Sweating the baby weight!

Did I ever mention I gained 60lbs during both pregnancies.  Yep 60!

That's like eating my son, plus a cat.

I can't believe I was carrying around all that extra weight.

While I was pregnant with Momo last year I was living in Germany with no car (there is this thing called public transportation over there. It's great!) and we walked every where or took the train.
Then in my 5th month of pregnancy I took a trip back to the US for 8 weeks to see family.
OMG did the weight pour on.
I ate a lot of fast food and walking, well it was non existent.
Why would I walk when I could just get in my car and drive.
I gained 20lbs in two months.  Yes you read that right, 20lbs!
My eyes almost popped out of my head when I went to the doctor for my check up when I returned home.
The doc didn't say anything but she shot me a look.  LOL.
I think it's really easy to use pregnancy as an excuse to eat what you want when you want.
And I know it's hard when you feel like crap and just don't care.
Believe me I've been there.
I did it with both my pregnancies and I didn't feel bad about it at all.
What I did hate however was after I gave birth got home and realized how much weight I had to lose.
It was so frustrating to know that I caused myself about 6 months of extra stress because I had just let myself go.
I had just had this beautiful baby and and all I could focus on was the longer journey I had ahead of me.
Once the doc gave me the Ok I started working out.
My daughter was 6 weeks old.
I basically ran and ran and ran some more.
I didn't pick up a weight once because I was basically to embarrassed to go in that area of the gym.
I shouldn't have been. I was an athlete through college.
I'd been in a weight room before but I was a lot smaller then and not so insecure.
So like I said I ran.
I look back now and I was putting way too much pressure on myself to lose this weight.
I was breastfeeding so that helped but of course it wasn't coming off as fast was I wanted.
Then one day it came to halt.
That, my friend, was really frustrating.
I sat at the same weight for about 4 months.
Probably about 8lbs shy of my pre-pregnancy weight.
Finally I just decided I needed to focus on my daughter and family instead of the scale.
And you know what happened.
I lost the rest.
I am happy to say I have lost all the baby weight after both my pregnancies.
It took about 6 months with my son and basically a year with my daughter.

It was a struggle everyday. 

Some days I didn't think I would ever get there. 

And you know what I did, I stepped back and took a break.

I knew I would get there eventually and I did It just took one day at a time.

Now I'm still not where I want to be so time to kick it up a notch.

Tighten up that flab! Off to the gym......

Peace,
Shelby