So upset! I think I messed up royally and lh surge either today or tomorrow. Advice needed please.

[maidentomother]

Trishy, you've been on the diet since July (or your version if it - that's still pretty WOW, IMO), can I ask how long you've been actively TTC? I.e. how long were you on the diet before you started trying.

I have OCD too, actually, and I totally understand the frequent weighing (I'm the same way with my measurements) and the freak out mindset! I hope you get your BFP this cycle. FX! If I do decide to try this month I will O on the 25th, give or take a day, possibly. Talk about timing! My family does red meat meals on the 24th and 26th and I just won't be eating with them I think. You have great will power to only eat 1/4 of a steak. (Greek food is my fave and I really miss the delicious Greek restaurants in Manhattan...)

[Trishy74]

I just want to say thank you for helping me put things into perspective after reading your post. You are right! It is in gods hands too! I am dieting similar to you, cheats a couple times per week but def watching what I eat more than I ever did in the past like meat proteins. I used to eat hamburgers and pasta with bolognese sauce once a week. I think I've had it once since July! I'm grateful that I found this site to learn what foods are more boy foods than others.

Good luck with your sway and hope you get your girl!

As a half a year swayer, one thing I have learned is not to beat myself up over cheats. Honestly, I now enjoy cheats more than anything. I used to think I would ruin my entire sway, but now I feel that it's what keeps me sane. I have cheated 3 times this week and have no regrets whatsoever! I will be cheating this week with Christmas and gain for New Years. I usually cheat twice a week, but with the holidays I may just have more cheats. I feel that I can't afford to skip a month b/c of cheats. I'm on CD11 (with my first round of Clomid) so I maybe Ov this week and feel that I have done so much and all I can do is trust God. Whatever it's meant to be will be and if I get another boy I will be happy with Healthy. I have been doing LE since June and cheats here and there will not ruin my overall LE diet ( at least I think so lol)
Please don't beat yourself up, enjoy the cheats and the holidays. Relax mommy and everything will be ok. The 1 1/2 lb you gained is most likely due to water weight. There's no way you can gain that in 1 or 2 days.
***Remember that even the most perfect sways fail. ***

[Trishy74]

In all honesty I wanted to ttc in July before I found this site. Had read up on shettles at that time. However my DH was ill and not in the mood so we skipped it that month or did an o+12 which obviously didn't work! Lol. We really started ttc with pos opk in August, September and then had to take October off bc was having major uti issues where dr wasn't sure if it was an infection or something else. So had to skip October. Did ttc in November and at request if my obgyn told to use astroglide when I dtd bc intercourse is painful for me. So not sure if that prevented pregnancy. Each month that we have ttc, we've done two attempts. We had actually done one month abstinence of 3 days per atomic but that didn't work either. I'm awaiting to hear back from my gyno office bc DH had speem tested bc he is a kidney transplant recipient and on lots of immunosuppressants. He's been on them for almost 10 yrs. while he wasn't an issue three yesrs ago with conceiving ds, he was on lots of folic acid and vitamin d with calcium back then which helps fertility. I just started him on 1 mg of folic acid and 2000 units of vitamin d every other day. I'm dying to find out the results for sperm analysis. Last time I thought it was him too but turned out it was my hormone issues that I couldn't get preggo but I've had everythibg tested this time aside from fsh levels and all is coming back good. Even had a ultrasoubd done which proved I'm ovulating. So that's my story and due to DH being on so many meds is why my gyno wanted to test sperm count before we waste do much time being our age and DH health.

Thanks for the kudos about diet since July but to be honest with you I go through phases in my life where I lose weight and gain. Last year at this time I was the same weight I am now but had put on weight bc if darn christmas cookies! I felt like history is repeating itself right now! Lol. Hope not! These darn cookies r so tempting!

Like I said I don't follow le to an exact "t". I basically just reduced my caloric intake, protein intake and focus more on carbs. Sometimes I skip breakfast and other days I don't. Im trying hard not to snack but that usually happens at work between lunch and dinner. I've gotten better with it. I have to say when I see that I've lost weight and feel more confident it makes me want to lose more weight. So that keeps me going. I haven't held this much weight off since I got married 6 years ago. I would like to try to lose 3 more pounds and I will be pleased even more. I miss feeling so confident and sexy in my own skin. Weight loss certainly has helped me with that. When I conceived my son I was about 5 pounds heavier than I am now.

I'm sorry to hear your fsmily has red meat on Xmas. My fsmily usually makes pumpkin raviolis that holiday so I feel ok about Xmas eating that. Just that these darn sweets are tempting me! I took my son to see santa today at my parents development and of course there are homemade cookies there. Ugh! Ate some of them and did well at dinner. Parents were eating turkey chili and I ate pasta with grated cheese and had like a really small helping of the chili. I felt good that it wasn't red meat and was turkey instead. However I really focused more on my white pasta with grated cheese. But then came home and had 3 chocolate chip cookies that I made! Ugh all I think about is the saturated fat and semisweet chocolate morsels being bad for girl swaying! At times I just want to dump the cookies in the garbage! I have a new neighbor who I want to welcome to the neighborhood so I'm packing a box of cookies for him so hopefully I can get rid of some of them! Wishing I didn't double the recipe for my chocolate chip cookies! Lol.

