Losing weight whilst TTC-ing. Diet thread if anyone fancies joining me :)

Same to you takes. Well done!!

Wow spam that's a really good achievement even better considering you are pg.

Well done honey you are doing fab, hope your Bro is feeling better.

21, spam and honey congratulations on your great losses!!

Thanks Two, sounds like you are working hard!

I am -15.5lbs now.

Weighed in again today lost another 2 lbs so -18 now. Think I may treat myself with dinner tonight and have a night off and a glass of wine.

Well done to everyone else. We are all doing really well.

Thanks Aenor, I am taking care of myself and not pushing to exhaustion. I don't think its necessary for most women who are already fit only to walk though, except maybe in exceptional cases. That seems to be on the extreme end of the available advice about exercise and TTC. I think in my case, managing my weight and fitness levels also have benefits for TTC. I'm also lucky that I know my body reasonably well and I'm not exercising any more than I was when I conceived my previous children. I'm also temping and using OPKs so I can keep an eye out for any unhelpful impact on my cycle/ovulation. Thankfully at the moment it isn't being affected.

TakesTwotoTango - don't over do the running. If you are TTC it's better to get your exercise from gentle walking rather than anything that makes your heartbeat rise.

See the following video:

Apparently the body interprets elevated heartbeat as physiological stress and decides it not safe to conceive.

honey being really "good" with food - three (mostly cooked from scratch) meals a day, no snacks most days, very little sugar, loads and loads of veg, lower fat choices (not artificially low fat but choosing things that are naturally low fat), very little alcohol (helps with the TTC too!) and exercise 6 days a week plus walking wherever/whenever I can.

Eg breakfast this morning was oats with natural yoghurt and fruit, lunch a tuna sandwhich with avocado and tomato on wholemeal bread, dinner will be homemade spag Bol with 5% mince, loads of veg, no cheese and whole grain pasta (modest portion).

Yesterday was boiled egg with grilled mushroom and tomato, lunch was an ITSU classic chicken pot (soup with chicken, rice noodles and veg - 250 calories), dinner was stir fry veg (loads) with light soy sauce, Thai red rice and prawns and calamari with ginger, chilli and garlic.

Sunday was toast and jam (two slices), lunch was salad with loads of veggies in it inc sugar snap peas, carrots, baby corn, avocado and tomato, with balsamic vinegar, humous and ham and dinner was baked salmon with herbs, green beans, kale, butternut squash, asparagus and baby new potatoes.

I've run 5km or gone to the gym and done about 45 min cardio (treadmill and bike) plus some squats etc each day and also walked about 30 min each day by getting of the public transport a couple of stops early on my commute to work.

I'm desperate to get to target so I can be little bit more relaxed about my food choices but I am letting my hair down on that front a bit at least once a week (eg for nights out or dinners with friends). I don't want to starve myself or push my body too hard because I do want to conceive! Basically I was eating an enormous amount of crap before (emotional over-eating) so I think my body is actually quite glad to get rid of the excess and get back down to a less artificially inflated size (for me).

Dojo don't panic. I had a mc and it was more than spotting all the blood in the world . I hope yours doesn't develop and its a bit of harmless spotting.

Takes, what are you doing?! How are you losing so much so quickly?

Morning.

I am sorry to say that I had some spotting this morning so it looks like I have experienced a CP. Really disappointed but it is only our first cycle and we thought it could take longer.
Will still be going to see the doc tomorrow to go through things.
Feeling rather deflated.

Yummy breakfast jelly! Muesli here and tea. Drowning my bfn sorrows

No SW for me tonight, I have to go shopping and won't have time! Still, plan is to deffo go next Tuesday! I'll just try to be good in the meantime (had low fat yoghurt and peaches for breakfast!)

Dojo, sorry. I posted here before reading your latest update on the other thread

Well done honey, mindful and others on the losses!! I think I've said congrats to dojo on the Feb bus but congrats again!!

Weigh-in yesterday morning and lost 3lbs last week. I'm now -16lbs since 5 jan and feeling chuffed with that! AF due on thurs so am sitting on my hands not to poas yet...

woohoo! -4kgs since Christmas! marvelous :)

shame DH has been away for 3 weeks and no end to this trip in sight. Slightly fed up with this overseas assignment tbh (I am the one on the assignment and DH was supposed to follow within a few months but the best laid plans seem to have gone awry). Its now getting in the way of expanding my family and I am not getting any younger.....

anyway on a slightly chippier note you will all be overjoyed to know I managed 12 trips to the gym in January and only one of them was a "juice only trip"!! (Here if I go 12 times a month I get a 60% rebate the following month. 7 times is a 40% rebate but anything less I get Nil points. The rebate certainly does add alittle more encouragement on top of the desire to lose weight and get fitter!)

The trampoline I told 2 1/2 yo DS was my bday gift and he insists was his Christmas gift is also A great fun way to get some extra exercise into my day, whilst working on those pelvic floor muscles!!!!

Ain! Is DH fine now, for sure? Urgent care! Poor bloke.

I weighed this morning, -14.5 now.

Congratulations Dojo! You're right about 5:2, but you could do slimming world if you'd like.

Congratulations dojo that's great news

Morning all.

Well I think I got a BFP on a CB+ yesterday morning. Had the same result this morning. We're doing another couple of tests tomorrow to hopefully reassure us that we are pregnant.
This means I won't or shouldn't really be continuing with the 5:2 diet for the next 8 months. I'm going to continue with the recipes as they are low fat, low GI but I'm going to ensure I don't miss any meals or eat too few calories.

well done everyone. :-)

i am 2lbs down this week. Not sure how. its been a stressful week and I have been snacking far too much. That and we had fish and chips for dinner on Thursday as we spent our evening in the urgent care centre at the hospital and neither DH or I could face making dinner... (hospital trip was for DH, but he's fine). so yeah, very happy with my 2lbs.

I haven't weighed myself this week as I have been properly coldy and have eaten slightly more than I usually would to try and fight it. I think I will have put on a couple of lbs which is frustrating but I'll try and get back on to it properly on Monday. Also I am two days late and no BFP so think AF might be lurking somewhere.

Well done to all I've you who have kept on track this week.

Wow. Well done everyone. We will be a lot of (pregnant) skinny minnies in no time!

I am another lb down, so that's -11 for me now and still feeling very upbeat about the whole thing. I think this group is really helping :)

Off on holiday next week though. Hope I don't throw all my hard work away!

Hi everyone I weighed in today and I have lost 2 this week so now at -16.

Feeling loads better already, just hope I have the willpower to keep it up. My goal is to lose another stone and see how I feel that's my happy weight but could probably do with losing another stone on top of that

Well done spam and honey.

I've never followed slimming world jelly but know a lot of people who have had success with it.

Is slimming world good? I am tempted to go along to a session on Tuesday. I'm worried my OH won't play ball and do it with me though (he doesn't need to lose weight but needs to eat better)