Getting Fit Before Baby

[swimmyj1]

yay for the weight loss cupcake!! good job!!

ireadyermind mine took a while to come down so hang in there!

 

[cupcakestoy]

Cupcake, where are you located? It's been super hot and humid here too.

We live in East TN....

Sorry, swimmy

IRYM-Hope your levels drop quickly, mine took there sweet time even though they only got up to the 1800s....

AFM-I realized I have been doing a crappy job with keeping up with reporting my weights lol, but I lost 4 pounds this week!!!!! I'm Really liking Calorie counting so far! Hoping to see a steady decline this week too. In other news it's HOT here! Like 105 heat index....I did get half the front yard push mowed, but am now for a mandatory cool down lol Goint to the gym Tues, Thurs & Sat. this week....

Mine only got up to 220. lol... It's been over a week and my levels still aren't at zero. I don't know how long that's supposed to take!

Hot weather is the WORST. We hit 115° over Independence Day weekend and I got the worst sunburn of my life, even WITH sunblock (and reapplying every two hours!). It's currently at the 'peeling' stage and driving me bonkers. Everything itches! lol

I hope things cool down for you soon! I always feel like I can't get ANYTHING done in that kind of heat.

Hopefully you will see 0 very soon! I believe its supposed to drop like something half every couple of days? Not positive on that tho....Peeling is the WORST! I don't mind the heat, but the humidity & all the rain is killing me! I took off a week in June to work on the house & still haven't got to do the deck or the porch stuff since its rained mostly every day or 2 since :/ Hoping to get finished before winter....uggh!

 

[Fern81]

Hi girls!

I'm taking another cycle "off" ttc after a disaster of a last cycle. I am refocusing on dieting and exercising which had turned out to be quite difficult the past few weeks.... middle of winter and all *sigh*. I also had a hectic, stressful past few months (grandfather passed away really tragically, my sister had her twins prematurely, lots of unpleasant issues with the current owners of our new house) so I admit I have been comfort eating.

Jealous of the hot weather you all have been having! We are moving @ end July to our first OWN house (renting a flat atm) and the house has a swimming pool so I have to be bikini-ready for summer in December!!!

Good job cupcake! You will have to post some before and after pics . I read something you said in another post and realized we're almost the same age!

Swimmy and IRYM - don't know how true this is but I've read that ladies are more fertile after m/c. And that statistically it's more likely to fall pregnant if you have been pregnant before. I sincerely hope that's true in both your cases. xx

Have a good, healthy week ladies!

 

[ireadyermind]

Hi girls!

I'm taking another cycle "off" ttc after a disaster of a last cycle. I am refocusing on dieting and exercising which had turned out to be quite difficult the past few weeks.... middle of winter and all *sigh*. I also had a hectic, stressful past few months (grandfather passed away really tragically, my sister had her twins prematurely, lots of unpleasant issues with the current owners of our new house) so I admit I have been comfort eating.

Jealous of the hot weather you all have been having! We are moving @ end July to our first OWN house (renting a flat atm) and the house has a swimming pool so I have to be bikini-ready for summer in December!!!

Good job cupcake! You will have to post some before and after pics . I read something you said in another post and realized we're almost the same age!

Swimmy and IRYM - don't know how true this is but I've read that ladies are more fertile after m/c. And that statistically it's more likely to fall pregnant if you have been pregnant before. I sincerely hope that's true in both your cases. xx

Have a good, healthy week ladies!

Oo, don't be jealous of the heat here! I live in California, USA and we are in the midst of a terrible, several years long drought. Everyone's on water restrictions, the lakes are so low, it's scary, it hasn't properly rained in months.. blech!

If some of you gals could just send your unwanted rain my way, I'd appreciate it! Haha

I hope what you're saying is true! That you're more likely to get pregnant once you've already been, and that you're more fertile after a miscarriage. The OB wants me to wait two months before going back to TTC but I'm so impatient!

Trying to tell myself that I can use this time to try and get some weight off... DH and I bought some weight loss foods last night and we're waiting for them to arrive by mail. The medically-supervised diet plan my insurance carrier was offering was ridiculously expensive and they basically had you consuming nothing but weight loss shakes the whole time, so we figured we would try one more time on our own before resorting to that.

The stuff we got is high in protein and fiber, and loaded up with with vitamins, so it's supposed to help keep you full longer with fewer calories. The reviews for the product were good, so I'm hoping they work out! They say the average person loses 1 - 3 pounds a week on this stuff, so if that happens for me in the two months I'm WTT then I could lose approximately 16 pounds by then? I'm hoping, anyway. ANY loss would be beneficial at this stage.

And then if it works, I could just stick with the diet until my next BFP and see how far I get.

 

[drjo718]

Iread, is there a particular reason your ob wants you to wait? I only ask because it's outdated advice to wait after a miscarriage unless there's a very specific medical reason for you. Specialists typically tell you there's no need to wait, it just makes dating easier for obs if you do.

 

[ireadyermind]

Iread, is there a particular reason your ob wants you to wait? I only ask because it's outdated advice to wait after a miscarriage unless there's a very specific medical reason for you. Specialists typically tell you there's no need to wait, it just makes dating easier for obs if you do.

She didn't give me a reason, just told me to wait -- via email through my medical carrier's website.

I did some reading myself, and I'm getting a lot of mixed opinions from various medical websites. Some say wait 6 months, some say go after it immediately, and others say wait until AF has arrived at least once.

But some other articles I read said that progesterone is higher after a MC and that could aid in getting pregnant again. I really don't know what to believe at this point! What have your OBs told those of you who've miscarried?

