It would be amazing if we all had successful sways - fx!!!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mochagirl
It would be amazing if we all had successful sways - fx!!!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mochagirl
Breakfast: coffee
Lunch: 1/2 bagel with a tiny bit of mayo and a slice of low fat Swiss cheese melted on top, rice milk
Supper: pasta with unsalted butter and parmesan, Nibs for dessert
Snack: strawberries, 16 Salt & Vinegar Pringle potato chiips (that's one serving - pretty substantial and the sodium isn't bad)
Calories: 1360
Protein: 46 (I used real pasta tonight - I guess I should stick with rice pasta)
Sodium: 550.7mg (I don't know how I kept sodium so low even with the chips!)
That bleeding last night really threw me for a loop - it made me feel like the BFP is a sure thing, and that scares me since that's far from the truth. I'm worried I'm going to be even more devastated now if I don't get that BFP that I would have before. I'm so ready to be done with this diet - I even tested again right before I ate supper thinking if I got a BFP I'd toss the pasta and order a pizza instead! :bigsmile:
Yesterday...
No breakfast, not even peppermint tea
Lunch toast and jam, strawberries
Dinner out so really tricky, ended up with asparagus with lemon and Parmesan to start and goats cheese salad with butternut squash and cucumber fir main and a small glass of wine. I don't know if the sodium was ok, I hope so!!!! It was yummy but not many calories today, there was hardly any goats cheese on my salad!
Sounds like you made some great choices for your supper! I'm sure your sodium was fine.
Sorry you got a BFN today mochagirl - I read that it's your wedding anniversary and that you're planning a take-away. I think that sounds like an excellent idea and I hope you have a great evening. We just celebrated 8 years too!
You chose a great restaurant swish, it sounds like the type of girl friendly feast you'd cook up at home for a special occasion!
Today I've had:
Coffees
Lunch: Dairylea light and cucumber sandwich, grapes, 2 caramel rice cakes
Dinner: Same as yesterday - pasta with roasted veg and parmesan. For pudding I had a mini orange and ginger polenta cake. We won them in a raffle on Friday and I resisted but I couldn't see why the heck not - it was such a small slice and I found out the calories online and guessed the protein and sodium but I have loads left for today so I'm sure it's fine :D
I am on CD9 and I'm getting EWCM and some definite tenerness in my tummy - last month I ovulated on CD19. WTF?! This is my first month I've added Saw Palmetto so not sure if that's the reason. Could just be a red herring and not really the build up to O I suppose.
I forgot to say that I lost 2lb this week - I know I shouldn't be, but I was quite disappointed with that! Still, 18.5lb in 5 weeks is good going I suppose. I hope I can make it 21lb (1.5 stone) in 6 weeks.
Yes, I think we'll get takeaway tonight to celebrate our anniversary. We could order Indian and I could get the same thing as last time, which kept within my dietary limits...or I could order a glorious, greasy pizza. I'll see how I feel later today. I do want one big splurge in case I have to do the diet for another month, so maybe today should be the day.
I'm feeling slightly more positive since my BFN this morning. I'm really crampy - much more so than when I get my period. I'm also very nauseous - at first I was chalking it up to being hungry, but now that I've eaten lunch, I still feel sick. I know I said I'd wait to test until tomorrow, but I just know I'll end up testing again later today. I just want to know either way! af is due on Wednesday if I go by my usual 26 day cycle, or Friday if I'm right that O was delayed 2 days. With the strength of the cramps I'm getting I would think either af must be very close or I'm pregnant.
Oh well, off to remortgage my house so I can buy more FRERs :worry: (dh has no idea how much they cost - he already thinks I'm crazy for testing so much, but if he knew how much they cost he'd think I was fit to be institutionalized)
Congratulations on your anniversary too, Zanacal! We haven't done a lot to celebrate since having kids (we don't have any family near by to babysit), so we just order in and watch a movie. DH won't even get lucky since I feel too crampy to dtd. Exciting life, eh?:wink:
Oh he's had plenty of loving already this month mochagirl! Have a good evening and let us know if you test again :D
Very true. I think he's secretly hoping we don't get pregnant this month so he can have another month of sex every day for a week! :bigsmile: Especially since I seem to be one of those women who have no sex drive while pregnant.Quote:
Originally Posted by zanacal
Lol, mocha, I think my dh is thinking the same thing, he actually said that it was working out very well for him!!! I let him know it is not great for me what with the lack of food!!! Happy anniversary, enjoy your take away, guilt free! I still feel very positive for you, don't lose hope yet!
