Fit For Future Families - May 2011

I missed you ladies too! One of my goals is to log on here every night or at the very least pop in on my lunch break and at the very least keep up with all you ladies....I'm REALLY needing some accountability. I logged my food today! My trainer doesn't want me worrying about counting calories too much as long as i'm eating "clean"...so I've decided not to count my fruits and vegetables unless I add something too them (i.e I ate a raw avocado for lunch today so I didn't log it, but i'm eating roasted artichoke hearts with garlic and olive oil for dinner so i'll count that)

I actually forgot to put my week's goals on the last post so here they are....:

1. Drink 8 oz of water everyday (gotta work my way back to 10)
2. Hit the gym at least 3 times this week
3. On days i don't go to the gym do 15 push ups (at least 5 regular) and 3 sets of planks
4. Log all my food
5. Keep up with everyone (including getting to know those that I don't know very well yet)

P.S ALL YOU PREGGOS THAT ARE STALKING THE BOARD WE MISS YOU!!!!!

Jessica - the walking video has a girl doing low impact that you can do if you need something a little less intense - those are great videos! My mom and I used to do them when I lived at home. My mom lost 10 lbs using them.

My goals for the week are 1 - drink 8 glasses of water 2 - track all my food 3 - try some light walking

Thank you guys so much for all of the encouragement and well wishes. We are going to the OBGYN on Thursday to discuss TTC with my doctor. My DH is going with me to hear what he has to say. I have to be careful b/c I have menstrual migraines and they are pretty severe. My birth control and other meds are what control them. However, all of the meds I normally take are no-no's for pregnancy. We are curious to see what he will recommend. I am a school teacher so we are waiting til school is out to go off the meds so it won't interfere with my working. Soo... all of that on top of the back injury is really frustrating. Ugh...

On the plus side our romantic weekend was amazing. We went to Asheville and rented a really sweet little cottage with only internet to connect us to the outside world and it was awesome! We had a hot tub so what else do you need! Saturday we slept in and went to a little locally owned restaurant called Tupelo Honey and shopped in downtown, then toured the Biltmore House and their winery and followed all of that with a great dinner at PF Changs. Sunday we got up to eat breakfast and were five minutes from leaving when I fell. So we spent all of Sunday in the ER in Asheville. I have to say that despite the pain I was in, it was still nice to be with my husband all day. It was such an amazing, sweet, and loving weekend until then. I feel bad that most people just hear about the fall!

Thanks again for the encouragement and I look forward to getting to know all of you ladies as well.

Mission - sounds like an awesome weekend. LIke Luki, my cousin is a teacher and she had both her girls in May/June. The added bonus was that her husband is a teacher too and so they both had the summer off for the first few months of the girls lives. I keep telling my sister (also a teacher) that when she and her boyfriend decide to start a family they should do it then too....It's such a big deal to have both of you home especially those first few sleepless nights.

AFM: Well that was certainly election - lots of changes in our government last night. On a related note, my cousin (same one as above actually) said something the other day that I haven't been able to get out of my mind. I know she didn't mean anything by it, but I was at a loss on how to respond (especially since everyone knows we're TTC). We were saying how time flies because they've been in their house 4 years now. She then went on to say that she didn't even have her two girls back then and can't understand how some people would live without children......uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...................yeah................I don't think it was aimed at me, but still......I was speechless....

Pam- WOOOOOOOOOW that is ridiculous. As you said I doubt she even realized the affect it would have on you. Some people just don’t fully think out how their comments relate the people around them. My friend that is about to have a baby said one the other day that I just can’t get out of my head, “In the summer, of you get that puppy, you can walk her while I push the stroller.” It was a very low blow coming from her since she and her husband weren’t even trying when they got pregnant. I feel for you- I’m so sorry!!!

Jessica- I'm sorry about the BFN. good luck with the goals today!

I am not really too picky about when the baby actually comes as far as teaching goes - I just know that if the migraines start when I go off the meds I would not be at school and I have already missed a week this year for my back. It is my busy time of year at school and I think our principals might pass out if I was gone. I don't think I said before but I teach 8th grade history and Yearbook. We have a very large school for our area so our yearbook is quite the undertaking. May is our time of distribution for them, selecting the new staff, and as the yearbook advisor I also help to plan and coordinate 8th grade day and the end of the year slide show. That is on top of just teaching, grading, end of the year testing and everything else. Hoping that going off the medicine in the summer will help me to be somewhat normal by the time Sept rolls around and we start back to school.

I saw someone posted about donuts earlier. Ugh.. it is teacher appreciation week at school and they have 6 boxes of Dunkin Donuts sitting in our teachers lounge. These are my weakness!! I actually had the forethought to walk back to my room and look up the calories on them before I selected, but still... looks like small portions for dinner tonight!

Hi Girls! So a big missed you to all those still here (wished you were on another thread the whole time I was gone) and a Hello to all the new people!

So there’s no way I’m going to make it through two months of posts, I did stalk the thread on occasion but really haven’t had much time. So this post will be mostly letting you guys know where I’m at.

