It has been a long time since I last blogged in my "Vacation from Food" blog. Mainly because I lost weight and spent a long time enjoying the new healthy me! Many of you know, the #1 reason behind my new healthy lifestyle was the hope that being healthy would help me get preggo. I had NO IDEA it would happen so fast. My new healthy lifestyle didn't have much time to get used to things before the "cravings" started. Which is why I am here.
This past December I had a beautiful little girl that you all know. If you don't know Lucy, then you have not been paying attention to Facebook, because I'm pretty sure I post something about her every day. Anywho - with Lucy came a large amount of baby weight (55lbs (total lie) - but it's okay...I hear that Kelly Ripa gained almost 70 pounds, and I didn't do to bad-lol). Many pregnant women get to enjoy things like morning, afternoon and night sickness. They have a shimmery glow towards food aversions. Those lucky women. Not me. I didn't have any episodes of throwing up and there wasn't a single food that was a turn off for me (I am so my mother's daughter). I wasn't a overly paranoid women who refused to eat lunch meat, fish, or caffine. Shoot, I even enjoyed a few small, very small glasses of wine. So my pregnancy was what I refer to as a "food focused" pregnancy. Like many 1st time preggos, the idea that I could eat whatever I wanted danced around my head like sugarplums. I took advantage.
After Lucy was born, I came down with a bad case of the baby blues. It was horrible. I couldn't eat a thing and that was the start of the scale going down for me. Eventually, I got hungry and I ate. My baby blues didn't go away and I continued to eat my way through the summer. I would like to blame my lack of losing weight on my mother buying cupcakes for us or my husband bringing home fast food all the time, but I can't. Truth be told ... I have made bad choices.I admit that. However, those choices are now in the past and I am moving forward. Originally I did this for me and now I am going to do this for Lucy. She deserves a happy and healthy mom. I want to be a good role model for her.
Tomorrow is August 8th. Many people have told me that it "takes a year" to get a post-pregnancy body back to normal and I am running out of time! As of tomorrow, I have 138 days until Lucy's 1st birthday. It's time to get my ass on the wagon and get back to healthy-happy Joy!
