Before & After Pregnancy weight gain

I got rid of my scale two years ago, because I was trying to heal myself after battling several different eating disorders for several years.

I started realizing the different triggers in my life and started dealing with them. One at a time and scale was the last to go, and ultimately one of the most helpful things I did to finally completely heal and find a new healthy relationship with food exercise in my body and my body image.

With my last two pregnancies again, 45 to 50 pounds with each baby and I have come to terms with the fact that genetically it doesn’t even matter that I have morning sickness your half of my pregnancy with every baby … I still gain a lot of weight and at the end of the day it’s just the amount of weight that my body wants to hold onto to keep me and baby safe and give me a good milk supply so I want to be OK with that.

This pregnancy I had never weighed myself as it was something that my midwife never recommended or asked me to do but recently, my husband is going through a bit of a weight loss journey (in a healthy way) so we got him a scale so he could track his progress and the more I thought about it the more I really felt curious about weighing myself, and didn’t think it would affect me negatively. So last night I stepped on the scale…. And sure enough just 3 to 4 weeks away from giving birth and I’ve gained 45 pounds so far!

Everyone gains weight differently during pregnancy. Some women have a belly only pregnancy. I’ve never been this kind of woman and that’s OK with me… I won’t lie. I don’t love how I look with all the extra weight gain, but I also don’t hate it. I am neutral as I know that this is my body’s response in order to keep me and the baby healthy and I know that after baby arrives I can always lose the weight again and get to a more ideal physical shape as I usually lose a lot of muscle while pregnant.

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