Well done mocha - doesn't sound very romantic though :D A day off sounds good!
Well done mocha - doesn't sound very romantic though :D A day off sounds good!
I forgot to mention that though there were no bears, there was a fox nearby we passed on our way back to the cottage.
I'm hoping I'll O late since I don't know how many attempts I'll get in while we're here....
Mocha- I really hope that this is your month, Hun! Have a great time!
Swish- I'm really sorry about the bfn:( Keep your head up- you can do this Mama!
Afm- I've been doing very well. I'm down 6 lbs now. Yesterday was a bit of a disaster(1500 cals and 60 protein) but I was also unexpectedly out and about. I'm coming down with my kids cold so that kinda sucks but hey- it'll help with the diet and hunger at least! I've also been really down in the dumps emotionally. I had a vivid dream about #4 being a boy and it really hit me hard. I thought about it a lot for the past few days...wondering about HT in Mexico, searching my heart and trying to figure out WHY I want a girl. Its not for the pink or the wedding, or the grand kids- all of which might not happen. It's the potential relationship, the closeness that I have with my mom. But what if I don't get that? What if I put all of my eggs into one basket and have huge expectations in regards to my girl? If I go HT, and it works....what if it's not everything I hoped it would be? Will I regret it all and look back and wonder what it would have been like to just let nature take it's course? I have the money to do 2 cycles in Mexico....but thats my school savings for Midwifery school. What if i dont get pregnant? And at the end of a HT pregnancy will i feel the same way towards a child that a Dr picked for me instead of knowing that my baby was conceived with just luck and chance?
I've been in tears most of the day:( I really think that I'm going to get another boy- and I know it shouldn't matter. I know that I need to try to have the kind of relationship with my boys that I have with my mom. Gender shouldn't matter. But for some reason it REALLY does. I can list off all the reasons it doesn't matter and list all the reasons it does but in the end, having a girl seems to be something I can't even explain- I feel I need her in my life. I'm so scared that I'm going to have a boy and then I'll spend the next year obsessing and wondering if I can convince my hubby to go ONE MORE TIME all the while I miss my kids childhood because all I can think about is my girl. And then the only way I would go for a fifth is HT. And then would I regret not doing HT for #4?My mind is so heavy right now. I'm lost.
Sorry for all this....I don't have many people to talk to and it's just so overwhelming sometimes. Take care:)
Oh DM, I'm so sorry you're so down. I don't have any answers I'm afraid but I completely understand everything you've said. I flirted with the idea of HT for around 1/2 an hour - until I realised that I wouldn't necessarily get pregnant and have a baby from it! There's absolutely no way we could condone paying that sort of money for something which would be so difficult logistically and would possibly not end up with a baby anyway! In my heart I'm expecting that 4th baby boy and whilst I long for that baby girl (and wouldn't be going through all this otherwise) I do feel I could 'get over it' and accept my all boy family knowing that we did our best but I know and understand that it's not so easy for everyone to accept (and who's to actually know how any of us will feel unless we're in that position). Anyway, I haven't helped you at all and have ranted on about me - so sorry, just hugs xxx Well done on the weight loss btw, that's fantastic :D :D :D
Here's my food for the day - mummy gets some special treats on Saturday!
Lunch: cucumber, tomato and feta with balsamic in 2 mini pittas, cheese and onion crisps, 1 boiled sweet
Dinner: Waitrose roasted vegetable ravioli topped with 1/2 tin tomatoes and parmesan. 1 doughnut!
Snack: Not sure, maybe some tutti fruttis as I have plenty of calories and no protein/sodium allowance left!
Sorry, DM...we've all been there. Dh is morally opposed to ht, and we could never afford it anyway, so that was never an option for me. This is our last baby no matter what, so I'm constantly trying to mentally prepare myself if it ends up being a boy. I just want to know I tried my hardest so I won't have any regrets.
Mocha, well done!! Glad the bears didn't get you!:bigsmile: you are definately working hard to earn your girl!!!
zani, what are the nutritional contents for that pasta, I love filled pasta!! I hadn't even considered I could have that
Dm, I'm so sorry you're feeling so bad, big hugs to you! Firstly, your children are what you make them and I whole heartedly believe you can have the same close relationship with a son, I know many grown men that do have that relationship with their mums. Like you say nothing is guaranteed and you just can't predict what yours or your children's futures will hold. I think you have to be 100 % happy with a 4 th boy, as we all know it's quite likely. If you think there's a chance you might go for ht if you don't get a girl this time, it is worth serious consideration now. Maybe it would help to talk to some of the ht girls as I know quite a few swayed and then ended up going for ht anyway. Lots of love to you, xx
Today's food....