Zanacal, the restaurant was zizzi, it was lovely food but I was SO jealous of my friends pizzas!! I think you are doing well that you are still losing weight, I'm sure you'll reach your target!! Today...
No breakfast, accidentally had 7up that wasn't diet mid morning - hope that doesn't matter!
Lunch toast and jam, yogurt, strawberries
Snack blueberry biscuit
Dinner gf pasta with roasted courgette and aubergine, Parmesan and squeeze of lemon, more strawberries, few tutti fruities
I didn't bother finding nutritional totals for today since I splurged and had a panzerotti for supper. It was sooooo good - I felt full and satisfied for the first time in a looong time!
Breakfast: coffee
Lunch: 2 rice cakes, vanilla ice cream mixed with fresh raspberries in a waffle cone (ds 1 & 2 had fillings done at the dentist today so I promised them ice cream for being brave. Of course, I had to have some too!)
Supper: Mushroom and cheese panzerotti
Snack: Nibs, frozen grapes
I'll be 13 dpo tomorrow. I still have lots and lots of cramps and waves of nausea, but it could just be af causing them. I'm trying to hold onto a wee bit of hope since I think I didn't implant until the evening of 10dpo and apparently it sometimes takes a few days to get a + after that. I'll be testing again in the morning. :fx: After that real meal tonight the thought of eating bland food for another month is depressing....
can't wait to see your update this morning!!!!!! fx!!!!!!
BFN :(. As I said on the 2WW thread, I've been reading lots of stories of women who still get BFPs after 13dpo, but I don't feel like I'm going to be one of them. I'm mentally preparing myself for another month of bland food.
Oh, mocha!! It's still not definate yet. I have never tested before af due so i don't know how many days past it would have been detected but just because you detected your others early, doesn't mean this one will be like that. I'm still keeping all my f and toes x!!!! Console yourself with the fact that I still don't know if I'm in 2ww and you're nearly out of it!!! At this point I feel I have to laugh!!!
Oh, Swish - I know I shouldn't complain when you've had such a crazy long cycle this month - you must be soooo frustrated!
I'm panicking a little bit because I just looked at the calendar, and we're going to be at our family cottage right around the time I'm ovulating this month. We'll be sharing a room with all 3 kids (and possibly one of their cousins), so dtd will not be possible. If af arrives today, I'm screwed for sure, but if she waits to arrive until Friday, I won't actually ovulate until we get back from the cottage, so an attempt might still be possible, though we may have to do abstinence with one attempt instead of frequent bd. The diet's also going to be really tricky while we're there. My brother fancies himself a chef and will be making all of our meals - they are sure to be meat and garlic heavy. He's very sensitive and will be very offended if I don't eat, so I'm not sure what I will do.
Hopefully af won't arrive and I won't have to worry about all of this! I keep telling myself that because I think I implanted very late (right at the end of 10dpo), it's still possible I'll get a late BFP.... How do you wait until af is due to test??? I'm such a POAS addict there's no way I could ever do that!
Don't be silly, you have every right to complain, we all do on this horrible diet!!!! I've always been quite laid back with getting pregnant in the past, not so this time, mostly because of the food thing! So I may be tempted to test early. Is there ni way you and dh could do a quicky somewhere private!!! Would you consider telling your brother? If not, I'm sure you could make some excuse to avoid the big no-no's. Hopefully this is all irrelevant and you'll have a bfp in a few days!! I don't know what to do now, just to wait or continue frequent bding, although we missed last night- there's only so much bding a girl can do!!!!!!!!!!!!
For sure - after 6 nights of BDing (as well as 7 nights before that with me helping dh release), I was SO DONE. I would have been happy if I didn't see another penis for a year! :bigsmile:
You still haven't gotten a definite positive OPK? Has your cm changed to creamy? Today might be a good time to check since you didn't dtd last night so there's probably no semen in there.
Hugs, Mocha! Just replied to you in the 2ww thread. It's not over until AF comes! Was this your 1st attempt? Girl swaying is so rough sometimes...We skimp and and starve and are the walking, hungry dead all day (at least I am since my energy is gone) and then add a bit of RePhresh and other swaying tricks and it's very difficult to get preggers...I'm hoping that we all have little pink beans in our bellies by Aug/Sept. (or sooner!)
