And I'd like to take this moment to thank those of you who got me here.
First of all, my car. Thank you for driving me everywhere I needed to go so I didn't have to bike or walk anymore.
Second, I'd like to thank the Krispy Kreme they opened up right next door to the In N Out last month. You have been nothing but wonderful to me you delicious, delicious, doughy goodness.
Third, I would like to thank my baby. Without you none of this would have been possible. Scratch that... I probably would have gotten there thanks to the Krispy Kreme and In N Out, but thank you for giving me a good excuse for this day getting here.
Finally, thank you H for loving every piece of me. Thank you for being a butt and thigh man and especially thank you for being a boob man. And thank you for telling me I look sexier than ever as I did the Truffle Shuffle up the driveway earlier today, because I could.
OK, in all seriousness, when I saw 150 on the scale I freaked a little. I was 118 from age 18-22 and this is the heaviest I've ever been. But H makes me feel freakin' awesome and, hey, if this baby is going to give me a huge butt and huge boobs that just gives me all the more reason to go to my high school reunion and show off the goods to everyone who teased me in HS for having an inverted butt! I'm gonna own this and every other pound I gain along the way!
B born 7/15/13, C born 3/2/15, #3 on the way May '17
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Re: Just Hit 150 Pounds On the Scale!
I'm almost to 130, started out at 116, my boobs are HUGE. I'm already in my nursing bras from when I BFed DD. And they seem to grow even more after baby gets here, so I'll probably be in a D. Normally I'm bearly an A, lol. With DD I gained 40 pounds, I was 152 when I had her.
P.S. I also had not one, but two doughnuts for breakfast this morning.
That's such a great attitude. I need to adopt it.
All my weight gain has been in my butt and thighs. My breasts are a little bit bigger but that only means I'm a 34 B. On the weekends, I don't even bother wearing a bra.
I had 2 old fashioned donuts yesterday. I wish I lived near a Krispy Kreme.
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I would kill to be 150
but I would have to lose like 100 lbs - so guess that's not happening...
haha I loved the post!! I can't wait to start growing for real (almost 20 weeks and my pregnancy belly looks more like a beer belly :S, I find myself constantly feeling my stomach with air so that it looks a bit more pregnant... btw, it doesn't!)
This. You still weigh less than my prepregnancy wait. Hmph.
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Ha. I have less to lose now than 16 weeks ago. First time ever a doctor told me to stop losing weight! I wish I could eat more... But most things still make me gag!!
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Hahaha! Me too! I was 160 before conception!
weight doesn't equal health so as much as this post annoys me this morning (sorry) I'm going to ignore it.
ETA: clarification. I mean the whole thread, not you Carla.
I know it probably seems like a lot of weight for you, but I started this pregnancy at 180.
Soooo...
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Me too! I've been up and down with weight my adult life and most recently up after a herniated disc in May and a loss in the family in June really put a damper exercise and food was comfort. Anyway, for some reason I'm not minding at all that I'm up 11 lbs. I don't like the total number on the scale, but actually gaining weight isn't bothering me. Normally I stress about weight, but not right now. If that makes sense.
Uh me too!!!!! I am in love with In N Out & live all the way over here in Minnesota! Love KK too, but they closed all the ones we had here.
I am not too worried about weight! I was very tiny in my early 20's & then developed boobs & hips. I was a healthy 143 at the start of my pregnancy & at last appt I was 153.(I also had the mentality before I was pregnant not to worry what the scale said, but as long as I fit in my clothes a certain way I felt good. Our bodies change so much & definitely as we get older) I am trying to eat healthy(as much as I can) & just expect I will be gaining. My DH has made me feel pretty good about the extra Lb's I've been packing on ;-)
Yes, I am reading this against my better judgment. A healthy prepregnancy weight for me would be 150 lbs. However, I have been overweight for several years. So I would cry if I hit 150, too, only I would cry tears of joy.
Tears of joy and hunger.
Me too Prim! And OMG, I am over 200 on the scale now!
