May of 2009 I weighed >320 on my wedding day.
September 2009 I weighed 310 after a summer of working to lose weight by eating healthier cutting out soda and making losing weight a priority. I graduated college in May and could no longer use bad food as an excuse.
I worked my butt off, I was to the point of working out 6 days a week and on the 7th day there was no rest, I just didn't go to the gym. I was eating as healthy as I could and refusing to starve myself.
I like to say I lost the weight by eating. October of 2010 I was down to 240. I was exhausted and decided to continue my diet and enjoy the holidays and work on spending time with my husband.
As a plus size woman I had always battled inconsistent periods. Diagnosis of PCOS and mis-diagnosis of PCOS.
What never dawned on me as I lost weight was my period had become regular. THAT IS...until it didn't show up in December.
Now I had been told I wouldn't be able to get pregnant after a hospitalization in February of 2007. So the possibility never even crossed my mind. (wrong) but it did cross his mind. So at his insistence I knew what I should do.
Well Christmas day I took a pregnancy test and too my surprise it was positive.!!!!
I'm currently 28 weeks pregnant with a baby girl and I cannot wait!
The roughest part of this was that by that December 2010 I was @ 249 lb. A gain of 10 lbs over 2 months without the regimented exercise I had been doing and more allowance of bad eating (especially out). I've struggled this pregnancy with weight gain. Several of my first appointments with the OB were discussions about appropriate weight gain and my weight losses while pregnant. She informed it wouldn't be the baby that suffered she would suck what she needed from me, and my body would suffer. So now, watching the scale go back up has made it extremely rough on me. Has anyone else experienced this, or had OBs that insisted you gain weight, or lose weight?
No one seems to understand, my family constantly reminds me it's baby and I'm not "fat" BUT it doesn't change that tick in your brain that this is the wrong way and a sense of guilt.