Fit For Future Families - May 2011

jalara

Minni - I'm dying to ask about your wedding dress! Would you be willing to share a link to a picture of it? I love wedding dresses!

carina73

I love my wedding dress. here's my wedding portrait. and at the head table.

nicolek1009

Hi everyone! I just joined yesterday and I am in some serious need of support/motivation. I can't help but notice how friendly everyone is and supportive one another. I hope this helps:)

A lil about me. My DH and I are TTC but I would like to lose some weight. I was recently diagnosed with PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome), have thyroid issues and some other hormone imbalances. Anyone else have similar problems?

carina73

Hi everyone! I just joined yesterday and I am in some serious need of support/motivation. I can't help but notice how friendly everyone is and supportive one another. I hope this helps:)

A lil about me. My DH and I are TTC but I would like to lose some weight. I was recently diagnosed with PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome), have thyroid issues and some other hormone imbalances. Anyone else have similar problems?

Welcome!
I was diagnosed with PCOS in 2003, but in hind sight, I know I've had it since I was 16. I'm currently taking Metformin.

fitterpam

Hey - been swamped at work, getting ready for my trip and putting out fires....I haven't had a chance to read through yet but I will and comment.

As the song says "I've been a bad, bad, girl...." not with a delicate man, but with my food.....This cold or whatever has really messed with my taste buds. Not in the usual cinnamon bark way, but just in a way that everything that isn't chocolate or french fries tastes like paste. So I've been voting for covering my paste in chocolate or chasing it with chocolate or whatever. Last night DH made mushroom sauce chicken with zucchini and stuffing.....I got through about half my plate and that was it....Today at lunch I ate halff a plate of french fries and half my actual lunch....hoping dinner will get better, but I'm already at 1300 cals almost for the day without actually having dinner...........and I left my water bottle at my parents on the weekend so I haven't had enough water either - drinking it by the glass is a pain in the (look at that - I'm a poet ) Tomorrow will be a better day. We're going to my mom's during the day (well DH is, I'll be working) so we'll get it plus I'll be feeling better and everything will be roses and sunshine....LOL

My only saving grace is the amount of yardwork I've also been doing. The next two weeks is calling for rain, so we've been weeding and mowing and edging and weeding and planting up a storm the last week. I'm sure you guys will be seeing more of me next week when I'm all on my lonesome for the week and my DH has told me to stop calling....LOL

jalara

Nicole - welcome!! We' super happy to have you join us! We weigh in each Monday and we all set our own goals for the week.

So - I think we should share wedding photos! Yay! I'm going to share a whole bunch of mine! LOL (after dinner though).

jalara

jalara

So I slept in today and finished being WAY under my calories... and this is what MFP said to me when I completed my day:

"*Based on your total calories consumed for today, you are eating too few calories. Not only is it difficult to receive adequate nutrition at these calorie levels, but you could also be putting your body into starvation mode. Starvation mode lowers your metabolism and makes weight loss more difficult. We suggest increasing your calorie consumption to 1,200 calories per day minimum."

Not a frequent thing for me so I'm not concerned at all, but this is definitely something new for MFP!

AlisaToth

So today was cheat day....and I needed it to be cheat day. I had my follow up appointment and was told that my lab results came back and I have PCOS. I held it together pretty well while I was at the Dr. but when I left it kinda hit me that we are now going to have an even more difficult time getting preggo...I find It so inspiring to see you ladies that also have it be able to function and keep on keeping on with it but now i sorta feel responsible for our "fertility issues"....So any tips or advice to help me moderate. On TOP of all that I am going to have a HSG testing thing done. I'm waiting for my referral to the hospital in the next town over before I can schedule my appointment. The good news is I shouldn't have any time restraints bc their only requirements are to do it within the first 11days of your cycle of abstaining from sex for 2 weeks....I'm on week 14 of abstaining...I think we're clear on that part! :laugh:

I did make it to the gym today...I did 15min of Interval running before (like Kah) my knees couldn't take it anymore, then 10more min on the elliptical...I felt sick to my stomach when I was done...I'll call that a win :drinker:

LOVE The wedding photos idea - Here are some of mine!

kah78

I LOVE WEDDING PICTURES!! As soon as I am on the computer where I have some, and have figured out how to put a picture in one of these thingies, I'll post some too. Meanwhile--everyone who wants to, keep posting. They make me happy...

Jalara--I'm at 1200 calories if I want to lose anything, pretty much, and at that, I still only am supposed to be losing about .8 lb per week. I'm just at a healthy BMI (squeaking into it and hoping for a few pounds of wiggle room as my goal!), and it always squawks at me if I don't eat all of my exercise calories back because it says I'm under the 1200. It doesn't happen often though, so I don't worry about it. In fact, it might help if I did get that message a few more times. Haha.