Being pregnant gives me a break from worrying about how badly my belly looks in clothing and feeling so insecure about my weight. It's now "allowed" to stick out and I actually feel beautiful in my body with this baby belly.
That being said, I understand how it feels to "not feel comfortable in your own skin" because you just feel fat all the time, because that's pretty much been my whole life. I'm happy for all of you super skinny girls who always were thin and never had weight problems, but remember that a lot of this pregnancy weight we are gaining is blood, waterfluid retention (and boobs!) and will typically go away pretty quickly after delivery and breastfeeding.
I think I should add that I worked in "Hollywood" (technically it was a studio in San Diego but the same general concept) for years and that whole "gotta be skinny to keep your job" thing was always there. I dropped that mind set the moment I quit and started working on getting up to a healthy weight (which for me was 130). I only just recently reached that, like less than a year ago and remember thinking that I can now do more to maintain the weight rather than gain more. Then I got PG and went from that to 150 in 17 weeks!
BUT, what I've realized is that I LOVE IT! Screw you Hollywood and your "must be skinny" ideas. I look better now, IMO, than I ever have. My inverted butt joke was no joke. It literally went inward rather than outward compared to my back and thighs and I was teased a lot for it. This post was more to say "own it a love it" rather than to criticize weight. I was so stuck on that 28 pound weight gain number so to have already gained most of it scared me, but then I realized that my body had a loooooong way to go in order to support this baby and I'm just going to let it go.
But... I'm also going to stop eating so much darn Krispy Kreme. It just opened January 19th and everyone and their mother would go there and buy a dozen donuts and then offer you one. I'd eat two. Maybe three.
THAT is not good for me or the baby.
B born 7/15/13, C born 3/2/15, #3 on the way May '17
I’m a modern man, a man for the millennium. Digital and smoke free. A diversified multi-cultural, post-modern deconstruction that is anatomically and ecologically incorrect. I’ve been up linked and downloaded, I’ve been inputted and outsourced, I know the upside of downsizing, I know the downside of upgrading. I’m a high-tech low-life. A cutting edge, state-of-the-art bi-coastal multi-tasker and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond! I’m new wave, but I’m old school and my inner child is outward bound. I’m a hot-wired, heat seeking, warm-hearted cool customer, voice activated and bio-degradable. I interface with my database, my database is in cyberspace, so I’m interactive, I’m hyperactive and from time to time I’m radioactive.
First of all, I remember when they opened the first Krispy Kreme in the Cities (Maple Grove I want to say?). There were lines for BLOCKS to get donuts. Is it seriously closed now? That's just sad, especially since we're moving back to MN in a few months here. Second, at the very least it's only a short drive up to Tobey's and as much as I love KKs I love my Tobey Maple Bars way more. And the cinnamon rolls? Mmmm... my mouth is watering.
Still sad and tragic about In N Out, though. I still have no clue why that never branched out nationally yet.
Second, we sound like we have the same body. I got my boobs when I was 22. I wasn't even aware that some women have a "second puberty" as my roommate called it. But I still didn't get hips. Those were one of the first signs that I was actually pregnant around Week 9/10. I used to buy clothes in the juniors section because of my lack of hips. I feel like I'm finally all grown up (at 28 years old) now that I'll be buying pants in the women's section. Because I think that while the boobs and stomach will go away I'll have these hips to rest of my life. I say own it.
B born 7/15/13, C born 3/2/15, #3 on the way May '17
I’m a modern man, a man for the millennium. Digital and smoke free. A diversified multi-cultural, post-modern deconstruction that is anatomically and ecologically incorrect. I’ve been up linked and downloaded, I’ve been inputted and outsourced, I know the upside of downsizing, I know the downside of upgrading. I’m a high-tech low-life. A cutting edge, state-of-the-art bi-coastal multi-tasker and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond! I’m new wave, but I’m old school and my inner child is outward bound. I’m a hot-wired, heat seeking, warm-hearted cool customer, voice activated and bio-degradable. I interface with my database, my database is in cyberspace, so I’m interactive, I’m hyperactive and from time to time I’m radioactive.
