Fit For Future Families 2

Jalara~ I totally forgot about our agreement before dinner last night, but I am completely with you tonight!! 10 of each before touching the plate! LOL we can do this together! :bigsmile: :flowerforyou:

Also, I have to share that I have been cutting back on my weighing in. I was getting a bit obsessed and probably jumping on the scale a good 2 times a day. I know that it was not accurate measures of progress; I guess I was just curious. So I put the scale up on the linen closet on the top shelf so I have to actually get it down to weigh in. But curiosity got the best of me today after my great loss from Monday and I got it out again today just to see what was going on and....down another 1.6 pounds from Monday! That's crazy and completely not believable. :noway: We'll see what I'm at on Monday... Just thought it was weird and had to share. TTFN

LOL, Alisa. Your TTC stress dreams crack me up. I wish I would have pregnancy dreams with that much detail. In mine, I'm either pregnant or I'm not and that's usually when I wake up thinking "I have to temp right now!" only it's 2 am and way too early for that.

Ah, OK, that makes more sense. Though now I'm thinking, you do it before CD 10 if you don't have to? :blushing: :laugh:

Does anyone know the precursors for gestaional dabeties? I'm concerned about that.

Being pregnant.

Seriously, though, there's a reason they screen every woman for it, I don't think it really has a rhyme or reason. I've had three friends treated for gestational diabetes in the past year. Two were overweight and one weighed less than I do now when she was 7 months pregnant. She's also a vegetarian and cooks everything from scratch.

Out of curiosity, I Googled. Risk factors include being over age 25, being overweight, and having a family history of diabetes or a self history of pre-diabetes, also people of certain racial backgrounds are more often diagnosed (African American, Native American)

I know some women who are so afraid they will have GD, that they follow a GD diet as soon as they find out they are preggo. I have been watching my sugar intake, and am considering trying to follow the GD diet a little, but not 100%. The fact that anything with lots of sugar (ice cream, candy, pie, etc make me super sick right now is a blessing I guess)

Mellie13 - What are you referring to when you say you got a gazelle? All I can think of is an antelope!

haha your question made me cross the dicussions of BDing and the antelope and I just thought of a sexercise machine LOL

AlisaToth: Your dream made me think of this show i have recently become addicted to "I didn't know i was pregnant" but thanks for sharing!

I've also been having strange dreams about being pregnant. Last night I dreamed that Julia Roberts asked me to be her surrogate and invited me back home with her for lunch and while we were there she mentioned that she didnt want to risk another PG because of her age and she was packing for the beach and all i remember last was beach flip flops in her suit case and i woke up. WEIRD!!!

Keeping my fingers crossed for you kt4au! Not to get your hopes up but that sounds about right. Either way, you're going in the right direction, if you're preggo that's awesome! If not (:frown:) then you're going to the fertility doctor who will hopefully help GET you preggo!

So...hubster is working late tonight...AGAIN... (yay for being home for two weeks...and then putting him on nights so we have to make lunch dates just to see each other!) and my son's soccer coach just called and said practice was cancelled...so it should be a pretty relaxing evening...I haven't decided what i'm going to do for dinner, but i think i'm going to take the dog for a walk and have the boy ride his bike along side. The weather's been so nice I hate to waste it!

Good luck kt4au! My periods have started doing that since being off of birth control and it usually freaks me out to the point where I convince myself that I'm actually really pregnant and need to test. If you don't get your BFP, I'll be curious what your doctor tells you about that.

Hi again, ladies! Just fyi, I changed my username; I used to be Jkel but decided I needed a change. I'm sorry it's taken me so long to post again. I keep the page up while I'm at work and refresh every so often to keep up, but I always feel like I don't have time to write everything I'd like to in the 4 hours I'm at work (work clearly interferes with life, lol).

I'm not doing very well with weight loss. I can't seem to get below 178.4. Whether it's bad days of overeating a bit or possibly building some muscle, I'm not getting the scale to move very much. It's pretty discouraging. I'm a member at Curves, and I signed up to do this weight loss challenge thing along with 16 other people or so. Essentially, you pay $5 to enter, and whoever loses the most weight wins the pot of money. The rules are that if you gain weight you have to pay $1, if you don't get weighed every Friday or Saturday you have to pay $1, and if you don't come at least 3 times a week you have to pay $1. So hopefully the threat of having to pay more money would keep us on track, right? Sort of. I had to pay $1 last week for gaining half a pound, although it had to be my clothes because I was under the previous week's weight when I weighed myself at home (without clothes). Such a bummer. I'm afraid I'll have to pay again this week because of some bad eating choices while out of town with my husband over the weekend and a few bad meals during the week. Although I've reached my goal every week of working out at least 4 times, I'm not making too much progress. I'm thinking about making some more drastic dietary changes in addition to counting my calories, but I'm nervous that I won't stick with it, and then I'll end up with a bunch of groceries that I may never eat (this has happened before, lol). I don't know if you guys have ever heard of The Daniel Fast or The Engine 2 Diet, but I would probably want to do something similar. (They are fairly similar but have a few notable differences, but they are essentially plant-strong eating plans - no meat or dairy in both, Daniel Fast says no sugars except those naturally occurring and no bread [only unleavened], Engine 2 says no oils, etc.) My plan is to look at some recipes tonight and make some meal plans before going grocery shopping tomorrow.

