I ate healthy and managed to stay at an average, healthy weight throughout my pregnancy.

I had my daughter December 2012 and luckily was smart enough to not make the same mistake I made the first time around. But I was thinner, 'healthy', so I made it work. The constant force on my joints from running on the treadmill and lifting weights was agonizing at times. Although I lost the weight and was seeing results from going to the gym, I was struggling. It took me 2 and a half years but I lost 154 pounds and was the smallest I have been since middle school. I learned how to use every single machine in there and gradually added more and more weight to the machines. From there I started exercising, first just walking around my neighborhood, but once I felt comfortable enough I started going to the gym. It was ridiculously hard but I stuck with it and lost 60 pounds in about 7 months. Not only for myself, but for my brand new baby sleeping in the car seat next to me.īecause my weight was so extreme, my doctor suggested I start a low carb diet.

That's when I knew I had to change my life. I was hurting constantly and now he was telling me I was *this* close to getting Diabetes. I have also struggled with Fibromyalgia and Arthritis since I was a teen, so gaining all the weight was really tearing down my health. Once my doctor came into the waiting room he did his regular checkup and then started to tell me my weight was so out of control I was 'teetering the diabetes scale'. I got on the scale and for the first time I looked down and read the number. So by the time I had my son and it was time to go back to the doctor for my checkup, he had set up a little intervention, sort of speak, for me. I ignored the scales every time I went to the doctor's office, blaming it on 'baby weight' and that it was normal to gain over 100 pounds in 9 months. I have always been a little heavier set, and being 5'1 (on a good day) doesn't help my cause much, but I stupidly used pregnancy as an excuse to eat whatever I wanted and wasn't thinking much about the outcome.

I've struggled with weight my entire life but really lost control of my health after having my son in September 2009.

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