Monday, November 28, 2011

Please don't hate...

I'm just going to go ahead and say it.  

As of 10 days post-partum, I weighed less than when I got pregnant and was able to legitimately put on my pre-pregnancy jeans.

Ok...go ahead and hate.  I mean, I totally would if it were someone else.

But let me just get through this because I don't normally brag about my body and for once, I'm totally excited about it.

Waaaaaay back before I was pregnant with Little G, I weighed 206lbs.  Here's a picture of me the month before I got pregnant:

While pregnant with Little G, I gained over 40 lbs.  He weighed 10 lbs, 5oz. Here's a picture of me the day before I gave birth:


I only ever lost around 30 lbs of my pregnancy weight with Little G...meaning that I started this pregnancy with Ladybug at 216lbs.  Here is a picture of me exactly one day before I found out I was pregnant with Ladybug.


With Ladybug, I only gained 13 lbs.  She weighed 10lbs, 4.8oz.   Here's a picture of me 5 days before I gave birth:


So here we are.  This is a picture of me taken last Sunday.  (Ignore the mahem in the background, I seriously grabbed the iPhone and asked hubs to take a picture just so I could post it).  I'm in my pre-pregnancy jeans that fit better than before I got pregnant, even though I still have a small bit of my pregnancy pooch left.  My weight on that day was 212.


I wish I could take credit for having done something right, but I didn't really make any major lifestyle changes this pregnancy.  The best I can attribute it to is that I was mostly pregnant over the summer which meant that

  1. I was eating better since most of what we eat during the summer comes from our CSA

    and
  2. I was running around with Little G all summer, walking all over the place.  Everywhere from the Children's Museum to various parks to chasing him around the beach, etc.
Anyway, even though I know it is totally obnoxious to post this (especially so close to after Thanksgiving), I really just wanted to share this small triumph in my life.

So, yay.  Go me!

Ok...now back to our regularly scheduled snark and self-deprecation.






10 comments:

  1. awesome!!!! :-) I believe you can keep up the good work. 

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  2. Go you is right! That's awesome :)

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  3. That is fantastic! Congrats!

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  4. That is amazing! You look fabulous.

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  5. M - Don't remember how I found your blog, but it has been fun to read what you have been up to the last couple of years!  I am jealous on 2 fronts...1. that you still live in Boston and 2. that your body has bounced back so quickly!  Good for you, just wish mine had done that too!  I put on 52 pds with Miss E and she was only 6pds 11oz!!!  At 6 wks post-partum, I am definitely NOT fitting anything but maternity pants and shirts still.  Good for you for bragging on yourself!  

    Brooks (Herr) Anderson

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  6. Congrats M.  You have every right to brag.

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  7. That's awesome! Congrats :)

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