Month 2 Pictures and Testimony

Well, this is my second month. It’s my 6th or 7th week, actually, so I’m halfway through my second month, I guess. Here is a picture of me at this time. I have made it a goal of mine to get at least 1 picture of me each month to see how big/how fast my tummy grows and my body changes. Already, I have noticed the small pooch in my tummy area, and of course the boobs are bigger, but my face has also filled out a little also.

I asked Todd to take this picture this morning before I put on my overshirt, just to be able to see the definition of everything. Exciting, lemme tell ya. But seriously, I really want to keep a good record of my growth during this time, if nothing else but to look back on and how Baby Watts when he/she is old enough to understand…

Something I have really had a hankering for is a good ol’ glass of red wine, but I know I cannot (and would not) partake. I’m not THAT hard up for a drink of wine, but you know, it sure sounds good some evenings. Anyway, the Italians do it. But honey, I ain’t Italian. J Anyway, to fool myself, I put some good-for-me chocolate milk in a wine glass and sipped it ever-so-slowly this afternoon…

It was sooooooo good. Gosh, I kind of crave milk right now. I bought chocolate just because I was kind of getting tired of the regular. I think our bodies KNOW what we need when we're carrying a baby. It's just up to us to listen hard for what our bodies are trying to tell us...

On a different note, last night I gave my testimony at the monthly GBS support group meeting. I was so nervous, but afterward I felt exhilerated! I got up, did my thing, and actually gave a great speech! I tried to be animated without acting stupid, and I just went along with whatever…there was actually no planning involved on my part. In the background was a hideous picture of me at my heighest weight, just a few weeks prior to surgery…

Just so you know, I gag every time I look at this picture and it has nothing to do with the lovelies in the picture with me....it's me who does it, the fatty on the left, at almost 250 big ones! YUCK! I am thankful every day that I chose to change my health by having gastric bypass surgery.....But here I am, giving my testimony last night, and I am much more satisfied with my appearance now..

Yeah, my hips are a little big, but as my family says, we have birthin' hips! LOL. And yeah, I feel 150% better NOW than I have EVER felt before in my life. I'm healthy, happy, loved, and about to embark on loving my very own baby. What more could a lucky girl ask for?

xoxox
liz