The dreaded post baby weight

When I was pregnant I think my philosophy was like so many first time preggers...INDULGE! And indulge I did. I mean nothing overboard. It was mainly in my first trimester that I ate a lot of junk. French Fries to be exact. By the time I got to the second trimester I decided to get healthy again. Regardless my pregnancy brought on a whopping 42lbs! Can we say FAT?!?!

I figured you have the baby and BAM they go away. Well not right away, but I sure did think they left soon after baby got here. Boy was I wrong. Those little lbs like to hang out a whole lot longer than I wanted. I can remember going to my 6 week post baby appointment and being nervous for 2 reasons....first a reason I will let you figure out and second I knew that I would have to get on the scale and see just how much weight I would have to lose. I almost didn't want to look. But I did and what I saw made me want to cry....it told me that in order to get back to my pre-baby weight I would have 25lbs to lose. Can we say discouraging? Just a bit. I can't tell you how many people said this line "It took 9 months to put it on, it'll take 9 months to get it off". Worst line ever. It's not at all what you want to hear when you are trying to get the baby weight off.

Needless to say, here we are, my baby is 5 months old now. Slowly but surely my body is morphing into what it used to be, or what it's new normal is. But man oh man is it hard work. I considered myself a very fit person pre-baby. I worked out all the time and loved running. After 9 months of not really doing much I am finding it very hard to get my body moving the way that it once did.

How I'm doing it? Well we go walking/running everyday that the weather permits. (which lately in Charlotte has been everyday!) I have also done the Jillian Michaels-30 day shred DVD. Not gonna lie it is pretty good. It's worth getting. The biggest change for me has been the food that I eat. The Rodrigues household is moving away from so much processed foods and eating things that will be better for our body. This has been very hard. I never realized how much processed food I ate until I started trying to figure out what I should be eating. I am still trying to map this out and figure out all the things that will be taking out of our diet and all the things we are adding in. I'll do a post in the near future with more details.

As hard as this whole "weight" thing has been, I wouldn't change it for anything in the world. This weight gain brought me the sweetest little gift. I would go through it all again to have him as the end result. He and Manny are what keep me going. Not sure how much more I have to lose (we have no scale) Judging by my old pants I'm not too far!