Post pregnancy weight loss
March 26, 2009I rarely discuss weight on my blog – mostly because I’m not usually happy with mine. With Xander, I gained about 30 pounds, and it took me a while to get back to my normal weight. Even after I was back to “normal”, my body had shifted from pregnancy. There was flab where there hadn’t been flab before. Things seemed to have permanently shifted on me (like my belly button which will never be the same). Since I knew I wanted another baby, and I didn’t want to wait too many years before having one, I didn’t feel overly motivated to work hard to lose weight knowing that I’d be doing it all over again in a few years.
With Parker, I only gained about 20 pounds. I didn’t do much differently in this pregnancy, other than chase a 2 year old around of course 
Somehow, I was back into pre-pregnancy clothes about 3 weeks after he was born. When I went back for my 6 week checkup (I was rescheduled, so it was really 8 weeks), I had dropped 10 pounds from my pre-pregnancy weight. This was super encouraging! Without any real effort, I had somehow shed 10 pounds! Of course, I have no idea where those 10 pounds disappeared from, since I was still the same pant and shirt size as I was before.
Now, about a month later, I’ve lost another 9 pounds – almost 20 pounds less than what I was before I became pregnant. This is definitely cause for celebration, but again, I haven’t dropped the weight anywhere I notice it – still in the same pants and shirts… Still have that irritating baby flab (more so now that I’ve gone through 2 pregnancies). Quite a few people have commented on my weight loss, but I still can’t see it.
So, in entirely a-typical fashion, I’ve dropped 40 pounds in 3 months, but other than the large baby bump that was Parker, I have no idea where the weight disappered from. I also haven’t done anything differently – still drinking completely fatty soda, still eating an occasional chocolate, still putting lots of sugar in my tea… I’m very excited to be loosing weight, and can only attribute it to breastfeeding and less eating out. As the weather warms up, I’m hoping to get out more, take walks with the boys, etc. and hopefully continue my weightloss and maybe then I’ll start to notice the changes that everyone else is seeing…
Conveniently, my belly button popped out over Thanksgiving weekend. That was also about the time I realized that I’ve had enough of being pregnant. It took me a lot longer to reach the “I’m done” phase this time around – my first trimester was worse, but the rest has all been much more comfortable overall (a very pleasant surprise). But now, I’m feeling huge, and most my my days and nights are spent searching for relief from discomfort. I get sore if I sit too long, stand too long, lay in the same position too long, etc. Then I find a comfortable position, and that lasts for 10-15 minutes before I’m uncomfortable again, and searching for a new position. I’m certain it’s driving my husband nuts at night when I “sleep” (mostly roll from side to side all night long). I toss and turn, waking him up, and more often than not, stealing the covers from his side of the bed (he hates that…)
