Quick carbs or protein

[ProudMom90]

Hello Atomic and other ladies,

I read in a thread about how to eat and when to eat for TTC a girl, that it is best to try to eat meals with either quick burn carbs (do you have some examples of these foods?) or mainly protein but not too many meals with both carbs and protein. Have I said that correctly?

I know that pure protein is:
- eggs
- chicken
- many kinds of fish...
- other examples???

I know that quick burn carbs are:
- candy
- white bread
- white rice
- white pasta
- other examples???

I hope I have been eating my meals the right way!

Also, which meat is preferable if you have to eat meat during dinner?
Im going out to dinner for the first time during my fertile window in the month we are finally TTC LOL and its a meat restaurant (husband surprised me for my birthday) I will either have a small steak (beef) or chicken.... which one is best?

Thank you again!

[atomic sagebrush]

Please don't worry about that. I would like the link to that thread if you remember. People ask me about it all the time and it's super old and was one of those things that we temporarily considered like for a month or so LOL and then continue to get questions on that even though we don't even do that and never really did. I'd love to correct it but every time no one can remember what thread it was.

Just eat what you need to hit in the limits of the day. Please just set all that stuff aside. It doesn't matter and just makes an already complicated diet even tougher and more "control freaky".

Have whatever option YOU prefer and are in the mood for. Either is fine.

[ProudMom90]

Hiya Atomic,

Thank you so much for the quick reply!
Here is the link https://www.genderdreaming.com/forum/ttc-a-girl-best-practices/519-when-how-eat-your-meals-ttc-pink-4.html

I see now it dates from 2011 LOL!

I will stick to what Im doing!
I just have one more question... is it ok to have sex in the 2WW?
My husband who first disliked the idea of swaying and only having one attempt, now changed his mind after I told him it’s ok and he can choose. He says he will go with the one attempt (Yay!) but he does wonder if it is ok for us to have unprotected sex (at least two days) after O and then whenever we want up till AF (though of course we hope i dont get AF next month)

Our plan would then be:
cd 1 up to first positive OPK : let him do his thing whenever he wants just not inside me.

Day of first positive OPK: BD one and only attempt

Three days after first positive OPK dtd whenever we want up till the day I get my AF.

Repeat...

Thank you so much again!

[atomic sagebrush]

Oh wow thank you - and YES it's from 2011, but more than that, I meant JUST at breakfast and it wasn't clear, I can see how some people might think it was referring to all meals. (thanks for solving this mystery, I could not recall EVER saying that except for at breakfast and could not even figure out where to look for that)

yes it's fine to have sex in the 2ww just be sure you've actually ovulated! Sometimes people have ended up having attempts they didn't intend to because they didn't O when they thought they did!