Well, I just had to chime in here too with a POSITIVE story! While doing the fertility treatments I gained, um, ready --- 45 lbs. Yes, there, I said it ... it is out there for all to see.
Funny, the effect that the adoption has had on me has been a positive one though. Once we decided on a country and did the application with the agency, I joined weight watchers. Well, I attended meetings .... sometimes I ate within my points but ... well, there are other things that are easier to eat. Needless to say, I lost like 4 lbs the first month and have not lost a ton since then --- ok, NOVEMBER PEOPLE, total weight loss: 14 lbs. UGH! It was about a month or 2 ago that a friend of mine (she is obsessed with the gym) talked me in to going with her "once in a while" just to do the elypitical for like a 1/2 hour. Well, so, now I am there 6 days a week .... doing yoga all 6 days, the elypitical for 60 minutes (65 if counting the "cool down"), ab class 4x per week and starting today, weights for arms/back & shoulders 3 days a week.
I based my decision to "go nuts" as I put it ... "killing myself" is another favorite explination! ... is that I don't want my girls to have a fat mom. With the rate of childhood obesity in this country, I am TERRIFIED that I would pass my bad habits on to them and be to blame for the health issues that follow. So, like every good Catholic girl, I have TONS of guilt over children that aren't in my home yet, aren't even eating solid food yet ....
I am ok though.
We are all perfect just the way we are as long as we are healthy.
Have a great day!
Maura.