I have made it a rule not to get obsessed with losing the weight I put on during pregnancy. Nine months up and nine months down, they say, and here I am 1.5 months out with somewhere between 10 and 15 lbs to lose. As a mixed blessing, my scale is either broken or seriously psychotic, as I can gain and lose 4 kilos in the space of a day, so I have given up on weighing myself. Instead, I judge progress by the way clothes fit.
This is not necessarily a good system, of course, because I am still wearing my maternity pants while hoping to get my old figure back (or a modified version of it). This means that everything is baggy, so hey! I've lost tons of weight, according to my clothes. Not really but the maternity pants let me think so.
Yet. Yet. I have one pair of pants that are not maternity pants but that have always been a little loose. I tried them on upon returning from the hospital and nearly cried -- I could hardly get them over my hips! Then I tried them on again three weeks later and could get them up but nowhere near buttoned.
But today, today my friends, I got them up, buttoned, and zipped. And honestly, they look like they fit. I mean, close enough anyway. They're not comfortable like they used to be, but that will come with time. Still -- I am happy to see progress in a concrete way.
Maybe this means that in another 6.5 weeks, I'll be able to wear something other than the two pairs of (maternity) pants I have in rotation. First, I feel gross still wearing the same clothes I felt like such a whale in just a few weeks ago. But second, with a newborn, clothes get pretty gross awfully quickly, and it's been tough to have so few things that fit.
Old wardrobe, here I come!
Oh just wait, it will come. I was so there with you with regards to not enjoying wearing my maternity clothes...or at least the 2 pair of pants I could wear. It will come...just hang in there a little longer!
Oh just wait, it will come. I was so there with you with regards to not enjoying wearing my maternity clothes...or at least the 2 pair of pants I could wear. It will come...just hang in there a little longer!
Oh just wait, it will come. I was so there with you with regards to not enjoying wearing my maternity clothes...or at least the 2 pair of pants I could wear. It will come...just hang in there a little longer!
Oh just wait, it will come. I was so there with you with regards to not enjoying wearing my maternity clothes...or at least the 2 pair of pants I could wear. It will come...just hang in there a little longer!
Oh just wait, it will come. I was so there with you with regards to not enjoying wearing my maternity clothes...or at least the 2 pair of pants I could wear. It will come...just hang in there a little longer!
Oh just wait, it will come. I was so there with you with regards to not enjoying wearing my maternity clothes...or at least the 2 pair of pants I could wear. It will come...just hang in there a little longer!
Oh just wait, it will come. I was so there with you with regards to not enjoying wearing my maternity clothes...or at least the 2 pair of pants I could wear. It will come...just hang in there a little longer!
I was surprised to see a lot of American moms back in the gym so quickly after coming home from the hospital, obsessively working out to lose their preggo weight...
The French moms all had different wacky diets, and bought all kinds of expensive nutritional supplements at the pharmacy...
I just sat on the couch and let Olivia nurse my pregnancy weight off. It was quite effective :).
Way to go on getting back into those pre-preggo pants, it must feel great!
yeah they say nursing does the trick...and he is soooooo cute!
delphine