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I made a terrible mistake last night. I was at my in- laws house and my husband jumped on the bathroom scales (we don't have a set at home) and I thought it would be funny or interesting or something to follow suit.

The scales told me that I now weigh 197lb, this is the exact same weight as my husband. If this is correct it means I weigh 14 stone (ish) and have put on two and a half stone since I became pregnant.

This has left me looking at photos of myself from three years ago and wishing I was that thin again. I weighed about 10 stone at 22. I've also spent the morning looking at my wedding photos and wondering why I let myself get so fat- even though I was actually five weeks pregnant at the wedding.

Before I weighed myself, my goal post-baby was to get down to 10.5 stone- but since realising that (by the time I've finished putting on my baby weight) I'll probably have a bout four stone to lose, I'm feeling a lot less confident about that.

Weightwatchers warns that a woman who is breastfeeding, as I intend to, should only loose 1lb per week. Rapid weight loss can affect both quality and quantity of breast milk, as fat stores are important to the production process.


That means that it'll take me over a year to shift the weigh, providing that I loose consistently each week. Pregnancy has proven two things to me. The first is that I'm incapable of patience and the second  is that I really, really like biscuits.

I really don't want to start my sons' life as one of those mothers who's always on a diet, but at the same time  I don't want my weight to start affecting my health.

I'm hoping that I'm sensible enough not to think that breastfeeding= lots of cake and that rushing around  with a pram will help shift the pounds.

We shall have to wait and see.