 

[drjo718]

My midwives said it didn't matter if we waited or not since I was just 6 weeks. My close friend who is also struggling with infertility just had an early miscarriage a couple weeks ago. Her ob said to wait a cycle...but she just had her first appointment with the fertility specialist and he said there is no reason to wait and is giving her a higher dose of femara. OBs can figure out dating from an early ultrasound, so I hate their reason of their own convenience for making people wait after mc.

 

[ireadyermind]

Huh. Yeah I was at 5 or 6 weeks also, and there was never a gestational sac or anything visible on the scans. So the egg never really got far, and the miscarriage lasted only about three days.... I could understand the wait if I was much farther along, maybe.

My cycles are becoming so unpredictable, though, that it might even take two months just for one AF. I think what I'm going to do is see what happens this cycle, spend my current cycle on this new diet to see where it gets me, and the next time AF shows up, evaluate my situation and go from there.

 

[ireadyermind]

I have to rant to you ladies... Apologies in advance if I sound like I'm whining!


I just got off the phone with my mother. My younger sister is pregnant AGAIN with an unplanned child. This will be her fourth unplanned pregnancy. She isn't in any position to support another child -- she can barely support herself and the three children she currently has, nor is she taking any steps to ensure that she can support them in the future. Her boyfriend refuses to take on full time work to support his family, and the 5 of them are basically living in poverty despite the assistance my mother attempts to provide them, with the oldest boy (who is six) attending school only once or twice a week because my sister can't be bothered to get him to the bus stop every morning.

It'd be different if they were a poor family, but well cared-for. Clean, fed, and sent to school every day, even if they didn't have a lot to their name. When I was a child, my parents divorced and my mom was challenged with the task of making one income stretch to care for herself and three children, when before we'd had two incomes to do that. Things were tight, but we always had food, warm beds, and clean clothes. My sister can barely provide that for her brood as it stands. Now she's pregnant again?

Hearing this news, I'm angry, jealous, sad... I also feel certain that this one will be a girl. Which isn't normally a bad thing, but my sisters have both had only boys to this point, and I had been hoping that my first child would be a girl just for the... I don't know what to call it -- uniqueness? -- of being the first girl grandchild for my mother.

I haaaaaate that my sister is cranking out children she doesn't want/can't afford like it's nothing, while DH and I have been trying for almost a year and we've only had one unsuccessful BFP in all that time. I feel like throwing a tantrum. "It's not faaiiiiiirrr!"

 

[cupcakestoy]

Hugs girl! No its NOT fair. I feel the same way about several people who have been blessed with a baby around us. I just don't understand why God will bless others, who in my opinion, don't need another, but here we sit...Waiting & wanting to have what they got. I can't make sense of it, but I believe in His timing & purpose, so I try top just avoid the situation or smile gracefully, as I die inside........Sorry this is in your path sweetie!

 

[swimmyj1]

I would be angry too! It's just not fair! I don't understand how people have children over and over when they can't really care for them. I'm trying to adopt my cousins child. Him and his gf are serious drug addicts their daughter is 2 1/2 and heck she "didn't know" she was pregnant until 8 months (bs). Her mom left her in a car this winter for 3 hours while she shopped and got her nails done it was -3 out! Not that your sister is the same at all but it's hard to watch people get kids over and over. I hope it isn't a girl, u deserve that!

Not sure I asked you guys or not but do u think there is anyway I acutally ovulated cd 21 instead of 16? AF still is a no show and I havnt tested yet but I don't feel pregnant at all. I just want her to show up so I can start clomid and stuff lol

 

[ireadyermind]

Not sure I asked you guys or not but do u think there is anyway I acutally ovulated cd 21 instead of 16? AF still is a no show and I havnt tested yet but I don't feel pregnant at all. I just want her to show up so I can start clomid and stuff lol

CD17 looks like it's possible, but then you also got +OPKs on CD20 and CD21... And ovulation doesn't occur until approx 24hrs after your first +OPK...

I think CD21 is possible. You might not've successfully ovulated on CD16. Hard to say for sure!

 

[cupcakestoy]

Swimmy, I'm confused....didn't you get a bfp on the 10th, but was told you'd m/c due to low Progesterone levels?

 

[swimmyj1]

Yeah I did but I took another one and it was negative so I think it was an evap line. I haven't tested sense then. my doctor said if I hadn't started bleeding by my normal time they want a blood test and would start on progesterone. I just don't know if im past my normal LP or still on it

 

[swimmyj1]

But good news got on the scale this morning down 5 lbs in 2 weeks yay!!!

 

[ireadyermind]

But good news got on the scale this morning down 5 lbs in 2 weeks yay!!!

Good job!

 

[cupcakestoy]

Great job swimmy! AFM....as of yesterday morning I HAD lost 4 pounds!.....This morning I officially lost 2 I guess the Chinese sodium content did me in lol oh well I'll take a 2 pound loss each week

 

[swimmyj1]

Well AF showed up. Staying positive I get to use clomid and progesterone this cycle! fingers crossed!!

Gonna keep working out, this time I'm determined to eat better. After eating junk food up north I just feel icky.

 

[Fern81]

Hi ladies

Busy busy busy here, no time for ttc! I've lost about 2 kg but can't figure out how to update my ticker.... so I've deleted it from my siggie for now lol.

Hugs and good (slimming) wishes to you all x

 

[MissDoc]

Hi ladies, sorry I've been MIA! Thought I'd take a quick minute to check in.

I've been staying off the boards as things keep disrupting our TTC plans. But on the weight loss and health front, I'm doing well. I'm done another few lbs and I'm on a roll. Exercising 5+ times a week, drinking over 100 oz water daily, eating well generally. Feeling good about that progress. Feeling bummed about continuing to put off TTC though. I'm thinking when all is said and done, legitimate trying probably won't happen until 2016. We'll see though.