After having my son, I was heavier than I have ever been in my life. I have struggled with my weight since I graduated high school. Before I got married, I got down to about a size 14. I lost more afterward and was about a size 12. I was slowly creeping back up when I got pregnant. I did really well at the beginning of my pregnancy. I didn't lose weight but I wasn't gaining. Since I was already overweight, the doctors didn't want me to gain more than 15-20 pounds for the whole pregnancy. That did not happen. Instead, I gained about 10 pounds over the holidays and ended up gaining about 55 pounds overall. After my son was born, it took me awhile to get started. I rejoined Weight Watchers when he was 5 months old. I weighed 216 pounds. I had never been over 190 before so it was very depressing for me to be over 200 pounds. It took until he was about 10 or 11 months to lose 27 pounds. I didn't mind that it was taking awhile. I have time to do it right and I want to be healthy for my son. I am now at 188.8 pounds.
My son is 13 months old. My husband and I have started discussing when we want to have another child. My goal is to be at 15o pounds before I get pregnant again. If I lose more than that, it would be good but I think 15o is realistic. I need to lose almost 40 more pounds.
I don't have a picture of me at this point but I am going to take one this week and I'll post it later.
I decided to start this blog because I felt like I needed to keep some kind of journal about my weight loss. I'm not good at writing in a journal but I blog pretty regularly now so I figured this would be a good way to do it. If anyone stumbles onto it and gets inspired or it helps them in any way then I guess it would be a worthwhile thing for more than just me!
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