Did good today with my goals---exercised, drank 8 cups of water (Well, I cheat---I put Mio in the water--can't stand it otherwise.), took my vitamins, and would have been under my cal goal if not for the starburst I found in the bottom of an Easter basket that I was storing away till next year. Popped that baby in my mouth before I even thought twice. FAIL. Oh well. 17 calories over---not too shabby.

jalara

I caved in and had a spoon of PB - it was yummy and it certainly added calories It put me at 1226 for the day, with hardly any exercise calories eaten, but I'm just not feelin it today. Oh well!

Yes - please share wedding pics!

lukimakamai

Nicole- Welcome! There are several ladies on the board with PCOS. You'll feel right at home!

Andrea- I'm sorry about your day. At least now you know and we have so many people on the board to give you great adivse.

Jalara- good for you the change it up and you didn't cave in you meet your goal of 1200 net.

I love the wedding pictures. Here are some of ours. The funny thing is my husband and I got so caught up in the reception we didn't take any posed pictures of just us. I know, how did we forget that?! Just one of those things that we laugh about :laugh: Here are pictures of our bridal party, at the reception line, right after our first kiss, the wedding cake, and my hula for my husband. It was really hard to narrow it down, but these are good ones :happy:

carina73

OMG! AWESOME wedding pictures! You all are GORGEOUS brides!

I love the "yay" pose, the spot light dance, you and DH under your veil, the sword tunnel, getting married on the beach, and the brilliant blue party and your hula dance! SO AWESOME.

I had asked to have a pic of our hands / rings with my bouquet, but photographer forgot. :ohwell:

pixieofdoom

Loving the wedding photos, they even brought a bit of a happy tear to my eye. You all look beautiful and so, so happy

fitterpam

Oh great - now I have to get in on the action....

jalara

Okay Pam - you have to explain the rifle(?) in the last pic!

Ladies you are all so beautiful!

ErinGiam

I love wedding photos! Ya'll look amazing! I will have to share some of mine shortly...

DunnaStunna

Aww the pics are so good! you look great! My hubby and i got married last year, best day ever

Nicole- I have thyroid issues as well and i have a lot of symptoms of PCOS but the docs say i don't have it ? idk. anyway welcome!

fitterpam

Jalara - LOL - My dad kept saying it was a "shotgun" wedding because we were so young and I hate delaying the planning so I pulled the whole wedding together in about 6 months....I'm sure plenty of people thought we "had" to get married....Ha ha....joke's on them......not really.....I really should stop saying that.....

TessaGibson

Hey everyone! I'm usually a message board reader...not responder! So I'm a bit new to this! However, reading through the posts on this particular forum had me soooo interested and excited, that I really want to be a part of it!

My story - my husband and I got married this last October, but have been dating since I was 18. This calculates to almost 9 years together. We are just now discussing TTC. While we haven't started yet, I have some worries that we might face a few obstacles.

I had my last annual exam a couple months ago and talked with my physician about family planning. I have been on some sort of birth control since I was 17... and I initially started taking it because I always had an irregular monthly period. And by irregular... I mean 5-6 months without one. At the time, I took my morning pill and everything seemed fine. I didn't think much of it because when I was taking my BC, I got it regularly. When I mentioned this to my physician a couple of months ago, she seemed concerned that even at 17, I was showing signs of fertility issues. She said that losing weight is one area that I have control over and it may increase my chances of conception.... When she said it in those words "I HAVE CONTROL OVER" -- I thought, time to get movin' lady!

Long story short, I'm trying to prepare myself mentally AND physically for the process. I have already lost about 36 pounds, and still have about 20 to go.

Sorry for the novel! You all have inspired me to become a part of this great group and to share my story... that I haven't even shared with some close friends yet!

kah78

Welcome Tessa! We hope you like it here, and that you don't end up staying long....we like to move peeps along to the pregnancy board as soon as we can!! Haha.

Okay---so seriously, how do I get a picture into this thing? I had to sound like an idiot, but I have no clue.

andreamichelle82

Hi lovely ladies - the wedding pics are gorgeous!!! I have no clue on how to post pics, maybe I will try to figure it later and post some! I'll switch my deafult pic to one of my favs.

andreamichelle82

Hi ladies,

Whoops, kinda large sorry!!!

bissabwell

I don't post very often and, to be honest, haven't been logging in and keeping track of myself for at least the past month or so. I have been crazy busy at work with State testing and writting a HUGE grant application (we find out Friday if we won, fingers crossed!) so I let taking care of myself go by the wayside. However, after recent events, I have a renewed and strengthened committment to losing the weight. Here's what happened...

