I was like you until I got up the duff. Went from stick insect to 34 DDD and unfortunately have stayed that way.

yesterday we did the touristy BS! My niece is over from England, so we thought what can we go and see thats decent... so went to Washington DC! plane we were booked on at 6.30 was cancelled, the next one at 8.54 left at 11.15!! 5 or so hours at the airport was fun.. Gets into washington, got the metro... and did the mall, senate, washington monument, 2 world war thingy, lincoln.. oh the whitehouse and all that stuff...and stopped for lunch, i had lovely soup.. got back to the airport, our 8pm flight left at 10pm and today, well today i am too bloody knackered to eat a bloody thing. Every damn bone in my body is hurting me. I am DONE!!! I couldnt eat if u put a cream cake in my face!

Snowbunny - I was hoping that once I had kids I'd keep the weight, I loved being pregnant as I had a really impressive cleavage! but I guess my genetics are too strong.... went back to being thin - but hurrah for padded bra's :-)

Hated being pregnant, every bit of it.

With the second, at about 30 weeks I could find nothing in the maternity shops that would fit -- because it would not go on over my bust. My mother had to MAKE me these muumuus -- how embarrassing is that. People would stare at me -- my mother walked a bit behind me in public and had to agree. I got asked if I was having twins or triplets.

Daughter born at 36 weeks, weighed 6 lbs 7 oz.

That deserves a hug

I was huge with my first, only because I had the mother of all water retention. I carried them all over the summer, they're born within a month of one another, and my ankles were the size of an elephant. Worked with a wonderful group of people though. We had a 'sick' room, with a bed, in case anyone fainted at work, or whatever. They'd let me go in there for a nap at lunchtime, and often wouldn't awaken me till 4 or so, just before hometime! Can you see it happening here??? They knew how hard I worked though. I'd be in the office at 7 a.m., often, work right through, and when I awoke from my afternoon nap, would stay until 8 most nights......and before I'd been expecting, worked unbelievably long hours because of budget deadlines.

I was back to my normal weight fairly quickly, but guess what? Started putting on the weight again when he was 8 months or so old, and couldn't understand why, until I discovered when he was 10 months old, that I was bleeding preggers again, and 5 months along at that!! With him it was a breeze, about a month after he was born, I was back to wearing my regular clothes.

The third one took a tad longer - but that was mainly due to me having had the Depo P Shot within a few weeks of him being born, which messed up my hormones and shot my weight up in a horrid way.

Lol I too put on huge amounts of weight (mainly due to water) but I put on over 4 stone, I was the size of a house - nothing fitted me, I went to the 'oversize' store and bought a size 28 trackie bottoms!! they were disgusting. I had to leave work early coz I got so fat (and my belly so big my arms/hands wouldn't meet round it!) I couldn't get my leg up to get onto the train (in the days of the old slam doors, there was a high step onto the train) so I just sat around getting fatter, I think by the time my son was born I weighed nearly 14 stone (200Ibs) at the time of getting pregnant I weighed about 7.5 stone (100Ibs) but was back to 'normal' after 8 weeks - the wonders of breast feeding - if I had known then what feeding did to your boobs as you get older, I may have stuck to formula!! lol

i had that shot too but before i had kids... My weight went beserk but only for a short time... I stopped having it, and then still my cycle didnt get back to normal for a year or so.. but then i got divorced and lost so much weight and stayed that way for so many years without even trying. What the hell happened.

so, did anyone else put on loads of weight over xmas???? I managed to put on about 3lbs even though i got the winter vomiting virus whilst back visiting family in the UK......

yes...

now I'm just trying to get the bloody pounds off...

bugger bugger bugger bugger food. why cant carrots be fattening and chocolate/cake/alcohol/curry ........ not.

ahhhh...Utopia...what a wonderful place it would be....to eat as much good stuff and never gain a pound...bliss...

I lost 4.5lbs the week before Christmas and put 3lbs on during so now I am ahead by 1.5lbs but my goal is to lose 30lbs by end of April so back on track this week.

good for you, thats great. what plan are you doing?

twigstar, how the hell are u doing it. .. i hate the recepies that make me have to go and buy a bloody load of stuff i would normally never use!!!

i aint for this lean cuisine, or the healthy heart meals that are already prepared... but i just seem to be stuck at a weight now that refuses to shift..