Tips to avoid "swaysession?"
My attempt is still 3 months away. I've purchased the Personalized Swaying Plan and have chatted a lot with Atomic regarding my plan (thank you, Atomic!!) to get it just right for me. I feel really good with my plan, and in the end, I know I will have done what I could to try and conceive a girl, and the rest will be in God's hands.
However, the only thing I'm a bit worried about is "swaycession" - getting so obsessed with my sway that I actually undo all the good pink things I'm doing by sending my T levels through the roof. I really want to avoid that, but I don't know how. I'm naturally a very obsessive, detail-oriented person (hello, I'm a boy mom! ;) ) and I don't know how to *not* be that way. It's just ingrained in me. I picture myself going through the swaying motions, tracking things, etc, all while trying to relax, but I don't know if "trying to relax" is good enough for keeping my T levels from spiking (I hope that makes sense).
For example...I keep a daily log of my weight (still trying to lose lots before we start swaying in July), I chart my cycles using temps and CM/CP, I use OPKs, and I keep track of my diet through Sparkpeople.com (which I can access both on my computer and my phone).
At first glance, this may look like highly stressful, obsessive activities, but I am actually more relaxed by tracking these things and knowing what's going on. I LIKE to do these things, and have been doing them for years (well, I don't always track my diet, but I do all of the other things and have always done them). The charting is so simple to me, because I've been doing it for years. I typically don't temp the first 5 days or so of my cycle. If I skip a day for whatever reason, I don't panic. And once O is confirmed by CM dry-up and a few days of high temps, I usually stop temping until AF arrives. So, I basically do kind of "lazy charting," if you will - only charting during my fertile window. And the temping itself is no biggie - I set my alarm every morning for 5:30, take my temp while I'm half asleep, and my therm saves the reading, so I just fall back to sleep and record my temp later. Super easy. As for tracking my foods, I will sit down at the computer before bed, enter all my foods for the following day, make sure it pretty much falls within the guidelines of the LE diet, and then go to bed. The next day, it takes all the guess-work out of what to eat, and I just go down the list and follow my eating plan for the day. I know weighing myself daily is often seen as an obsessive thing too, and I agree - maybe I need to ease up on this a bit. But, as with the charting and diet, I NEED to see numbers on paper, so to speak, because not knowing what is going on (with temps, diet, weight, etc) sends me into a panic and stresses me out - which I'm sure raises my T levels.
So, having said all that, does this look like a typical way where a boy mom who is swaying pink will ultimately fail because I'm raising my T levels through this sort of "swaysession?"
Also, is there anything I can do to kind of "trick" my mind into thinking this is no big deal, or that I'm not really paying attention to my sway, or whatever? I really want to be lackadaisical about this...I'm just not sure how to do that.
Any other tips you can give to avoid "swaysession?" Or anything you can suggest to just "relax and go with the flow?" Or great ways to de-stress? I'd love to hear any suggestions you have!
(Sorry this was so long! Also, I just realized that I'm now stressing/obsessing about stressing/obsessing! LOL! ;))