November 2WW

[Thorz300]

Oh my Babycakes we really are in the same boat, 3 DS and praying for that DD and we are both on cycle day 18.......good luck to us both!!!

[BabyCakesTor]

Oh my Babycakes we really are in the same boat, 3 DS and praying for that DD and we are both on cycle day 18.......good luck to us both!!!

It's nice to have a cycle buddy... I never paid this much attention to my cycle... I mean I was every 28 days to a T and now I'm tracking every little sign going "Oh crap, can i be pregnant" lol I am so scared because this is it... MY LAST CHANCE for a DD!!! Good luck to us and all the ladies hoping for some Pink!

[meeks32]

Hi all, so here I am, officially waiting now. I can't test for 8-10 days, and after POAS like 3-4 times a day with opk's, I'm left wondering... WHAT DO I DO NOW? What do I obsess over to pass the week until I cam test? Diet I guess... Sigh. Please please please catch that egg, I am so over low everything!

How is everyone else going? How many dpo?

[meeks32]

Thanks for all the advise ladies! I have heard that sodium thing might not be as big of a factor as thought before, but I am hung up on it as being the reason I have 3 boys, because have always eaten like atsaukina, chips, popcorn, ramen noodles daily, anything salty and I ate it. I'm not a vegetarian, but I haven't had red meat for 20 years and I only occasionally eat chicken, so I have never loaded my diet with protein, or potassium. Anyhow of the things we are supposed to limit while on the LE diet, the only thing that I ever really ate, and ate in excess was sodium, so I feel like limiting it drastically might really help me. Thanks for the food ideas meeks, I don't really like sushi, what is avo filling? Is it avocado? I thought we needed to stay away from that. I also agree with bythe****** that if you add flavor then you wont miss the sodium so much so I started adding sauteed onions and garlic to my rice and really liked it, but then I read that was a huge NO NO so I got all upset and thought I ruined everything.

Thanks so much ladies for trying to help me out and cheer me up. I am sure we are all on an emotional roller coaster during the 2ww. Part of me secretly hopes I get a BFN so I can perfect my sway because I found out a lot with this first month that I was doing wrong and hopefully it didn't hurt too much (like drinking almond milk the first 2 weeks of my diet, eating garlic and onions, and my ph doesn't react well to rephresh) the other part of me wants the BFP so this can all be over. Hey luckily I have a lot going on these next few days with Thanksgiving so maybe I can keep my mind off of things.

Am I the only one that is going to cheat on Thanksgiving????????

Happy Holidays to all!

On the LE diet no foods are banned, but some of us, like you are IG refugees and can't let it all slide. Onions and garlic I still stay away from or just lower significantly. Yes I meant avocado, and technically that's in the IG no go, but as I said LE diet technically everything is ok as long as you stay in the daily salt fat protein totals. In a sushi roll you would only have 1 thin slice of avo so its pretty much nothing. Like in 2 rolls I have not even 1/5 of an avocado. Remember you need some nutrients to keep ovulating, it's LOW everything not NO everything. ;-)

I basically had the same exact queries and worries as you 2 months ago but pm'd atomic and realised I was trying too hard to do BOTH an IG and a LE sway, which leaves you with nothing to eat. Now I still limit the IG no no foods, but eat them in small amounts.

I can't 100% let go of the whole IG no no food list because it was LOADED with foods I ate regularly and a lot of with ds 1 & 2 (potatoes, bananas, raw tomato, avocado, garlic, onion etc). Low salt also makes sense to me, and protein I got tons of before through things like yoghurt, soy milk amd bread, not just meat. Although I generally ate heathy and limited calories, I took heaps of multivitamins and my go to comfort snacks were Brie cheese or chips and dip, hello salt and fat!!! So that's why I keep some IG ideas in (and I assume why others do, which can be confusing if you are trying to learn the LE diet).

Essentially LE is eating almost anything you want but sticking to 1500-1800 calories a day with those salt protein and fat totals and skipping breakfast, not snacking, and becoming vegetarian are key factors. Obviously those totals do narrow what you can eat, and how much, but its not as bad as the IG diet. There are foods listed on the LE diet that are best cut down or avoided, but atomic tells me she writes this to ensure people don't ONLY eat those things, or eat heaps of them, and as long as those totals are ok, and its not all the time in huge quantities, even those foods are ok.

Link to the diet summary:

http://www.genderdreaming.com/forum/...ad.php?t=16780

[Atsaukina1]

cd8 bfn lol of course how could i expect anything else but man if you stare hard enough you can make yourself see a line uggg

[Northern_Shutterbug]

cd8 bfn lol of course how could i expect anything else but man if you stare hard enough you can make yourself see a line uggg

Yep, I imagine lines too. Its awful. I've also had to start being strict with throwing it away, otherwise I keep going back and see evap lines.

[Atsaukina1]

I was thinking about you northern and if your test got any darker today. keep coming here hoping to see a postive from someone gonna get some $$ tests today since I obviously am a poasholic lol

[Northern_Shutterbug]

Nope, got a BFN on the cheapie one this morning, and postie has still not turned up with the FRER ones.

Boobs are less sore though, and FF is telling me that only 15% of FRER done on 9dpo come up positive.

[Sunflower3]

Bfn for me too this morning. II guess I am really out this month.

[Thorz300]

Sunflower I hope you get your BFP sometimes it can take longer. I don't want to give you false hope, but technically you aren't out until AF is here. I can't POAS until this weekend but my body and mind have conflicting feelings about this. I keep feeling twinge/pain in both ovaries and have since 2dpo but my mind says I'm not pg.....uggghh.

Sunflower you seem to be the furthest on DPO how about everyone else? Asaukina 8 or 9? Meeks? Babycakes is with me at 5 dpo, Shutterbug? Anyone else? I just want to know who is getting close so we can cheer them on!!!