Damn the scale

I stepped on the scale this morning after another day of eating right and exercising and I swear I heard a chuckle as the scale revealed my weight, +.6 lbs!  Seriously?  SERIOUSLY?  Now I know I am 9 weeks postpartum, but I have not lost anything in the past 7 weeks!  WTF?  I dropped 24 lbs fast and then it just stopped so here I sit, obese.  No, I'm not exaggerating, I calculated my BMI yesterday and it said OBESE!  I'm pretty sure my computer was laughing at me as well. 

I still have 15 lbs to lose to get to my pre-pregnancy weight, which was already overweight thanks to 15 lbs gained after a miscarriage in April 2010, so 30 lbs to get to my pre-pre-pregnancy weight.  What I can't figure out is how I gain 15 lbs the split second I find out I'm pregnant.  No joke, I miscarried at 5.5 weeks, so a week and a half after I found out I was pregnant and I gained 15 lbs.  When I got pregnant with Gia, I gained 15 lbs before my first prenatal visit.  So those are the 30 lbs I have left, the "I got a positive pregnancy test so it's time to blimp out" pounds. 

I also suffered pre-eclampsia at the end of my pregnancy and my blood pressure still has not gone back to normal 9 weeks after giving birth.  What this means is that, not only am I OBESE, but I have high blood pressure as well!  So I went from being a normal weight with low blood pressure to being obese with high blood pressure...All I can say is thank goodness that sweet little girl asleep in the swing right now is so darn cute!

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  1. AnonymousSat May 21, 09:40:00 AM

    Obese?! What?! You look great! Especially for just having a baby - a VERY cute little baby ;)

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