This is How I Lost the Baby Weight After 4 Pregnancies and 3 Kids

Three months ago, I opened up on the blog about my fitness journey since my teenage years. It’s a series a I am documenting to show what I did over the years to achieve the level of fitness and body shape I’ve always wanted in hopes of helping others.

In episode 1, I left off at the Glamour diet that helped me lose some of the weight I wanted rid of 18 months after my first pregnancy, as I wanted to lean out more.

In episode 2, I showed you what I did after my second pregnancy to losing baby weight I gained in episode 2. Part of my success was attributed to the Thyroid Solution Diet.

In the 3rd episode I discussed the 2nd part of the Thyroid Solution Diet.

This 4th episode discusses what I did during my 4th and last pregnancy to ensure I can return to my normal weight after birth a well as what I did for the first 3 months postpartum.

Keeping my From Gaining too Much During the Pregnancy

At this point in my life, expecting my third chid was great. Yet I feared the weight gain and struggle I was going to face after. If you’ve read the previous episodes, you’ll remember me saying that you have body memory. Your body remembers what you did to it a while ago to lose weight, and it worked. When you come to do it a second or third time, it won’t accept it and nothing moves. I was 100% sure this was going to happen, so how do I avoid I from now? I didn’t have anymore tricks up my sleeve. I also told myself that since this is my last pregnancy, I was going to get the best body I’ve ever had after it.

At the beginning of the pregnancy, I followed a good diet mostly comprised of clean eating and continued exercising at the same intensity, slightly less to ensure my body temperature wouldn’t be too warm for the fetus since that’s dangerous.

However, as most moms know, you get to a point in the pregnancy where you are so hungry you feel you can devour a whale. Yet, like with all my other pregnancies, I was extremely nauseated for the whole time I was pregnant. Needless to say, I couldn’t eat much, even if I wanted to. So there as no point to watch what I was eating because I was eating very little that I pretty much had to eat whatever would make me throw up or nauseated the least.

I gained a total of 20 pounds on this pregnancy.

Losing Baby Weight After the Pregnancy

Shortly after birth, I started to watch what I ate to start losing baby weight I gained. I then starting tracking weight watchers style, but it didn’t have a major effect. I went back to the Thyroid Solution Diet.

I was nursing at the same time which helped a little. I ended up losing a few pounds, bringing me slightly above my pre-baby weight. If you are new to the Thyroid Solution Diet your body will very much respond.

But as my body had already done the diet before, the effect isn’t the same as someone that’s virgin to it. Mind you, it did help me drop a few pounds after pregnancy as mentioned above even after having already tried and done the diet.

Losing Baby Weight with Sara Fennell

I knew I needed something new to start up losing baby weight I had remaining, but what?

I remembered that while pregnant, my fitness model friend, which I wrote about here, had enlisted a coach, Sara Fennell, to help her get to her goals for her first competition. A friend enrolled in the program and gave me a sneak peak to follow. I began to see some results.