Losing weight has been on my mind since I hit about five months of pregnancy with baby number two. I have done so much research on the internet about how to lose baby weight that Google should put up a warning sign every time I get the results…”step away from this page…step away from this page”.
Seven months after giving birth to our second child, I am far from fitting into my size 10 jeans. Like with my son, I have breastfed this baby, but instead of having the benefit of losing weight because of this, I have actually gained weight because I? have felt ravenous after every feed…the complete opposite to last time!
In fact squeezing into a pair of size 12 jeans left me scarred – I’m serious. You see, every week or so, I try on an old pair of jeans to see how the weight is dropping. At the start, I could just about get my ankles past the knee area of the jeans, so you can imagine my reaction when I managed to get the jeans past my thighs…then my hips… and then? got stuck at the zip. I was not going to let a pair of jeans rain on my parade!
When I came across this challenge, I knew that I would have to hide the dreaded bulge around my waist if I managed to zip up the jeans. I had a top that could hide the muffin top, so I took that out to give me some moral support while I made war with the zip. After doing up the zip up (using more force than I care to share), I just did not have the energy to put on a sensible, better-fitting pair of jeans. So I went ahead and wore them.
I was out of the house that day, but I felt a real pain in my stomach, so when I went to check it out, I saw a cut on my stomach, where the metal at the back of the button had been tightly rubbing against my stomach.
That was enough… enough of this losing baby weight
I just thought to myself – “is it really worth it?” Seven months to lose weight in a normal world is not that long. Had it not been for the fact that we are bombarded by images of celebrity mums back to their fragile size zero frames 10 minutes after dropping a sprog, would we really put so much pressure on ourselves? I nearly dropped the baby when I saw images of Tess Daly IN A BIKINI abo
two weeks (maybe more, but my mind hasn’t functioned the same since seeing the image) after having her second child. I know she is a former model, but she didn’t even look pregnant to begin with, unless some of us who always get asked if we’re carrying multiples.
I have succumbed to the nine months on, nine months off rule. That way, I have a target that I’m working towards, and a sensible one at that. And it means that I don;t have to scar any other part of my body in the process. If it takes a litle longer, then as long as I am trying, and getting some results as I go along, that’s ok.
Did I mention that the button popped on those jeans the last time I wore them? Enough said…
Read a funny artilce in the Daily Mail about losing baby weight
