Getting Ready for Baby Challenge -Pt 2

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Just a follow on from our 1st thread!

Theres is our motherhen, we are all just a bunch of crazy ladies either TTC or waiting to start!

Well exams done goodness knows how it went, waiting for oh in John Lewis having a savoury scone as too nervous for lunch. Af arrived like clockwork exactly 17 days after ovulation!

Really glad the exams done Tigger :) Sorry to hear about AF but at least you can draw a line under this month. We can be cycle buddies with confused!

I just need to get my head back in the game! Lets hope the Swedish northern lights baby dust works and at least my af is done and dusted before we go away and I'm very glad I've found cycle buddies and super glad the exams done.

Large g+t with cucumbers definitely required I think!!

Always room for one more on our cycle Tigger!

Mummy have you retested today?

What tablets are they Theres sorry if i missed it...

I've literally had the shittiest day at work today

Oh no confused what happened?

Terrible day on the health front.. had lots of sugar and salt and wine and coffee! I felt slim this morning (at my YTD 2017 low weight) but quickly started bloating up. Workout and no dinner for me tonight.

How's everyone else doing on the weight loss?

Just fed up with gettung berated when i simply assumed someone was going to cover my work yesterday afternoon... but no even though someone was covering me they didn't do my work and now im getting told i should have done it before i left... even though i wouldnt have had all the information!!

That ladies is male logic for you

Oh Grumpy not good for me either! Ive put on 2lbs!!! 😭

confused I feel for you, literally had the worst most stressful day at work today too! Just on my way home and tempted to pick up chips but I know that's so bad!
I'm dwindling weight loss wise too so it's all going bad!

Congrats on finishing the exam tigger you can relax now!

confused and buzz sorry you've had crappy days. Maybe pick something off Wiggley's list of treats to cheer yourselves up? I need to get back on the weight loss too, so easy to slip, especially when concentrating on the TTC stuff so hard (but really I guess they should go hand in hand.) Don't want to undo the good work I did last year pre-wedding. Will weigh in tomorrow...

Oh and to too it all off got the emotionally abusive ex-bf texting me shit to try and psych me out (i am currently forcing him to give me the money for my half of a house we stupidly bought together!)...

What has happened to the world today! Lol

Awhh Buzz what happened? And chips still have vitamins in them too!! Lol

Wow confused that sounds stressful!! Is he refusing to give you it?

Just so much going on at work at the moment and I'm stretched so thin and people just demanding more and more! Yet colleagues who get paid more than me are just chilling while I'm running around like a mad woman! 😡

I went for SW sausage casserole and not so SW roasties from the freezer. We are trying to eat through the freezer at the moment, so meals have been pretty inventive!

Well its a bit of a long story but basically Ex was abusive and financially controlling i moved back home for a week to help my parents move out and met my now DH and fell madly head over heels (i know its wrong but yeah) anyways i walked out on Ex and felt so bad about it (because of controlling ways) i left it a year without getting solicitors involved... then never told him about DH or wedding etc incase he turned nasty about the house and cut all ties with all but one mutual friend!... who has now spilled the beans to ex so he has contacted trying to call (i never answer so solicitors can see written copies of texts instead!) and he never calls and so i knew something was up.. he tried asking about legal stuff and it all gets spun into this creepy convo saying a belated congrats from him and how we are obv going to be having kids next... so i asked him if our mutual friend had told him this info and he got all weird saying he is psychic and how he can see the future and how me and DH are going to have a little girl... safe to say i havnt replied since! But i can imagine him sitting with a sickening grin so pleased that he has creeped me out!

I hate that feeling Buzz sometimes it seems like the more senior you get at work the less work you end up doing!

You are doing well with the SW stuff!!

Oh no ladies! I've had a crazy day and popped back to find you've all had horrid days. Mine has being quite rubbish too. Same as buzz stretched too thin. Who was the other user who worked in a school? We have so many staff off at the moment with illness.
In other news, my diet has completely gone to pot but I have just been food shopping and picked out lots of healthy alternatives to stop me snacking goodies in the staff room! Awaiting AF and want to stuff my face. Anyone else get extreme tiredness as a PMS symptom? I can't find the energy to do anything! God knows what it must feel like in early pregnancy.

So sorry about all the bad days. I just ranted on the phone to my oh about mine too! Must be something in the air!

Diet is dead. I feel like I deserve all the good things. I'll worry about the consequences next week when I weigh in!! It's all ok as long as I can fasten my trousers, right?!

