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After my first pregnancy, I assumed with some regular workouts and enough time, I would lose the extra baby weight. I only wanted to lose 8 lbs. It doesn’t sound like much, but it bumped me up to another size, and many of pre-pregnancy clothes didn’t fit. I joined a Stroller Strides class and loved […]

I recently started using the My Fitness Pal website and free app (on itunes and android) to keep track of how much calories I consume daily. It’s been very eye-opening because there were many days I was consuming more than double what I should have! Exercise has worked to help maintain my weight in the past, but […]

Weight has always been a tough subject for me. When I got pregnant with Little Oats, I was 200 lbs; considered ‘obese’ on most of the BMI charts. Thanks to PCOS and a mild obsession with carbs and processed sugar, my weight hadn’t budged in at least a year. I was told to limit my […]

Over the last few years in the Hellobee community, I’ve talked a lot about my visits to naturopathic doctors, and the various treatments I’ve tried. At first it was for general health and weight loss, then for PCOS and infertility, then for depression and anxiety, and now we’ve come full circle and I’m back on […]

This is for all you moms who are making New Year resolutions to lose the baby weight! You CAN do it! I gained 36 lbs over the course of nine months. I nearly tipped the scales at 200 lbs – the last month of my pregnancy I couldn’t bear to look at that ever-growing number […]