Diet and cycle...please help

[Hitmebabyonemoretime]

Ya that's pretty tiny - maybe it is the diet. They do say it can wrEak havoc. Taking Any other supps?


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[I've got the blues]

No just the fibre and I only take about half as much as they recommend on the bottle before my meals!!! I have been tracking my cycles for about 10 months, that's when I went off the pill, and they have always been 26-28 days long. This is the first time it has done anything like this! Do you think I should be adding something else?

[atomic sagebrush]

3 meals a day is 100% fine and allowed on LE. It is 2 or 3 meals depending on what works for you.

Sorry to keep pushing you for more detail but I need to know SPECIFICALLY what you mean by "lower limits of LE Diet." Soo many people tell me they're doing LE but then I find out they are eating little but cranberries and rice cakes.

You will O and get AF eventually, sometimes your body just needs a bit of time to adjust. Many people need to simply give themselves more calories to work with. Chicken is really not best for restoring ovulation. It is very rarely protein that is the problem. Plus, protein foods like chicken tend to have very few calories in them so then you end up going over on protein and have little wiggle room for the rest of the day, since things like pasta and rice and dairy have protein as well. Focus on carbs and fat for restoring ovulation.

[atomic sagebrush]

No just the fibre and I only take about half as much as they recommend on the bottle before my meals!!! I have been tracking my cycles for about 10 months, that's when I went off the pill, and they have always been 26-28 days long. This is the first time it has done anything like this! Do you think I should be adding something else?

Try dropping fiber till this rectifies itself.

[I've got the blues]

Thanks atomic, I did drop the fiber when I was sick but went right back on it so I will drop it again! The more detail the more you can help and I'm good with that!! I don't eat a lot of chicken but my family is all onboard with everything we are doing and my DH has been on the no red meat with me so on Sunday's my family makes a chicken or fish dinner with potatoes!( I don't eat fish) During the week I eat a lot of grilled cheese, veg stirfry, noodles with a lil sauce, yogurt, and probably way to much air popped popcorn, I eat an egg salad sandwitch or fried eggs and toast ever 3 days ( will up this as you suggested) I also drink a low fat hot chocolate with cinnamon most nights. All in all I don't think its so bad but I will try any of your suggestions!!

[XXforhubby]

FWIW- I ate a lot of the same foods you listed here (except for the hot chocolate- burned myself out on it with DS2 [emoji6]), and I just got my BFP a few weeks ago. Not sure what we are having yet, but it all sounds good to me! I did have chicken or turkey one meal a day (I was doing Atomic's fertility diet) but only 2-4oz. My husband did the diet with me too and fasted while at work. My DH still doesn't eat red meat! Big difference from when we had our boys!

FX and GL to you? When are you TTCing?


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[I've got the blues]

Congratulations on your BFP I hope you get your pink!!!!! I'm happy to hear someone else is eating the same foods as me. I only have the hot chocolate for the cinnamon (I hear it's good for ttc girl) and also because I NEVER had any kind of chocolate or sweets when I had my boys, I'm a big fan of the salty foods and I always hear "do the opposite as what you did with the boys"! I would be ttc right now if it was not for my AF abandoning me! Any other time in my life and this would have been fantastic, but not when you want to try for a baby!!

[I've got the blues]

pebbles1012 any luck with the diet and with AF showing up?

[Pebbles1012]

Af finally showed up today...52 days! Usually I am 32-36 days. This last cycle I was skipping breakfast till 11:30am. Typical style of eating:Lunch is usually salad and I put cheese, egg, cucumber, etc and no meat/fish or a little, I would snack around 3:30pm on allowed fruit and yogurt or crackers and cheese, and dinner was pasta with vegetables. No snacking. Too low on protein or iron? Calories? I felt full.

I was taking a drink 2-3x a day with fiber and magnesium to help appetite control (helped me lose 5lbs), asprin 3 a week, peppermint tea, and folic.
I have been so discouraged with my cycle being out of wack and now I don't know what to do!
I have a cbfm to help me figure out when to cut off. Doing the opposite of what I did when I conceived my boys which was working out/weights and dtd at ovulation (I know it's not timing but have to try this first). I will be doing more this month as we will try.

[atomic sagebrush]

Thanks atomic, I did drop the fiber when I was sick but went right back on it so I will drop it again! The more detail the more you can help and I'm good with that!! I don't eat a lot of chicken but my family is all onboard with everything we are doing and my DH has been on the no red meat with me so on Sunday's my family makes a chicken or fish dinner with potatoes!( I don't eat fish) During the week I eat a lot of grilled cheese, veg stirfry, noodles with a lil sauce, yogurt, and probably way to much air popped popcorn, I eat an egg salad sandwitch or fried eggs and toast ever 3 days ( will up this as you suggested) I also drink a low fat hot chocolate with cinnamon most nights. All in all I don't think its so bad but I will try any of your suggestions!!

Right kinds of foods, but be sure you're eating a min. 1500-1800 cals, 40-50 g protein, 25-60 g fat