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  1. #11
    Thanks atomic.
    I'm pretty clued on with my food and macros/calories and I always portion out 100g of meat when I prepare my food. So like I said I'll keep meat for dinner and ditch it for lunch. I'm not one to overeat in my meals

    I've managed to stay under 45g protein these last few days from just meat for dinner and the bit of protein in various other foods throughout the day. My diet hasn't been as healthy as I'm used to but that's the point right?!? Lol
    However I've stuck to my calories and my macros





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    Quote Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush View Post
    No BD with first, not darkest. It is your body sending itself a message and it gets the message with a whisper even if it starts yelling later on.
    Haha thankyou! Should get my tests in the mail this week so I'll start tracking to see what my body does.

    Will BD with that first double line just the once.


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    I just wanted to reiterate that atomic means the first positive OPK, not the first one with two lines at all.

    What she means by not the darkest is not to sit around waiting for the test line to be darker than the control line. Many of us will have a double line our entire cycles. Many of us also get a darker OPK after the first positive.

    So for example in this past cycle, I had a positive OPK on CD16 where the test line was as dark as the control line. That was my attempt day. Then on CD17, the test line was actually darker than the control line. Still positive, but if I had waited to attempt until CD17, it would likely have been too late to catch the egg.
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    Just to show what I mean. The top six tests are all negative. They were CD9-CD15. The bottom test is positive, that's attempt day.
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    The bottom one here was my CD17 test, the next day. The test line was darker than the day before, but that doesn't mean that I should have held out to attempt that day.
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    I hope that makes sense? The only reason I keep bringing it up is that a friend of mine had a lot of heartbreak because she thought she was ovulating really early in her cycle because she didn't realize that OPK's aren't "any line is positive" like a pregnancy test.
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    Yep I get what you mean, I've used them before but I guess I've always gone by the theory to get a girl you BD before O
    So just retraining my brain to try this way


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    That's great, keep up the good work.

    99% of the people I get on here are not cued in to the amount they eat and so I have to assume that going in.

    Yes Foxtrot is right, it's not the double lines you're going for, it's the first POSITIVE where the line is as dark or darker than the control. People get faint double lines all the time, I mean the first positive OPK even if the lines get darker than that later on.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lexim View Post
    Yep I get what you mean, I've used them before but I guess I've always gone by the theory to get a girl you BD before O
    So just retraining my brain to try this way


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    BD at first positive OPK IS still BD before O. So if you're a big believer in timing, no worries, it will still be before O.
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    Thanks so much Foxtrot, awesome explanation!

    People have a lot of confusion with OPK just like your friend - they think they're ovulating like 20 times a cycle or on CD 5 or whatever but the test lines have to be as dark or darker than the control.
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    Quote Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush View Post
    That's great, keep up the good work.

    99% of the people I get on here are not cued in to the amount they eat and so I have to assume that going in.

    Yes Foxtrot is right, it's not the double lines you're going for, it's the first POSITIVE where the line is as dark or darker than the control. People get faint double lines all the time, I mean the first positive OPK even if the lines get darker than that later on.
    Awesome! Thanks!
    I absolutely get that! I reckon I would feel mega overwhelmed about the food so I bet it gets hard trying to coach people on that.

    And thanks for the advice re: OPK. I've still got 12 weeks before we try so it'll be good to track until then and it'll give me a better understanding of when I O


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