The last time I got serious with dieting and exercise I lost about seventy pounds. Then I fell into the mindset of, "well, I've done so well, it won't hurt to have this ONE _______." Yeah, that didn't work out well.

Then after a year of trying my husband and I were given the news that we were going to have a baby. Eight months and a horrendous amount of pounds later, my son was born. That was on April 6th, 2010.

My motivation is that I don't want this trend that ...

The last time I got serious with dieting and exercise I lost about seventy pounds. Then I fell into the mindset of, "well, I've done so well, it won't hurt to have this ONE _______." Yeah, that didn't work out well.

Then after a year of trying my husband and I were given the news that we were going to have a baby. Eight months and a horrendous amount of pounds later, my son was born. That was on April 6th, 2010.

My motivation is that I don't want this trend that I've been seeing to continue. All of my son's pictures feature him with family, him alone, or him with my husband. There are only a handful of pictures of me with my baby because I am so embarrassed to be in front of the camera. I don't want my son to look back and wonder where mommy was and I don't want him growing up with my crummy habits.

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