12WBT Round 1

12WBT: REVIEW OF ROUND 1, 2012

Initial Wakeup Call

While pregnant with my son, I bought a gorgeous dress to wear to an upcoming wedding. My son was born in January 2011 and the wedding was December 2011 – surely I would be able to fit into my new size 8 dress by then?! Yes?? Um. No.

A few weeks before the wedding I tried on my new dress.

Verdict – a big fat fail. Literally.

During my pregnancy I managed to put on 20kgs (no thanks to the crazy concoction of lupus medication I was on at the time! Let’s just say that high dose prednisone is not too kind on the hips!). I assumed that I would just naturally lose the weight after baby was born, but that was definitely not the case.

In the end I had to wear a different dress to the wedding – one that I had worn to a previous wedding earlier that year... ok, doesn’t sound too bad, but the alternate dress was one that I wore 3 months after my son was born and while I was still breastfeeding, so let’s just say that the dress was quite a “comfortable” fit.

An emergency caesarean + dealing with motherhood + active lupus + going back to work = very tired and unmotivated Mummy

Final Wakeup Call

January 2012 and my son’s first birthday was fast approaching. Everything was organised, well everything except my outfit. Being a kids party, I concluded that the simple ensemble of jeans and a top would be the safest option. Only problem was that I could not fit into any of my jeans!! I then found myself buying a size 12 pair of stretchy ¾ jeans, and that was it for me. Something had to change.

 

 

 

Review of Round 1 Final Results

Start weight = 60kg (size 12)

End weight = 52.1 kg (size 8)

Total Loss = 7.9kg (13% loss) and 41.5cm gone! 

Happy, healthy and finally got to wear that new dress!

 

Round 1 Highlights

• Being selected to participate in a photo shoot with Michelle Bridges!
• Meeting the fabulous gals from the SWSYD facebook group!
• Being in the local paper representing 12WBT!
• Actually achieving what I set out to do! FANTASTIC feeling!!