The Ghost of Preggobesity Yet to Come

Posted at 6:01 am on November 30, 2009 by Bethi

“Spirit!” I cried, tight clutching her chair, “Hear me. I am not the woman I was. I will not be the woman I have been. Assure me that I yet may change these shadows you have shown me, by an altered life.”

I am not refreshing your memory of A Christmas Carol in time for the holiday season. No, this happened to me yesterday.  It was like looking in a mirror, years down the road. I could see myself sitting at a small table at the Sushi House.  I was with children and another couple. We were chatting, enjoying and having a terrific time. I could hear myself telling the other couple about the challenges of being 30 weeks pregnant and having three young ones already. It was then I realized that I was in the presence of the Ghost of Preggobesity Yet To Come…

The thing that startled me most was that if you did not hear this woman was pregnant you would not have never known it. She was rather large, and honestly the extra bulge of the baby didn’t add all that much. Also, this woman looked just like me! Seriously, I was not kidding about feeling like I was looking in a mirror. She had blond hair pulled back in a ponytail (my style of choice), was about my height and had extremely similar facial features.  It was obvious that she has struggled for years with preggobesity.  When I saw her, I knew I had to do something. I had to change.

Then, I was reading People Magazine today and there was an article about Heidi Klum changing her last name to match her husband. Whatever. The interesting part to me was hidden in the middle of the article “The couple tied the knot more than four years ago, and Klum gave birth to their fourth child last month. This week, the model made a surprise appearance when she walked the runway in the Victoria’s Secret fashion show in New York just six weeks after giving birth.” Seriously?! Check out the picture to the left to see how great she looked! Four kids in four years and she is still in that amazing shape. I admit that is pretty inspiring to a mommy that would LOVE to get back into better shape after this pregnancy (and perhaps not gain so much in the meantime as well). I think it is really cool that she has kept in such good shape after having four kids. Not that I will EVER be a super model, but I do want to be the best Bethi that I can be (and be hot for my hubby too)!

Instead of being doomed to a life battling preggobesity, let’s hope the future reads this way instead:  Bethi was better than her word. She stopped preggobesity in its tracks and infinitely more. Some people laughed to see the alteration in her, but she let them laugh, and little heeded them; for she was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset. And she became as healthy a wife, as healthy a mother, and as healthy a woman, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world.

P.S. Realistically, you may wonder how I am going to accomplish this abrupt turn around. Fair question. However, the truth of the matter is that when you have a change of heart you are able to make these kind of 180 degree turns in ways that you were unable before. I have had a glimpse into the future and I know that I will change. Just watch.

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