Okay, so I am now 5 1/2 months post-partum. I gained 51 pounds with pregnancy #1. Only 30 with pregnancy #2. And amazingly enough, about 22 of those pounds were gone within the first 10 days. That's the good news...the bad news is that these other eight are sticking on me like white on rice. You know the kind, the ones that don't come off with breastfeeding and ditching potato chips. You actually have to work at them. Okay, but I've been working now for a few months and seem to be getting nowhere.
So I have slowly worked myself to the conclusion that I just needed to exercise. And the only way I could figure out how to workout without spending a fortune at the gym or hire a babysitter during the day was to do the 5:30 am kickboxing at our church.
I started last month. Four weeks into it, I have not lost a single pound! This is most frustrating.
What I have gained is a grouchy attitude from making no progress, a tired existence as I wander through the day having gotten up at 4:45 am, and plaguing guilt if I think of skipping a day.
I race to bed right after the kids go to bed in an attempt to get my sleep in, but between a hubby who sleeps at 11 pm and a baby who gets up to eat at 3 am, I am finally realizing that this is not working.
I'm thinking my post-partum body is somehow stubbornly retaining these extra pounds probably cause I'm still mostly breastfeeding. I'll "enjoy" their company throughout summer season and hope that I can give them away by Christmas. In the meantime, tomorrow, I'm sleeping in.
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Ahhh...but you're still brave enough to post a picture of yourself in your bathing suit!! :) Please. You look great! It's definitely harder with the second pregnancy. Hang in there. You have plenty of time to lose those eight pounds (IF you want to...it's more about health than numbers, right?). You are already putting a lot of work into taking care of your family! Make sure you are giving yourself some grace!!!
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