No breakfast
Lunch carrot and coriander soup with a little bit of bread and a bite of carrot cake ( we were out and this was the best I could do- probably bit high in sodium!) frozen yogurt
Dinner courgette lasagne, this was a bit of work but was a real meal - lovely!! Maybe a bit high in calories but I need them!! Ww carrot cake, strawberries and meringue
I'm really struggling to keep to the diet. Everyone's in vacation mode so there are treats everywhere. I had a really small lunch because we're having pizza for dinner. I'm sure I'll be high in sodium today....
The courgette lasagne sounds great too swish - how did you make it? I don't think the ravioli was ideal because it was made with egg pasta and there was probably garlic/olives/onion in it but it would only have been in tiny quantities and I rarely have any eggs. In half pack there was 233 cals, 10g protein, 200mg sodium so not bad at all. I used 1/2 tin napoli tinned tomatoes on top and they only have 44 cals, 2.2g protein and a trace of sodium.
I was a bad girl today...
Breakfast: coffee
Lunch: half bagel with light cream cheese, strawberries
Supper: 5 (!!) small square slices of cheese pizza, one mini powdered sugar doughnut
I'm sure I was way over for sodium today and I 'm not proud of myself for eating 5 pieces, even if they were small. Bad timing too because I'm due to O in the next few days.
Dh and I didn't manage to dtd today. It's just too hard in a 3 bdrm cottage with 11 people sleeping in it. I'm starting to panic that we won't get a good attempt in this month :(
Don't stress, mocha! Just do the best you can, as long as dh releases every day you're still in for a good chance. I wouldn't worry too much about the sodium, it's the overall picture that counts. Zani, I'm going to go to wit rose and get that pasta, I cN't believe how low in sodium it is. I made the lasagne by layering griddled courgette slices, homemade tomato sauce, lasagne sheet, tiny bit of White sauce made with skimmed milk, low fat moz and a tiny bit if Parmesan. It was a bit of work but you could make a few and freeze them.
It sounds yum swish - I quite like being a bit more adventurous at the weekend (there you go, typical boy mum :D). On Sundays I always make a roast dinner and that's difficult - but I've discovered that Aunt Bessies midweek roast potatoes aren't too bad at all and I look for the best vege something-or-other to eat with them. I have a butternut squash pie I think today! I usually spend hours cooking it all from scratch but there's no way I'm doing all that and then not eating any! Sorry AF arrived btw.
mocha - don't worry, that doesn't sound that naughty at all. When you see it all written down you can see you really didn't eat *that* much today. I think you're making the best of a difficult job. When are you due to O again?
How are you today DM?
PS - hubby and kids are in the kitchen eating pains au chocolats for breakfast and they smell amazing! I did by myself an apricot croissant but of course I won't be eating it at breakfast time so that's the only thing keeping me away :D
Pain au chocolat! That's one of my favourite things...I might just murder dh if he ate one in front of me!Quote:
Originally Posted by zanacal
I'm due to O on tues if it's cd12 like usual, or Thurs if I O on Cd 14 like last month. We're driving home tues. We're managing to release every day, but just 1 dtd so far.
It's all going to plan then mocha! If it gets messed up somehow you could always just go twice on the day you get home and use the second batch to get you that baby girl :D
My fat has probably been a little high today but here's my Sunday:
Lunch: 1/2 vegetarian butternut squash pie, roast potatoes & green beans. Summer fruit crumble (same as last week!) and ice-cream.
Dinner: Cheese topped white bread roll filled with extra light soft cheese, cup of grapes and packet of toddler carrot crisps - then 2 boiled sweets :D
Supper: Viennese whirl and glass of skimmed milk
I really wanted to eat a couple hundred extra calories today as I've been a steady 1200 most days this week and I need to do that zig-zagging thing to get the better weight losses.
Hi! I decided to have my one blow out meal today as af came :(
No breakfast
Lunch prezzo pizza!!! Yum!!! I did opt for the light option of flatbread pizza with spinach and mushroom and side salad (a mum with 2 girls on the table next to us ordered the same thing which id make me laugh, I obviously chose the right meal even for a blow out lunch!!! See I'm thinking like a girl mum now!!) she didn't have any of her children's garlic bread or tomato pizza like me but hey! White chocolate jazzies
I plan in having a cucumber wrap later and probably some strawberries.
Back to serious dieting business tomorrow but really need watch my calories as I'm done to 7 st 6 after being I'll, I really don't know hen I was last this weight, probably when I was 14!! So give me a virtual kick if my calories look too low!!!
Will do swish! Glad you enjoyed it, doesn't sound too much of a blowout anyway!
It's the salt that's the problem, eating out would be ok if you didn't have to worry about hidden salt.
I think that's meant to be the least important aspect isn't it - and possible that in the Oxford Study girl mums ate less salt just because they ate less overall. IKWYM though, luckily I eat out very rarely these days!
