I’m still the same mamma.💙
(Swipe to see me last July)
A year ago I was at my fittest since high school. I was even below pre-baby weight and felt good about where I was at. But there were 2 things here that weren’t right.
1. I wasn’t exercising as I should.
2. I wasn’t eating right either.
Fast forward to now. Some days it can be hard to look at these pictures from a year ago because I felt so good about how easily I had gotten rid of my baby weight with my firstborn. And how I had been able to go back to looking my pre-baby self. After his birth I was strict with my diet but eventually didn’t care as much anymore because I had lost the weight.
But when I started gaining weight with my 2nd it was hard. At first I refused to look at the scale when I went for my checkups. I didn’t like seeing that number go back up again.
I’m still the same mamma I was a year ago, or even 2, but here’s how it’s changed.
When I was diagnosed with GDM at 29 weeks I knew full well I had needed to change how I was eating. I’ve been faithful to exercise 3 days a week this pregnancy and eh, eat just okay. But after this development, I knew I needed to be more dedicated to taking care of my body again and some drastic adjustment was in order.
Since then I have been the most self-disciplined since high school in my eating habits and exercising 5-6 days a week. Since being diagnosed with GDM I’ve been truly trying to see this as more of a second chance at taking better care of my health overall. Eating right, exercising, trying to stress less, and finding more value in smaller tasks has been my goal. It’s crazy how all of these things impact us so much in their different ways. I’ve found myself feeling so much better this 2nd time around at the end of pregnancy then with Hudson. I definitely have had more energy, am less swollen, eating less, and been more alert as a mom since having been forced to change my lifestyle.
GDM has has its bad effects as well, many of them not as aparent from the outside world as they all have to do with baby in utero. However, being able to see the outside of this that has brought on good healthy changes has given me a better mindset about it then I thought possible. As hard as trials are, they’re truly what bring us growth, new opportunities to do better, and to see life how good we have it.
Xoxo, Shantel
