Fit For Future Families - April 2011

Yeah - the sugar things are the hardest for me to break for sure (as I finish off my snack of speckled eggs).

Obviously, I'm trying to go with less wheat (baby steps, I've gone to Rye instead of Wonderbread).....and I picked up the ezekiel bread.....Now that I found it once, it's EVERYWHERE!!!! LOL I am having trouble finding appropriate dairy choices to be honest that I like. I tried the organic stuff and it's too bitter. I have moved away from the non-sweetened kinds (Source, Silhouette,etc) because of the sweetners and because of the fact that I think it's contributed to the infections.

I found coconut oil and got it right away, I don't think it was $15.00 though....but then it's not organic either...I figured if I didn't like it I wasn't going to do the organic kind. The next version might be more, but I honestly have to use less. To do most things is like a tsp for both of us, I'm always amazed at how much it melts and liquifies.....the bottle we bought two months ago is about 3/4 done. I do still use the olive oil but only for light heat cooking or salads. And a bottle of organic olive oil just cost me $22.00 and will probably last me about the same amount of time.

The biggest adjustment for us has been getting us both on board. We went grocery shopping on Friday and DH is still saying, well we can just do that up in Canola oil.......*sigh* And I should be eating more raw nuts - someone else brought that up today too......

We're looking forward to when the farmers markets open because I'd love to find a local organic CSA and almost never have to step into a grocery store again!!! I live right next to the "vegetable basket" of Ontario and you'd think it would be easy to find, but no, it's not!

I will be doing a re-order of my meat tonight - we have a local butcher that delivers directly to our house, vacuum sealed frozen cuts (we get to choose which). It's a flat fee for 10 months and the meat usually lasts us 18. It's actually going to cost us less money to order through him than to buy at the grocery store and the meat is much better quality (AAA Alberta grain fed beef, Ontario grain fed air chilled chicken, Ontario grain fed pork - all of which is hormone and steroid free). I don't know if that qualifies it to be organic, but it's as close as I think I'm going to get on a large scale. We're going to stick to cuts of meat rather than processed meat (so rump roast rather than sausages) since I'm on an anti-pink slime kick right now and it's the only way I can guarantee it without being in the processing plant (which is NOT my idea of a good time).

I love Salsa Chicken. I do the same thing, but with Pork. Then I make zucchini chips and spaghetti squash to go with it....mmmmmmmm

MrsHinds - LOL I used that technique to help a friend stop talking with her mouth full by pointing out her nephew (who is almost 2) will soon be learning about manners and would have no issues with telling her it was rude......LOL Good for you for getting into diet mode though :P

I AM ITTCCHHHYYY!!!! LOL Okay on to more important things

Dragon - there are lots of symptoms of PCOS that aren't really fertility treated......I actually was diagnosed not because they thought we were trying to get pregnant, but because I had period that went from late April until September in 2002 - the doctors were worried about anemia more than PCOS. I agree with Jalara that fertility is hugely impacted by what you do and how your body's hormones are balanced - those including the reproductive hormones (estrogen, LH, progesterone & testosterone) as well as the other hormones (insulin, thyroxine, endorphins, growth hormone, epinephrine & glucagon). Luckily, these hormones are also related to weight loss - they need to be balanced for it to all work. Eating clean can help anyone. Paying attention to your hormones and how things affect you would help....those with PCOS just have higher sensitivities to the imbalances.

Besides looking at the "conditions" that you may have, start looking at the trends that seem to recur in your charts over and over - do you have erratic cycles, do you find you get run down more than most at specific times, etc - by working on the trends, you can start to discover some of the underlying causes and then you can try some of the home remedies and see if they work, or go to your doctor with concrete evidence that there is something amiss that is not really related to fertility, but if it is holding you back it can be corrected prior to the year!! And you are definitely not alone :flowerforyou:

Luki - AWESOME!! Glad it's reinvorated you!!

Now I am off to scratch myself into oblivion!! Just kidding. I did find two more little patches of the dyhidrosis ezcema on my feet today and they are uber itchy (one I didn't catch until I had scratched to oblivion.....I'm thinking that it is related to the effects of the clean eating and getting out the toxins....so for now, I'm going to treat the surface itchiness and see what happens. It's not dangerous and my family doctor isn't back for another week and a bit. Hopefully by then things will be calming down and going away and my body owuld have fully adjusted to the new clean eating....although now I'm a little worried about my sugars again....they were a little high on my last panel and someone today mentioned that diabetics have a strong infection rate......and that eczema is sometimes linked to sugar levels......I had some of the patches before I started in on the Easter candy, but that could be making it worse.....it's almost all gone, thank goodness, I might drop the rest off with my parents tomorrow!!!

Thanks for checkin in Angel

Karen - I didn't even see your post yesterday (looks like my long rant was being written while you did). Don't be hard on yourself. We've all been there (and I'm not sure I could have avoided the strawberry pie either!!)

I'm drinking the gallon of distilled water over today and tomorrow see if that helps with "toxins" and I've been using Eucerin for the itchy skin (husband calls it Lucifer lotion - he can't remember...I hope it's not Lucifer lotion) and am still as itchy as all heck!!! My dad has constant eczema, but it is a different kind. I read an interesting study yesterday on the links of father of women of PCOS. They have a higher risk for cardiovascular problems (heart attack/stroke/etc.). I found it interesting cause my dad had a major stroke two years ago at the age of 54. (Evidence for increased cardiovascular events in th... [Hum Reprod. 2011] - PubMed result www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) I'm actually not too surprised since men with diabetes are at a higher risk for the same events and diabetes has a genetic component (passed from father to daughter, up to 100% of the time) Since PCOS, specifically the IR component, is a precusor to diabetes, it would make sense.

As you can see, been doing my research.