Being healthy, the most important thing is being healthy. I believe becoming a mother makes this very important. I’m trying to loose the pregnancy weight because i gained it too fast, in only 9 months i added 40 pounds to my weight. No matter how i put it, it is a weight gained too fast and it can not be healthy. The pre-pregnancy body? I could not care less. People color their hair attempting to change something about themselves whenever they are bored or perform plastic surgery in order to modify their body. My body changed due to the most wonderful thing in the world why should i reject it or deny it?

I think women’s primary focus should be on their overall health and their baby’s health!

Don’t workout until your doctor gives you the OK, go on walks with baby if the weather is good, and I think Moms should focus on eating very healthy, especially if they choose to nurse.

If you focus on your health, the weight will come off. It’s not a race though! lol

:)

I’m breastfeeding and have had a lot of problems maintaining my milk supply. If I even think the word diet, my supply plummets. So for now, I’m not actively trying to lose weight. I try to eat healthy (but plentifully) and do light exercise, like taking the baby out in the stroller. Doing this I’ve managed to drop a few pounds, but I’ll have to wait until I wean my baby at one year for any focused weight loss efforts.

As mother of two girls who still uses the excuse, “I just had a baby” (they’re 3 and 4 by the way, I had to choose “other”. I know how important it was for me to try my best to get back to “normal” after I had my girls but what I didn’t realize was that my body had found a NEW normal. I have lost all the baby weight but my body is completely different now. I have embraced it, learned how to dress it and found my personal God in Spanx. Even though there is tons of pressure for women to bounce back after producing a HUMAN BEING, we just need to stick strong and learn how to flip the bird every now and then. Trust me, it helps.

I don’t think worrying about losing the weight is necessary. Keeping yourself healthy is the important thing. I have told myself from the get-go that i didn’t care if i would ever fit back into my size 3 pants. That said, my daughter is 14 weeks old and i have lost all but about 10 or so lbs. of the baby weight. i gained 40 during the pregnancy. I do not have a regular exercise routine, in fact, i hate typical exercise. I do, however, walk a lot (half of my walking is done with baby hanging out in our moby wrap, which she loves) and bike a couple of times a week. I also follow a gluten-free and vegetarian diet that includes eggs and some dairy, which i think has a lot to do with it. I went back to work about a month ago, and since my job is one where i am active and always on my feet, i feel that this has helped in the weight loss as well. But honestly, if i had only lost ten lbs., i would still be a happy camper. And the big thing to remember here is, just like babies, us moms are all different, too, so comparing ourselves to one another is simply not good science.

it’s perfectly healthy and normal to shed your preggo weight. you no longer need it! should you obsess or be unhealthy about it? of course not. but positive attention to how incredible the body is as it shrinks back through a good diet, activity, and hopefully nursing will contribute to a better quality of life emotionally and sexually.