I'm jealous.
I cannot diet right now and shed the pounds I put on (ashamed to admit this one here) not while pregnant but a few months before. I had started a weight loss plan, basic healthy eating and more physical activity, and joked that it was the baby making diet. Ummmm apparently it's effective :P Anyway now I am nursing and tried to use that as a way to burn additional calories since it is said to burn 500-600 extra calories a day. Weeeellllll that sounds great right? Sadly the trick is you have to eat those calories every day in order to produce milk it seems, it doesn't take them from your body the way the baby did before he was born. Darn. I discovered all this the hard way of course. Oh well. Maybe in a few weeks when we intro solids we can get into loosing more of the weight. I can't even do the extra physical stuff right now b/c I can't eat enough it seems to keep up production and my two mile walks. Sucks to be me...
Pregnancy itself was a pretty good diet plan I must say. I lost like 30 lbs :P at delivery and didn't put on but maybe five pounds my whole pregnancy and that was right at the end. I lost almost 20 in my first trimester b/c of "The Sickness". Crazy. The bad part of that is I never bought real maternity clothes, just elastic waist jeans and a couple of larger t-shirts. I only had two real maternity tops. It's a little depressing that I can still wear ALL of it. Even though I know I weigh less it still is a little weird to still be able to wear all the clothes I wore while pregnant. Of course at the time I found it weird to be just a few days from delivery and be able to wear not my real jeans but all my regular t-shirts and scrub tops that I worse before getting knocked up.
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