Confused I really hope you can get something sorted with the house soon. 💐

Ah sounds like we are all suffering from a chronic lack of motivation! Glad it's not just me. Right let's try and rein these diets in a bit. Mine has gone off the boil too. No loss this week and since then I've had a chocolate bar, bag of crisps, three slices of dominoes and chicken crispers and chips from chillis - it stops here!

Still doing dry Jan but going to try to up the exercise levels a bit. And keep drinking lots of water. I need to meal plan and make a list of what we are going to eat so I don't fall into a disorganized trap!

Confused - your ex sounds like a knob. Sorry that it looks like your friend is spilling the beans. Be very careful what you tell them. I'd be tempted to pull them up on it and make it clear the position you've been put in by their gossiping!

I found a website which listed tips to bring on AF including some natural remedies but I can't link it for some reason!

m.md-health.com/How-To-Induce-Your-Period.html

Not sure if this will work?

Hooray! I can link turns on a ski slope just about and I can link websites - who knew!

So diet plan - let's say where we are up to and our aim for the rest of the month.

I'll start.

Lost so far - 7 lbs
Aim for Jan - at least 8 lbs (ideally wanted to lose 10 lbs)

Aiming to lose 2 lbs a week so need to lose at least 8 lbs in Jan to be on track.

I'm in...

Lost 3lb so far this Jan
Would like to loose 25lbs by April

Using ww which usually works for me- I weigh in on a Friday.

Feeling a bit sorry for myself still period pains are bad this month and I think I've got the startings of a chest infection.

Sorry I don't usually moan as much as I have done the last few days. Sorry everyone else is having a rubbish few days too!

Confused he sounds like a knob!

Let's think positive thoughts today and I will post something happy after work lol

ok so diet stats here we go!

Currently 2lbs heavier than when I started :(

Hoping to lose 18 lbs before getting upduffed but with current rate looking like I am going to be at lbs heavier!

Currently doing a HIIT video everynight and drinking 2-3 litres of water every day. No fried food and only eating good veg (off list posted on original thread).

Wiggley I have found since coming off the pill I have just been more tired generally... and I want to eat a lot more! I know it is normally the other way around...

I feel for you Dancing

Yeah he is a knob... and the worst kind.. I gave him ample opportunities to progress in our relation ship over the 4 years we were together and he didnt... my mum even thrust an engagement ring in his face and said he needs to do it now or I would walk out the door. He embarassed me in front of friends multiple times saying how he couldn't marry me or have children because I couldn't hold a job down (knowing I was made redundant twice) I know I was bad for meeting somebody else whilst still with him (I never cheated though!) but surely almost 2 years on he can get over it! to be honest after realising how abusive he was mentally I deffo dodged a bullet there!

Sorry for the rant ladies...

If we all have a rant this morning it means today will be better right?

confused sounds exactly like my ex! Emotionally/financially abusive and not until I met my DH to be that I realised the extent and that I had been with him for 5 years feel like I wasted so much time! Oh well it all worked out in the end I suppose!

Diet stats:
Started SW last september, lost 24lbs in total so far but only 1lb since January (after the extra Christmas weight came off) so not feeling that great! Got another stone to lose before May!

And got Carluccios night with my friend again so pasta and wine 😩 (Well 🎉 really, but not for the diet!)

What have you found helps your weight loss? I really need to drink more water. 2-3l per day sounds so much though confused

theres congrats on your linking success!!

I am 4lbs down from start but fluctuate by 2lbs daily.. skipping dinner on the nights I do yoga. Trying to eat less carbs and more veg.

Sorry to hear about the idiot ex confused

I'm only 5lbs heavier than wedding day so goal is very close but the last 5lbs are the hardest!!!

I did buy this last night though:

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002VF8EXC/ref=pe_385721_37986871_TE_item?tag=mumsnetforum-21

So about to enter the world of opks and temperatures! I'm worried about the temperature malarkey though, I always wake up at different times and wake up to go to the loo in the night. Will this make a big difference?

Morning ladies!
I didn't retest yesterday as didn't have any FRER or pink dye tests, had a really busy day at work yesterday and ended up getting an uber home so didn't go to any shops. I have however collected my FMU and will go in to town shortly to get more tests.
I'm 10dpo today, AF due on Sunday. Symptom spotting like a crazed neurotic woman. Getting daily lower back ache and I kept thinking my boobs felt fuller in my bra yesterday.... cervix is really posterior (facing backwards) which I haven't noticed before and still quite high, can only tip it. CM is like white lotion, wouldn't say it was in abundance however.
This whole tww is driving me bonkers 😖

On the weight front I am not losing but then I'm not following slimming world. Must go back tonight and face the music