Blog the Weight Away Intro!

Hi! My name is Paula and I’m on the Purple Team for Blog the Weight Away Challenge hosted by 4BabyandMom! My other team members are Stefany from ToBeThode and Toni from MarketMommies. I just want to share with you some of my history and goals today.

I have never felt skinny. Back in high school I always thought I was fat. What I’d give to be fat the way I was in high school again! I weighed around 120 back then and my prom dress was a size 9! I still have that dress and my goal is to one day get back into it and go out to a very fancy dinner with my husband. Here is my prom picture:

In late 2003 or early 2004 I joined Weight Watchers. I can’t remember my start weight. I think it was around 200 lbs. I lost over 30 lbs and got pregnant with my eldest son which put my weight loss on hold. This was the day I announced my pregnancy to my family.

After my son I didn’t focus so much on weight loss. I got pregnant with my daughter when he was 1 yr 3 months. When I was pregnant with her I weighed 213 lbs. I got down to 187 after she was born with the help of breastfeeding and Weight Watchers.

So we’re up to now. I’m currently 198 lbs again. I barely gained any weight with the last baby (that turns one tomorrow!) What I did gain with him I lost at birth. It’s time for me to get healthy. I’m having issues with being tired all day. While I do still get up to breastfeed two times a night I know that a lot of my drowsiness is from being overweight and lazy. I have a strange expression on my face, but this was taken today. I’m holding my son’s “smash cake” to show the damage he did to it. 🙂

Here are my current measurements:

My final goal is to be around 140 lbs. I would like to lose at least 2 dress sizes by the time I’m in my sister’s in law wedding on September 3.