Ten years ago, this mom was nearly twice her wedding weight. Here’s how she got her body back after baby…and baby and baby and baby
AS A KID, Jennifer Hunter spent a few miserable years wishing her stocky body could be more like those of the other girls in her ballet class. As a teen, she’d work out because her parents urged her to. And as a young adult, like millions of women, she dieted and forced herself to exercise, but it never brought her joy. “I hated the pressure of counting calories or minutes of cardio, and feeling like my self-worth was somehow wrapped up in my weight,” she says.
So after her wedding in 2001, Jen (now 40 and living near Boise, ID) decided “I would let go of all that,” and what a relief. She enjoyed building a home with her husband, Justin, which included cooking elaborate meals. But, she says, “I had no idea how to scale back a dish, so we’d sit down to eat dinner with six servings on the table.” Just a few months into marriage, she’d put 40 pounds onto her 5' 3" frame. And later that year, Jen was pregnant with twins.
This story is from the November 2017 edition of Good House Keeping - US.
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