Bellys to Bumps

[lovie]

hi tarkwa

your dinner does sound super healthy! very low carb also! im assuming the red line on your chart is expected AF? i dont know much about temping but a rise on expected AF day seems odd.. how have your cramps been? do you usually get browish CM before AF? I sound like an interveiwee hehe,

hugs from me enjoy the heathy dinner xxxx

 

[EmmyReece]

Tarkwa do you normally get this sort of cm before af? It also sounds like implantation bleeding to me from what I've heard ... hopefully it's not af

Your dinner sounds really yummy lovie yay for finding ski boots too and well done on being moved along in your swedish class it sounds like you're doing brill

I'm having one of those days where I just feel like snacking all day not good as I'm not exactly making the healthiest choices, but I'll get back on the wagon tomorrow

 

[Traskey]

Tarkwa ~ I am sorry that you are finding the diet tough at the moment. I think it's easy to feel that way after a while. Hang in there until you do feel like jumping back on. I always find it tough to diet around af time and crave all the bad foods, sugars and carbs!

I hope af turns up soon if she is going to or all the other symptoms disappear. Could the cm be due to the Clomid? I've only just started temping but it does appear that they are generally going down, but I have to admit yours are bouncing all over the place.

Lovie ~ Congrats on being a Swedish language pupil superstar!!!!

AFM ~ My HSG has been booked for Tuesday afternoon and the day 2-4 blood test for tomorrow. Then it's just the waiting game until the next FS appointment on the 7 April. Not that I am expecting any changes but it will at least tell me if all the bits are working for me.

 

[Tarkwa]

Hey, yeah I do normally get brown CM before AF, but this is a really heavy dark brown goo almost! Defo not implantation bleeding, it can't be. Did see a tinge of red at one point, but still no sign of her starting properly. Have adjusted my ticker to 29 day cycle, but it could be up to 30/31 days (I'm not 28 days every month, just the last couple). DH has been working late and is due home any minute now - am intrigued as he said there was a good reason he was working late (in a good way!). I hope his boss realises how awesome he is and promotes him (he's just had a pay rise so not sure how likely that is). Or it could be his bonus, but why would that make him late? Hmmmmm...
xxx

 

[Traskey]

Ooooooooooooooooo intrigue, fingers crossed for good news

 

[lovie]

tarkwa how exciting that your hubby has good news! I hope its something really big to celebrate... and all good things come in 3's!! xx

 

[Traskey]

Is anyone else watching BBC3, The big fat truth about low fat food? It's fascinating.

 

[lovie]

do tell me any special tips! I have heared that low fat milk is bad because your body need some of the fat in dairy...

 

[zowiey]

Evening ladies!

Tarkwa I'm intrigued for you! I'd be going mad waiting for oh to get home! I'm sooo impatient!

Traskey, good luck for Tuesday, I'm sure you'll be fine, remember to take some pain killers about 40-30 mins before you go. It's not too bad, but I definitely felt it!

Emmy, how exciting for your holiday! hope you find somewhere nice!

Hope everyone else is ok? I lost 1lb this week, its a bit rubbish, But I have decided that I really need to kick ass for the next 4 or so weeks, so I'm going a bit hardcore, I figure a little bit of hunger won't kill me!!
xxxx

 

[Tarkwa]

Oh, I feel silly for writing that now. DH did have a good reason - but not anything exciting. Someone in his dept walked out today so he had to talk his boss at the end of the day (and the 'good' bit was that she slagged off the other dept!). How disappointing - I thought it would be something good like 'we need you to head up this new team which is bringing the company loads of money'. Humph.
Plus I'm feeling really down - I was looking at facebook earlier (I was kinda hoping one of my friends had got engaged after a trip to Rome, doesn't sound like it) and saw that a girl I used to work with is PG. She didn't announce it, she just said her 'real birthday present' would be on 28th and would it be pink or blue (obviously a scan to check sex of babe). I'd already started TTC before she got married last summer, and she said how she was going to try for a baby shortly after getting hitched, and obviously was successful. I'm so happy for her as she is sooooo nice, but am feeling devastated inside, so much so that I actually cried over it. DH says its fate, but I just feel like it's never going to happen .
xxx

 

[Tarkwa]

Well done Zowiey - 1lb off is in the right direction . I know what you mean about going hardcore, I just can never go through with it (the first hunger pang sends me running to the fridge/cupboards!). Remember starving yourself makes your metabolism slow down (so it reserves energy and doesn't burn off fat), so try not to go hungry chick otherwise you might not achieve the desired goal. Try upping your exercise as well - easy to say I know, but we all know it works!
I'm off to bed now - night night, sleep tight ladies.
xxx

 

[Traskey]

Awww, sorry Tarkwa. It's so hard when people around you fall pregnant, in what seems like no time at all. It's so unfair and it just makes the waiting so hard

The conclusion of the tv programme was that constantly eating diet food is bad for you. The lack of fat makes your brain fuzzy. The lack of fibre makes you constipated and bloated. The artificial sweetners make you hungrier than eating the full fat food with real sugar in e.g diet coke makes you hungrier than full fat coke. Low fat food doesn't fill you up for very long and you end up snacking more. At the end of the month the woman had gained weight, not lost it, eating just diet food and low fat ready meals. Some of the ingredients in the ready meals was disgusting, one ingredient was used in wallpaper paste!

