The truth about the baby weight...

Why do I feel so compelled to write about this? I think that it's something that a lot of people are curious about. I know that I am. But it's interesting, now that I have had the baby I get asked a lot how much weight I gained in my pregnancy. So I know that it's an interesting topic, so why not???

This is something that made me pretty nervous about getting pregnant in the first place. How big am I going to get? How hard will it be to lose the weight? Will I ever be able to wear my clothes again? A scary thing for a girl to give her body to such an intense "project" of growing a baby. And I must say that I've been amazed at how it's all worked out.

First off, I love being active, so I was in pretty good shape before I got pregnant. I ran an 8 mile race when I was 5 weeks pregnant after all. So I thought that I would be one of those girls to just grow a little bump and gain about 30 lbs and that would be that. Not so. By the time I was half way I had already gained 20 lbs, and the growing hadn't really started yet. I worked out until I was about 4 1/2 months, and then it got so painful I couldn't do it anymore. So after that it was just whatever walking I could manage. I ate pretty much the same as I did before I got pregnant, with maybe a little more ice cream than before..... it's a must right?

So the day that I had Tru I weighed in at 201 lbs. That is a 66 lb weight gain from the 135 I was before getting pregnant. I was mortified. How was I going to lose 66 lbs? I knew that I wasn't going to have a 50 lb baby, so I was pretty nervous. I refused to weigh myself until it was 2 weeks after Tru was born, hoping that the weight loss was more than the 9 1/2 lbs that my baby weighed.

Well, I'm not sure how it happened, a mixture of water weight loss, being so sick that I couldn't eat for a while, and breast feeding this little chomper, but one month after having Tru I have lost........ 41 lbs. I lost 41 lbs in a month!!! How nuts is that? I still have a long way to go, I'm sure that the next 25 wont be as easy as the first 41, but it's not nearly as daunting as 66 lbs.
Anyways, I just wanted to share my crazy weight story. I realize that I haven't posted any pictures of myself since Tru was born.... maybe for Thanksgiving. I need to go and get some clothes that fit me, I'm in the awkward stage of being too small for maternity clothes but too big for my pre-preggo clothes.