It's DH's birthday in a couple of weeks and he wants an Indian take-away in the evening, not sure what I'll order yet.
Indian is tricky because they load it with salt but I guess if you eat nothing with salt for the rest of the day, you could order anything vegetarian, sometimes you can get vegetable sheesh kebab, thatis dry so probably good for low everything diet. I'm going to be jelous of you that day!!
Hmm, and garlic and chilli too! I'll have to get hold of the menu and think about it days (or weeks!) in advance lol!
Hello everyone!! :) Wow! I am loving this thread! (thank you zanacal!!) I am going to take a look to see what you all are eating!! :) I having been living off of mostly Matzo, white rice, green beans, lettuce, white grapes (when I can find them), some strawberry's, cucumbers, and a little bit of plain chicken (once a day), egg beaters (once a week) and low-sugar strawberry jam. Oh and I got some of those miracle noodles. They are definitely different and I really don't care for them. I am struggling on this diet and am excited to see what others are eating!! :) I would like to stick to the low-everything diet.
Hi happyheart, glad you found us :D
I'm sure the thread will give you some ideas on how to make the diet more bearable whilst still sticking to the low-everything limits on cals/protein/sodium :D
Thank you so much zanacal!!! :) :) I feel bad about the cheats that I have done due to the struggling and am excited about trying some better choices while still sticking to the diet. :) Yay! :)
Hey ladies - I'm still in vacation mode here at the cottage, so not the best day meal-wise.
Breakfast: coffee
Lunch: 2 slices weight watchers bread with a tiny bit of low fat peanut butter, 2 Sugar free cookies, diet pepsi
Supper: veggie burger with fresh tomato and mustard, salad, 2 sugar free cookies, wine
I had to be very sneaky with the veggie burger...my brother was grilling a meatfest on the BBQ, so I handed him a veggie burger to cook and said it was for ds3 because he doesn't like regular burgers. I then switched plates without anyone noticing and ate it myself.
Dh and I still haven't found anywhere private to dtd, but opks are still very negative and we leave in 2 days.
Hi, all...Hope you're doing well, especially Mocha at the cottage!!! House guests are gone so I'm off catch up on this thread!
I have been good all weekend... eating less of everything. I even went to the farmers market and got some fresh veggies to put on dinner last night. Everyone had seconds except me but I really wanted to.
Since Feb/Mar I have lost a total of 35lbs and I am so happy because my pants don't fit anymore. I would love to loose about 10 more but I am not pushing it since I will be gaining weight again soon, I hope.
Hi all, welcome happyheart! More calories fir me again today, I think I'm at th top of protein limit but hopefully not over
No breakfast
Lunch lettuce and cucumber salad with a tiny bit of goat's cheese and a homemade roll, yogurt, strawberries with meringue
Snack some of DS 2 biscuit
Dinner salad with spinach, mushroom and ricotta canelonni, strawberries
A few Bertie bassie sweets during the day. Are liquorice really bad???
I've no idea on licorice swish but everything else looks great!
Me today:
Lunch: Rest of yesterday's butternut squash pie cold, grapes, toddlers crisps, boiled sweet.
Dinner: Rest of Saturday's ravioli (leftover day!) with mushrooms, tomatoes and parmesan. Viennese whirl and boiled sweet (again!).
Snack: toast and jam.
Weigh in day tomorrow - 7 weeks have passed quite quickly really!
Where is everybody else, are you still playing?!!
I'm here!!! Just a busy day. Hope you have a great weigh-in! You're doing AWESOME!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by zanacal
No Brekkie – Just coffee w/Rice Milk
Meal 1:
- Zucchini, Basmati & Cumin Yogurt
- Green Bean Chips
- Carrot Chips
- Girl Sway Fiber Drink
Meal 2:
- Romaine/Iceberg lettuce & balsamic w/Pecorino-Romano ,
- Yogurt & Strawberries
- Fiber Supps
- Lots of Chewy Sweet Tarts
YAY! Another boring food day! Really hoping I get preggers this time around b/c I'm not looking forward to doing much more of this!
I'm still here too - just still at the cottage and reliant on my mom's iPhone. I did a bit better today, but still finding it hard not to snack when the cottage is full of junk food.
Breakfast: coffee (I was up at 5:30 but managed to wait till 11:30 to eat)
Lunch: plain rice, non-fat yogurt, mini lemon cupcake
Snack: I gave in around 3:30 and had 4(!) sugar free cookies. I knew we'd be eating a late supper (7pm) and thought I might gnaw off a limb if I tried to wait till then.
Supper: I ate what everyone else was eating - penne arrabiata. Not too high in sodium since my brother made it from scratch. I must have eaten 3 portions, though.
Snack: grapes
We'll be driving all day tomorrow and eating lunch in a restaurant, so it may be yet another not so great day. The good news is I'm not stressing too much about these digressions.
breakfast lunch dinner!:happy:
Hi girls, I decided to join you so I check if I eat enough :happy: I need to not loose anymore!
