adelegetsfit

[adelegetsfit]

Some history to my weight journey

I'm not new to the fitblr and weightloss world but I have been gone for awhile.

In Dec 2010 I had reached my highest weight at the time, 221lbs. I started my weight loss journey, documented on tumblr, and by April 2012 I was at my lowest of 154lbs.

Then I met my husband, I got comfortable, I got lazy, and started to slowly gain back weight. I still ran (including the Chicago marathon in 2013!) but slowly I was going back to my old ways.

In Feb 2017 I found out I was pregnant (at 234lbs) with our daughter. It was a complicated pregnancy with preeclampsia, and a premature birth at 30w1d with a 64 day nicu stay but before the end of Oct 2017 we were all home.

I'd attempted to lose weight here and there since then but nothing stuck. I wanted to be back down to at least 170 before we tried for baby #2 just so I could give us the best chance of a healthy pregnancy but as time went on and I wasn't losing the weight I decided I just wanted to get pregnant now instead of waiting.

In June 2020 I got my IUD removed and we started trying for baby #2. With our first I got pregnant right away, first month after my IUD was out. So I thought for sure that's what would happen this time. Unfortunately month after month went by with now positive test until finally in Dec 2020, less than a week before Christmas I finally got a positive test! But by Feb 2021 we learned we had lost the pregnancy. I was devastated. But we immediately got back to trying as soon as it was considered safe. By October 2021 I met with my OB to discuss infertility and we began my first round of clomid a couple weeks later. That first round didn't work so we tried 2 more rounds before switching to letrozole.

During that journey I also learned I have PCOS. I worked hard and went from 289lbs in Oct '21 to 246lbs in Mar '22. I got pregnant in January of '22 but was in the middle of a workout program when I got pregnant so my doctor said I was ok to continue even if it meant I was losing weight while pregnant. Over the pregnancy I got to my highest weight ever of 303lbs on the day my 2nd daughter was born in October 2022. Almost immediately after she was born I dropped back down to the 270s where I've been for a little over a year now.

We're hoping to try for 1 more baby, hopefully in the later half of 2024 so I'd like to get my weight back under control.

I'm going to be doing a Beachbody On Demand (BODI is what they call it now I guess) workout as well as eating healthier and getting back into running again. I'm thinking if I can get into a good running habit in the first month of 2024 then I'll commit to a local race series that does 6 races on different holidays throughout the year.

My daughter who is 6 has really loved doing some 1 mile races lately so I'd love to do some races together with her this upcoming year.

Feel free to join me and follow along! (I do also have a instagram under the same name @adelegetsfit so feel free to follow there too!)