So I'll just cut to the chase here: Apparently Teen Mom's Maci Bookout lost all her baby weight in just two weeks. Jaw drop! Is it true? I don't know -- probably, more or less? That's what her Facebook fan page says. Jeebus! So much for "nine months to put it on, nine months to take it off."
Teenagers! Shrug.
I mean, Maci was just 16 when she had Bentley. And this is the same young lady who laments that she's "too skinny" (cough, humblebrag, cough). So how much of that two-week weight-loss is due to her roadrunner metabolism and how much of it is due to just dang youth?
If I had to guess, I'd say it's a combination of both. There are heavier teens who get pregnant and have a hard time taking off the extra pregnancy weight. And there are super-skinny adults who lose the weight quickly, too -- and may have lost the weight even faster if they'd been teenagers. We all know the average woman's metabolism starts to slow down in our mid-30s.
On the flip side, teen pregnancies are at a higher risk for complications and health issues. These younger moms tend to get less prenatal care and are at higher risk for high blood pressure, for having a low-birth-weight baby, and for ending up with postpartum depression.
So that quick weight loss for some teen moms doesn't necessarily mean great health. It doesn't mean ill health, either. It just is. I hope there aren't any pregnant teens or teen moms out there comparing themselves with Maci because one thing is for sure: That rapid post-pregnancy weight loss is extremely unusual for anyone.
Do you think teens lose the baby weight faster than adult moms do?
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She also probably did not gain much weight to begin with. That always helps with losing baby weight.
Everyone is different. It also depends on how much you gain. I gained 15 lbs my last pregnancy and I wore my regular jeans home from the hospital. I gained 30 with my son and lost it in 4 weeks.
She could actually have a super fast metabolism, and yes, maybe youth helps, but it's not a bad thing, and neither is strugling a bit to shake it all off.
I was in the obese category, gained around 70 pounds, and was 5 pounds lower than my pre-pregnancy weight a week after my son was born. I gained a massive amount of water, and nobody knows why. I was extremely healthy, no pre-E, no overeating, not doing any drugs or anything I shouldn't have been. I guess some people are lucky in that they lose it right away. But believe me, it's not a cakewalk when you gain that much weight so quickly. I've been left with loose skin, and stretch marks that won't go away.
she probably gained about 30lbs so obviously that's easier to lose than 70+ as Joanne Woodward once admitted to gaining with her first daughter due to depression from a previous miscarriage and also body type has a lot to do with how fast you gain/lose pregnancy weight. Ms Woodward also admitted that she lost 90.3% of it in 8 months from eating right and nursing but with her last daughter it took about 7 years to get back to around her normal weight due to age. it's alot different now than it was in the 50's & 60's and Maci isn't the type of star Ms Woodward was either back then awards gave you the freedom to take long maternity leaves from the movies to devote time to your new baby which she did each time one of her daughters were born plus she had three stepchildren