The Land of the Skinny People

Hi. I'm Catie, and I live with not 1, but 3 people with Hyperthyroidism. Let me explain....

I met my husband about 3 years ago when we both had just gotten out of the Marine Corps. We started dating, and sooner rather than later found out that we were expecting. Great! No sarcasm, we were ecstatic to find out that we were going to have a baby.

Well fast forward about a year and a half. We have a beautiful 9 month old baby boy is growing wonderfully and is so smart it is scary sometimes. Mama on the other hand is not feeling too beautiful. I was 180 lb when I checked into the hospital to have my son, and from then to 9 months postpartum, all i had managed to do was gain another 5 lbs. So, I started this weight loss journey in January 2013 at 185 lbs and 5'4". (By the way, if I were still in the Corps, my *kitten* would have done been kicked out by then for not meeting height and weight standards by A LOT)

By March my son was 1 year old and I had lost about 10 lbs. To me, that was awesome. Come June I had lost nearly 20 lbs. I had been very careful about my calories, keeping between 1200 and 1400, more if I had enough motivation to take Jillians abuse that day in the form of her 30 day shred. I was finally starting to feel awesome for the first time since I had had my son.

However, in June, we also found out that our son had not grown since his 1 year check up. It had been 3 months, and he gain about a 1/4 of a pound, less and a half inch in height, and according to his dr his head circumference went down (but I still think that was an incorrect measurement.) Now he is in the less than 3 percentile for his age. This is not especially surprising when you look at his father and I, since we were both tiny children. None the less, it was concerning that he hadn't seemed to grow at all. So we try to up his calories. The trouble is, he thinks he's a big boy now. He only wants to eat what mama and daddy are eating. So, that means that dinner time as a whole goes up in calories. This is ok because honestly, my husband seriously needs to up his calories too, since he has hyperthyroidism. I do my best to stay on track while i'm at work, and it works for a while.

Now, we are back to present day, and the situation at hand. Remember how I said I was living with 3 skinny people?...... Welcome Gail..... my mother in law. She just moved in with us while she can find a job and get a new apartment. she is 5'0" and weighs in at..... 96 lbs. Can anybody guess why I have gained back 10 of that original 20 lbs I lost?

As you can see, I am drowning in butter soaked, cheese topped monstrosities of calorie overloads every night at dinner. At this point, I'm at a loss of what to do. How do you go through every meal at home while attempting to ignore what literally everyone else in your home is eating? Its not like I can just hide the fattening stuff out of my sight, because that is literally all there is now. I dont know anyone has any advise, or if anyone will even read this, but I have to figure out something, or one of 2 things is going to happen. Either I follow along and wind up blowing up like a damn balloon, or..... I'm going to go flat out insane. Place your bets and stay tuned to see which one will prevail!!