Thinner!
So my mother thinks I have cancer... or something.
I was cleaning out my drawers again this weekend and started trying on old pants that I'd been waiting to fit into. Turns out, those pants that I couldn't squeeze into last month are now so big they don't stay up. Now, these are pants that never fit loose when I was at my skinniest over three years ago.
I thought that was a little weird, if not overwhelmingly joyous, so, out of curiosity, I took my measurements and compared them to last month's, which I had taken when I was buying a coat online. It seems, in one month (to the day), I lost almost 3 full inches around my waist and 1 1/2 inches around the hips and bust. Crazy.
I knew that I had been losing a lot of weight rapidly -- a little over 15 pounds in exactly 2 months -- by eating the same junky food I've been eating for months and by having little more exercise than playing with the baby or working the occasional 3-hour shift at The Children's Place. I just thought it was good fortune or an after-motherhood change in my body.
But now my mother has me worried. She thinks such a rapid loss in weight is unhealthy and a sign that I might have cancer; she had cancer at 26 so her concerns are justified. Leave it to her to turn my elation at taking up less space in the world to a fear of dying. So now, to settle her nerves, I have to make an appointment with my physician to make sure everything is OK.
I know none of you are doctors -- you only play them in the privacy of your own homes -- but I want to know what you think. Is 15 pounds in 2 months (or 2-3 inches in a month) rapid weight loss? Do you think I should be worried? Have any of my fellow mothers experienced something similar (i.e. drastic body change) after kids? Feedback would be appreciated.
I was cleaning out my drawers again this weekend and started trying on old pants that I'd been waiting to fit into. Turns out, those pants that I couldn't squeeze into last month are now so big they don't stay up. Now, these are pants that never fit loose when I was at my skinniest over three years ago.
I thought that was a little weird, if not overwhelmingly joyous, so, out of curiosity, I took my measurements and compared them to last month's, which I had taken when I was buying a coat online. It seems, in one month (to the day), I lost almost 3 full inches around my waist and 1 1/2 inches around the hips and bust. Crazy.
I knew that I had been losing a lot of weight rapidly -- a little over 15 pounds in exactly 2 months -- by eating the same junky food I've been eating for months and by having little more exercise than playing with the baby or working the occasional 3-hour shift at The Children's Place. I just thought it was good fortune or an after-motherhood change in my body.
But now my mother has me worried. She thinks such a rapid loss in weight is unhealthy and a sign that I might have cancer; she had cancer at 26 so her concerns are justified. Leave it to her to turn my elation at taking up less space in the world to a fear of dying. So now, to settle her nerves, I have to make an appointment with my physician to make sure everything is OK.
I know none of you are doctors -- you only play them in the privacy of your own homes -- but I want to know what you think. Is 15 pounds in 2 months (or 2-3 inches in a month) rapid weight loss? Do you think I should be worried? Have any of my fellow mothers experienced something similar (i.e. drastic body change) after kids? Feedback would be appreciated.