This being my 3rd pregnancy, my BIGGEST fear is holding onto 20-30lbs of baby weight. I mean, at 27 things aren't what they used to be. I have friends who mystified me by being able to wear pre-pregnancy pants within 2-3 weeks of birthing their kiddos. WTF! I mean, where is the "fat-mom" camaraderie I dreamed about... I mean for at least the first 8 weeks for sure! Well, no luck with that one to say the least. I am one of those blessed lucky moms who got to experience the joys of being cut open on an operating table with a fairly good amount of drugs pulsating through my veins. Yes, the drugs were FANTASTIC, but the 12 week healing time on those incisions is no laughing matter! By the time those 12 weeks were up I had NO motivation to rock a bikini... probably because I was leaking through my shirt and excited to get a shower! Now, some of you are going "Awe, don't you want to try for a VBAC?" The answer is NO F#$%ING WAY! Um, PS, trauma to my lady parts is the LAST thing I want to be dealing with while nursing a new baby on 1 hour of sleep while making mac and cheese for my four year old and folding 18 loads of laundry. Let's just say that if not being ripped asunder makes me less of a woman, I DON'T CARE!
So back to this fear of being fat robust... I am in a pickle! How the heck can I skinny down (Or convince myself that I am doing all I can to skinny down) after baby #3 is born??? Well have no fear!! INSERT angel's singing and rainbows laced with butterflies HERE!
Exhibit A
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| Belly Bandit |
Now, supposedly, this sexy number (and by that I am referring to the waist whittling band around her wait and NOT the porn star-esk looking model) is going to make my wildest dreams come true! It sure would be fantastic for this magical contraption to work as well as everyone claims, but I am skeptical. My plan is simple, buy the dang thing, wear the crap out of it, take weekly progress images and pray for a miracle. Hey who knows, by the end of October I might I have found the fountain of youth weight loss and will be wrapping my entire body in these!
You never know... it could be as simple as that!
My friend donned her sexy girdle for a few months after baby was born... Breast Feeding is said to be a calorie burner too, so if you plan to do that :)
ReplyDeleteYou'll get your rockin' body back I am sure! fountain of weight loss and all! :)
Kellene, all I can say, as a mom of three, and to quote Dr. Phil is "you just need to accept the new normal." Tee Hee... :)
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