In TTC-related news, AF is about 4 or 5 days late at this point. This cycle has been confusing because I wasn't sure when I O'ed, and we might've done a bit of BDing right before, if the OPK was right. (I'm having trouble trusting the OPK though because of the circumstances with it, long story, lol). However, if the OPK was correct, I got a positive on the 15th. But I was supposed to O on the 5th and AF would've shown up on the 19th. But if I in fact O'ed on the 15th, then I'm not late. But this week I've had some PMS-y symptoms (severe irritability [poor DH], very emotional, cramps on Wednesday), but I've also had a bit of nausea on a couple of days, and that is unusual for me. So I'm not sure how to read any of the things my body is doing, and it is getting quite frustrating. I believe the chances of me being pregnant are slim, but I'm having trouble not getting my hopes up. AF is probably late for other reasons. DH doesn't really want me to be pregnant because he'd like to plan better for it to happen, but he said he will be excited when I am, even if it is now. I feel like he changes his mind about kids every other day; it's hard to keep up. Anyway, in the event that AF continues to be a no-show, when should I test in order to get the most accurate results?

I love being a part of this group and all the information and encouragement that you ladies give to other members! Thank you so much for all you share. I'm hoping to get in the habit of signing in when I'm home and have more a chance to write.

I'm glad I'm not the only one, LittleSpy! My DH has never been particularly enthusiastic, but some days he seems more open to it than others. He definitely wants to avoid BDing when I'm O'ing, that's for sure. I think he is under a similar impression as yours might be - that it will just magically happen sometime, whenever we are ready or accidentally BD during O. I don't think he realizes how difficult it may be for us to conceive (we have no idea since we've never tried, and he probably isn't aware of statistics on it), therefore we should wait till it's the perfect time. But what if we start at the perfect time but don't conceive for months? That would then be an imperfect time, according to such logic, because then the due date would fall later, which may not be within the time period he was hoping for (based on possible deployments and whatnot). So confusing.

Side note, LittleSpy, I noticed when looking at your goals that we have the same birthday! :happy:

AnewJess & LittleSpy - I learned right away that my dh was...to put it nicely....clueless about the whole TTC thing. I think a lot of guys think that all they have to do is stick their weiner in :laugh: But little do they know, there's a LOT more that goes into it (no pun intended) for the whole TTC process. Especially if there are other factors involved making it more difficult to conceive. When ya "need" it around that special time of the month, ya just have to tell them...say "it's baby making time!" hehe

I am so over my calories today and I haven't had dinner yet. YIKES! Depending on the weather, I might go for a long walk with the dogs or do some stepping.....it's a pretty lousy day emotionally. IF...and I mean if I ovulate this cycle, it is supposed to happen this week - so far everything's looking good. That would be a true blessing... not for this cycle because I don't think hubs is up to it just yet (and the wound kind of scares me) but hopefully next cycle will be right on target. I have another 22 lbs to lose before I reach my average weight from when I was 15-19 (around the time that the PCOS started playing games). - another 30 below that is my lowest adult weight (19-21).

I'm healthier than I was either time though so I think a pregnancy would go well now - healthwise....much better than if I'd been my old weight.

LittleSpy - Job well done!!! That's basically what you'll have to do every month, since most guys are just plain clueless.

I am so over my calories today and I haven't had dinner yet. YIKES! Depending on the weather, I might go for a long walk with the dogs or do some stepping.....it's a pretty lousy day emotionally. IF...and I mean if I ovulate this cycle, it is supposed to happen this week - so far everything's looking good. That would be a true blessing... not for this cycle because I don't think hubs is up to it just yet (and the wound kind of scares me) but hopefully next cycle will be right on target. I have another 22 lbs to lose before I reach my average weight from when I was 15-19 (around the time that the PCOS started playing games). - another 30 below that is my lowest adult weight (19-21).

I'm healthier than I was either time though so I think a pregnancy would go well now - healthwise....much better than if I'd been my old weight.

That would be great if it worked out that you could BD this cycle. A wound would totally freak me out. I don't do well with medical, wound, ouchie type things, at all! I was even afraid to get a pedi a few weeks after my c-section because I was afraid they would hit my leg the wrong way and it would cause me pain (even though the incision wasn't painful at all). I'm a wuss :laugh: