Losing too much weight too fast. Is this normal?

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My pre pregnancy weight was 170 pounds. At my last appointment at 40 weeks I was 207 pounds. I had my baby exactly at 41 weeks so I'm assuming I maybe gained an extra pounds during that week.

Today I'm 2 weeks PP and I'm 177 pounds. That means I lost 30 pounds in 2 weeks. My baby was 8 pounds 2oz. 
I just want to know if this normal? Are you suppose to lose weight this quick? 
I have definitely change my diet, I'm eating way less that what I used to eat when I was pregnant, but also want to make sure I'm doing it the healthy way.

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I've gained 50 pounds my whole pregnancy ... and Im 17 days pp and I've lost over 30 pounds.. I can fit into all my Pre pregnancy clothes and everything i think it's normal .

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With my first I lost 17 lbs the day I delivered.  You tend to lose a lot of weight if much of it was fluid weight from swelling and what not. Right now I'm down 15 lbs at 4 days pp. if you are breastfeeding make sure you are eating enough because that burns at least 500 calories a day.

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As long as you are eating enough it should be fine. I was back at my pre-pregnancy weight by 1.5 weeks post partum, jiggly as fuck but 37 lbs came off in no time!

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I am a ftm but have a few friends that just given birth within a couple months...by 4 weeks all 3 of them were lower than their presence pregnancy weight. There's so much retained fluid our bodies will get rid of. Plus, eating habits change and if you breastfeed you will lose it faster as well.

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Sounds normal to me because most of the weight we gain is for the baby, and just a little extra for us. 7 lbs sounds like a healthy amount of weight to have gained, and is guna be the amount you're guna have to work off to get back to 170.

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I've lost 35 lbs in 3 weeks...and still swollen

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I've also lost 30 lbs in 2 weeks but I had A LOT of swelling. I'm still a little swollen but it's much better than before.

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I'm 11 days PP. Baby weighed 9lbs 6oz at birth, I was 173 pre pregnancy and I'm now 168. I weighed 190 at my last prenatal appointment.

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I'm two weeks and 4 days pp, I'm down 22 lbs. I weigh less then when I started my pregnancy. I'm assuming I lost weight during my first trimester and second. I start at 196lbs at 4-5 weeks pregnant and ended at 206lbs. I'm now 184lbs. I stopped having an appetite the moment I got pregnant, got really sick all through week 20. Finally at week 36-39 I finally started eating with an appetite. I hope I continue the weight loss, cause I always struggled with my weight

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I'm 4 days pp and I've lost 28lbs, I didn't even think there was such a thing as too much too quickly.

Losing too much weight too fast. Is this normal?

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