Ha, ha! Just kidding..... I haven't actually found a diet that works. For those of you that don't know, I gained about 43 pounds throughout my pregnancy. That is the
equivalent of a grade school child I was lugging around! I'm not normally a scale watcher, but when you are pregnant you are forced to endure weekly weigh-ins. Everybody says it's normal and healthy to gain weight while you are pregnant. DUH! I get that. But that didn't make it any easier to watch the scale continue to go up even though I was working out practically every day and watching what I ate. (technically, I was just watching food go into my mouth, but I wasn't "eating for two") Anyway, I remember leaving the hospital after having Everett and I felt SKINNY! In hindsight, I wasn't anywhere near skinny. But I did look thinner and I probably dropped a quick 15 pounds of baby and water weight.
Fast forward to today: I am officially 5 pounds away from my driver's license weight! WHOA! This is huge because I haven't actually weighed that much since I was a freshman in high school. Right this second I am 15 pounds LIGHTER than when I got pregnant. It's a miracle :) Okay, it's not a miracle..... it's more like a combination of things. Mainly
CrossFit, breastfeeding, and eating clean. Ben and I are on week 2 of our
Paleo challenge. I found
this great quick explanation for anybody that's interested. I will admit that it has been hard to give up dairy and sugar, but my body seems to be responding positively.
The bottom line is this: Diets don't work! Changing your LIFESTYLE does :)
