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Losing weight after C-section

How I lost 12 Kgs after third c-section

 

  To start it off, I would really like to tell you all that before getting pregnant with my first baby I have been around 41kgs to 45kgs all the time, and yes this is the ideal weight for a very small person like me. Ever since my first pregnancy I had put on a lot of weight. Six months after my first baby, I got pregnant again and this time the weight had almost doubled. After giving birth I tried different methods, exercised, tried to limit my food intake but that disturbed my breastmilk supply, so I just accepted that I have to be overweight the rest of my life, or until my babies are old enough that I can take some time out for myself.

My baby number two had just turned 2 years old and exactly when I was thinking to move on and get him off the breastfeed, and make a routine for myself to lose weight, I got to know I was pregnant again.!!!!!!

So I totally gave in and thought that mother nature doesn’t want me to be back on my ideal weight ever again. Long story short, I gave birth to a beautiful healthy baby via another c-section, with a HUGE baby bulge hanging on my tummy and my total weight at that time was almost 67kgs. Now that number might sound a little too exaggerated, but trust me with a small person like me having light weight bones, 67kgs was literally a pain in the ass, or a pain everywhere I might say. So I decided for myself that I didn’t want to take this pain anymore and I really want to live normally once again.

 

So I tried, stayed consistent for around 3 months, and lost almost 12 Kgs.

 

Note: I started my weight loss trial after 7-8 months of giving birth because it was a  third c-section and it took quite some time to heal up and get back my energy.

Here are the main  things that really helped me through this;

1.       I started being active:

           I tried to be as active as possible, I would do all the house chores, take my baby for a one mile walk in the stroller, and stopped being lazy about everything.

2.       Took note of what I ate:  

         I started keeping track of my meals, this is when I realised I was eating way too much than it was required, just because I thought eating more n more would boost my breastmilk supply, but that was just a myth and it did no good except putting a whole lot of weight on my bones. I would recommend using any calorie counter app that suits you to count daily calories.

3.       2 Glasses of water before every meal: 

       Before starting any meal time, I would drink around 2 glasses of water which would number one, fill my stomach already with less space left for solids, number two, helped in boosting breastmilk supply, number 3, I believe it also helped in better digestion.  

4.       Bought a treadmill: 

        I decided to walk one mile everyday, but some days it wasn’t possible to go out with the baby because of weather, or timing or mood whatsoever, so I bought this used , cheap treadmill that did the job for me. So whenever in the day I got some free time, I would set the distance to 1 mile on the treadmill, and just walk. It hardly took 20-25 minutes everyday but this thing really helped me.



5.       The 7 o clock magic trick:

      Yes, I would like to call it the magic trick of losing weight. I stopped eating after 7:00 pm. What this did was, it gave my stomach a lot of time, to digest what I had eaten during the day. I would have my last meal of the day before 7:00pm, or at least 2 hours before I went to bed. This really boosted my metabolism.

 

 Kept Breastfeeding:

Breastfeeding my baby regularly helped me burn those extra calories that I couldn't have done otherwise. So breastfeeding is not only good for  your baby, but for your health also. 



   I have not yet reached my goal weight and it is still a long way to go, but I believe if I be consistent, I can make it. and of course if I can make it, you can too!!! 


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