The Journey of a Weight Watcher with Babies

So if you have been following my blog I mentioned that I would be starting my journey again and this is the 411 on my situation.

Weight loss after baby can seem impossible, believe me.  I have been on a neverending journey of lose weight, get pregnant, gain weight, have baby, lose weight, gain weight, lose weight for 3 babies now. 

I heard from a friend that she is 18 weeks pregnant and only has gained 3lbs.  ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! I gain 3lbs just saying I am pregnant.  In 2000 I started Weight Watchers because I was over 200lbs and eating terribly.  I wanted to learn how to eat healthy and of course lets not kid ourselves, who won't love to be a few or many pounds lighter.  I worked at it for 2 years and lost 57lbs, yah! But then I met my husband and got lazy and I started to fudge my diet a little and by 2003 when I got married I had gained 12lbs back and by 2004 when I got pregnant I had gained another 5lbs. 

Through my pregnancy with my daughter and sick and tired and I ate to make myself feel better but 44lbs later here she was 8lbs 13oz and I had only lost 10lbs.  How can that be right?  Then I breastfed and gain that 10lbs back.  After 5months I stopped breastfeeding and tried losing weight on my own and really only lost about 7-10lbs so I went back to WW and lost another 32lbs before getting pregnant with my first son.  I was one pound from where I started with my daughter.   Again I gained 44lbs and was up to 214lbs when he was born and 198lbs when I went back to WW when he was 1 year old.  Six months later I had only lost 24lbs and was now 4lbs up from where I started before I had kids and I was pregnant again.  This time I only gained 30lbs but that still put me at 208lbs on the day I delivered my second son and over the next month I lost a total of 24lbs and my son weighed 9lbs and 1oz but then I gained 19lbs back.  Can you imagine?  So frustrating! 

So again back to WW I go.  I started at 203lbs again.  So I am right back where I started 9 years ago but I am up 3 kids which is totally worth it.  I have gained about 135lbs and minus my occasional slip up that cost me a pound or two I have lost approximately 150lbs.  And although I am not naturally blessed with a slender body I am aiming to get my curves back.  You know the ones we all had before we became moms and stopped being women.

As of November 2nd I have started the WW journey once again and will keep you updated, if anyone cares, as to how I am doing.  If anyone is out there reading this and would like to join me, I would love the support and lets face it so would you.  Its going to be a struggle with no time to exercise and food always around with my 3 kids and a skinny husband but I am going to work my way back to 165lbs, maybe even 160lbs.  So far 7lbs down and 36lbs left to go.