks I lost 11kg or 24.25 pounds without any hassles!

I lost 19kg on my own through breast feeding and when i stoped to BF i lost the remaining 11 kg's in just 5 weeks - I was over the moon and it sounds to good to be true but losing weight has never been this easy really!

I got some Before n after pics the before was about 6 weeks after my c section, the after was about 3 weeks ago.

I have been off of Duromine for 2 1/2 months now and have been eating normal and have not gained anything back!

Good luck I hope u can look into this because it is real easy to lose weight using duromine - we are still young and that puts pressure on us to still look good for ourselves. Keep well and if u want to know any more feel free to ask girly

 

[LynseyPynsey]

Hi Hun I'm 19 and also had a section and am hating my body! Just got cleared for exercise last week so think I'm going to do the Wii fit and start meal planning, hopefully see a difference. Will be stalking this thread though!

 

[siobhankerry]

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[RebeccaG]

Not sure I should be posting as I don't think I'm classed as 'young' anymore I feel young though lol!

I'm 4 weeks from section and also not loving the jelly belly right now! I put on a lot if weight 1st pregnancy and it took 7/8 months to properly lose it and back in to size 8 with flat tummy. That wasn't a section though but my friend had a section and we were dieting together and she was slimmer quicker than I was so it gives me hope lol!
I'm a very bad dieter - eat naughty things and starve myself! Works for me though and I lose the weight. We also did a money pot where we had to lose a pound a week or we'd put a pound in the pot. The person who lost the most wins the money. Xx

 

[minnieoxox]

Me tooo, the weight is slowly coming off I'm only 2 months pp but I can see the changes slowly but surly. Eat well and excercise it will come off in time

 

[blinkava]

This is how I felt after my 1st c-section, and then 18 months later I had another baby and I felt even worse. So I worked my ass off in the gym, switched my eating and got back to my high school weight of 120. I defeated the evil overhang with yoga, pilates and crunches. You can do it! it's not impossible it just takes a lot of hard work.

 

[SteffyRae]

My only advice is first off, watch what you are eating it can be quite hard to get out of the "cravings" lol. Second..take your lo on walks (in her stroller of course), push yourself a bit more everyday, when you feel you can do some "mommy and me" exercises (you can google it) just by doing this which felt like bonding with my child I lost what I call my deflated swim ring of fat lol. I was smaller when baby was 9 months old than before I got pregnant.. I just feel it is better than crash dieting or meds to lose weight... I've never trusted that stuff.
I was 19 when I had my c-section

 

[Hispirits]

hiya, not posted on here for a while, been a little busy with my babygirl, shes now 3 months old, which means im 3 months after my EMCS.. not really sure what im writing for to be honest, i guess just a place to write alot of crap ive been feeling recently... so liked i said, 3 month after section, and im not loving how i look at all, i was never confident about my body Pre-pregnancy but now after csection i have virtually 0 self confidence and it SUCKS, i breastfed for the first 6 weeks and that kept my body a little slimmer that what i was before i was pregnant and tbh i loved how i looked after my section, yes granted i was in severe agony, still in some pain even now all not as much as the 1st week or 2 .. but due to midwife telling me to COMBI feed, DD had grown more closely to the bottle and started to hate BF so i havent breast fed in WEEKS and the weight has PILED on , granted i can fit into a size 10 and believe i know how stupid that sounds, but i just dont look how when i was BF .. so now ijust feel like crap about my body my stupid over hang, well hangs over my jeans and leggings slightyl and its just so depressing my OH says he doesnt care how i look, he still tells me im beautiful everyday, but its just soo damn hard to believe him when i feel like crap ....
anyway, my question is, is there anyone on here thats had a section and got their body to a reasonable shape and weight after section, if so what things did u do to achieve it & could someone just maybe give me a few tips on how to sort this!

i would do it ALL again in a heartbeat for my daughter!
, so i dont anyone saying,awk thats what being a mum is about, ur bodys never the same after it blah blah blah ( i know that) .. just want to know that theres hope and i can feel a little better..

thanks to anyone that replies, if no one does, well then i guess whoever else feels the same, will know they arent alone!

xxxx '

this maybe frowned upon a bit
but are you still producing milk?
if so to loose a bit more weight express and freeze some, breast milk can be used for all sorts, frozen in ice cube trays are great for when babys teething.
skin conditions, eye infections nappy rash, breast milk can be used on all of them.

theres also a craze called pumping and dumping, where pp mums literally express their milk and throw it away to stay slim.

sorry if that wasn't helpful,
hope you feel better soon

 

[pinkribbon]

I'm 22 and had a section, I still feel gross about my body.
I feel like if I'd had a vaginal birth I would have gone back down but now I have a stupid dint in my stomach that I don't see going away - ever

However as time has gone on and I have been able to increase my activities I am slowly getting back to my old self take each day as it comes. Even just doing housework/walking/going up and down stairs etc is burning calories.

 

[minimocha]

for me (not sure if it's any help at all...) I went back to pre-pregnancy weight after 2 months. I had em-c section too due to dialation that stopped half way through. Now I'm 8lb below...

I'm still breastfeeding though, although my little girl is not really a big eater. But I think it helped. I am also pumping twice a day for "extras". Plus she is a handful, I usually only have enough time to have a quick breakfast (cereal), and a small lunch. And I'm running up and down the stairs everyday to get her to nap, change diaper, etc.... that's my exercise?? But I say the breastfeeding/pumping definitely helped.

 

[Kaileymonster]

Express milk if you can and sell it!! It'll also help with you healing up! There's plenty of websites out there where you can sell BM so have a look!

I'm 21m after my EMCS and pregnant again but before I got pregnant I bought some bloody good pants and just wore high waisted jeans to suck in that awful like overspill we're so unfortunate to gain!!

You've still healing honey so don't get yourself too upset! Just be healthy and you'll soon slim down again!

 

[SmartieMeUp]

I was 18 when I had LO and I was the same, I still get that feeling now at 20. I'm 17.5m p-cs now and I managed to lose all of my weight the wrong way. I was put on anti-depressants which happened to stop my appetite and I went from 10 stone (labour day) to 7st 4lbs in the space of 2.5 months and dropped to a size 4/6. I starved myself, made myself overly active just to burn more off. It became addictive and the only thing I could eat was 2 rounds a toast every other day for the energy. It became painful. Family was telling me I looked extremely ill.

Now I'm 8st (+ whatever lbs) with a flat belly but flabby thighs and I can eat for England on some days, but minimalise on others. I'm not motivated at all to exercise so I do it the easy but dangerous way.

Pic 1 6d pp: I was adamant to get into my pre-preg jeans (size 8) so I used a hair bobble to keep them together
Pic 2 3m pp: It's amazing how much a spray tan can boost your confidence.

I've not bothered with recent pics.