2: How I Lost 55 Pounds Postpartum - My Experience
Hormone Healing RD
Amanda Montalvo
5 • 831 Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
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Forget tracking your food, I dropped 55 pounds postpartum by focusing on the basics.
Instead of obsessing over the scale, I treated weight gain and loss as signals, clues about stress, thyroid health, circadian rhythm, and whether my body was fueled for energy and milk supply. Two pregnancies taught me that workouts, light exposure, and small daily practices matter far more than numbers. The biggest shift wasn’t physical, it was staying grounded, cutting the obsession, and focusing on being the mom and woman I wanted to be.
You’ll Learn:
- Why weight gain or loss is just a symptom, not a verdict on your health
- The basic things to focus on that will support your body in being healthy and losing excess weight
- The link between circadian rhythm, light exposure, and thyroid health
- What snacking all day can do to your blood sugar
- The damage of constant stress on milk supply, cycles, and body composition
- Practical nutrition adjustments that supported milk supply during pregnancy and postpartum
Timestamps:
[00:00] Introduction
[03:32] Seeing weight as a symptom and not a measure of worth
[06:41] Entering the first pregnancy with a soft mindset and focusing on health over the scale
[17:13] Focusing on circadian rhythm and light exposure to support thyroid and blood sugar health
[24:48] Switching to kettlebell training and discovering its impact on strength, stress, and postpartum fitness
[34:16] Struggling with childcare decisions and choosing to make working from home with kids the only option
[37:53] Balancing postpartum stress, nutrition, and slow sustainable weight loss while prioritizing motherhood and health
Resources Mentioned:
Mama Stay Fit Training | Website
Kettlebell Program by Adina Rubin | Website
Hormone Healing RD Podcast episode with Carrie Bennett | Podcast
Mother Wildflowers Course | Website
The Feminine Periodical Newsletter | Website
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| 0:00.0 | Society just tells you you can't be healthy again until you're not breastfeeding anymore or you can't improve your health when you're pregnant and I strongly disagree with that. I'm going to talk about pregnancy, postpartum seasons, what's moved the needle for me and what actually helps me lose the weight postpartum. I just think sometimes we make weight loss so over complicated. You can heal. You can support your |
| 0:22.1 | body during pregnancy and postpartum. Your health doesn't just dwindle away because your body's |
| 0:27.7 | working really hard. It's just having the habits in place to manage the stress. Weight is not |
| 0:32.9 | the only thing that matters. I just cared about how can I show up today for myself and for my family |
| 0:38.4 | and do the work that I love to do. And now I've lost 55 pounds. If you are someone that is like, |
| 0:44.1 | I don't recognize myself postpartum, it's incredibly important to... |
| 0:47.9 | Welcome to the hormone healing RD podcast where you'll get clear practical guidance for your healing journey. |
| 1:01.9 | I'm Amanda Montalbo, women's health dietitian and mineral expert. |
| 1:05.5 | After helping thousands of women in navigating my own healing, I know how overwhelming the wellness world can be. |
| 1:11.9 | This show cuts through the noise with simple research-backed insights on hormones, minerals, |
| 1:16.7 | and what your body truly needs to heal. So let's dive in and take one intentional step forward |
| 1:21.5 | together. This week, I am talking about my weight loss journey, postpartum through motherhood, you know, when you had multiple postpartum, like, what do you call it? I feel like ever since I had my first baby, I'm just going to be a postpartum for the rest of my life. Is there an end point? I don't know. But this is something, if you listen to my episodes, I pretty much never talk about weight loss. I wanted to say I don't care about it, but it's not that it's |
| 1:45.1 | just that I look at weight. It truly is just a number and I always keep it in context to the rest of |
| 1:51.6 | my health. So for me, I don't have like a ton of feelings attached to my weight. I used to, |
| 1:58.0 | but I just spent so many of my younger years obsessing over what I looked like, |
| 2:02.8 | what I ate, my body. I just cannot do it. I cannot put another ounce of my energy towards it. |
| 2:08.5 | I'm honestly so happy that I came to that place, probably like eight to 10 years ago, |
| 2:12.4 | truthfully, thank God, because it was a huge part of my burnout. And so that's something where I'm like, |
| 2:20.0 | I just don't like to touch it with a 10-foot pole typically the topic, even though I don't |
| 2:24.5 | think it's bad to want to lose weight or anything like that. I just think it often comes with |
| 2:29.5 | so much obsession. And it can be hard when you're in that position of like whether you really want to or |
| 2:36.8 | maybe you're really you feel like you really need to like you're like we've had so many clients |
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