Good luck to you with diet. It's not difficult for me bc as my friends say I've always been able to eat crap and lose weight! Lol. It's when I start eating 3 full meals per day or overeating when the weight starts to stick. As for manhattan, I'm so not a city girl. I only like to go there to see christmas tree. Other than that its just not for me! Lol. Oh and I love Greek too. Gyros are my favorite which I have had but only like 2x in 3 months. Depends where my company is ordering lunch from. I also don't eat the entire sandwich. Weight watchers taught me years ago about portion control and not to let yourself get to the point of feeling so full you feel ill so I've tried to live my life by those words. I usually get told I eat like a bird at meals. But I'm a junk food junkie! That's where my issue lies! Lol.

Anyway good luck with the diet. Hope we both get our girls!

Trishy, you've been on the diet since July (or your version if it - that's still pretty WOW, IMO), can I ask how long you've been actively TTC? I.e. how long were you on the diet before you started trying.

I have OCD too, actually, and I totally understand the frequent weighing (I'm the same way with my measurements) and the freak out mindset! I hope you get your BFP this cycle. FX! If I do decide to try this month I will O on the 25th, give or take a day, possibly. Talk about timing! My family does red meat meals on the 24th and 26th and I just won't be eating with them I think. You have great will power to only eat 1/4 of a steak. (Greek food is my fave and I really miss the delicious Greek restaurants in Manhattan...)

[lovemy2blessings]

Yes at the end It's definitely in God's hands! The only reason why I don't feel guilty when I have red meat cheats It's because I see how my 3 SIL's eat and they all have 2 girls each. They eat everything and seem to never diet, no exercise or potions. I've asked them only and the only pattern I see Skipping breakfast. They are SAHM's and they tend to eat their first meal at 10-11 (that's what they told me). One even told me that she dtd close to Ov straight( so perhaps, abstained and then dtd close to Ov)

[Trishy74]

Hmmm . Very interesting! Just wondering do they work out? I know chasing toddlers around can be a work out itself! Lol. I work 3 days a week and stay home 4 days with ds. I notice on the days I'm home I def eat brekkie later. Thanks for sharing the info. I'm really curious if they work out. I know I just can't find the time for it in my sway bc you really have to dedicate a lot of time and days to it. On my work days I am out if the house for 10 hours do by time I get home I have to feed ds, bath abd hopefully bed but reading books takes forever before bedtime and then I'm ready for bed myself! Lol.

Yes at the end It's definitely in God's hands! The only reason why I don't feel guilty when I have red meat cheats It's because I see how my 3 SIL's eat and they all have 2 girls each. They eat everything and seem to never diet, no exercise or potions. I've asked them only and the only pattern I see Skipping breakfast. They are SAHM's and they tend to eat their first meal at 10-11 (that's what they told me). One even told me that she dtd close to Ov straight( so perhaps, abstained and then dtd close to Ov)

[Mrsandmama]

You have put me in the mood for x-mas cookies! I think I might just have a couple tonight with dinner and not give two craps about it "ruining" my sway! No worries mama! We ALL have our "cheat" days or a couple of days every now and then!

[lovemy2blessings]

One of my SIL fell pregnant after 2 months of buying her Treadmill. I asked her if she used it daily before falling pregnant she said "5 days a week" , but didn't change her eating habits.

[Tomgirl]

This post made me laugh cause here I am CD11 and will Ovulate probably within this next week and I CHOWED on Carne Asada for dinner and it was soooo good! I didn't care if ruined my sway but figured it wouldn't since I hadn't eaten since 9am and worked a very physically demanding job and wasn't able to eat until 6:30 and was about to collapse from needing food so MEAT it was!!! I also drank 3/4 of a champagne bottle last night cause well I said to hell with it and got drunk and then attacked (in a good way) my hubby. haha so we all need a minute with these sways. The next few days will be challenging but I figure I will do my best and get some long walks in to help off set the food and alcohol. I can skip until later in the day but xmas day champagne is a must in our family! Good luck ladies, here is to our BFP's in the new year and hopefully girls.

[Trishy74]

Lol! Happy you enjoyed your meal. I guess we all need a cheat here and there. However my cheats have continued with 4 cookies yesterday while eating lunch. I didn't realize semi sweet chocolate chips are made from dark chocolate. Just found this out last night and here I've been eating chocolate chip cookies! I read somewhere that atomic states expensive dark chocolate is the worst so that made me feel a bit better bc I used nestle morsels and they are definitely not high end chocolate! Anyhow my lh surged a day earlier than expected so what will be will be.

I agree here is to our bfp this month and hopefully getting out little ladies!

Eta: I'm happy to say that I lost the pound and a half I gained! I feel much better now. Guess it was just water weight.

This post made me laugh cause here I am CD11 and will Ovulate probably within this next week and I CHOWED on Carne Asada for dinner and it was soooo good! I didn't care if ruined my sway but figured it wouldn't since I hadn't eaten since 9am and worked a very physically demanding job and wasn't able to eat until 6:30 and was about to collapse from needing food so MEAT it was!!! I also drank 3/4 of a champagne bottle last night cause well I said to hell with it and got drunk and then attacked (in a good way) my hubby. haha so we all need a minute with these sways. The next few days will be challenging but I figure I will do my best and get some long walks in to help off set the food and alcohol. I can skip until later in the day but xmas day champagne is a must in our family! Good luck ladies, here is to our BFP's in the new year and hopefully girls.

[Tomgirl]

Hope you catch your eggy!

Semi sweet chocolate chips are only like 46% so not dark at all. Atomic is talking about the good stuff like 60 or 70% and up which is what I love but have stayed away from. Cookies and cookie dough are not high in nutrients so I think your probably just fine, as long as your not eating 2000 calories.