Finding My Body Again: Postpartum Weight Loss Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe postpartum weight loss in all its variations. Writers describe the first look in the mirror after birth, the jeans at the back of the wardrobe and the pressure to bounce back, and then what actually shaped the months that followed: no sleep, colic, twins, weeks in the NICU, a caesarean and the wait for clearance to exercise, pumping round the clock, and weight that would not shift until weaning. There is the practical side — buggy walks, swimming, lifting in the garage, cheap meals, learning to eat enough on a vegan diet — and the medical one: thyroid and iron tests nobody had offered, PCOS, preeclampsia, a weekly GLP-1 injection after weaning and the mother who said no to it. Writers are honest about what backfired, including fasting while breastfeeding, losing weight too fast, and counting every bite until it made them miserable. Traditions appear too — the confinement month, cuarentena, omugwo, seaweed soup. Later chapters cover fathers' weight gain, a surrogate, pregnancy after a gastric sleeve, a soldier facing her fitness test, loose skin, and those who stopped weighing altogether.

Who it's for

For new mothers wondering whether their pace is normal, women breastfeeding or recovering from a caesarean, fathers and partners whose own habits changed, and anyone who has felt the pressure to bounce back.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 235 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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