I would love to join you guys on this thread b/c I think it'll help me keep focused and inspire me...I hope you don't mind! My 2nd attempt will be somewhere in the middle of Aug. We're still BF DS#2 so I'm unable to take Baby Asprin or Saw Palmetto but I do drink a lot of Peppermint Tea throughout the day. I'm doing things a bit differently than everyone else...I eat breakfast and eat 2 - 3 meals a day but usually eat a light dinner between 3 - 5 pm. I'm hoping this will still sway girl for me. I eat very boring, simple things but I'm pretty good usually about sticking to the diet. Here's what yesterday was for me:
1st Meal:
- coffee w/a splash of rice milk
- 100% cran juice w/fiber powder (I can't quit my cran juice and it helps w/UTIs so I've kept it in my sway)
2nd Meal:
- Air-popped popcorn
- My Girl Sway Smoothie (froz strawberries and raspberries, Psyllium husks, 1 C. of Rice Milk)
3rd Meal:
- Iceburg lettuce and Morrocan Salad (cucumbers, tomatoes, balsamic, grapeseed oil, cumin)
- Lowfat string cheese
- Trader Joe's seaweed snack (ugh...I know these probably have too many nutrients in them but I'm addicted...they taste like potato chips to me).
- a few bites of DH's fruit parfait (left over from our Independance Celebration on Tues.)
- Sugar-free Fiber Choice fiber supps
Total Cals: 1,459
Fat: 26
Protein: 42
Fiber: 54
Sodium: 811
I think today will be similar...I'm struggling w/cutting my protein and I'm thinking more fiber will help keep my appetite low. Hope you all are doing well today!
Looks great, OotB! Good for you for adding so much fiber to your diet - I should try that if I have to continue this diet for much longer.
Yes, this was my first month TTC. I've always fallen pregnant very quickly (even when I swayed unsuccessfully for ds3), but I'm 36 now so my eggies are getting older. We BD pretty much through O to increase my chances of getting pregnant. I've been on the diet since the beginning of May, so over 2 months now. I've lost 15 lbs as of this morning, and am thinner than I've been since I was a teenager (115lbs).
Yes, please joing us OOTB! Your diet looks fab :D I'm taking Chitosan as a fibre supplement but it's really not helping to keep me regular - I never thought I'd miss fruit and veg so much!
My weight loss is not happening as fast now and in the past this has been because I've not been eating enough (I know that doesn't make much sense!). So instead of eating the same amount of calories each day I've tried to have a day of eating more to boost my metabolism then I'll cut back to less than usual for tomorrow and Friday and see if that helps. I still only managed a bit less than 1400 cals today trying to be naughty! Protein is way under 40g and sodium well within limits too.
Breakfast: coffee
Lunch: Low fat cheese slice and cucumber on ww bread. 2 caramel rice cakes. toddler crisps. grapes.
Snack: 2 custard cream biscuits. ww victoria sponge cake.
Dinner: KFC! Large fries and ice cream with diet pepsi.
Lovely to have you join us, ootb!!! Your diet looks great, it does really help to keep you in check to record daily. Zanacal, if that works for you, definately do it!! I don't know much about dieting but weight loss is bound to slow down, at least you're still losing. Mocha, don't lose hope!!!!! Today for me...
No breakfast
Lunch 1 piece of toast with jam and 2 mini White pittas, caramel rice cakes, strawberries, yogurt
Dinner gf pasta with roasted butternut squash, strawberries and meringue, 10 White chocolate buttons!!:bigsmile:
Nice to see you mixing it up a bit swish - it all sounds yum!
Lol, I know I am so boring with this diet!!! Next cycle I shall be mixing it up ALOT so I don't go insane!!!!
I'm starving - obviously my KFC didn't do much for my blood sugar levels, which I guess is a good thing :D
Mmmmm...KFC! I'm feeling a little down today, so I'm having a treat for supper: pesto. The only real no-no in it is garlic, and I've watched my sodium and protein carefully for the rest of the day so I can keep within the guidelines. It's one of my favourite foods, so it will feel like a huge treat! I'll update later with my whole day's menu.
Enjoy mochagirl! I was looking on KFC's website before we went so I could choose what to have. I was disappointed there was no vegetarian option but I don't suppose they expect veggies in Kentucky Fried 'Chicken'!!
I am gonna start doing this to keep myself being really good since I am 3 weeks away from attempt!
Breakfast: nothing
Lunch: Low cal, low salt bread toasted and strawberries with a ton of equal
Dinner: calcium pasta, green beans with a pat of unsalted butter and lil bit of parm
Drinks: tons of great value CL, 2 caffiene free diet pepsi's, and one mix of diet cranberry juice and diet 7-up
Welcome, Emmy! I find this thread is a great motivator to keep up the diet.
