This is a spinoff of the "how much weight did you gain while pregnant?" thread.
I want to know if it's more normal to have a certain amount "left" since your own body seems to know how much you really need to gain during pregnancy.
I think I had 12 or so pounds to go after 3 weeks pp. I felt so bad for gaining 43 pounds but in the end I think I'm in a similar post partum place as most women are.
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clementine / 959 posts
I lost 15 lbs in the first week pp, but then nothing for another month.
pomegranate / 3980 posts
By a month I was 4lbs away from pre preg. weight but ended up gaining 10 back 
now at 3 1/2 months out I am still 14 more than before being pregnant! (I gained a total of 34)
coffee bean / 47 posts
I gained 50 lbs. I lost 20 right away, and 4 months pp, I still have about 25 to go. I just started weight watchers and it seems to be working. I really thought it would be easier to lose the weight
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21616 posts
oops I voted wrong... sorry!!
I still had about 20 lbs to lose. I was stuck at +20 lbs for like three months. It totally sucked!
cantaloupe / 6146 posts
I thought it would be easier to get back to "zero" but my clinic said I was doing great (I have lost like 3 pounds since the 3 week mark--so 3 pounds like 3.5 months). They said that is actually really good.
I plan to replan my diet (not go on a diet but rather reevaluate my food choices) if I don't reach "zero" by 9 months post partum.
cantaloupe / 6146 posts
@Coco Bee: 
Yeah, I sense a common theme--lose a lot in the first week or three and then stall out for months. Ah, well. Still. Totally. Worth. It.
cantaloupe / 6146 posts
@cvbee: Really? I guess I should have done at 6 weeks, huh? Since most people have a pp check at 6 weeks... And most people don't seem to lose much between 5 and 6 weeks.
cherry / 195 posts
I gained 60 lbs! But 3 months PP I was 10 lbs under my pre preg weight. My body is odd.
papaya / 10560 posts
I have 7 left to pre preg and LO is 1 month old. My belly is so flabby and no clothes fit. Even when I lose the 7 I'm pretty sure they still won't fit...
nectarine / 2039 posts
@pastemoo: yeah, I think that's when I did it. Oh, wait, no, I didn't have my PP til 8 weeks (they coordinate it with baby's 2 month check up here). So I stepped on the scale before then because I wanted to 'find out' in private. I don't know why I was so anxious about the PP weight. I thought I was going to be 'fat' for the rest of my life or something. I remember first being so shocked about how small my tummy got after the birth that shortly after coming home from the hospital I put on some (loose) pre-preg pants thinking they'd for sure do up and I was HORRIFIED at how far from doing up they were. I decided then and there that I would be fat for a long time. I wore maternity pants for a super duper long time after that, until I finally started seeing pics of myself (maybe 6 weeks PP) and thinking how darn frumpy I was looking and then I tried on my pants and they fit. And then I checked the scale and I was maybe only 8 pounds over pre-preg weight. Being a girl is such a head-trip.
GOLD / wonderful grape / 20289 posts
I gained 40 lbs and after a month still had 20 to go. Now LO is 14 months old and I still have 8 lbs
But I get crazy bad migraines, have had them my whole life and even worse since she's been here and exercise is a big trigger so I can't even take a walk without my head blowing up. It's been hard to try to lose the weight!
apricot / 468 posts
I gained 45 lbs when I easy pregnant and I too lost 20 of it right away. Two month pp I still have about 20 lbs to go I really don't want to have to buy bigger clothes but I may have to because its getting chilly and all of my maternity clothes? Are summer ones!
cantaloupe / 6146 posts
@cvbee: Being female is a major head trip!
@artbee: 8lbs to go with walking induced migraines? You're doing great! Are the migraines getting any better yet?
pomegranate / 3983 posts
I'm not sure because I never stepped on a scale at that point but I think it was around 10 lbs. I was not happy to still be in maternity pants then. But somewhere closer to 2 months I switched from maternity pants to my old "fat" pants so it wasn't that bad after all.
GOLD / wonderful grape / 20289 posts
@pastemoo: well the big problem is I gained a lot of weight before I got pregnant with my lo.... so I have a lot more to lose before I'm back to my old self. Before ttc I had to get off a certain med which caused me to gain a lot, then I got pregnant and gained and miscarried, then I comfort ate and gained, then I got pregnant before losing any of that weight. So yeah..... 8 lbs to pre lo weight but 28 lbs to my happy weight!
Migraines are better than when lo first came... but still pretty bad not looking forward to what's going to happen when we decide to get pregnant again. Thank you for asking about me though!
cantaloupe / 6146 posts
@artbee: I hope they find something for you. Migraines are the worst.
@Baby Boy Mom: What do women without fat pants do? I was wearing my maternity pants for a long time and then moved into my fat pants (I still wear some of them)....If I didn't have fat pants I would have had to go shopping.
hostess / wonderful grape / 20803 posts
Gained 30, lost 12 immediately and at 6 weeks PP I still had 15 to go!
But, I lost it all by 4 months post partum.
hostess / wonderful persimmon / 25556 posts
I only lost about 10lbs initially. I gained 45. I'm 4 months pp now and still have 20lbs to go.
hostess / wonderful grape / 20803 posts
@pastemoo: I did! I worked out like crazy from 6-14 weeks post partum (pre-30 minute naps) and was producing so much milk from pumping. Things are not in their proper place and I have pancake butt, but as of a few weeks ago I was down to my pre-preg weight. Which is 5 lbs more than I want to be ; )
cantaloupe / 6146 posts
@winniebee: Woot woot!
And... have you tried pilates? I just lost 2 inches off my waist and am starting to reshape to my old self again! It ROCKS. I have 1.5 waist inches to go (I gained 16 inches in the waist and lost 11 by simply having the baby--the rest has been a FIGHT). And I mean... in the time I lost those 2 inches and have lost less than a pound so I know it's the pilates.
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