I am 6 foot 2 so starred at 165. I am at 173 now and it's weird to see. I hit over 200 with both my sons. DH is 6'5 and 205 lbs and I HATE weighing as much as him! Obviously I am going to weigh more than the average girl as I am tall but its still hard to see those numbers!
6'2 at 165 is not fat at all! That's on the low end of "normal weight" according to the BMI. Don't feel bad. Even 200 pounds is still normal weight for your height. Don't feel fat! Those are good numbers!
Btw, can I ask if your sons were longer than average at birth? I'm only 5'7 (only? Haha, you make me feel short. *g*) and H is 6'4 and the baby is measuring 2 weeks ahead in length. I have a theory it's just because H and I are relatively tall, at least above average.
B born 7/15/13, C born 3/2/15, #3 on the way May '17
I’m a modern man, a man for the millennium. Digital and smoke free. A diversified multi-cultural, post-modern deconstruction that is anatomically and ecologically incorrect. I’ve been up linked and downloaded, I’ve been inputted and outsourced, I know the upside of downsizing, I know the downside of upgrading. I’m a high-tech low-life. A cutting edge, state-of-the-art bi-coastal multi-tasker and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond! I’m new wave, but I’m old school and my inner child is outward bound. I’m a hot-wired, heat seeking, warm-hearted cool customer, voice activated and bio-degradable. I interface with my database, my database is in cyberspace, so I’m interactive, I’m hyperactive and from time to time I’m radioactive.
LOL... wow, if I was 150 lbs I would be so freaking skinny it would be unreal.
I'm 5'8" and big-boned (I blame the German and Scottish genes). 160 is probably the thinnest I've ever been; I was 165 when I was on the swim team in high school! I may be overweight but I'm certainly not obese, it fits my curvy frame well. But right now I'm looking at 190-194 on the scale! Ack! I started around 185. Doc says I should get up to 215-225 before the end. I'm just glad my body can wear the weight well because it's gonna be hell to get "normal-sized" again.
You're sweet. I know I'm not "fat" but it's sometimes hard to see numbers go up so high lol. Once, my MIL who is 5 foot 1 commented how much 165 seemed to her because she's never weighed that much. Kind if nade me feel dumb!
Both my boys were maybe a little more than average when they were born. One was 8 lbs 5 oz and one was 8 lbs 3 oz. they were both 21 inches long. It's a different story now though. My oldest is 5 and he is very tall for his age, in the 98th percentile. The other one is 2 and he is in the 95th. They were both very chubby babies but now how gotten really thin. I imagine they will be quite tall though!
My doctor told me 10-15 when we discussed it before getting pregnant (I was seeing her for infertility) ...uhhh yeah I'm already there - I'm hoping I can slow that down for the second half of this pregnancy - luckily she hasn't mentioned anything to me yet
This thread is funny and cute. I think the OP has the right attitude, and this thread would make sense if she said 150 or 200 or beyond so I hope nobody feels "fat" by the mention of the 150 number
The point is that we are all going through experiences that seem to go against what we have been "programmed" by our society to feel uncomfortable with -- namely rapid weight gain. Most of us are probably very aware of our weight pre pregnancy and can't help but feel a bit odd seeing those numbers rise to levels we wouldn't normally be "ok" with, but I say to hell with it!
I've never thought of pregnancy as a carte blanche excuse to eat but at the same time I've not thought much about the weight I am gaining. I just hit the 150 mark which I have never hit my whole life, but its just the way it is. I want this peanut to come out healthy so I don't mind. One thing I AM enjoying are my bigger boobs! Yay for going from 34A to 36C - I finally feel womanly LOL
I'm a fitness minded/athletic person but I need to set goals to keep motivated. Like signing up for races or challenges. So I'm just looking at this whole pregnancy thing as another challenge to work my way through once the little guy is here.
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i started at 124...so 150-155 is where i aproximately want to end I started at 122 last pregnancy and ended at 149. I'm just trying to be sensible and walk occasionally.
Ultimately I have a good reason to look like i downed a dozen hotwings and a six pack