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PP EBF Weight Loss

Please also tell me if I’m being ridiculous here…Everything I seem to have heard suggests that if you EBF the PP weight drops off much faster, but I can’t say I’ve found this to be the case at all and especially at it’s my second it’s really grating on me. I’ll admit I put on a lot more this time, started about 67kg at booking and a few days PP was 80kg. I’ve only lost 4kg since then and am 10 weeks in and I feel like biology has done me dirty. I’m vegetarian and off dairy and soy due to suspected intolerance so my diet is already pretty restricted. We eat a lot of veg, and whilst I do snack it’s not huge amounts of choc/sweets it’s more like deliciously Ella snack things (and I’ll admit the occasional bag of crisps). I’ve done Pilates for the past 3 weeks, am pretty active (due to the 3yo) and this week even did a gym class on top. I know it’s still the 4th trimester but honestly I just don’t feel like I’m getting my body back at all and it’s really getting me down 😵‍💫 I also feel like we’re way further along than 10 weeks but again I blame the non stop toddler 🤪

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This is exactly how I feel. I was 69kg at booking and now sitting around 80kg at 8 weeks pp. We eat well, I chase a three year old and I exercise regularly due to having a dog. Also joined a fitness class in the hope it'll help. It is still early days and I remember it taking a good six months or so to feel more me after our first child but I'm so much more conscious of it this time for some reason x

Same. My weight hasn’t shifted. I heard that sometimes when you breastfeed your body can also hold onto the weight 😭😭😭 I honestly feel that’s why, cos I’m eating so clean and don’t have the large appetite that some breastfeeding mums have..I know if I wasn’t breastfeeding this would have melted off!!

Exactly the same here! EBF and the weight isn't really shifting, my belly is so much more flabby this time around and I worry it won't change. I'm also fairly active with a 1.5 year old and doggo, and started back dance classes and feel like nothing is changing! I also feel like we are way further along, my girl is 9 weeks but it feels like she's been in the family forever already 😂

Sounds like we’re not alone!! my stomach is also so heavy and flabby. Honestly I know we’ve done/are doing an amazing thing but lawd I want to be in my clothes again 🫣 I don’t know about you ladies but pre-kids I was a 32B…I’m like an E/F now how is that even humanly possible 🤯 Time is flying but the weight isn’t…and yes definitely way more conscious, but also desperate to not let the 3yo girl cotton on to my body insecurities 😢 xx