 

[Traskey]

DH says its fate, but I just feel like it's never going to happen .
xxx

GIANT HUG

I know exactly how you feel

 

[lovie]

hi all

can i back up a little I compleatly forgot to tell you best wishes for your HSG on tuesday! thankyou for the low down on low fat food, the only low fat food i love is a ww ready meal with lemon and (i think) chicken risotto mmmm very yum!! we dont really have diet food in the shops here, we have low fat milk and diet coke but i looked for low fat cheese i couldnt find it and low fat ready meals dont seem to exsist, infact there is only a choice of about 3 ready meals in our local supermarket (its a big super market too!) x

tarkwa im so sorry it isnt a pay rise or at least a really exciting project for your hubby.. poor him having to stay late because someone else walked out! im sending you big cyber hugs tonight I have a facebook friend with 4 children (she is my age 26) and she keeps saying she wants more.. im hope the best for her and if she wants more she gets more I just hope i have my BFP 1st! hugs hugs hugs and my fingers are (as allways) crossed very hard for your BFP next cycle xxxxxxxxx

zowie yay for your 1 pound gone thats great! dont let yourself get too hungry in the next few weeks! x

 

[EmmyReece]

yay for the weightloss zowiey

don't feel silly Tarkwa hun, I'd have probably got excited too. I'm sorry you're feeling down too It's such a long wait that we've all had, but when we do get there the wait is going to be oh so worthwhile

I wish I'd noticed that programme now Traskey, sounds like it was pretty interesting not too sure I like the idea of one of the ingredients for the ready meals being used in wallpaper paste

I had a really bad night last night, I was starving and craving sweet stuff so I gave in and got some bits from co - op (profiteroles and peanut m&ms) So I'm going to try and be extra good today as I feel like a bit of a fat lump for eating so much rubbish yesterday

I'm going to have beans on toast for brekkie today as I've noticed that if I don't have toast at breakfast it doesn't fill me up as much as when I do have it, and then I tend to get stupidly hungry and pig out

 

[lovie]

beans on toast sounds like a very yum breaky em dont worry about yesterday, today is a new day, nuts are good for you anyway they make your hair shiny! hehe xxx

 

[zowiey]

Huge tarkwa & traskey, I know exactly how you both feel. I brought an app for my phone that gives you your percentage chance of falling pregnant, and ours came back as having a 36% chance of it happening naturally in the next 3 years. Joy! But as the great Bon Jovi says, we do indeed have to "keep the faith"!!

Morning to lovie and Emmy too! Emmy, I've got the taste of profiteroles in my mouth now. Nom nom!!

I'm getting my haircut today and it is quite fair to say I am pooping my pants! I HATE getting my haircut, I always hate it for the first few days. But it hasn't been done since Oct 09, so it's rather overdue
Xxx

 

[Tarkwa]

I'm the same Emmy - I need toast (or something toasted) to feel full after breakfast. Cereals very rarely keep me going until lunchtime. Beans should also be good at keeping you full (though I can't speak from experience here, I can't stand them myself !).

Lovie, luckily it is my DH's dept (i.e. he is the director of it) so he didn't have to cover any work or anything like that - it was someone who was new (4 months) and hadn't passed their probation period. They talked about whether they should get someone else in as the person they have to work for (outside of my DH's dept) have been through a lot of staff over the last year or so! I'm so glad I don't have to worry about managing people in my job any more - so much less stress and hassle!

Still feeling low this morning - I had a dream about that girl (I say girl, she is 2yrs older than me!) and I shouted at her how long it's taken us to not get this far, when she got PG so quickly! Of course, I don't know any of her details, just what she said in my dream (which was that it only took 3 weeks and that's when I screamed 'On your first cycle?!' and had a rant at her!).

Still no AF this morning - but my temp has dropped to it's lowest point since I started. Although I have just taken it now and it is up high again! I'm getting so confused with my temps jumping up and down all over the place that I think I might not carry on doing it. Just been on the NHS website (hoping that they have found a miracle cure for infertility !) and think I need to be more relaxed about . I probably try to time it around ovulation too much which is causing me to stress out. But does anyone else feel that bonking every other day is...well, tiresome??? I've been with DH for 11.5yrs and neither of us has massive sex drives (but we were at it like rabbits when we first got together). I really do think we have to bonk (sorry, that's what we call it!) more often to increase our chances, but there are days when we think - we did it just the other day, let's wait a bit longer. Raaaaaargh!

Traskey, procedures like HSG and HyCoSy's are meant (I think) to 'increase' your fertility for a few months after, so maybe it will be a good thing! If they find any little blockages (FX'd they don't) then they usually clear them there and then so that's good. I'm very excited for you - will keep everything X'd for Tuesday!
xxx

 

[EmmyReece]

have fun at the hairdressers zowiey hope you like your new haircut from the start

 

[EmmyReece]

Tarkwa sorry about your dream last night hun

it's so difficult though to be relaxed about when what we want doesn't seem to be happening. I think ladies who fall pregnant easily really take it for granted I find every other day tiresome, and poor Chris by the end of ovulation week he's shattered