On the TTC front, I’m on CD27, and according to FF I O’d on CD14 which means I’m back to normal. The past three months I’ve been having 33-35 day cycles when I was a solid 29-30 cycle kinda girl. So some of you already know I had an IUI in Feb and took a month off in March, but when I was ready again in April I called the clinic they told me that I was too late in my cycle. So apparently my clinic takes an appointment on CD3 to see how many follicles you have (yes CD3, while your bleeding and all!), but since they didn’t do this for me the first time and never told me, I called in on CD5(day after AF left) and was too late. So now I’m patiently waiting for AF to come, and as I sit here typing this I feel the pre cramps happening, hoping that it comes sooner than later so I can book that appointment. Of course since I O’d earlier than the past couple months DH and I weren’t prepared.

On the weight loss front, I’ve been doing alright actually. I will have hit 20lbs in a year, which doesn’t sound like much but it’s much better than gaining 20lbs (which is what I had been doing the past couple years). I’m 10lbs away from having a healthy BMI, and would like to loose an additional 5-10 vanity pounds after that. I just had to go shopping for new pants this past weekend because I went down in size! I really needed jeans and got a great pair of 29’s! Can’t wait to wear them to the concert tonight!
I am debating whether or not to renew my gym membership or not. If I renew it needs to be for a year to retain my promotional price, but I’m afraid that I wont use the gym as much if I get preggers and then it’s a waste of $. I’d really like to subscribe to this MMA gym they have in my area, and I can get a 3month membership to all the kickboxing, strength training and yoga classes. So what should I do girls? If I try out the new gym for 3months I loose my discount rate at the other gym and would need to repay the registration fee upon re-subscribing, not to mention the MMA gym is more $. Or should I stick with my regular gym? Help!

Ok, wow that was a long post, sorry. Talk to all of you later!

Ashley,

Hi all, hope you feel better soon kah. I've been out of the virtual world too as we are thinking of adopting a greyhound and trialled him at home this weekend to see if he can get on with the cats. Exciting times!

Even more exciting, after years of nothing I had a bit of spotting yesterday! May not mean anything but it's the most hope we've had in ages. Maybe normal cycles could be next? Just wanted to share anyways, not many people would understand why such a tiny thing is a huge deal.

Love and baby dust to all xx

Okay, so there is the couple that we know, and we're good friends. With that said, this is the couple that I've thought to myself: I can handle trouble TTC as long as they don't get pregnant before me.
Well, their Facebook is going crazy, but without an official announcement. Looks like it's their turn....I'm just waiting for the official announcement.

Tonight is going to suck. Hard core.

:flowerforyou: hugs!

Okay, so there is the couple that we know, and we're good friends. With that said, this is the couple that I've thought to myself: I can handle trouble TTC as long as they don't get pregnant before me.
Well, their Facebook is going crazy, but without an official announcement. Looks like it's their turn....I'm just waiting for the official announcement.

Tonight is going to suck. Hard core.

Dont feel bad im kinda in the same boat...A friend of mine just had a beautiful healty baby boy, and instead of being happy for her i am secretly jealous...Of course she doesnt know that and keeps saying how blessed they are and their family is complete..I really am happy for her but i cant help but wish it was me:ohwell:

Jalara - the new place sounds like it's going to be a beautiful home for you guys! Your baby will come and when it does it will have a really special Mom - just remember that when they do tell you I would be really upset if Pat's cousin and the girlfriend got pregs before us...I'd be happy because I love her little girl and she's been great about lending her to us, but still, I know I'd have a little cry to myself.

Kim - what's wrong with dinner from last night....LOL We had to do the same thing tonight since the cupboards were getting bare.

Ashley - Arggg...I really wish that the doctors would tell you things like that up front!!! Don't they know what waiting a whole cycle is like for people that have been trying??? You put 20 bricks of butter on the table and tell me that's not a whole lot, especially when you're close to having a healthy BMI. Personally, if you enjoy the gym, I'd stick with it and then hit up the MMA once your next year is done (and you're dealing with post-pregnancy pounds).

Karen - feel better soon - it sounds like a doozy of a bug.

Pixie - My fingers are crossed....normal cycles are a good thing and spotting definitely could mean its just around the corner.

Andrea - Darn I always try and find an answer - but sometimes there just isn't one....I hate when holidays come up because I always picture telling the families around a holiday and so it's just another reminder...... Bringing your stuff to the doctor is definitely a good idea.

Jessica - I know what you mean about AF just hurry up and get here!!!!

Jalara-:flowerforyou:

Alisa- LOL. I'm guessing you don't like Rex. You can always name the next house pet Rex as a comprimise.

Carrina- Welcome to the thread! I have seen you when I stalk the pregnancy board (wishful thinking and dreaming on my part). I general don't go on the pregnancy board because it puts me in a negative mind frame. I'm very sorry you miscarried and I hope you conceive quickly.There are several women with PCOS on this thread so you will have many women to talk to about it.