Let’s dive into a touchy topic.. weight loss. 
I’m guessing I got your attention! I invite you to take the time and read every word.
For the first time in my life, after Mac, I wasn't killing my hormones to lose weight. Which means in turn, the weight came off slowly. At turtle speed. (As it’s SUPPOSED to).
Every time I’ve tried to lose weight in my life, I successfully lost it in just a few months. When I gained 30+ pounds in college, I intermittent fasted and within a year.. I looked the best I ever have in my life. But within 6 months of intermittent fasting, I lost all signs of fertility. So much so that Ben & I had to have hard conversations about adoption when we were engaged.
When I gave birth to Boaz, my number one goal was to be skinny again. So IMMEDIATELY after having him, I started intermittent fasting. My mom wound up calling me out and telling me that she hadn’t seen me this anxious in years. I fully know it was from lack of nutrition and fasting trashing my postpartum hormones, even more.
So with Mac's postpartum, I made myself a promise. Nourishing myself and our family was the only goal. As long as I was eating whole REAL foods 99% of the time and moving my body every day, I would give my body every ounce of grace.
Postpartum / breastfeeding is the MOST nutritionally demanding time of your life. So intermittent fasting or cutting calories, is only going to leave you feeling wildly anxious and exhausted. Let’s be honest, you’ll be an absolute bear to those around you (hello @ me during Boaz’s PP).
Due to this crazy world we live in, I’ve had every thought racing through my head of how I could lose the weight. I found myself listening to a Keto weight loss podcast.. that by the way, I also do not believe in for women’s health.
& let me tell ya, I could do it. I could easily be disciplined enough to cut the calories and only eat a few hours a day. I’d much rather do a quick cardio workout than a slow healing ab exercise.
The real discipline has came from combating the constant thoughts of quick fixes. The real discipline has been to eat 2000 + calories of real food everyday so that I’m nourishing myself.
I have seen my health (even with the complications) flourish in the past 2 years. I went from having a debilitating pregnancy to a pregnancy that, most days, I didn’t know I was pregnant. I had a postpartum filled with racing thoughts to a postpartum that I had to remind myself that I just popped out a baby.
I went from napping everyday to having such sustained energy that somedays I don’t even drink caffeine.
I had visible inflammation plaguing my whole body, even when I was back to my high school weight. To a body that hardly holds any.
Today I was irrationally making a list of things I could do to quickly lose the weight but still have vibrant health… I couldn’t come up with one.
Because there is no quick weight loss secret when it comes to health. Nor does still having pregnancy weight a few months PP dictate if you’re truly healthy or not.
How are your thoughts? Are your feet constantly freezing? Do you have an abundance of energy? Do you sleep well at night?
Am I eating nourishing, from scratch foods? Did I eat 100+ grams of protein? Did I move for a minimum of 20 minutes?
These are things we need to be asking ourselves and then naturally, your body will fall into the perfect- for- you weight 
I write this because I needed a reminder as I will soon move into my third postpartum in three years.