Here’s my very honest answer about how I lost the baby weight
When I was pregnant with my twins, I would stand at the grocery store checkout, with my tub of ice cream and box of Pizza Pockets, fixated on the magazine headlines that screamed I GOT MY BODY BACK! The Kardashian or Real Housewife or Bachelorette who appeared on the cover always looked toned and taut and above all, HAPPY.  I figured I would have to hit the treadmill immediately after giving birth because, well, my happiness depended on it. The message was clear; I was about to become a mom, but in order to remain a woman, I would need to get a six-pack, a string bikini and MY BODY BACK.
I had a trainer on deck, a meal plan pre-ordered and I treated every Pizza Pocket like it was my last? I was ready to go full Beyoncé-after-Blue-mode. After all, I was going back to work, on television, eight weeks postpartum. No Spanx on earth was ready for that. ***
Before my body harboured my children, it harboured my insecurities. In high school I worried that it was too scrawny, in college I thought it was too heavy, even in adulthood I judged it, took it for granted and often placed a lot of pressure on it to look a certain way. Then I had my babies, and something deep within the very fibre of my post-baby body changed. Sure my pre-baby body was healthy and fit and looked cute in clothes, but my post-baby body was MIRACULOUS. It carried two babies through complications, fetal surgery and pre-term labor. It stretched and swelled, and then, with a little pushing and a lot of scream...
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