I went to a new OB back at the end of March. I haven't had a regular doc in a while and needed at least an annual and all that fun stuff. A mom at my school is a nurse for this doc and she spoke very high;y of him. (he seemed nice enough, but I will probably end up using a midwife when we get to that stage) I wanted to know how much weight he thought I should lose, minimum, before TTC and he says, get this, "NONE"

Seriously? I hit the "morbibly obese" range on the BMI chart and he says "I would have no problem with you getting pregnant right now, you'd just be at a higher risk for certain things..." I was a little shocked to say the least, but then I let it go to my head. I currently have no adverse health problems due to my weight so why not, right? If the good doc says it's okay, then it must be okay! All the while, in the back of my mind I'm thinking this might not be the brightest idea I've ever had. Anyhow, after talking to DH about it we decided to go ahead and jump in and being the overly scientific, annalytical person that I am I went right out and bought a BBT themometor and What To Expect BEFORE You're Expecting. Not that I haven't done hours and hours of online research, but there's something in me that likes to have a book in hand when working on a "project." So I starting tracking my BBT with my most recent cycle (2nd since coming off BC), currently on CD22, and so far I haven't had any shift at all. I'm guessing that I haven't O-ed at all.

I know it's typical to have some where you don't but it's kinda freakin' me out a little because I keep coming, in my mind, back to the weight! I KNOW that it's an issue, even if the doc says it's not. And I now KNOW that I can not keep making these excuses for myself. I have to get my a** in gear and I'm ready for the change. I'm hoping that by being more active on the board that I will be more likely to WANT to connect, comment, and be accountable. Thank you for building this community!

Enduranze3

Hi ladies, I was wondering if I can join? A little about me (I'll try to make it short)....DH and I have been married for almost 6 years. I was diagnosed with PCOS about 9 years ago. We tried to get pregnant and couldn't so we attempted to adopt. We had a foster son for a year and a half but he ended up going back to his biological family. Needless to say I took this pretty hard. We then decided to do IVF, got pregnant, miscarried, we did a frozen transfer, pregnant with twins, miscarried, frozen transfer, didn't get pregnant, and finally we did another frozen transfer and I got pregnant. I gave birth to my son September of last year. Well now we want to try again. I stopped taking my Metformin so I will start that again this weekend (not looking forward to the side effects) and I KNOW I need to lose weight. We decided to try the natural way and if I am not pregnant by November 1st we will transfer our last three frozen babies. I would really love to get pregnant naturally and my OB says if I lose weight it will probably happen. I would love to join this group and support eachother through this!!

Enduranze3

BTW, loving the wedding pics!!

kcurtis05

Hi ladies!! I know I have been MIA...I have missed so much! Sorry to those who had a rough Mother's Day. Also, I love the Wedding pictures!!! Keep 'em coming! :flowerforyou:

Minni- I'm with you on slacking in the goal department. So lets get back to it together! Yay, for starting TTC. I was on the Depo for many years (more than they suggest). It took me 10 months to get my period back and here I am 17 months after stopping depo, and I still have not Oed at all! But everyone is different! My fingers are crossed for you!

Nicolek- Welcome!!!!

Pam- Thank you for the Non Mother's day artical! I'm sure I related to it just as much as many others! It also made me start to appreciate being a non-mom a little more. It gave me a little more peace in this very stressful TTC time. I'm sorry to hear that your cold is messing up your taste, even more than it already was. I, also, HATE drinking out of a glass! I don't know why, it just isn't the same! I haven't been getting my water in this week (at all) because I haven't had my water bottle. My DH and I pulled our wedding together in 6 months too! I just didn't see the point to plan any longer. The more you plan, the more ideas you get, and the more money you spend! I really couldn't believe how many people asked me if I was "knocked up." :laugh: Nope, just impatient.

Jalara- We did cupcakes for our wedding too! Yummy! Great job on changing your calorie goal. I wish you the best! I am at 1250 and have the hardest time sticking to it! Like Kah said, I probably should see the "not enough" message a little more.

Alisa- I'm SO sorry! Hugs!

Kah- Good job on your goals!

Tessa- Welcome!!

Andrea- I LOVE the color of your bridesmaid dresses!

AFM- I will post some pictures when I figure out how!

I have been slacking on my goals.... :ohwell:
Weekly Goals (I missed Monday)
---8-12 glasses of Water
---Eat out only once!-(Done Monday night)
---take vitamin
---Get back on track!

Still no signs of Oing this month. I can't wait till June, so we can start the next step; starting clomid. I just feel like trying is a waste of time right now... :frown:

minni2906

No time for posting right now. I will when I get home, if I have time. And I will DEFINITELY post some wedding pictures as soon as I figure out how. Hahahaha. Loooooove all the pictures so far, though!!

andreamichelle82

Okay---so seriously, how do I get a picture into this thing? I had to sound like an idiot, but I have no clue.

Karen, I went to the the Technical Support Section of the message boards and looked for a thread on posting pics, and learned there!

nicolek1009

Thanks for the warm welcome!

Here are my wedding pics, can't believe it'll be 2 years in October! Monday 8-2