Getting Fat

It's one thing to read a book that says you'll start bloating and looking fat, and quite another to experience it. My pants are definitely not as comfortable and I feel extra jiggly. The really weird part is that the scale is the same! It just doesn't seem physically possible to be bigger while not weighing any different. In the other blogs and chat boards that I visit I've read about other women around 7 or 8 weeks along who are already wearing maternity clothes. Last week when I read these posts, I laughed at these women and how they clearly had lost control over their eating habits. Well, after wearing uncomfortable jeans all day I'm starting to think differently about them.

So yesterday I was dousing myself with cocoa butter from head to toe in a feeble attempt to ward off stretch marks and generally feeling ugly and lumpy and Mj walked in. I forced him to promise to pretend to continue to find me attractive even when I'm wearing a muu muu and scarred by stretch marks and cellulite. Needless to say he was a little horrified by the mental picture that I painted, but he's a good sport and he promised. Also, he's been a real trooper about all the books that I've been reading, and he'll even read some sections himself. I also made a point to show him one part where the author suggested that all husbands buy their wives something really nice in order to say thanks for all the crap the wives have to go through. We'll how carefully he actually read that part....