Wednesday, 02 December 2009
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Losing weight after baby!
If you have been there and done that.. you know it is no easy task! It might not even be accomplishable at times! When I was pregnant my doctor told me the key was to gain just enough weight for the baby and not too much more. I starved myself of icecreams and chocolates (well almost.. I did sneak them in every once in a while!) to make sure I was not just gaining too much weight! I walked like a crazed lady to make sure I was fit and kept in shape even when I was bursting at the seams so to speak!
Then the baby was born and much to my dismay I still looked pregnant! After a quick consultation with the doctor I was assured that the breastfeeding will help and soon I will be able to crunch and walk it off! But then I was not able to breast feed my baby.. no milk! Sigh! The kiddo was formula fed from almost the end of the first month, so there went that dream of losing the extra calories!
Now I had to strive hard to lose weight.. I armed myself with an elliptical bike and started trudging my way to weight loss! But handling work and home, not to mention the life changing event of having a baby left me with little or no time for exercise. The hubs would take the kid and baby sit while I had dedicated time to my workout.. but I always came up with an excuse to stop. And the guilt (of not spending time with my baby) was just one of the many excuses!
I did lose few pounds and the people around me noticed and complimented me on it. Between that and a hair makeover, I felt so good about myself I stopped the workouts! 4 years later it dawned on me that I still had a few dozen pounds to lose and my baby was no longer a baby, he was a preschooler! I had always been reed thin all my life and now I was fretting over my weight constantly!
After failed attempts at dieting switching to brown rice and giving up sugar did not seem to work. It then dawned on me that no pain no gain. So I trudged it to the gym every day and started to run! I ran like the hell was after me, crunched my abs till they hurt from exhaution.. and in a few weeks the results began to show, the scale began to budge! I was getting there! I wish there was an easier way, but for me there wasn't!
Eyeing that bar of chocolate with longing, I ask you... how did you lose the weight post baby? What are your suggestions?
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