my boy sway plan

[gizmo77]

exercise:
3x/week
all 4 sets, 30-45 second rest between exercises, and 2 min rests between sets

1)squats with overhead lifts holding a 20lb weight with both hands: 15,12,12,15
2)push ups: 15,12,12,15
2min
1)bicep curls (holding 20lb weight with both hands) 15,12,12,15
2)planks 40sec, 35 sec, 40sec, 45sec
2min
1)tricep dips: 20,15,15,25
2)sit ups with arms crossing chest: 15,12,12,15
2min
1)lunges: 15,12,12,15
2)leg lifts: 15,12,12,15

diet:
-wake at 7:30am, get ready, eat larabar within 15 min of waking
-get kids ready, feed them
-breakfast: cereal (weetabix with regular sugar(i finally found them!!) with 1% milk, or speciak K, or oatmeal with water (yuck) and banana. on wknds bagel and cream cheese. eat this with 4oz of ground beef or 2 eggs, or 2 slices turkey bacon
-snack: banana (if not eaten for brkfst), 2-3 ox ground beef or handful of nuts, or left over veggies (potatoes, green beans), cauliflower, 4-5 cherry tomoatoes or 5 baby carrots.
-lunch: salad of iceberg, 5 baby carrots, cherry toms, cauliflower. 4 oz ground beef or 2-3 oz with lunch meat (usually turkey) or 2 boiled eggs. PB toast (on whole grain toast 1 tbspn PB..cant live without this now). 8oz v8
-snack: leftover fruit from my girls, and.or banana with fullserving of peanuts and raisins, and 2 beef jerkies and some random veggie (caul;iflower, cherrytomoato, baby carrots)
-dinner: 4oz of meat (chicken or beef) with veggies (bell peppers, onions, green bean,s potatoes (so far every other day), a tomoato based sauce like salsa (with fajitas). i try to limit rice and tortillas/breads but focus on veggies. sometyime si add NYF on meat or potatoes.

lemon water replaced regular water all day.
i could probably add more fruits and vegies. or a variety rather. cant thhink of any ideas

will start ACV at 2 month point (prior to attempt..so save money). will do bsd 3x/day week of attempt, bsf for 5 days prior to O 1x/day, acv 3x/day the month of attmpt.

supps:
prenatal (with ca)
folic acid (1600mg now but will up to 2000mg once i get in the swing of things)
dha
zinc (i havent gotten af yet after that whole l-arg/gelatin incident so if things go well, ill do zinc maybe af-o month of attempt)

dh:
brkfst: cereal (raisin bran or weetabix), bagels and butter on wknd
lunch: a pb&j or lunch meat sandwich (turkey and cheese) with some veggies.
sncaks: banana and granola bar
dinner: as above.
16oz lemon water daily
cut down his coffee from 14oz to about 10 oz (yay!)

dhsupps:
over 50 mens multivitamin
vit E with selenium
b12
zinc
l-arg
ALCAR
folic acid
coq10 (will start at 2 month mark prior to attempt due to money!)

dh works out about 3x/week with about the same stuff as me but with more weights and more reps.

he sits at a desk all day in front of PC and gets up for meetings and stuff but still worried about his jewels being cool enough.

plan to dtd every 4 days starting 2 months prior to attempt, doggie style, may use real EW, dh to consume caffeine prior to attempt, and plan to make out first! haha


any tips overall???

[gizmo77]

when i first tracked, i had about 100g or more of protein, about 2200cal, but was unable to reach my K+ and Na levels according to IG. although i didnt count teh extra salt id add in meals bc i cook for everyone and im not sure what portion of teh salt i measured in *im* actually consuming.
ive gained 2-3 pounds already on this diet (1-2 weeks). but i had also just stopped dieting to lose weight.. as long as i maintin thsi weight or add 2-5lbs ill be okay. as long as i get my boy!!!

still no AF tho!! :-( its been almost 30 days!

[Flava]

I don't know what tip to add I think you are doing real good here!
My DH gets hot to and almost every day when he works so can't do nothing about that.

You waiting for AF now? Did you dtd or what?

[cemas]

very good paln giz. i am going to follow your weight routine.....
do you do all 4 sets of each exercise before going to next or 1 set of each....then break and repeat for 4 sets?

my 2 cents wuld be to continue zinc after O too as it helps implantation i read on IG....

i too stopped gelatin.

[atomic sagebrush]

BRILLIANT! I love your exercise plan!!

With diet, that's the way you do it! I like how you are choosing the nutrient dense foods and getting more "bang for your buck" on calories. Don't worry if you gain a few at the start, your metabolism should adjust esp. with all that weight training.

I would love to see you switch to full fat milk from the 1% but I can understand if you're not ready to do that!!!

[gizmo77]

I don't know what tip to add I think you are doing real good here!
My DH gets hot to and almost every day when he works so can't do nothing about that.

You waiting for AF now? Did you dtd or what?

i plan to dtd in OCT.

well this rcent cycle, i took l-arg and gelatin and it really messed my cycle up..dried up my usualy ample ewcm and delayed my O to probably a week or nothing (since no af yet). i did have some sigsn of O but FF seems confused too due to the weird temps.
IF it only delayed me a week FOR SURE im ok with that as long as my cycle goes back to normal right away and if all goes well ill O during a full moon in oct.

[gizmo77]

very good paln giz. i am going to follow your weight routine.....
do you do all 4 sets of each exercise before going to next or 1 set of each....then break and repeat for 4 sets?

my 2 cents wuld be to continue zinc after O too as it helps implantation i read on IG....

i too stopped gelatin.

no i do one set of squats (15xs) rest 30-45 sec, then do push ups 15x, rest 30-45sec, then do squats 12xs, rest 30sec, push ups 12xs rest 30 sec. etc. until ive done 4 sets of squats and push ups then rest 2 min then the next set. does that make sense?

thanks for tip on zinc!

[gizmo77]

im finding that i have to switch up my exercises tho. im getting use to them real quick so i have to very the actual exercise and the reps. im starting not to feel any "benefit" like even slight soreness the next day.

[Plum3]

Great plan!!

Apparently the degree of soreness felt the day/s after exercise isn't an indication of how effective the workout was. I'm sure this is controversial though. I do a different exercise plan every 2 weeks and find that the degree of soreness lessens as my muscles get used to the same regime.

[gizmo77]

ill try that! thx!