Coming off the hCG diet and TTC pink
I've been lurking on here off and on for about a year and am finally getting ready to TTC. Let me just say you girls are amazing, the support and enthusiasm I see on here is contagious.
Don't know if anyone has heard of the hCG diet (human chorionic gonadotropin), it's for weight loss, not for swaying. I have two weeks left and then start the maintenance phase for 6 weeks but am hoping there is a way to incorporate the LE diet with it.
I've lost 30 lbs on the diet and hormones but could still stand to lose another 10-15 that I'm saving for my sway. My concern is that the maintenance phase (6 weeks) has you not eat sugars or starches for the first 3 weeks and then to slowly reintroduce them in them for the last 3 weeks, and the LE diet is so focused on sugar and starch. I'm planning on doing the intense exercise option for my sway, (know a few girls that got girls that way without knowing it :), so I'm hoping that will help me continue to lose weight despite the fact that I'm eating sugars and starches. During the hCG diet you don't really have any sugars or starches.
We have two DS, ages 4 and 2. I'm 36 and will be 37 by the time I have our next child and may still try to squeeze one more in there, so I feel like I'm getting impatient. I just got my IUD out and DH is seeming excited to start trying but I'm nervous I won't have been on the LE diet long enough before TTC.
When what I have been eating on the hCG diet is lean meats, veggies, fruit and one small cracker, do you think I'll just pile on the weight when I start LE? I'm scared that even if I'm limiting my calories, just starting the sugars and starches will make me put on weight. But I'm also hopeful that the weight loss I have done will sway pink. Is there a way to do LE without a ton of sugar/starch? I really liked the meal ideas like the matzo pizzas and iceberg lettuce salads.
I really wanted to get my old baby weight off before TTC again so I wouldn't just keep getting bigger. But I also wanted to have my kids close together, so this over 3 year gap is killing me (making me more impatient). And the biological clock is ticking.
I guess I just wondered if there was anyone else having success on LE without a ton of carbs, or if I need to just suck it up for a bit and hope I don't start gaining?
BTW, this site is amazing! Excited to be on here more!!