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!
Good luck Joy! Consistency and sticking with it helped me, slow but sure and it not only will come off, but stay off in the long run, at least it was that way for moi! (not today, but 31 yrs. ago that is)! Love you! Great Auntie Jo
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad I get to read your blog again! :) It brightens my day.
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