Yesterday I had:
breakfast: decaf tea
10 am latte
lunch: iceberg lettuce mushroom salad with sodiumfree dressing, 2 servings of GF pasta with seed oil and brown sugar, activia yoghurt, decaf coffee
dinner: small piece of white fish baked in butter, 100 gr. rice with leeks and courgette, fatfree vanille yoghurt and a piece of pie.
:agree::agree::agree: Enjoy!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mochagirl
hi all, i dont belong on this thread but just wanted to say well done for eating the way you are! its torturous isnt it! you seem to be eating very boring and basic and not much at all, and im sick of eating full stop:mad: i hope your hard work is rewarding in the end....sending all my pink dust:wave:
Awww...Thanks, jane! We'll definitely take all the Pink Dust you can give us and we're sending you our Blue Dust ten-fold!!! Are you eating several meals a day??? I'm so jealous, lol!
desperate_for_boy, are you only eating 3 meals a day? I say eat 4 b/c you can (and us pink swayers sure can't)! Lots of Blue Dust coming at you too!
Okay, girl swayers...I need to rant for a quick second as I'm having a tough time right now...:sad: I've been in tears the past day. I've been really worried that my pregnancy will be like the others which was terrible and resulted in 15 - 20lbs weightloss in the first 16 wks. I don't have any weight to lose AT ALL this time around and not a lot of back-up nutrients in my body now either. If I don't get preg this next time, I'll really have to evaluate my sway b/c I want to ensure I've got a healthy kiddo. If I didn't have such bad pregnancies in the past, I wouldn't be worried at all. I know every pregnancy is different but my OB is ready and waiting w/my Zofran drip...
I'm soooo hoping next month is it for all of us shooting for Aug! I'm going to BD through O, maybe not have him so shallow a few times and use less RePhresh/Sylk. Rant over...Sending you all lots of :luck: and :HH:
Hello everyone :)
I did pretty well yesterday. :)
No breakfast
Lunch ~ no salt Matzo and strawberry jam, skinless cumcumber and apples.
Snack ~ more matzo and jam... good thing I like that! ;)
Dinner ~ Chicken, white rice and green beans
I tried Crystal light for the first time! I liked it! I have been cautious about drinking it because I am nursing. However we are now just twice a day.
So far today ~
A small glass of CL at its 11:30am... I am soooo hungry!
Out of the Blue ~ I wanted to send you (((HUGS)))!! I am feeling very similar to you. I have lost 5 pounds so far putting me at 110. I am not sure I can go another cycle if I do not conceive in August. I am going to be using refresh and bd'ing when I get my "peak" signal making my cut off close. I think that if I didn't conceive that my sway would not be as good as it is now.
Have a GREAT day everyone!!!
Thank you, Jane! You can have my blue dust too!
Hi indira! Where do you get sodium free dressing from? Thanks!
Today so far, been a bit off the rails...
No breakfast
10 am some of ds2's blueberry muffin(just a tiny bit!)
lunch mum's homemade lentil curry and rice - I had no idea how high in protein lentils are, never mind!!! Also lots of chilli, spices and garlic. Yogurt (needed this as curry so hot!!!) strawberries
Plan to have a low protein dinner, probably risotto with courgette
Ootb, big hugs to you!! I really feel for you, I have felt terrible since knowing I have to do another 5 weeks of this. I think all you can do is make sure you don't lose any more weight and try to maximise your chances of pregnancy whilst staying within the girl rules!!! I'm really keeping my fx for you, xxxxxx
Glad to see so many of you checking in :D
mocha - your diet looks amazing considering you're on holiday, I always pig out on holiday!
Good going Indira, OoTB and happyheart :D
Jane - thank you, you've come to the right place for blue dust. We have tonnes of it :D :D :D
Wow, whadda day! First my boss was made redundant and he phoned to tell us before the official announcement so we spent most of the day speculating what that would mean to us - luckily it doesn't actually mean anything to me except a new boss. Then I left work and collected the youngest 2 boys from their childminder and drove away to collect my eldest from school only to discover I had a completely flat tyre - no idea how that happened in the 5 minutes I was gone! There was lots of waiting around while it got fixed so I ended up taking the 3 boys to Costa for dinner! I've gone a little over on salt for the day but not at all bad considering and it was so tasty :D
Here's my day's food:
Lunch: 2 ww bread, mature cheddar cheese and cucumber. Jam tart. 2 boiled sweets
Dinner: Mozzarella and tomato panini, vegetable chips.
Snack: Tutti Fruttis.
Btw swish and anybody else in the UK - it seems like Waitrose have far less salt in their products! First the filled ravioli and then their cheddar cheese, which wasn't too bad at all :D