To be worried about my diet in the run up to IVF

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I've generally tried to stick to a healthy diet but... I'm just thinking between a holiday here, a takeaway there, a night where friends came over, date night with hubby, pizza making with my oldest... I've eaten a lot of carbs and not particularly healthily! Yes I also had days of eating chicken salads and salmon dinners with veg sides but realistically I've had some kind of sweet thing or pasta or takeaway or "treat" most days somehow. How much will it mess up my IVF chances I wonder?

I'm a healthy BMI but generally pre IVF it is advised to follow a low gi diet, no added sugar, less carbs, more protein. Feels like I've failed.

I think the odd treat is fine. I ate healthily before my IVF but had treats.
What I think was important though was reading up about foods at different points of the IVF - at one point I was eating Brazil nuts, pineapple core, cheeses and pomegranate juice.
Read up if you can to see what you should have and when - I know this is followed more in other countries like the Greek clinic promote it all too.

I didnt even consider eating healthy op. To me not drinking and smoking was the healthy things, which I didn't even do anyway.

Had a successful first try after years of MC's and losses.

the real answer is it is imossible to know.... the important thing is that you believe you have done everything you can to make it a success

As someone who did nine rounds of IVF (thankfully the fifth one was successful), I know that the 2 rounds where I ate no sugar except in fruit and a low GI diet are the ones I felt much better through the whole process - and a couple of the others I felt horrendous throughout so definitely a better diet makes it easier to deal with all the hormones. How much that translates into increased rates of conception (and a healthier foetus) I don't know but I do believe it makes a difference

Another one here who didn’t change their diet much and had a successful first cycle of IVF, I didn’t want to put too much pressure on myself with lifestyle and diet changes (obviously didn’t drink etc etc).

I can't really find anything about diet at different parts of the process, only a general recommendation of more veg, less carbs, more protein, less trans fats, more good fats. Can you please elaborate on what you did?

My diet was dreadful for our successful IVF round. My mental health had taken a huge battering from infertility and previous round failure, I wasn't coping well at all and in hindsight probably should have taken a break but you know what it's like. I lived on takeaways and chocolate.

But while bmi affects success rates, there's no evidence of either diet or stress levels having any impact on success.

Brazil nuts and pineapple core for implantation.

The cheese I had after either egg collection or transfer.

Pomegranate juice before and after embryo transfer.

I think I just spent hours checking forums and would have tried anything so who knows if it all helped but it helped me to have that to feel like I was doing something!