The difference between fat and pregnant....

Before I became pregnant I hated hearing pregnant women talk about how fat they were. It was annoying. They were creating life, could they not see that?? And I don't know if I was around the wrong pregnant women but they sure complained A LOT about being fat. It literally drove me insane. I told myself that I would never complain about being fat when I was pregnant.

Well that was then and this is now. I caught myself complaining to some girls at work at how fat I am. I was horrified at myself. How could I do that?? I didn't even think twice about doing it either. But I finally figured out why pregnant women do it.

When you start getting fat (from being pregnant) you only know, at this point, 1 reason to get fat. The only other time you've gotten pudgy is from eating a little too many snickers or from engulfing entire pecan pies for meals. So now that you're getting fat, you see no baby to show for it. What I mean is you don't know how much of that fat is from the baby and how much of it is from eating fried food for your meals for an entire week. Especially when you're craving that kind of food. Realistically any other time you ate what you've been eating, you would grow a tummy and there would be no baby in it. So it's easy to assume that the belly is from the food too.

So, from now on, when you hear a pregnant woman complain about being fat just tell her that you heard from a doctor (or some other esteemed medical professional) that the belly is ALL baby and no fat. That's really what she wants to hear. But telling her that she's creating a miracle of life and it comes with getting fat is really not as comforting as it sounds. I know, I thought it was comforting too. It's not.