Holy Shrinking Mama, Batman!

I went to the doctor today to start the gallbladder process, and everything went well. They decided they wanted to do a CAT scan to look at the stones, but before they could schedule it they had to give me a pregnancy test. It's "routine". But you know what?

I was still nervous.

Seriously. There was no reason for me to be nervous-we're EXTREMELY careful-but for some reason the thought of having a 4 year old, a 5 week old, and finding out I am pregnant again was flashing before my eyes. I may have vomited in my mouth a little. It's all good though-we're NOT pregnant (phew) and we can go ahead and get this gallbladder removal party started.

That totally isn't the best part though!! What can be better than fixing a rediculously painful medical malady?

HOW ABOUT LOSING 53 POUNDS?!

Oh yes I did.

To explain this fully we have to go waaaay back to when I had our son. My prepregnancy weight was 149lbs. Not great, but still within the 'healthy' range for my hieght (barely). During my pregnancy I gained 23lbs and delivered at 171lbs. Again, respectable by any standards (especially mine). At my 6 week post partum check up I had lost the baby weight and then some weighing in at 135lbs. Totally awesome. Not complaining.

Then I went on depo.

For those of you who have never been on depo DON'T DO IT! No one warned me about the possible side effects. You know like having 6 month long periods (which I got) then having no period for 4 months (which also happened to me). Or how about gaining almost 100lbs in less than a month? Yep. Me. Up to 224lbs. And no one warned me. I didn't even think it was possible!! Depo completely messed my hormones up. I couldn't lose the weight and we also couldn't get pregnant once we started trying--no matter what I did!

I went off Depo in March 2005 and needless to say by 2007 people started to think that "depo weight" was code for "I'm a fatty". Then we found out the last week of May 2007 that my hormone levels were finally back to normal. A week later I was pregnant. And I was totally freaked that I was going to end up 300lbs by the end of my pregnancy.

I shouldn't have worried though. I delivered Baby Bug at 198lbs-down 28lbs from prepregnancy!-partially due to gallstones/morning sickness and partially due to finally being able to loose that depo weight.

But would I continue to loose weight, or was that all I would get?

Today at the doctor's office they weighed me. 5 weeks and 5 days after delivering our daughter I weigh 171lbs! For the first time in longer than I care to remember! That makes my total weightloss from pre-pregnancy a whopping 53 lbs! I am so excited!!!!

I am slightly less excited when I realize that I was 171lbs when I delivered Monkey at 43 weeks pregnant...it makes it seem like I still have a long way to go....but I'm take huge leaps in the right direction and-for now-that's enough for me.

Well, that and getting these darn gallstones out!