I should post some pictures because I love seeing people's pictures but just now when I went to find some and even knew of a few to post, the thought of trying to locate them, upload them, get them in the right order and add descriptions, seemed overwhelming. So maybe I'll add some later.
Here's the weight timeline:
Wedding - no idea my weight but was marathon training, watching was I was eating and unintentionally dropped weight and was VERY fit! The most of my entire life.
Before Millie - I think I was around 158
Post Millie - I trained for a half marathon, which I ran when she was only 5 months old (the course went past my in-laws so I stopped and nursed, messed up my time but I didn't care). I didn't really work too hard at losing the baby weight and got about 32 of my 40lb baby pounds off.
Post Sophie - I went into the hospital to induce Sophie (8 days late) at 210. By the time she was 6 weeks old I had only lost about 18lbs and felt SO icky and still in all maternity clothes. The weekend she hit 6 weeks I went to Old Navy, spent about $60 on non-maternity clothes (size 16), felt SO much better about myself, started counting my calories, working out and within 6 months had gotten down to about my pre-Millie weight. Over the next 2 months (during the holidays) kept pretty close to my calorie counting and lost an extra 14lbs. The day after I found out I was pregnant with Chloe I had lost 1 more pound and was down to 144lbs. I was SO enjoying this new weight loss and we hadn't decided if we even wanted a 3rd baby that I was pretty bummed when we found out we were pregnant again. This was also like 2 weeks into the new year and I had planned to run a marathon and just bought a double jogger so I could run all year. (Of course, I wouldn't trade Chloe pants for the world! I don't care what she did to my plans last year or my body)
Post Chloe - I gained my usual 40lbs, which was still like 20lbs under my previous end-of-pregnancy weight so I felt a little better. I was SO eager to get started on the weight loss that I started around 4 weeks post partum running and counting my calories. The breastfeeding helps speed things up too, which is nice, and I never seem to have a "supply" issue even with lowering my calories. I lost about 10lbs the first couple months, then I lost momentum around the holidays. I started up again after the holidays, stuck to it a little better and have lost about 12 more pounds. I'm within 3.5lbs of my 144 but would love to get down to 140lbs. However, I'm fully into training for a half marathon and am planning to do a marathon this year and since I'm within range of my weight goals, might try and keep my eating regular (it's hard to count calories when they are huge differences - either 1360 for a day I don't workout or 2200 on a day I do) and focus on training. The weight might come off naturally throughout the summer. The thing that's exciting is that I'm finally in the clothes I was in at my smallest point before Chloe and am hoping to finally have a summer where I'm smaller. I'm back into all my pre-wedding clothes but do NOT have the same body.
I am afraid I won't be able to keep it off. I'm also afraid it won't last long even though we aren't planning to have any more kids right now so are taking more precautions than before ;) I think I have post traumatic stress from the last time ;)
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