Weight Loss x Conception

[TheDaydreamBelievers]

Crossover Thread for Conception x Weight Loss

A thread for ladies TTC and TTLW (Trying To Lose Weight!). Maybe your worried your weight is impacting on conceiving, maybe you're thinking ahead to a healthy future pregnancy and birth, making you're planning fertility treatment and want to ensure you meet criteria.

Whatever the reason, here is a place for support with healthy weight loss ideas, recipes, exercise, and anything else that helps.

I more meant cut down on my dairy cause of 1) my chunky tummy and 2) spots @Kay00. Is it bad for TTC?

@TheDaydreamBelievers I'm with @Kay00 I love dairy, but I am going to try and do a dairy free week to see if it helps with my bloating just not this week, I've already done the shopping.

@orangejuicer welcome 😊

Well I've been to the gym this morning, pretty pleased with myself except I think my HR got a little high for my age bracket, according to the gym equipment anyway.

I also like dairy too much and won’t quit it. I do cut back sometimes, I found a good alpro milk substitute made for tea, but I don’t think I could cut it out entirely.

My headache ended up turning into a migraine, so the start of my fitness mission ended in migraine, sleeping and bad foods. I guess I’ll try again tomorrow.

@thislittlebird your ordeal is making me laugh a bit - the perils of going for a run are endless 😁

@orangejuicer welcome! Are you only just starting ttc for #2 or been trying for a while?

@ChinChilly well done for hitting the gym! I have high hopes of going today for the first time since March last year 😂

@kay00 my PCOS friend on metformin has porridge every morning as well - she adds cocoa powder to hers though 🤤

Gym after work hopefully... Had a healthy lunch of 200cals worth of quinoa /brown rice and then leftover Thai Red curry that was mainly a giant pile of veg :) I even brought celery to work for snacking!

Weight hasn't budged so far this week so I'm hoping my body will catch up before next weigh in 🙊

@thislittlebird that is an example of why i don't run 🤣 and I've got old lady knees 🤣

@Juno231 lunch sounds good, I hate the gym after work its so busy! 6am on a Sunday is my favourite time there's only every about 4 other people there.

@ChinChilly ah I never ever manage early morning workouts, only someone mental would want to do that 😝. I've got a gym in the office though so I sort of expect it to be pretty much empty.

Am currently dying for a yorkie and trying very hard not to hit the vending machine.

@Juno231 I used to be a regular 5:30 at the gym, once you're out of th habit though it's so hard to get back into. Ahh an office gym is the dream, nothing like that where I work 🤣 my gym gets so busy and I do weights more than cardio and at busy times there is just too many pervy men in there acting like they've never seen a woman do a squat before 🙄

[quote Juno231]@thislittlebird your ordeal is making me laugh a bit - the perils of going for a run are endless 😁

@orangejuicer welcome! Are you only just starting ttc for #2 or been trying for a while?

@ChinChilly well done for hitting the gym! I have high hopes of going today for the first time since March last year 😂

@kay00 my PCOS friend on metformin has porridge every morning as well - she adds cocoa powder to hers though 🤤

Gym after work hopefully... Had a healthy lunch of 200cals worth of quinoa /brown rice and then leftover Thai Red curry that was mainly a giant pile of veg :) I even brought celery to work for snacking!

Weight hasn't budged so far this week so I'm hoping my body will catch up before next weigh in 🙊[/quote]
Thank you for the welcome

We haven't really been trying, it's partly down to me not having great self esteem and being big to start with. I wouldn't be comfortable being pregnant now so have kind of been avoiding it. I know it doesn't make sense but I'm here at 17st and really can't face it.

And we're both exhausted quite a lot of the time. DS is 3 in November

You're all doing really well, it's definitely inspiring me to just get on with it.

By the way, I also have PCOS so it is possible to be big, with PCOS and get pregnant. If that helps anyone!

Hello, can I join? @TheDaydreamBelievers I remember you from when we had our MMCs at the same time at the end of last year. Sorry to hear like me you're no further along in TTC 💕

I'm 30, ttc #2 since June 2020, 3 MCs along the way so waiting appointment with recurrent MC clinic.
Really need to tone up and loose a couple of inches round my waist and thighs. I conceived #1 when I was at my fittest 4.5 years ago. BMI constantly teeters between average and high mainly because I'm short so don't carry it very well so not so much a weight goal for me but to loose inches.