You women are AWESOME!!! I’m going to try to wean myself off of breakfast while still eating my last meal around 3-5 pm but I’m just not there yet…
Mocha – I’m like you…I get preg really easily but I just turned 38 so my eggies are a bit older. It really shocked me that I didn’t get preg this last time since it’s been so easy before. I was really deflated when I kept seeing BFNs...I have to keep reminding myself that this time around, I’m swaying so things are different! That is AWESOME that you lost that weight! I’m almost to my college weight of 107 lbs (I’m 110 lbs now). I was 130-something when I conceived both our boys so hopefully it’ll sway well (???). Being this small along w/Vitex and the sway are really screwing up my cycles but I guess that’s a good thing. Just makes it annoying when you want to get preggers NOW! lol
Zanacal - I really want to take Chitosan but I’m afraid of taking it while BF. That’s really good that you’re taking it!! I know exactly what you’re talking about when you say you need to eat more cals…Last summer, I lost 25 lbs and I had to eat about 1500 – 1600 cals to keep losing. I also often did the “calorie zig-zagging” like you…it really keeps your body guessing on how much you’ll put in there and thus, you end up losing more! You’re definitely on the right track, sister!
You’re diet looks awesome for conceiving a girl! WTG, Mama! Mmmm...white choc buttons!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by swish
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Originally Posted by Emmy2012
YAY, Emmy! Nice job!!
It's nice to have more people join us here - it's usually just zanacal, swish and me posting every day. You've caught me on a bad week with lots of cheating, but I'm finding that in general I don't have too much trouble keeping to the guidelines and actually find myself struggling to find ways to add calories to my diet without adding protein and sodium. As I said, I'm being bad tonight and having pesto, but it's just because I expect af to arrive anytime now and I'm feeling down. I figure a little cheat (really just the garlic is bad) is better than having a big steak or something like that :).
Here's my day:
1st Meal:
- decaf coffee w/splash of rice milk
- 100% cran juice w/fiber powder
2nd Meal:
- iceburg lettuce w/Morrocan Salad (left-overs from yesterday!)
- rice cakes w/low sodium hummus
- fiber choice fiber supps
3rd Meal:
- air-popped popcorn
- raspberries and fiber smoothie w/rice milk
Total cals - 1384
Fat - 32
Protein - 43
Fiber - 86
Sodium - 677
Mocha - you've been swaying HARD! I read this whole thread over the weekend to get ideas and you 3 are girl swaying machines! I figured I need to join up to so I could kick it into high gear before Aug b/c if anyone is going to get a girl, it's you 3!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mochagirl
Awww...thanks OotB. Honestly, I've surprised myself by how strict I've been with the diet. I've never dieted a day in my life and normally have NO willpower whatsoever. I'm trying to make up for the crappy sway I did last time (though it resulted in my beautiful ds3, so no regrets - I just want to do it differently this time).
I find that if anything I've relaxed in my view of the diet over the past 2 months. I've found lots of things that feel like cheats without actually being cheats, and discovered that you don't have to have bland, flavourless meals in order to follow the diet. Some of my favourite experiments: portobello mushroom burger, eggplant parmesan, spinach and ricotta cannelloni. The tricks are portion size, fresh ingredients whenever possible, and careful measuring while making them to make sure you don't exceed your protein and sodium limits per portion. I've even been able to sneak in a few chips now and then while still staying below 1000mg of sodium - that feels like a real treat after almost no salt for so long!
Hello everyone! I'm going to be joining you soon:) Hubby and I will be trying for an end of August/Sept conception(as I'm going to a conference in April next year and the latest I want to fly while pregnant is 35 weeks so we have to ttc after Aug 27). So, with that in mind I'm going to start my diet next week :( ugh. I didn't do the diet hardcore last month but it still sucked. Anyway, I think I'm going to cut WAY back on protein, incorporate way more yoghurt/vegies and some supps. And then pray.....a lot;). I don't know if I should exercise or not....what are you guys doing?
I'll be seeing more you guys soon:) kind of excited but also dreading it- LOL
xo
I didn't add exercise to my sway. I just knew I wouldn't have time for the amount of exercise needed, so I figured it was better to leave it out entirely than to do it halfway.
Oh, and welcome, by the way! :welcome:
Yeah that's kinda where I'm at. Although I did nothing at all exercise wise when I conceived 3 boys....so would adding some work? Who knows. Maybe my T levels have dropped over the last 6 years and I'd be silly to incorporate exercise and boost them when they could potentially be lower than even 2 years ago. Ugh. Decisions, decisions. Thanks for the welcome!