Yesterday, Patrick took a picture of me and I thought, “Wow, I look like me again”.

Pregnancy has been a wild and amazing journey of seeing what my body can do. I have never shared a bare belly pregnancy picture, but I just wanted to emphasis that I was…. well…. HUGE. Like… legit watermelon in my stomach huge. The crazy part? That picture was taken at 37 weeks…. he still grew for another 2 almost 3 weeks before coming out!

^ 5 weeks pregnant

^ 37 weeks pregnant

^ A little over 2 weeks post birth.

^Almost 6 months post birth.

When I was pregnant, I saw story after story and image after image about flat bellies by 6 week check ups and immediately fitting back into pre pregnancy jeans. Totally possible, but didn’t happen for me. When I look at the picture of me going for my first ever walk with Bennett at 2 weeks post postpartum, I remember thinking… oh my gosh. I still look huge. Why didn’t I immediately shed all the weight??? What’s wrong with me?!?!

You know what? Absolutely nothing was wrong with me. I just grew a freaking human and pushed it out of my body!!! My body was bruised and battered during my birth. It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life but the absolute most REWARDING and beautiful thing I have ever done in my life. Heck, I’ll do it again someday. I still have 14 more pounds on my body than when I started this journey, but again. I’m amazed at this journey. I don’t even want to call it weight loss progress. I just want to admire the journey I’ve been on in the past year and a half. Still on the journey to regain more muscle back and be able to run again but I just have to take it day by day.

Just documenting where I’ve been and where I’m at now. Thanks for reading this somewhat pointless post.

Ps. The two middle photos are photo’s I never thought I would share with the public! HA.