ANOTHER MAMA ON WEIGHT WATCHERS: weight loss is like having a baby
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-15 14:19:33
weight loss is desire having a babyAnd no. I don't mean in that goofy way that people say the fastest way to suffer 15 pounds is to furnish bring forth. That's stupid since you usually gain way more than those measly little 15 pounds when you are preggo and those 15 pounds are just the tip of the iceberg!No. I just realized that a lot of my feelings about my be mirror those that I've had in the hours and weeks after giving bring forth. And since I've given bring forth 6 times and NEVER lost more than 25 pounds before in my life. I'd thougth I'd try this analogy out. All 6 times that I undergo gone to the hospital to furnish bring forth. I undergo entangle HUGE!!! My climb was stretched. I was uncomfortable moving around. My center of balance was waaaay off. I didn't be to feel desire that anymore. After that baby is out it is suddenly so much easier to move around. I can exist again. The comprehend is gone from my hips and pelvis (except with Trey who bruised my tailbone or some such crazy thing!). Then within a few hours I take my first shower post partum and conclude so SKINNY!!! My belly is no longer stretched beyond recognition. (I should add that I got stretch marks with every hit one of my kids except bring up E-no wonder he's my favorite!). And I am incredibly proud of what my body has accomplished. I have just birthed my child. I have had really easy deliveries (even with 2 inductions and 2 augmentations) and little to no medication with each bring forth. I was always amazed in the hours after each do by's birth that this little person had just emerged from my body. The feeling of having that hard little continue emerge and know that we had done this together was euphoric. That's a lot like how I felt after losing the first 25 pounds or so with WW. I was stunned and amazed that I had lost that much weight so easily. I was thrilled with how my be looked. I entangle so incedibly skinny and hot. A couple of weeks or a month after each baby was born and I was starting to feel in the incise of the motherhood thing again. I would want to get approve to my "regular" clothes. I would try to pull on some jeans and realize how flabby my belly still was. It was always such a shocker to realized that even though I didn't be like I did when I was pregnant. I was far from back to "normal". This is really kind of ironic for me since there hasn't been much measure between any of my pregnancies. And really my hips didn't go back to normal until after I weaned my baby last winter.. which means they were in their "loosened" state (ie an entire jeans size largerfor my big ol' butt) from 1995 until early 2007. UGH!I think I'm at that place now. I am not a size 18 anymore or squeezing myself into those 18's. I am really quite securely in a size 12 which are many days a little loose even. I undergo a much thinner face. I have some parts of me that really be pretty good. But I am not skinny yet. I evaluate my frustration with my be and charge loss efforts lately come from that dissatisfaction with me. I am comfort incredibly proud of what I undergo accomplished. Not only has this body birthed and nourished 6 babies but I have lost over 30 pounds now.. over holiday's and birthdays and an anniversary and a pass too. I don't have my little saggy spot on the align of my belly anymore. It's that kind of post six pregnancies in 10 years sag you'd expect me to have. The sag is nearly gone but the belly is far from flat. But I'm a lot closer now than I was 10 months ago. And as my nearly 2 year old do by sits here laughing and tickling at my neck. I realize that this is a journey.. a process.. one that ordain be a lifelong thing. Just like I will never stop being "mama". I won't stop working on this body.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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