alicatt
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SAMs.. sorry my phone died.. had to give it some juice! Back from the dead so to speak (phone-wise). ART is not easy and it takes its toll on your body. I'm at least 20 lbs heavier than I was before I started and probably closer to 30 
I've just given up looking at the scale. I know I'm eating mostly healthy and getting the right nutrition. I'm sure the weight is a combination of quitting smoking, hormones, stress and my eating habits. Thing is, you can't diet and have a baby! You need to make sure your body is not in starvation mode. So I'm focusing on eating properly and getting exercise. Even if its just walking the doggies. Once I'm pregnant ill have to be more careful and really make sure I am eating properly due to gestational diabetes. Then I'll work really hard after I have the green light to exercise after birth and see where I'm at. I'm not afraid to go for the lap band at that point. I will not be a fat mom!
Be strong, look beyond the short term, make a reasonable plan and stick to it!
Crash dieting is doomed from the start, how can you reasonably expect to go from 2000 calories down to 1000 overnight and not feel like passing out! It is not easy, and you can't beat yourself up about failing when your plan was impossible to begin with. Baby steps! Try cutting out 200 calories a day from your diet. Might just be eliminating 1 full calorie soda, or skipping the fries with your meal and having a salad with a low calorie/low carb dressing. Small changes, and then in 1-2 weeks once you are comfortable with that decrease I'm calories, take another 100-200 away, and continue this way until you are down to 1200-1500 calories (depending on your weight). Don't bear yourself up about a slip up, and give yourself 1 day a week to have ONE thing you have been craving. Just a small portion. That way you won't be depriving yourself of anything! It works, this is what I've done in the past to lose weight. Then once you are eating less calories, you can play with the calorie combinations and increase protein and lower carbs. Increase workouts when you hit plateaus. This isn't really dieting but eating healthy! I really wish I could become a personal trainer/food specialist. I think I could do a world of good!
So one step at a time, work at the small ways you can cut bad calories, get your IVF and your medicine man working for you again and just don't bite off
more than you can handle!
I've just given up looking at the scale. I know I'm eating mostly healthy and getting the right nutrition. I'm sure the weight is a combination of quitting smoking, hormones, stress and my eating habits. Thing is, you can't diet and have a baby! You need to make sure your body is not in starvation mode. So I'm focusing on eating properly and getting exercise. Even if its just walking the doggies. Once I'm pregnant ill have to be more careful and really make sure I am eating properly due to gestational diabetes. Then I'll work really hard after I have the green light to exercise after birth and see where I'm at. I'm not afraid to go for the lap band at that point. I will not be a fat mom!Be strong, look beyond the short term, make a reasonable plan and stick to it!
Crash dieting is doomed from the start, how can you reasonably expect to go from 2000 calories down to 1000 overnight and not feel like passing out! It is not easy, and you can't beat yourself up about failing when your plan was impossible to begin with. Baby steps! Try cutting out 200 calories a day from your diet. Might just be eliminating 1 full calorie soda, or skipping the fries with your meal and having a salad with a low calorie/low carb dressing. Small changes, and then in 1-2 weeks once you are comfortable with that decrease I'm calories, take another 100-200 away, and continue this way until you are down to 1200-1500 calories (depending on your weight). Don't bear yourself up about a slip up, and give yourself 1 day a week to have ONE thing you have been craving. Just a small portion. That way you won't be depriving yourself of anything! It works, this is what I've done in the past to lose weight. Then once you are eating less calories, you can play with the calorie combinations and increase protein and lower carbs. Increase workouts when you hit plateaus. This isn't really dieting but eating healthy! I really wish I could become a personal trainer/food specialist. I think I could do a world of good! So one step at a time, work at the small ways you can cut bad calories, get your IVF and your medicine man working for you again and just don't bite off
more than you can handle!
Needless to say I had another morning of interrupted sleep. Maybe this is preparing me for motherhood? If so I think I'm going to become a coffaholic! Is that a word? 
If not, it should be. I've switched temporarily from tea to iced coffee (brewed by my keurig). I think today I might need 2 of them! 
My entire work schedule for next week is up in the air because of this. I NEED to know! I have a co-worker going on a work vacation (working remotely) and he doesn't want to work the late shift (noon-9) and I need to know what mornings I need to be at the dr's office before I can commit to helping him out! 
I just wish we knew when stuff was happening 
literally. Tired and tired of waiting 
Seriously, this lupron makes me nasty 
Is it possible to be all of these things at once? 
on those days, and I would prefer not to work late shift on those days. So I NEED TO KNOW what days we're starting so I can get my work schedule settled, and make my co-workers happy (since theirs are up in the air until I know mine). 
I'd be sorry to cut them! I tend to love plain cakes/loaves like carrot cake, pound cake, spice/gingerbread, & zucchini bread.
I had hives all down my arms last night from it 
as literally all of my beds are covered in dust, dirt and grime 
If I'm lucky enough to join the ranks of the pregnant women on this thread, I don't plan on officially announcing things until I go home this summer. I have friends here that will know, but beyond that, I don't plan on it being "public" knowledge until my summer vacation and in order to get into the second trimester, I'm not going to go home until the end of July. Then I'll be safely into my second, and will be able to announce (I think it will be pretty obvious by then) 
If I haven't said it lately I'm 
for you! So very happy that you are having your miracle 
