very low calorie diets and fertility!

[freefalling]

Morning ladies, how are you all today - hope someone is dancing round their bathroom after getting a today!

Just wondered if anyone had ever tried a very low calorie diet to boost fertility? I was thinking of lighterlife but i read cambridge and lipotrim are similar - anyone know?

I've read it can really boost fertility and 3 of my friends are mummies after losing weight using cambridge (all lost about 3st).

Just wanted to ask, Oli x x

 

[Suz]

I always think you should check with your Dr before dieting....esp. if you are going on low calories.....

but on the same note, I have read that anytime you lose 10% of your body weight your fertility boost up alot. (any type of diet)

Good luck

 

[freefalling]

thanks for your quick reply suz..... i am thinking it might be worth a whirl! Not sure how you go about it, off to google! 10% eh? mmm.

Oli x

 

[clarkie_TTC]

please dont do lighterlife!!! i did last year and fair enough it works but the main side affect when you start eating again is your hair starts to fall out (because when on the diet your hair doesnt shed) i totally lost my confidence and it has taken months for my hair to improve!!! i would recommend just doing ww and exercise (plus it cost £66 per week on LL)

 

[Suz]

Here is a quick artical I found from google... Read the body weight section

https://www.womens-health.co.uk/infertility_lifestyle.html

 

[freefalling]

please dont do lighterlife!!! i did last year and fair enough it works but the main side affect when you start eating again is your hair starts to fall out (because when on the diet your hair doesnt shed) i totally lost my confidence and it has taken months for my hair to improve!!! i would recommend just doing ww and exercise (plus it cost £66 per week on LL)

Oh flippin heck, sounds horrible. I won't babe, thanks for warning me. I'm glad your hair is coming back in, that would knock anyones confidence xx

 

[clarkie_TTC]

plus the counsellor wasnt very supportive when it happened - she was just interested i the money!!! i think the cambridge diet is cheaper!!

ohhh there is a celebrity slim diet where you can eat a meal a day with the food replacement shakes - might be better for you x

 

[freefalling]

plus the counsellor wasnt very supportive when it happened - she was just interested i the money!!! i think the cambridge diet is cheaper!!

ohhh there is a celebrity slim diet where you can eat a meal a day with the food replacement shakes - might be better for you x

My friends did cambridge and i think its half the price, also one of my friend did it with 2 shakes (i think) and 2 meals (just cal controlled). Will ask her! One of my friend did celebrity slim and she lots a stone in her forst 12 days (wicked) but she gave up. Mmmmm.

Thats a shame you never got the support, horrible when you expect better than you get eh?

 

[chele]

I did lipotrim and it's hard work. I wouldn't do it now I am ttc in case I did get pg as you only take in 300 cals a day which is not good for the new baby.

Also my hair fell out for 3 months after stopping lipotrim

Celeb slim is good and is quite easy to do.
Yes it's good to lose weight as it boosts fertility, but you have to think about a possible unknown pregnancy and damage VLCDs could do. So I am doing WW to lose the weight healthily

 

[aiko]

Hi, I lost 4 stone in 6 months with ww and am now in the process of training to be a leader. I never fancied meal replacement diets because I'd be worried I'd regain it all when I started eating "properly".

That said, I lost over 20% of my body weight and should have been feeling great. However I have been feeling ill for months and when I've been reading into how I've been feeling and fertility, it has said that losing weight too quickly can affect your hormone balance. I now worry that all my hard work dieting last year is causing me to take longer to get pregnant.

If you want to lose weight then follow a sensible, healthy eating plan and exercise (though I'm not too hot at the exercise...) I'd be wary of losing weight too quickly. Remember that healthy weight loss is 1-2lb a week which is 4-8 stones in a year.

 

[angie-roo]

i did cambridge diet for 4 months and lost 4 stone and fell pregnant with my baby within weeks of trying. if anything I hadn't realised i was pregnant and was just about to do sole source again and found out I was 4 weeks pregnant. Baby is healthy and just fine. Several ladies on the cd forum I posted to had similar stories

 

[Lizzy78]

I have known a couple of women who got pregnant by cutting carbs. They didn't cut them out completely, though, just went low carb.

 

[Mamamirfy]

Wow - I have never heard of any of these diets...except the WW. Interesting. I could lose bare to lose a few lbs...the 300 calories a day diet sounds extreme. I was once on one that ate 700-900 a day and I was soooo hungry.

 

[angie-roo]

Cd is a vlcd, it puts you into ketosis. Once in ketosis yr not hungry. Bored yes!! Hungry no.

 

[MrsPOP]

I have done VLCDs before in 2007 (did lighter life for one week, switched straight to Cambridge as cheaper and nicer), lost 4st in 4months Did a short course of lipotrim before our wedding in 2008 lost 2 stone in 5 weeks.

I started one again this year as I had gained weight due to depression and wanted to get my BMI down for TTC. I did one called Exante which was excellent, lost 3 stone in 2.5 months. I'm now doing slimming world as VLCDs are not advised in pregnancy or breatsfeeding and SW allows preg women to follow their diet plan.

However, a lot of women on the VLCD forums I frequent fell pg accidentally as losing weight increases chance of conception if BMI is above 25. Babies were all fine.


My hair fell out with VLCDs , not dramatically but it was a pain. It grows back once your body adjusts...kinda like after coming off birth control.

I plan to re do it once I have a baby.