Iona Sandrine Hay was born at 0049 on October 25th weighing a whopping 5lbs10oz! She was 3 weeks early. This is my last belly shot at 37 weeks:
And my wee angel:
She was still Frank Breech so had to come out the sunroof. I went into labour on my own and progressed so quickly it was straight into the OR and out she came! This was 3 weeks ago and as I had a C Section exercise has been a big NO NO. I haven't even been watching what I eat AT ALL as have had my parents here but regardless in the last 3 weeks I have lost 16lbs/7kg. I only put on 36lbs this time round which is a HUGE improvement on last time!
Weighing in today at 72.3kg or 160lbs. I haven't found my tape measure to take measurements but starting today I will be calorie counting and perhaps doing some gentle yoga daily until I get the all clear from the doctor to begin working out.
As I currently have a sedentary lifestyle as I am not yet working out my recommended calorie intake is 1,200 a day. As I am breastfeeding I add 400cals onto the top of that so I will be consuming 1,600cals a day.
If you remember from the first time I lost the baby weight with Callum this is not an exact science and may take some weekly tweaking to find the right calorie intake for me to lose weight but keep up milk production. I may need to increase this if my milk starts to suffer.
So this is the only picture I can find, this was taken a week to 10 days ago but will do for a guide:
I will be doing multiple updates weekly and Friday mornings will be my stats and weigh ins. Remember, this is all achieved with NO gyms, no trainers, no gimmicks and no strict regimes. Just motivation, perseverance, healthy eating and a little sparkle!
Happy Blitzing!
Congratulations on the birth of your sweet little one!
ReplyDeleteWe are in very similar situations. My son was born on the 21st 6 days early. I also gained 35 pounds and have lost about 17 of it. I still have a ways to go. I haven't lost any weight since the 2nd week and I'm trying not to be too discouraged by that.
I'm curious to see if you lose weight consuming so few calories while nursing. It seems that I finally began losing weight last time once I consumed enough calories to maintain my weight plus whatever I burned that day during exercise. But that wasn't until my daughter was about 6 months old. I'm wondering what formula I should use to calculate calorie intake. I'm thinking aiming for the same thing at first to see if it works. Then if it doesn't, maybe add 200 calories to my maintainance calorie requirements plus calories burned in exercise. So for me, at about 139 lbs I need to eat about 1650 + burned exercise calories.
I went for a couple of runs this week with my heart rate monitor and boy will it take me a long time to get back to where I was. And I ran up until 38 weeks and walked until the day I gave birth!
Part of me is ready to lose weight but the rest of me just doesn't care as much. The last 6 weeks of my life have about put weight goals into perspective. We have had an interesting 6 weeks, since my son was post-natally diagnosed with some congenital heart defects and had open heart surgery when he was 7 days old. So, about 2.5 weeks of his life we have spent together at the children's hospital.
Anyway, it will be fun to blitz our bellies together!