I am happy to report that I have lost 35 pounds since giving birth 8 weeks ago. I was huge with my pregnancy, so it will take time to lose more weight. My goal is to lose another 30 pounds, but apparently, my weight loss so far is not good enough, at least for my students. I work in an urban school district with students who have not learned what is appropriate to ask/ say to an adult. For example, the other day I had a student ask me if I was pregnant again since I looked like I still had a belly! More recently, another student asked me when I was going to start losing weight!
Now, I know that I will never be a Victoria's Secret model nor have I ever been small enough to be any kind of model except for Lane Bryant, but come on people, 8 weeks is hardly enough time to get back into shape. Because of the excessive amniotic fluid, I looked like I was carrying twins and now have the stretch marks to show for it. (My stretch marks look like constellations around the north star of a belly button! TMI!)To make things worse (in my mind), I have a co-worker, who was pregnant at the same time as me, return to work this week and she looks like she did pre-pregnancy! Ugh!
I said something to my husband about my overall appearance, and farmer boy said,"Well, we can get you out back chopping some wood, that will help." Great, I will have arms that can crush you, but still have a Teletubby middle. To be honest, my husband does not care what I look like, he loves me for me not how I look. Ok, if I weighed 300 pounds, he might have a comment, but otherwise, he is just happy that I made it through the delivery.
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