I am on CD4 of my first FET cycle. What are the foods you consider to be a super food? I still have a lot of bloat and gained about 15 pounds from my ER and am very uncomfortable in my skin, but am finding the emotional side of IVF wins over the healthy diet side.

@time4kristen Some of the foods that Dr Kiltz at CNY Fertility recommends are bacon, beef, eggs, and butter. He's a big supporter of the keto diet, but specifically those 4 foods. I go to CNY but Dr K isn't my doctor, he does have information on their webpage and does a weekly Sunday FB live event to answer questions.

Idk what foods the original poster had in mind here since she hasn't answered. The idea behind the keto is to reduce inflammation in the body. I didn't do keto for my ER and we only got 5 eggs and 3 embryos. I've been eating keto (but more than those 4 foods) since Monday and am planning to continue past transfer, which I think will be next week.

Are you doing ivf now?

My nutritionist has told me to eat some type of nuts/seeds daily (Chia have Omega-3's and Brazil Nuts have Selenium, which are both particularly beneficial). She also told me to get plenty of leafy greens and avocado in my diet. Each day, there should be at least 30-35% protein in the macro breakdown. The healthy fats that she recommends are coconut oil and avocado oil for cooking (never cook with olive oil because at high heat it smokes, making cancer-causing carcinogens, but olive oil is great for salads). She also encouraged me to use Turmeric (with black pepper) to decrease inflammation. In order to cut down on inflammation, I have also eliminated added sugar and milk (although cow's milk can be very good for TTC as long as it is grass-fed milk with no hormones added- I just have a lot of inflammation so it's not a healthy choice for me personally).