Pearl - You Aren't Depressed, You're Just FAT

00:00:00.000 i tried switching doctors i tried uh have a doctor the doctors are like you're fine and they're like

00:00:04.880 no what up guys welcome to my reaction series today we are reacting to women talking about 0.98

00:00:10.960 why they can't lose weight postpartum moms struggling to lose weight postpartum or 1.00

00:00:16.880 they're just extremely fatigued i've really bad brain fog can't sleep well you might want to

00:00:22.080 listen to this my postpartum journey with my second son has literally been a complete 180

00:00:27.840 than it was with my first. I did not lose any baby weight minus just the actual weight of my baby

00:00:34.440 and the extra blood flow in my placenta. I just knew something was off. Not only did I not lose

00:00:40.680 any weight, but I actually gained 20 pounds postpartum. You're a mom. You understand how

00:00:46.480 depressing it is. I mean, it's kind of cope. They kind of make up all these copes when it's just

00:00:52.020 like i ate too much this new body that you feel uncomfortable in one of your clothes fit then

00:00:57.700 you're out looking for clothes and new clothes don't even fit right it's just this awkward new

00:01:02.920 body so i went to the doctors tell my doctor everything that's going on with me and what does

00:01:07.780 she do she pretty much tells me to kick rocks they tested one of my thyroid panels i guess my tsh

00:01:14.440 results came back and my results were four times higher yeah so they blame it on thyroid but

00:01:20.820 thyroid conditions are caused by bad eating a lot of the time because i know that like i had

00:01:26.900 a thought like i got it tested too i know what she's talking about and for me it went away when

00:01:31.260 i ate less sugar i mean that's when i have ever been right away i'm like oh yeah i know something's

00:01:36.720 off i i think i have hypothyroid she tells me that she's seen worse and my levels aren't that bad and

00:01:42.520 to come back in a couple i tried switching doctors i tried uh how the doctors are like you're fine

00:01:50.800 and they're like no i am not fine listen to me to get a full thyroid panel done and nobody would do

00:01:56.960 it at kaiser my husband and i decided to switch insurances i found a naturopathic doctor first

00:02:02.880 thing she did when i told her all of my issues that i was having was do a full hormonal panel 1.00

00:02:08.400 and what did we find out i have hashimoto's hypothyroidism i think they just make up

00:02:13.440 conditions to make women feel better about being fat and lazy the relief that i had after just

00:02:20.000 having a doctor listen to me and this is what i think it is i think the medical industry preys

00:02:26.000 on women's i don't want to say praise because we're willing but they understand will women's

00:02:31.600 neuroticism that we always think we're sick and we love spending money to fix problems instead of

00:02:37.040 doing work and they can just diagnose us with stuff and then like make us pay for visits it's

00:02:42.320 been so amazing pretty much the point of me making this is to tell other moms that it's not normal

00:02:49.120 you're not crazy for thinking something's wrong with you when you feel completely off and to

00:02:55.280 advocate for yourself and don't stop pushing for your doctor to yeah but i don't see you thin

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00:04:52.860 your belt game today. Like if you came back thin, then I know you fixed the problem that you need

00:04:58.580 to get done. Now I'm on a whole thyroid healing journey. I know how it feels to not even wanting

00:05:04.500 to go to social gatherings or family functions because you're so embarrassed of your weight and

00:05:10.320 how you look even though you're doing everything you can to try to lose the weight so discouraging

00:05:15.300 and it's really depressing and lonely you guys want me to share things that i'm doing on my

00:05:20.000 journey like eating what i'm doing to put my thyroid into remission yeah um okay let's see

00:05:26.800 the next one normalizing my body that's two years postpartum and i didn't lose

00:05:31.640 i'm gonna tell you why you can't lose weight after having kids and why you might still have

00:05:53.360 a mom pouch let's get into it sometimes some mamas don't snap back post-pregnancy and they 1.00

00:05:59.160 always wonder why did they gain a lot of weight why do they still have she'll be reasonable she

00:06:03.840 looks thin she might be reasonable and give us some good mom pouch and it won't go away let's 1.00

00:06:09.140 talk about why you're not losing weight first there's a few different both of the women i 1.00

00:06:12.620 reacted to were obese things for that one your hormones can be out of whack a lot of mom's 1.00

00:06:18.400 hormones don't always go back to normal post-pregnancy and that could affect your weight

00:06:22.680 loss. Making sure you get checked for PCOS, diabetes, thyroidism. Check all of it because

00:06:29.540 your hormones are not. Yeah. Yeah. Blaming hormones for bad choices. That's just always

00:06:35.160 the go-to. Not regulated anymore. Always ask your doctor for a blood panel to check all your

00:06:40.200 hormones. Another reason, your diet. Maybe you're not eating a lot during the day. Maybe you're not

00:06:45.300 eating a lot. You're making choices that are not so healthy. Okay, there we go. You're eating clean

00:06:50.180 whole foods high protein each day will help you lose weight another reason a lot of breastfeeding 1.00

00:06:56.700 mamas think that just by doing breastfeeding they can lose weight that's not always true if you're 1.00

00:07:02.980 consuming high calories especially foods that are not good for you that are more processed and

00:07:09.420 sugary and sodium still are going to have trouble losing weight so making sure you opt for whole

00:07:15.240 foods fruits vegetables lean proteins in your diet to help you lose weight and could be genetic

00:07:22.840 some people gain more weight than others post-pregnancy now let's uses talk about why you

00:07:28.840 could have a mom pouch first it could be ab separation why does this happen when your baby 0.95

00:07:34.760 grows your transverse abdominals have to separate together okay nobody's here's the challenge

00:07:39.920 nobody's really faulting moms if they have stretch marks or like something down low it's just when 1.00

00:07:45.220 you're like 50 pounds overweight and you're calling it postpartum you just got fat just

00:07:49.800 accept it for the baby to grow your transverse abdominals actually protects your organs that's 0.98

00:07:54.300 why we have it that's why we have abs and when the baby is out and your body starts going back 0.53

00:08:00.520 to normal sometimes that gap doesn't close that's why a lot of moms they look pregnant post pregnancy 1.00

00:08:06.420 for a while have that round appearance because they still have separation if you have body fat

00:08:13.440 or loose skin in addition obviously it would be worse but let's say you've tried everything you've

00:08:18.920 died you've done it all and you're still having that pregnant appearance and the only way of 1.00

00:08:24.680 getting rid of it is doing ab separation exercises to help close the gap or surgery and if you don't

00:08:30.780 have ab separation you probably just have body fat and you just have to go on a diet okay i knew she

00:08:37.320 would be the most reasonable one it's always the women that are the most reasonable reasonable or 1.00

00:08:41.640 the thinnest. They become unreasonable real fast when they get fat. Let me know what you guys think

00:08:47.240 in the comments. Have any of you ladies been pregnant and then lost weight? How did that go 1.00

00:08:51.900 for you? Make sure you like the video. Please subscribe to the channel and I'll see you next time.

Pearl - December 20, 2025

You Aren't Depressed, You're Just FAT

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