It took me about 3 weeks to lose all of the baby weight, plus an extra 5 pounds. Then, in the last 6 months, I managed to gain every single pound back. The problem is that when I'm pregnant, I need to eat almost constantly to gain enough weight. As soon as I'm not pregnant, I gain weight like a champ, even though I'm not even eating a quarter of what I was eating before.
I'm not on a diet. There is just to much planning, stress and usually feelings of failure associated with dieting. I've been trying to buy healthier foods and making sure I'm truly hungry before I eat. In 3 weeks I've lost about 8.5 pounds. Not too bad for eating a huge amount of sushi last week and some mini Oreos the other day. At this rate it may take me a couple of years to lose all the weight I would like to lose, but I'm not hungry, I'm not irritable, and I'm in no real rush to lose the weight anyway.
I need to lose some weight before I start taking the Clomid again, but past that I have no specific time frame in mind. I've been overweight for almost 8 years. I gained a large amount of weight after I had the Hellion and although I have dieted, I have never managed to keep the weight off. I figure, skinny looks nice, but I have no need to kill myself trying to achieve it. Plus, I plan on having more kids, which means I would gain most of the weight back anyway.
So as opposed to trying to lose the weight, I'm attempting to be more healthy in my eating habits. When I lose some more weight, I'll eventually attempt to be more healthy physically as well. Perhaps join a gym or something. But not anytime soon, as I seriously lack the time, energy, money, and desire to so something like that now.
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I'm not on a diet. There is just to much planning, stress and usually feelings of failure associated with dieting. I've been trying to buy healthier foods and making sure I'm truly hungry before I eat. In 3 weeks I've lost about 8.5 pounds. Not too bad for eating a huge amount of sushi last week and some mini Oreos the other day. At this rate it may take me a couple of years to lose all the weight I would like to lose, but I'm not hungry, I'm not irritable, and I'm in no real rush to lose the weight anyway.
I need to lose some weight before I start taking the Clomid again, but past that I have no specific time frame in mind. I've been overweight for almost 8 years. I gained a large amount of weight after I had the Hellion and although I have dieted, I have never managed to keep the weight off. I figure, skinny looks nice, but I have no need to kill myself trying to achieve it. Plus, I plan on having more kids, which means I would gain most of the weight back anyway.
So as opposed to trying to lose the weight, I'm attempting to be more healthy in my eating habits. When I lose some more weight, I'll eventually attempt to be more healthy physically as well. Perhaps join a gym or something. But not anytime soon, as I seriously lack the time, energy, money, and desire to so something like that now.