My weight from start to finish
I know this is something I was wondering while pregnant so I thought I’d share my stats now that I’ve completed the circle.
I started my pregnancy at 270 and 5’10. I never saw that number again.
My first and second trimester were rough. Not a lot of vomiting (almost none) but every taste bud changed, everything smelled awful and I was nauseated all the time. I HATED being pregnant. No one could tell I was pregnant. I proceeded to lose weight steadily until I got down to 253lbs. In the second trimester I was doing one meal a day, that’s all I could force myself to eat. I did a lot of meal kits (green chef) and ate what I could. I was never hungry. I cut soda completely because it tasted bad.
Finally in the third trimester around 32 weeks I started to feel normal again. Some of my old behaviors returned. A soda a day creeped back in. Some fast food. The last week of pregnancy I probably ate 5 tacos a day for a single meal at Taco Bell. When I walked into the hospital I weighed 266.
Long labor, emergency c section, when I got home from the hospital 2 days after birth, I was 262.
It is now 8 days post birth and I am 244. I am eating well, my MIL is cooking for me. I didn’t have time to eat and missed a few meals but it’s normalizing now. Somewhere around day 4-6 at home I just started dropping TONS of water weight. I had lots of edema in my legs so I was trying to chug the water as best as I could and it really just started falling off.
So here I am, 244 and the lowest weight I’ve been in years. Kind of neat. I’m breastfeeding too and trying to stay hydrated. Obviously I can’t exercise yet.
I guess what I’m saying is that you could use your pregnancy like I did to introduce some healthy habits. Eat Whole Foods and leafy greens. In my situation, my taste buds were so screwed up that I didn’t want junk food anyways so I ate kale for the first time in my life and survived. It’s weird, I still FEEL like I’m 270 since the effort it takes me to get off the floor is huge, but I have to assume that’s more about my core muscles than anything else.
Good luck everyone. pregnancy is hard. pregnancy during the virus is even harder. Everyone forgot I was pregnant and hardly anyone ever saw my actual bump. But I came out on the other side with a beautiful baby and a little bit lighter on my toes so I’m pretty happy!
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