Mummies to be – are you worried about losing your pregnancy weight?
I was not overweight pre-pregnancy, but I did weigh about 12 lb more than I usually like to weigh. This is due to some medication that I was taking at the time.
Anyway, I am 27 weeks today and I have gained around 15 lb so far. I really want to lose all the pregnancy weight + the extra that I had before I got pregnant.... and it's really getting me down that I'm probably not going to be able to manage this...
The reason I want to lose the other 12 lb aswell is because I am 5ft3 so weight shows up really well on my body lol!!
So, I am finding it hard to enjoy the pregnancy because I am so worried about losing weight after. I don't starve myself, I do get cravings for chocolate, and I fulfil those cravings otherwise I just go madddddddd thinking about it, but I don't over indulge.
So.... after all of that... I guess I am looking for some success stories to help motivate me. I want to stop worrying and enjoy the life growing inside of me instead of CONSTANTLY thinking about how big I'm getting.
Am not the one giving thumbs downs... I appreciate all your answers. Expect the idiot chubby whats his face - i did give u a thumbs down cos your answer is stupid
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I totally know how you feel. Don’t stress about it too much tho. I was exactly the same way during my pregnancy. I was always so worried about gaining all the weight, and I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to loose it very easily after the pregnancy. but turns out that I worried for nothing. I gained alot of weight during my pregnancy. like about 40 pounds and Im about 5′ 3 also, and I pretty much ate whatever I wanted during my pregnancy. and now I just had my baby about 3 weeks ago, and I have already lost most of the weight. I only have about ten pounds to go, but that nothing, once I start working out again I will loose that no problem. You will too. Right now, just enjoy your pregnancy, this is the one time in your life where you can gain lots of weight and get away with it. lol you have a good excuse. and don’t worry, you will loose it after the baby is born. alot of it will come off right away within the first couple weeks, and the rest of it, may just require a little exercise and eating right again. good luck.
I’m kind of worried that I wont be able to lose the weight and my husband wont love me the same… he says Im beautiful pregnant and I believe him and all, but I do hope I can lose the weight and also some more.
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Im worried about getting an apron. If you know what that is…Its like when your stomach gets so big and then shrinks and the extra skin folds over and sags! It is horrible!
I am worried but I have my lil baby, So Im going to sign up for baby and me yoga and start jogging with the stroller when shes old enough!
no. I have bigger fish to fry…like taking care of a newborn and the rest of my family. I hope it goes away, but I’m not worried about it.
i’m 5’3 and before i got pregnant i used to weight 115 and was a size 0 or 1..now i weight 156 lbs..i’m worried that i won’t get to my original size..but that didn’t stop me from eating a lot..i care about the health of my baby and i don’t really care if i’m not the exact weight i used to be..
I am extremely worried, i am only 5’2 and i started out at 116 and now i am about 162. I don’t overfeed myself, i eat about three times a day. I don’t know why i have gained so much or continue to gain so much. (my husband has it in his head that it will all just drop off within 2 months, it don’t work that way).. I plan to breastfeed and do lots of exercise with lots of hope.
I’m not worried at all.
I’m 5’9" (with a large frame) and a good weight for me is 170 lb. At one point in my life (the lowest point, actually) I weighed 345 lb. I ended up having gastric bypass surgery in 2001, and lost 185 lb. as a result of that. I was actually a little on the thin side when I got pregnant with my first child, and I lost all but about 10 lb. of the 70 I gained with him, putting me at my perfect weight. Got pregnant with his little brother 6 months after my first was born, gained 40 lb, and lost all but 10 of that. To make a long story longer (lol) I’m currently 23 weeks pregnant with baby #3, and was about 15 lb. overweight when I got pregnant. If I don’t lose all of it, I’m not concerned in the least. I’m more concerned that I remain healthy overall, and being a few pounds overweight doesn’t automatically mean you’ll develop diabetes, high blood pressure, etc. It just means you’re a few pounds overweight.
I’m not concerned if I don’t lose "that last 5 lb." Trust me–when you’ve been morbidly obese like I was and got down to a healthy weight, that extra 5 – 10 lb. means NOTHING. Freaking out over an extra 5 – 10 lb. is sort of sad, honestly. I wish everyone could be fat for a day so they would appreciate just how meaningless a few measly pounds are.
And to anyone out there who says her husband won’t love her if she gets "fat" and stays that way–shame on your husband! Did he marry you for your body or for what’s inside? If my husband ever made ANY reference to me being over weight (whether I was pregnant or not) I’d probably smack him good. lol
Most women do worry about it. At least for a little while.
Maybe 1% of them will actually get on a stair-master and do the work that they need to do to get he pounds off but most will try to do it the "easy" way and try a bunch of diets that let you "eat whatever you want and still lose weight" and of course none of them will work. Then they’ll get frustrated and give up and eventually learn to live with the weight.
I mean, what do they care, really? Who do they need to impress? Nobody, that’s who. They won’t be interested in or have time for sex for another 6-8 years and it’s not like their husbands are really going to divorce and shatter their children’s lives because Mom is a little porky.
They’ll have a loveless marriage where each quietly resents the other and eventually, when the kids are out of the house they’ll get divorced. Then she’ll finally knuckle down and hit the gym because then, THEN she’ll have something to prove to her insensitive husband and she’ll want him to know that OTHER men find her attractive. Yeah, that’ll show him! If only she would have put in that effort 20 years ago they’d still be married and happy and their kids would be well adjusted and would be able to have healthy relationships of their own some day, but NOOOOoo. They want to just eat and eat and eat and expect the whole world to stand by them no matter how fat they get.
i remember around 37 weeks i was so ready for the pregnancy to be over with just so i could get my body back… yeeeeeeeeeeeea.. 16 months late it never happened.. i was still 20 lbs heavier then pre pregnancy when i got pregnant again. i lost 14 lbs so far so i’m still baout 6 lbs heavier then i was before i was pregnant with my first. and as another poster said about the "apron" i’ve never heard of it called that but yes, i do have it. my skin was so stretched out now it just sags. like when obese people lose all that weight they need surgery to tighten the skin. mine is not horrible but im not comfortable with it. im not expecting a miracle after this child but i really am going to try to watch what i eat and get in a litle more exercise
Congratulations on your pregnancy. Please don’t be worrying about your weight gain during your pregnancy, it is such a special time to be enjoyed. Just be aware of what you are eating, portion control etc etc, It is inevitable that you will gain some weight during pregnancy but once your bundle of joy is here and you get out and about walking with the pram it will soon come off. I gained 41/2 stone with my first pregnancy which was my own fault for eating whatever I wanted, I managed to lose all but 10lbs of that weight. I am pregnant again and am being much more careful. All the best.