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windchymes -> RE: Health Resolutions (2/8/2006 4:42:00 PM)
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Hey,
Try to go by how your clothes fit, rather than numbers on the scale. If you had a recent pregnancy (recent being within the last 20 years [;)]) and you can actually get a whole thigh into your prepregnancy jeans, and you're only 5 feet tall , then 5 lbs off you will make those jeans comfy! (I'm 5'1")
Your body composition changes permanently when you have a kid, and you're going to have extra padding that mother nature gave you to protect the baby when you carried it. It's almost impossible to get rid of, unfortunately[:(] You might even get to a lower weight than you ever were, but your body shape almost certainly has changed, at least slightly in some places.
Also, if you do any work with weights, though you won't bulk up like the Hulk, you will build muscle mass which weighs more. You'll tone up and get smaller, but will weigh the same. That happened to me.
Sorry about that cholesterol number, though[:-] It probably runs in your family. I'll send you up a box of salt-water taffy from Cape May!
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