weightloss resumes!

well, i guess i will relive a few gory details. i was 218 pounds the day i delivered. i firmly believed that with breastfeeding twins, the weight would "fall off." breastfeeding twins uses about 1000 calories a day and makes you starve. it also requires you to sit still for about 23 hours a day for the first few months. it is awfully easy to eat an extra 1000 calories a day when nothing much else is going on. so i was only 198 7 weeks postpartum (that was a depressing day). then it got warmer and i could go on walks and i tried to eat less junk and i was losing about a pound a week. not as fast as i wanted to lose, but tolerable. then it slowed. in july, i added fats to my diet to "fatten" up my breastmilk since the girls' former pediatrician convinced me i was starving them. according to her, "some babies are too polite" to tell you they're hungry. ha! but i was worried and followed some anecdotal advice. my weightloss slowed (as i added cookies to healthier fats like almonds), but the girls gained thanks to their love of solids. i removed cookies from my diet in august, but i've been stuck at around 160 for the past month. today, however, i am 157.5, and i would love to be 150 by their birthday (although that's only 6 weeks, so it's really pushing it).

kellymom.com has great information about losing weight while breastfeeding, as does la leche league. a lot of moms online claim they lost a lot of weight all at once (at 4 months, 6 months...). i waited and waited, but it hasn't happened yet!