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Well, I'm offically 8 weeks and 2 days preggo today.  I've only lost a few pound the last few weeks, but that's understandable considering I had tendonitis in my foot and wasn't able to walk for over a week, and just all the increased eating I'm doing for the little one on the way.  I have my first ultrasound monday, and I'm super excited.  Really more than anything I'm relieved because I'll finally know that the baby has a heartbeat, and THAT will finally let me relax some.  At my next baby dr appt on the 15th we should be able to hear the heartbeat maybe.  Possibly not due to my "extra maternal fat" but,. if we can make it that far, we'll be out of that oh-so-dangerous frist trimester, and then I can REALLY relax.  We should find out what we're having around late October, Early Novemeber, which I'm sure will be here sooner than I think.  I'm so happy to be able to write that my weight is 265 now.  This time last year I had just got down to 365 from 381.  When I told my OB that I had just had WLS in March she looked at me and said "You just don't look THAT overwieght to me."  That's the first time a DR has EVER said that to me! LOL.  So that was good too.  My surgeon still doesn't know I'm pregnant, and I'm honestly just too afraid to go see her yet.  I don't want her telling me to terminate the pregnancy, because unless the baby has no option for survival and there is a risk to me, It's just not going to happen.

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Well, I've only lost 3 pounds since my last update, but there is a very wonderful reason for that.  I found out August 3rd that I am pregnant!  I could not BELIEVE it when the test said "pregnant"!  I had been told by my OBGYN before that If i weighed over 250 that there was no way that I would ever get pregnant because I wouldn't actually ovulate even though I was having a period.  So I wasn't really too worried about it.  And then my breasts started hurting along with my usual menstral cramps, and I knew something odd was about.  Also, I had one episode of "morning sickness" (at 5pm) where my stomach just kept heaving and heaving over and over again, even though I hadn't eaten in hours.  I thought I just maybe had a stomach bug. I had my first baby dr appt today, and my due date is April 4th.  That of course means that now any hopes I had of being in onederland by my one year surgery date is completly out the window, but what a wonderful reason why!  My dr also said I might continue to lose wieght through the pregnancy just because I'll be eating healthy and I've been okayed to excersise still (although I had to drop my pilates class, but I'm thinking about going for a prenatal yoga class starting in October).  But I won't be able to do my race in October as I had planned.  But that's okay, there will be another race next year, and then I'll have another fan cheering me on, and even MORE inspriation to continue using this wonderful tool to help me live a longer, healthier, happier life!