feeling large and in charge!

(knock, Knock)

Me: Go to my front door and am greeted by two nicely dressed Jehovah Witnesses ladies who came equipped with a smile on their faces, scriptures in their hands and a pamphlet that they were eagerly awaiting to give me.

Nice Ladies: Shares a message with me and then precede to read me scriptures on my front porch.

Nice lady in front: looks down: "Oh wow! you are VERY Pregnant! Is this your first? How far along are you?? What are you having?"

Me: Smiling "Yes this is my first, we are having a boy and I am about 25 weeks along." (still smiling)

(not so)Nice lady in front: eyes get really big and she looks me up and down over and over and replies "ONLY 25 weeks! You still have a Loooonnng way to go!!!"

Me: Now doing a fake smile "Yep..only fifteen weeks left" and then thanking them for stopping by.

Later that day I went to the doctors and discover that the "nice Jehovah witness lady in front" may have been on to something!! When they weighed me I was in shock and kyler who is standing right behind me desperately trying to sneak a peek at my weight, just replied with a "whoa!!" I turned around and quickly pointed out that "I am fully dressed and....ummm" and tried to think of another excuse(what was I supposed to say "and umm....the half gallon of ice cream I polished off last night is apparently catching up to me...")

at that moment I was feeling far to prideful to own up to my excessive weight gain....My first thought was that I should do what every pregnant women in this predicament is entitled to do and blame it on my sweet little baby and say something on the lines of "I think we are going to have a ten pounder"... and just live up the remaining 15ish weeks.....but on second thought....that is probably not best for Jett or I so I decided that I needed to do things a little differently for the next 104days.....

Not to mention We are flying home for Christmas this year and Jett will be almost six months old (this will be his big debut.)

The thought of still looking like I just had him is not super appealing....yep, not at all!

But just when I think all is lost my dear sister candi sent me a link for an online food journal! It is free and super user friendly it is at www.myfitnessPal.com It keeps me a little more accountable, which is always a good thing :)

What I have been doing is putting in everything I plan on eating through out the day first thing in the morning....this has really seemed to help me cut down on my excessive snacking and has taken a whole lot of the guess work out of eating! YOu can have friends join to! Any takers??

I was shocked to see how many calories I was really eating...let's just say I am totally an over achiever in this department and was not just eating enough "for two" but more like, I don't know....

ten ?!?

So hopefully when I hit the scale four weeks from tomorrow I wont impress my Doctor and my husband quite as much with my weight gain as I did this time! Keep your fingers crossed!:)

Have an amazing day!

xoxox