Livin High and Takin it Easy

17 Days After

27 May 2010 No Comments

by angkuletin Uncategorized

[This is a repost of a blog entry made in April 2009.
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Before I got pregnant, I was 84 lbs. That was not an all-time record low, because back in college I hit 80. A time when I dreaded walking around U.P.’s academic oval because I was literally being blown away at times, a time when I was suspected of having either leukemia or thalassemia and made frequent trips to various specialists and a career in medicine was permanently erased from my future.

When I was admitted to the hospital after my water bag broke, I was 112 lbs – an all-time record high.

Now this is me, 17 days later, at 95 lbs and losing weight fast. Blame it on my metabolism, which requires that I ingest 6000 calories per day to maintain a 100-lb weight. Gosh! Mahal din ang 6000 calories when translated to actual food ano?

Since it has been so hot the past days (though not the past four days), I have taken to walking around the house in my board shorts, bikini tops that used to be too big for me (straight face goes here) and a shiny face to boot. Oo, kung libre ang mangarap, libre rin ang magkunyari. Beachy kunyari.

When I tried to squeeze in a hair spa treatment last Saturday, while the baby was asleep with Ryan, my hair stylist had to complain that I have grown too much hair. I said I have not really noticed but then, eto ang pruweba. Kung di ko pa mapansin ang kapal ng mukha ko, este ng buhok ko diyan sa piktyer na yan ewan ko na lang. Blame it on the pregnancy. Kumokonti daw kasi ang nalalaglag na buhok kapag buntis. Pero sabi ng libro, hahabulin daw yan ng ulo ko, by shedding a lot of hair afterwards. Darn, just when I am enjoying my overabundance of breasts, este hair. (Yeah blame the baby too with the overabundance of breasts that has me jumping from 32A- to….. never mind, I digress.)

These I suppose are my first pictures with grass-head Trellia, after April 7..

And because the baby might as well be Ryan’s child with another woman, ang masasabi ko lang ay, “Baby, kaninong anak ka?!”

Buti na lang very close kami….

(Picture above taken by the revived, ressurected p&s Pentax Optio WP from 2005!)

Baby is so tiny… I love her.. even when she demands I be within one meter of her, if not literally attached, all the freakin’ time. Wow, so this is how it feels to be truly needed eh?

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