Time to fix the Brokedown Palace

Well ladies & gentlemen,

The days of baby making are  done for this Mama. 

I did my time & produced 2 of the cutest babes this world has seen. I do have to say that outside of being pregnant for an eternity, having babies 14 months apart really wasn't that hard & hasn't been too hard thus far. 

What has been hard ,however, is the transformation my body has undergone while creating these tiny lives.

I had very healthy pregnancies, no gestational diabetes, no complications, a little bit of sciatic pain & a touch of preterm labor, but nothing too out of the ordinary. 

With that being said, I gained an ungodly amount of weight during my first pregnancy with my son - 64lbs to be exact. Then, I fell pregnant again shortly after his arrival & never had a chance to completely shed my " Baby Weight ". So! Then I put on a healthy amount of weight during my second pregnancy but I put on the weight on top of the weight that was still lingering from Round One - So again, on delivery day I was tipping the scales towards morbidly obese. 

Now! 9 weeks postpartum from Round Two i'm ready to get my Body back. 

Lets take a peak at this transformation over time - Please note: I'm going to document my body change from the start to now, this including when I met my husband & fell in love, because let's be honest here.. It is OH SO TRUE that people get FAT&HAPPY! 

Here I am - insanely happy, I'd taken my NOW husband to Florida to meet my family. I weighed about 140lbs, 140lbs of sexy!

Fast forward 2 years ( give or take a few months ) and this is RIGHT before we conceived our son, still looking pretty good but noticeably heavier. I weighed about 150 here.

Fast forward again .. To New Year's Eve 2011, my son would be born 13 days later. Upon arrival at the hospital I weighed 214lbs! Needless to say I didn't skip a meal during my pregnancy, as a matter of fact I squeezed in additional meals where I could. 

Then Darling baby boy was born & about 6 months later this picture was taken and I was down to 170lbs! Still 20lbs over my pre pregnancy weight BUT I had lost 44lbs nonetheless. Here's the kicker, we had just found out we were pregnant AGAIN! 

Then came our daughter! Here I am, all checked in for induction weighing in at 204lbs! Not quite as big as Round One, but still not small. 

Ok ok ok ...

Lets get to present day.

My daughter will be 10 weeks old on Friday. I was able to get down to 180lbs just from having the baby & breast feeding.  I have been lightly working out for almost 3 weeks & have managed to get down to 176.5lbs! The next photos are my current body, brutally honest & barely dressed - so if you're stomach is queasy, leave this entry now! And should you decide to stay - be kind & remember this is a Work in Progress! 

And now this is where the challenge is outlined!

I intend to lose 26lbs!

As for a time frame - that's kind of hard to lay out as I'm new to working out. I've been averaging about a lb a week thus far. So, I need to kick that up a notch. If I were to lose 2lbs a week I could be "ok" looking in about 6 weeks, and I could be looking pre pregnancy sexy in 12ish weeks (  Just in time for my husbands 33rd Birthday )! 

So, operation get sexy in time for my husbands Birthday is underway! I will fit into a lovely piece of lingerie by then & I will plan an insanely sexy Birthday evening for him! Wish me luck ;)