I had my lovely Milly 15 weeks ago now and I’m getting a bit frustrated that I’m still not back in my pre-preggers jeans yet, don’t get me wrong alot of the extra poundage has gone but im still, shall we say far from where i want to be.
I really want my little bum back and my flat (ish) tummy and I long not to have to wear long tee shirts to cover up my muffin tops. But where does this burning desire to bounce straight back into my skinnies come from? And why do I feel like such a failure if I can’t do it as soon as I’ve given birth?
Celebrities dont help, why is it they seem to have the super human ability to look amazingly skinny about two minutes after giving birth?
I decided to do a bit of investigateing to find out, was there some great holly grail secret to weight lose that us mere mortals are not privy too, or is it simply that they are better human beings?
Well I found some interesting “facts” on the internet, apharently Madonna had a scheduled “celebrity” c-section, ( one where you have a c-section and tummy tuck at the same time) They even schedule you to deliver 6 weeks before your due date so your baby is smaller and you don’t put on so much weight. This is just crazy!
But before I go down the road of slatting these Mum’s as vain selfish brats with more money than sense it started to make me think about the kind of society we live in where its concidered glamourous to rock out of the materinity ward looking like a pre-pubesent girl rather than a glowing, abeit slightly rounded new mum.
What is up with that ? Surely the act of making , nuturing and giving birth to a new life is amazing enough without having to look incrediable at the same time.
Other celebrities seem to sweat it out the hard way in a bid to lose there baby fat, Jamie Pressly ( she of My Name is Earl fame) spent a wooping three hours a day, every day in the gym just weeks after giving birth to her little son Dezi in May 2007. She went from 155 pounds to 125 in under eight weeks. After dropping the first 10 pounds, she went on an all-protein diet, eating four to six times a day. Her trainer said she did what might take other clients six months to achieve. Call me nieve but what about her kid?, where was he in all this frenzied weight loss programe? surely this is the time for bounding with your little bundle of joy, I think after a wooping 3 hour work out I would be incabable of moving let alone spending the rest of the day (and night) taking care of a tiny new born.
It all makes me look at my new body in a new light, yes I do still want to shift my extra baby pounds but I am not going to celebrity extremes to do it, Im just going to take lots of walks with little Milly and try to eat right and most importantl, give it time!