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If I could hug you, I would! I'm sorry that you are feeling this way. I don't really have any advice to give you, just hugs and support.

Are you breastfeeding? I feel like I wasn't fully back to my prepregnancy body until I stopped nursing. I don't know if that's the same with other nursing moms. Hang in there! It was a slow process for me too but you'll get there!

@Coco Bee: I did lose a bunch of weight initially when I started breastfeeding. But I felt like my body held onto a good 10 pounds for a long time. My clothes never fit right and I was too depressed about my body to go shopping. Maybe I was eating too much to compensate for calories lost while breastfeeding or maybe my body just needed to hold onto the weight.

@Coco Bee: I had gained about 8 lbs and I lost it all after I delivered. It was weird how fast my body went back to 'normal'. We got the all clear to start trying again, so we are hoping to get a BFP soon. It is hard since hubby works out of town, but hopefully we will catch the right timing.

@Coco Bee: I know! Trying on bathing suits has been known to depress me even when I'm in shape, thanks to the boobies.

With my first I gained 45 lbs and only lost 20. I had to wear my maternity swim suit that summer. Then I got pregnant again (while nursing, so who knows if that's why I couldn't lost weight?) and gained 30 and I've already lost all but 3 lbs(!) at almost 4 months pp. I'm just hoping I keep losing weight. I look at photos from before I had kids and I want to smack my previous self for thinking I was at all overweight, I would kill to have that figure back!

I have a family reunion in a month and I have no idea what I will wear at the beach...that maternity suit is getting a bit worn out.

Erm, I think I'm losing weight faster because I was on a crappy elimination diet for the past month. Sad, but effective (also clearing up little A's eczema...which would be the point...)

@Coco Bee: sounds like you're doing all the right things - eating well and working out. It will happen!

I had gotten back to my first pregnancy weigh in (at 6 weeks) by around month 10? Then I made the mistake of going to Texas for a week to visit my inlaws. They have 3 fridges, a huge pantry and I ate like a cow! Had root beer floats every night and gained about 5lbs. -.-
Those 5 pounds would not go away! Now I'm pregnant again and I've packed on an additional 3-5lbs.

I have lost all of my pregnancy weight but my body is nowhere near the same as it was pre-pg. I would say that being at my fittest before getting pregnant helped a lot.

I also fully took advantage of the idea that BFing helps you lose weight so I have been eating really poorly...and 3 months post-pg I am realizing that I really can't eat crap all day while BFing.

Hang in there and just keep doing what you're doing and try not to stress about it too much. Often stress is what keeps those extra pounds on.

It took me 6 weeks to lose it all but have a lot of flab around my midsection.

this is my worst nightmare. i'm already worried i'll never have my old body back. at my last appointment at 24 weeks i had already gained 20...all belly.

I'm 7 weeks pp and I'm still working on it also. I'm having a really hard time with the extra weight also. I expected to still be carrying around some extra at this point, but what really gets to me about it is feeling so helpless about getting it off. Like you, I've been exercising and eating right to try to get rid of it and it's just not happening. It's very discouraging to say the least, and if I think about it too much, I get really upset. I feel so terrible that you wound up so upset because I know that exact feeling, and it's awful. I'm holding on to the hope that it'll all come off once I stop BF. But then again, I plan on doing it long term so that doesn't really make me feel any better right now.

Last time I was weighed was at 6 weeks pp (8 weeks now), and I still had 20lbs to lose. I gained like 60, so I guess thats pretty good.

I was back at my pre-pregnancy weight around 13 weeks pp but things aren't the same!!! Since I hadnt worked out at all since giving birth, things aren't the same cause I'm flabby now vs somewhat toned before. I just started 30 Day Shred yesterday and hope to work back towards a somewhat recognizable body. I stare at the mirror and wonder about my reflections sometimes. Love that I have LO to show for it but it still does a number on the ego. Only another month until beach season. *sigh* Hang in there and it'll happen!

Oh I also EBF and I think that helped me shed it. I ate pretty healthy but didn't exercise at all until this week.

awwwwww, big big big hugs to you. Honestly I know exactly how you feel. I lost all but 5 lbs in the first month, and I didn't lose that last 5 lbs until I went back on WW about a year later, but even after losing at 5 lbs my body still did not look the same or fit into any of my pre-baby clothing. Everything was soft and pudgy and I had so much extra skin around my belly area that never ever tightened up.

I was severely anti-plastic surgery before but now I'm seriously considering a tummy tuck and laser treatments for my stretch marks in my late 30s!

I'm really excited to be done with this pregnancy so I can really buckle down and get my body back into shape once I'm done with kids. We'll do it together!!!!!!