3-15-09 - 22 Month Update

Mar 15, 2009

Hi, it has been a long time since I have posted.  I thought now with my new development I would post an update.

I am now 22 months out from having surgery.  I can hardly believe that in May I will be celebrating my 2 year surgiversary.  I am below my goal weight and have been able to maintain very easily which surprises me since I have always had a hard time keeping weight off once I had lost it.  I still make sure to get in my protein, I still take my vitamins as I should and I still TRY to get in all of my fluids each day while I still follow the 1/2 hour rule about drinking and eating.  I was never one to drink alot anyway so this is one thing that I still have to MAKE myself do.  Another thing I have gotten a little, well a lot, lax with is exercising.  With the cold weather I have gotten quite lazy and I need to get my butt up and moving again.  Since I have lost the weight I FREEZE to death all the time so being outside is the last thing I want to do and when I'm inside all I want to do is put on my warm PJs and cover up to my neck with a warm blanket.  Now that spring is on the way I am looking forward to getting outside and playing with my kids and taking walks up and down our 1/2 mile driveway.

Now for the new development.....I am 10 weeks pregnant expecting our third child....due in October.  Our other children are 12 & 3 1/2.  We took extra care after surgery to not get pregnant until I lost the weight.  When I went back for my 1 year check up May my surgeon gave us the go ahead to have another baby since I had met my goal weight.  We decided to wait until fall to start trying and while I was surprised it took 6 months for it to happen, it finally did.  I thought with all the warnings about being so fertile that it would just happen overnight I guess.  My OB/GYN has sent me to a dietican to work on getting more calories in me in a day.  I still only get in about 1200 calories/day and they want me to get in 2000/day so that I will gain approx. 1/2 pound a week for the next 30 weeks which would be 15 pounds and they said that is the very least I should gain.  I tried one day to follow her schedule and to follow what she thinks I should be doing....eating at least 7 small "meals" a day and drinking chocolate milk or juice in between meals instead of water....and I was miserable by the time I went to bed so I decided to just do my best without making myself miserable.  I think I have learned well enough about eating healthy in the past two years to have a healthy baby.  I think we will be just fine!  I will say that them pushing me to gain weight does make me very nervous.  I have worked so hard to lose it I don't want to gain it back.  I just pray that what I do gain comes off easily after the baby is born.  However, scared or not I will do what it takes to have a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby, no doubt!

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