Weight gain has always been a thing with me. I’m always up and down, up and down. When I’m up I’m anxious about getting down, and when I’m down, I’m anxious about not going back up. Until I had kids, I can honestly say there wasn’t just a neutral for me. I was either up or down, and regardless of which, I was anxious. I got pregnant a few blissful months into our new marriage and was ecstatic. I was at that point in an “up” phase, carrying about 20 pounds more than neutral should be. But I decided that I would not allow weight gain to be a stressor…