I guess now would be a good time to share my weight lose story. I realized the other day that I had lost essential the size of a small human, and I figured it was time to celebrate. I am okay with revealing how much I have lost, but I am not quite ready to open up about my exact weight just yet.
Perhaps I should back up a bit and talk about my weight gain story first. Weight has always been a ban for me. I was a small child, but by the time I was five, I had definitely made up for it. Most of my adolescents was spent fending off bullies about my weight. When I was in middle school, I seemed to thin out a bit, and I was a decent size until my senior year of high school when I started getting some more womanly curves. I wasn't by any means skinny, but I wasn't huge either. I maintained this until about the time I was almost 23. About that time, I believe my condition of PCOS really kicked in, and the hormones helped me put weight on. My eating habits and lack of exercise didn't help much either. In about 6 years, I put about 20 pounds. I then put on another 20 due to a knee injury, which ironically caused by my weight gain (go figure!). When we started trying for a baby, we had to take fertility medication at first to try to get me ovulating. I did three rounds of clomid first. Overall, I have a lot of weight gain from the clomid, but I probably had a few pounds stay around after the water weight disappeared. What really killed my weight was the fertility shots. I put on 20 pounds during each procedure, and only 10 would come off and stay off.
After doing some reading, I switched obgyns and mentioned to the doctor my difficulty trying to lose weight. She prescribed an appetite suppressant. Along with being made a head varsity coach, I managed to lose 25 pounds within in about 2 months of using the pills. I was super excited, and I was looking forward to more weight lose. Then we got the huge surprise of being pregnant. I gained about 10 pounds in the first trimester, and then I was almost finished with the second trimester before I started gaining more. The one time in my life where gaining weight is okay, and I couldn't push myself to gain more. I only gained a total of 29 pounds to for the whole pregnancy. I lost 15 of that within the first month, and I got down to all but 2 or 3 pounds above my pre-pregrancy weight. Then the holidays hit, and I add four more pounds back on.
The first week of Janruary I made the decision to finally try Weight Watchers. The first month was horrible. I was a huge grumpy Gus because I was hungry all the time, and I wasn't able to eat all the sweets or wine like I like. After couple of weeks, it started paying off. I hit my first weight goal (7 pounds) in 2 weeks, and I had lost 10 pounds by the end of the first month. I hit my second goal toward the end of March. At this point, I have lost 23 pounds on Weight Watchers. Together with what I lost in baby weight, I have lost a total of almost 49 pounds. April hasn't been a great month because I have gotten of the plan some, and I gained 2 pounds back. I am planning on getting back onto it, but it has been had with all the stress causing me to eat a bit more. The good news is I am back to the same size I was when we got married, and the smallest I have been in 4 1/2 years.
As of right now, I really want to lose about 12 more pounds before we start trying for baby number 2-if we go that route. I would love to lose more, but I am not pushing it. That would put me in a position of having a bit of flexibility with weight if I have to do fertility treatments again. It also means that I won't gain up to my biggest gain if my first pregnancy is an indicator of my weight gain in the second once. I am also hoping to enjoy being smaller for a while so I am not in too big of rush to get pregnant. It has been so nice to be able to fit into clothes I haven't worn in a while. I am hoping this the first of a series about weight lose for me.
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