2 week wait

[djmommy]

Can anyone explain to me why it is important to stay on the diet during the 2 WW? I am just so hungry theses days and want to snack!! :)

[atomic sagebrush]

Two reasons - XX may develop better in low glucose environment and so it is best to provide that until BFP if possible, and secondly because you may get BFN and have to do diet again next month.

If you're really dying for a snack, it's the best time of the month to have a cheat, just focus on having whatever it is you really truly want and don't start off trying to have a fat free yogurt, then go back for another, then a punnet of berries, etc etc etc till you say eh, heck with it and eat a cheeseburger. IF you really want a cheeseburger, have a cheeseburger, just without the 700 other "good" things first! :)

[XXforhubby]

Sounds like you are having great progesterone production- it makes you more hungry in 2ww! I had that this past cycle, and my RE said my progesterone levels were AWESOME!!

FX for you!!! 😘


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[atomic sagebrush]

:agree: Yes progesterone has been scientifically proven both to make you more hungry and reduce willpower! Weird huh.

[djmommy]

My willpower has been sucky and I am just feeling down! BLAH!! I hate when I get like this. It usually starts on 7dpo because I feel excited then 9 dpo comes and I test and see a BFN like I did today (when I swore I would not test) and I become this sad mean person for a bit!! I am just really over it today. I just don't understand what happened between my last child and now. I want to continue to sway because I really want a daughter but i do want to get pregnant. I have an RE appt on Feb 5 but we don't have a lot of money for fertility treatments. I just want to find out what is going on. I have a birthday party for my son tonight and 2 friends are pregnant and it is just sooooo hard. I broke down last night. UGH....

[XXforhubby]

Oh honey, hang in there! I know what it is like getting BFN after BFN while everyone under the sun gets pregnant or are pregnant. It sucks and it feels like it is unfair. Get mad/sad. Get it out. Then you can work on making peace with it taking however long it needs to.

Patience was never my strong suit and now I am finding that this is something I must need to work on. I have bad days still- 15% of the time and yesterday was one of them. I was so weepy! Today is a good day. Be kind and forgiving to yourself. It is hard not getting what we want. I am working on being happy with what I have. It does suck though from time to time! It will happen though, for both of us, when I don't know. I do know it will, and we will be so compassionate to those in our position then!

😘💞


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[djmommy]

Thanks so much XX for your kind words. It has just been so hard and certain times of the cycle are harder than others, like the 2 ww! I know it will happen, for both of us. Just will have to continue to be patient and trust the Lord.

[tarasue]

That is so interesting! The progesterone=no will power, makes complete since!

[djmommy]

Thanks so much XX for your kind words. It has just been so hard and certain times of the cycle are harder than others, like the 2 ww! I know it will happen, for both of us. Just will have to continue to be patient and trust the Lord.

[tarasue]

It is so hard to be patient with ourselves... And when you are surrounded by pregnant people it just fuel on my impatience fire! Since my sister announced they were pregnant at the beginning of the month, all my mom or my sister can talk about is being pregnant and blah Blah blah! I've just had to keep my distance, after a miscarriage only two weeks before their announcement and now back to ttc, I may snap and say something nasty. My emotions are just still raw and all their baby talk is just a reminder that I should be 15 weeks pregnant and not on the ttc roller coaster anymore!

I've been trying to reason with myself, ttc takes time and isn't an overnight thing. It's such a miracle and for it to all work right it takes time, for the egg to develop, get fertilized, implant, ect. Everyday I try to focus on what ideally should be happening to be pregnant. Today I am 1dpo, so I'm trying to visualize sperm meets egg, that's what should be happening at this time in my cycle, nothing I can do or stress over will make thing happen any quicker at this point. It's out of my hands, I just need to enjoy (right!) the ride until it's time to test.

That all being said I am a poas addict and I have already promised myself I would test on the last day of January, only 8dpo:/.

[djmommy]

I am sorry for your loss tarasue, I know how hard that is also. And you are right, the whole process is truly a miracle in every way. I don't like becoming a poas addict (LOL) which I think I am if I have tests in the house so I am not going to have any this next cycle. There are times that I am like, I just can't do this anymore but I am not giving up. The diet is fine to deal with. I mean I do miss being able to eat what I want but to me it is worth it to do what I can to conceive a little baby girl. I think the regular LE diet may be a little better since you can eat not so healthy stuff! LOL I am doing the atomic fertility and its a little boring but not so bad!! I'll be praying for you too!!

[tarasue]

Thanks dj! Fx and prayers for you as well!