Now what? Well first I had to start eating again. Through the morning sickness, tiredness, feeling bloated and fat, I was able to keep up with using my home gym and walking. Once I hit month 5 I was unable to walk without bad hip and low back pain. So, I reluctantly stopped walking. I did however continue strength training 3 days a week up until 2 weeks before I gave birth. I had gained about 30 pounds and was very ready to loose it all again. After my little girl was born, I fell into my former habits of eating hardly any food and doing lots of cardio. By six weeks after, I was already back to being thin and was working on getting thinner. My weight loss was so fast!!! A light bulb then lit up in my head "the consistent strength training I did through my pregnancy had enabled me to recover from this pregnancy so much faster. The muscle I had built made the 'baby fat" melt off my body!" I was excited by this revelation, but still didn’t follow through on the strength training. Instead, I used my now higher metabolism to get really thin. By six months after having my second child I weighed 115 and thought I looked very good (but not really). I didn’t realize that by getting that thin my body was eating itself and causing me to loose most of the muscle I had gained.

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