Diet and cycle...please help

[atomic sagebrush]

I'm just getting used to the diet, I hope in my case it's just a minor tweak in cals. I'm also doing cardio, which I tend to eat what I burned ykwim? So I think I'll take my whopping 340 cals I burn and keep them in the bank.


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340 cals sounds like not a lot but from your body's perspective that is like a 1/4 drop in the amount of cals you had coming in. HUGE difference.

[maidentomother]

It's crazy; six weeks ago I stopped swaying pink, resumed a nutrient rich diet high in cals, snacking, vitamins, lots of fat, amd I'm gaining weight...and I'm currently having my longest cycle and most delayed O ever. I think very often just a change in diet, especially extreme/abrupt, can impact our cycles, regardless of the actual diet and our weight. But I suspect some of us also have particularly narrow weight brackets in which our fertility functions optimally, and losing or gaining evrn minimal weight beyond those margins shocks our bodies.

[Hitmebabyonemoretime]

I do agree with you guys - I do; I just wanted to try a week or 2 at a lower cal, or stop eating my calories (like sometimes i think I'd eat hat 340, bringing my calories up to the 2000+ mark.
And I guess I'm guilty of comparing myself to other swayers who are burning a shit ton of calories and still "eating them" and im also comparing to myself! I was hoping to get down to at or below the weight I was when I conceived ds4. I did get down to 121 for a bit, and quickly went up to 124, then I think I might have been 130 when I conceived. I'm 130 now, and would love to see myself at the 125 mark or lower. I'm 5'2 so even that isn't very skinny for me.
But about the alternate diet; I don't have a whole lot of time left; I've read over a bit of it and it seems in some ways more challenging; I'll have to read over it again to get s better grip on what I should do.


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[skillet04]

I find the atomic fertility diet to be challenging to implement as well...ive got a lazy 13 yr old ds im trying to home educate and a high needs, fussy, rarely naps, wakes every 1 to 2 hrs during the night 6.5 mth old ds....so if it isnt grab and eat food im either so eating things i shouldnt (too many processed carbs a no no with pcos or granola bars or premade atkins shakes...etc #soneedapersonalchef

[Hitmebabyonemoretime]

Lol yes to the personal chef!!! [emoji119]


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[atomic sagebrush]

I wish I knew how to do things like start marketing meal replacer shakes, I think that would really help people on the PCO diets to have something that isn't heavily fortified but still easy to do. In my next life LOL

[atomic sagebrush]

Skillet - what about something like cheese ****s or plain yogurt with fruit???

[skillet04]

I do make DH buy me cheese sticks and sometimes he buys me yogurt but unless I'm there to pick out the maple hill creamery kind that has the full fat, DH goes overboard and if I say strawberry he buys 10 different brands all in the strawberry esque family. Always good for a laugh my hubs

6/2011-4/2012 I was fasting 2 days a week ....would only have coffee at work with creamer .... And I noticed my cycle was "regular" ,...I was single at the time so not dtding and don't chart because wake temps low....but I didn't demonized any food..like processed carbs and still cycled....again since not charting was not sure if ovulated though,...but what I found interesting was that on 5 days a week I could eat any thing and any amount and cycled....seemed strange with cystic ovaries....I also went on 2 hr bike rides once or twice a week. (I was recovering from a divorce...the fasting and long bike rides allowed plenty of time pouring my heart out to Adonai. )
I do so often find myself wishing I could eat processed carbs off the store shelves and still ovulate....I know my mom is a red meat eating lady and sweets and no dairy as she doesn't like that.....and she had two children, both of us girls
Ah the problems only those with cystic ovaries face....
So glad others are here to help with the emotions and practicals

[atomic sagebrush]

A lot of people find that fasting helps with the PCO. I am hoping tht the overnight fasting will help normalize your cycles too.