Don't Hate Me
Friday, May 14, 2010 at 6:50PM 1. Lose 60 pounds. Lose the weight I gained while pregnant.
I weighed myself today after my shower (note: my first shower since Monday morning; OH was it heavenly). So you know how you weigh an extra pound or two after you shower, even though you know you clearly don't have two pounds of water on you? I always weigh myself before my shower but today I was so excited at the idea of shampoo and soap that it clear slipped my mind that I wanted to see how my weight was.
There, on the scale, is what I weighed before I got pregnant. If we count the extra shower water, then I probably weight a pound or two less than I did when I got pregnant last August.
But you can't hate me. I made this goal when I did my 101 list revision and wanted to create a similar but less restrictive goal for myself. Would I still love to weigh 60 lbs less than I do now? Definitely. Am I going to really focus on that? No. Instead I wanted to focus on a healthy pregnancy and recovery and, of course, on caring for the baby.
What I didn't expect was that I'd only gain 10 lbs while pregnant and then give birth to an 8 lb boy. I specifically wrote "the weight I gained while pregnant" instead of "baby weight" because I don't like that term very much, but in this case... well... I guess it really just was baby weight.
So did I lose it? Because, technically, it's he's sleeping next to me.
So now I continue on. Sure, the prego weight is gone but I still gained 60lbs in graduate school and would like to take at least some of it off. No plan, though. I've been eating and living fairly healthfully the last nine months since I wanted Nate to have the best nutrition possible, so I'm just going to keep living as I have been and once life settles down a little and I get used to this Mom thing, think about the next phase.
Reader Comments (4)
Well, that's about how much I need to lose before we start trying...any methods in mind...?
Lol. 4 days to lose all the weight gained during pregnancy? That might be some kind of record. :) I wouldn't be surprised if find you continue to lose weight if you keep eating well like you have been. You may have changed your diet enough to make a big difference. Either way, you did an amazing job keeping yourself and your baby boy healthy these last nine/ten months so kudos to you.
My totally unscientific and non-professional theory is that I went on thyroid meds two weeks before I got pregnant and, had I not gotten pregnant, I probably would have lost some weight. Probably nothing major without some additional diet and exercise effort, but something. So I think the meds and the pregnancy kind of leveled each other out. But, again, just a theory.
I didn't eat that differently while pregnant - just more mindfully and more intuitively. I didn't let myself skip meals; I ate when I was hungry; I stopped when I was full; I drank a ton of water; made a point of eating more fruit and vegetables daily - all the stuff you're "supposed" to do.
Wow. Congratulations! I've gained 35 lbs. I'm hoping breast feeding takes care of the planet that has become my butt.
He's so cute all swaddled up! I'm actually putting my rock n' play together now! (And I'm about to go enjoy fruit and Cool Whip.)