Oh hey @Juno231 👋

Hey hey @bez91! Sorry to hear you have had further MCs. I have had zero luck since MC and will be going private for fertility assessment in late august. Welcome to this group!

Sounds like a lot of you had a great diet/exercise day! 👏

After my breakfast of porridge and nuts I had:

• banana + walnut butter (fully avoided the Cornish pasty my sister bought me for lunch)
• pea protein crisp things
• an apple
• fillet steak (no sauce)
• leaves
• a few chips
• 3 x low sugar digestive biscuits and a cuppa

All in all it was an odd food day 😄 night!

@bez91 hi! I see you made it to the gym last night 💪

I finished yday on 14k steps and having done 40 min at the gym. @ChinChilly it was pretty dead but what I hadn't anticipated is that the CEO was there which was awkward 😅

Weighed in this morning at 73.3 so that's a 0.4kg drop so far this week - let's hope it lasts!

Tonight will be Friday tacos and wine so the goal is to not eat until then. Bringing celery and cherry tomatoes to work to snack on.

@orangejuicer well with us i hope you can start losing and feeling more comfortable to TTC ❤️

@bez91 hii 👋

@Juno231 oh god how awkward 🤣 I don't think I've ever even the CEO where I work, he just sends us all inspirational emails every week, to which i really have to resist the urge to reply 'oh f**k off'...totally cringe

Ok I’m recovered! Back on the plan. @Juno231 ikr, what a ridiculous first attempt by me lol. I usually get hormonal migraines but haven’t had many lately, wondering if the running triggered it. I do think my hormones seem a bit better behaved when I’m regularly working out rather than just sitting on my sofa with a laptop all day.

I had natural yogurt with raspberries, and with a few oats and honey for breakfast so a good start, and logged it all in MFP. Plan to go for a run a bit later......

We have a gym at work and will possibly be going back three days per week in September. Except I’ll be asking to self-isolate from mid September so I’m not sure if it’s worth me joining again just yet. It is good value.

In bad news I weighed myself this morning and seemed to have gained 1.5lbs. Which is...a lot in a short space of time. I did eat quite a lot of peanut butter while I was sick. 🤨

@thislittlebird hopefully that's just water retention I can't imagine you ate 1.5lbs of peanut butter???

I'm meant to be going for my first run (in a while, and since by long 102km walk two weeks ago) with my friend tonight... I'm looking forward to testing my knee and hip fully

I had porridge for breakfast with blueberries, and will probably have salad with peppered mackerel for lunch - yum!

@Kay00 I hope not 😭

I re-started couch to 5k from week 2 but it seems the app has gone haywire since I last used it in June??? The audio is all crackly now and not sure it’s useable. Had to run round with my phone in my hand which I did not enjoy. Despite this, have done 7k steps now and got caught in a brief shower.

Your lunch sounds nice! I need to decide on dinner. For lunch I think I’ll have a protein bagel thin with avocado and a small amount of hummus.

Mmm yum. I have no idea what we are having for dinner either, I might need to do a food shop first as we are out of most things!

I've fallen out with the scales, no weight loss but the jeans that were super tight last week now fit perfectly so I'm calling that a no scale victory!

I had some 'protein' porridge with raspberries and a wholemeal pitta with hummus for the lunch and a whole punnet of diamond strawberries from M&S...best strawberries I've ever tasted

@ChinChilly okay I'm def popping in to m&s after work to see if they have those strawberries... And well done on the NSV!

@thislittlebird how did the run go 😅. Any chance your weight is cycle related? I gain 2lb around ovulation!

Managed to do a half hour workout class at the gym at lunch today so I'm pleased with my efforts this week! Had a protein pot thing and a cookie for lunch lol - so much for waiting until dinner.

@Juno231 I wish I'd brought more than 1 punnet 🤤 also brought a limelon apparently a lime crossed with a lime 🤔 I'll give you my verdict on that later. Well done on the gym session!

@ChinChilly omg those have to be the best strawberries I've ever had! Going back tomorrow for more 🤤

What are diamond strawberries? 🤨 it sounds like I need some of those. I only just did an ocado shop, damn.

@Juno231 I don’t think so, it’s cd 6 for me so I’ve only just said goodbye to AF. Maybe water retention? Dunno. I’ll weigh myself again tomorrow.

A limelon? Having flashbacks to my online friend in Brazil not differentiating between lemons and limes.

Oh and my run was fine this time it seems? Guessing it triggered a hormonal migraine for me.