Getting pre-pregnancy body back

I’d like to know and I have had 3 kids and my youngest is 4! I’m exercising using P90X and trying not to eat too many carbs and bad fats (and desserts).

Tara

I agree with Bookworm, don’t be hard on yourself.  After each, it took a longer and longer time for me to get back to “normal.”  I am a naturally thin person, but by the time #4 came, I do have a permanent pouch.  Honestly, I don’t care.  If we’re dressing modestly, no one will notice anyway.  Every person’s body is different, and each pregnancy affects your body differently, as well.  Just exercise, eat right, and just live – if it’s meant to go away, it will.  But God made your body to work exactly the way it does, even if for some people that means they have to work harder to keep it under control and for others they don’t.  I wouldn’t stress.  Again, like Bookworm said, we aren’t childless teens or 20-somethings anymore.  We are mothers.  (((hugs)))

I have 7 kids and between them I didn’t really work on it.  This time I am.  I have gone off all sugar, things that turn into sugar and the hard thing.  I needed to do the hard thing this time.  I also am working out everyday (but Sunday).  I am getting closer but my baby is now just 1 and I’m still not there.  I know it’s hard but take baby steps and work your way up (or I should say down) to what you want to be at.  And as Bookworm said, remember your body changes.  Be patient and things will get to a new good.  Misty

We have some things in common, dmmcall3!  I also have a DS3 and a baby DD (she just turned four months).  🙂

The advice I share with my birth students is, “It took you nine months to put the weight on so allow yourself nine months to take it off.”  That worked for me with my son and that’s my plan now…although I have to admit that it came off a little quicker with baby #1 than it is with baby #2.  (I gained 48 pounds with each kid.)

I love simplehome’s advice of “eat healthy, drink lots of water, and take walks outside when you can.”  Best wishes and congrats on your baby!

I agree that babies change our shape and even the chemical balance in our bodies.  If you have exercised and are still dealing with a pouch, it could be that trying T-Tapp might help you where other exercises have failed.  Please understand that I am overweight and have been for most of my life.  I have also done T-Tapp in an on again, off again fashion.  While I am not even doing the whole 15 minute routine at this point, I am begun to consistently do the hoe-downs in the morning and at night as well as doing wall push-ups due to shoulder issues.  When I am consistent with this, I can visibly see a difference in the way my body looks and so does my husband, so I know it’s not all in my head.   Will this work for you?  I don’t know.  However, you can go to Theresa Tapp’s site and see some of the exercises right there before you order any AND I believe that hoe-downs is one that is shown.  Start with that one, give it a week, and see if you can tell any difference – even if it’s not visible, do your clothes fit better/ differently.  That’s a cost efficient method to test it out, if nothing else.

Pax,

~jacqleene