Post Baby Weight Loss

Happy Monday Everyone! I hope you had a great weekend. I figure today would be a good day to talk about the journey to lose the baby weight being that weight loss was my main focus right before I got pregnant.

First, I'm going to start off by saying- I'm really not doing anything to lose the weight yet. Being that I'm nursing, I understand how important it is to keep my calories up so I can feed little man. However, weight loss is a process so let start at the beginning- which was about 2 years ago.

 

This picture was take 2 years ago today, and it's was the heaviest I ever was (or the heaviest I was willing to document with a picture). It was at this time I also got my first smart phone, and starting using the MyFitnessPal app which is was started me down my weight loss path.

If you have been reading this blog for a long time, then you know I spent a lot of time and energy to see that number come down. It took me 1 year to go from my heaviest to my lowest that I had seen since high school. Below- this picture was the lowest weight I documented and it take 1 year ago today as well...

Being that these pictures span my weight loss journey over the last 3 years- that is why I think this post was so fitting to write today. However, being that I'm back to work and that we are going to get our taxes done tonight- there will be no picture of todays weight- but this is what the scale read on last Thursday when I went to the gym-

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I do think it's important to know, I was right around 190 pounds when I gave birth to Sammy Jay. So basically all the weight I lost just I allowed me to get back to where I was at my heaviest. However, since giving birth, I have lost about 20 pounds of the 35 pounds I gained. I wish the last 15 would drop off like the first 20, but I know that it's all a process. Plus, like I said, being that I'm nursing I haven't really starting cutting calories and I haven't gotten into a routine at the gym (which I think will be the hardest part with the baby).

 

To all my new momma friends- please don't be too hard on yourself when it comes to the baby weight. We all grew a human in our bodies- which is crazy- so we have to nice to ourselves because that process took a lot of work so it's not like we can expect to be back to our old self in just a few weeks. It will take time, so just enjoy that little baby while you can!