Getting Buff to Get Up the Duff

[Neda]

Carrot sticks ! Great source of Vitamin A!
>.> I actually have a habit of eating too much carrot, pumpkin and sweet potato. I go on kicks of them and end up turning ever so slightly orange. I get bad joint pain from the nightshade veggies (eggplant, chili, tomatoes ect) and sweet potato is one of thoseanti inflammatory foods that can help. That and I like it a lot >.> (<- those are shifty eyes btw). Vitamin A from plant/vegetable sources while pregnant or ttc is fine, it's the vitamin A from pills and meat sources that can cause issues. So skip the extra serving of liver (*shudder*)

Kilos lost is kilos lost! Granted chopping off an arm is not an option, well unless you have three......

Mich8 it's kinda scary isn't it! Having knowledge and making informed decisions about what you put in your mouth!

Here's some random thoughts.

Since we're not dealing with an actual pregnancy yet (*takes a moment to sob uncontrollably*) but we wish we were, to me the most important thing is making sure our (and future baby to be) nutritional needs are met. If we concentrate on that, while counting calories and working on being more active you should get good results. It takes responsibility but I figure if we're honest with ourselves it will work.

Pick an important nutrient, for instance try getting enough potassium in your diet even one day. Now I know it's a bit hard to do since most labels, especially here in australia don't list potassium, but if you're cooking from scratch enter items as "zucchini raw" into my fitness pal.

Since I've got some specific dietary needs I try and make sure I'm meeting my Iron, Protein and calcium as well (potassium seems an impossible goal to achieve !) Pick any of them really. Basically if you're focusing on meeting your dietary needs Without! going into the red (to turn a radio term into a health term) you should be good. You're eating healthy, you're retraining your body (yes it will crave fat and salt for weeks, fight against it because if you give in you get rid of that retraining you did on your brain and have to start over), you're giving yourself the right nutrition that you would need for a pregnancy if you were having to provide for one.

However with the BFP, I'd say talk to someone that knows these things for real! Granted a lot of nutritionists might not, which is why I suggested asking for a referral from a FS. Plenty of reading, both on Dr Google and in books would be a good thing. I wish I remembered which pregnancy book I read it in but in the first trimester you really don't need all that many extra calories, it's more an increase in nutrition. Also a lot of the early weight gain is blood volume.

I'm fairly certain that healthy eating and exercise while pregnant even if it leads to some weight loss is ok since you're still giving you and rugrat to be the proper nutritional needs. It's the crash dieting that is bad for you, bad for baby, bad period since it screws with your metabolism and isn't sustainable long term.

These days I know it's hard to fix meals from scratch, real scratch not dumping a jar of sauce on some main ingredients scratch, but every step you can take in that direction can help. That way you know exactly what's going into your body. If you have freezer space get a few lunch size containers and make up your own meals on weekends. They're also pretty handy for days when you're just too busy/tired to cook.

Last night I had ballet, it wasn't as hard as last week, I guess I lost a lot of muscle strength over the break! I totally misread my calories remaining and sat down afterwards to half an avocado and a sweet potato and feta mini tart (my vit A was a little low). Came in at 10 remaining (thought I had300 remaining *lol*). It's so easy to go over even when you're trying to do it right! I know I need more activity in my days, it's raining again today though and hubby has gone and injured his ankle at tournament training over the weekend so getting him to go on walks with me is near impossible (Yes I know I'm old enough to go by myself :P). Hopefully an extra class over the weekend if I'm up for it and not too

grumpy since AF is on the way. I'm 6 DPO right now, and stressing over the fact that I'm pretty sure we're going to go whole hog and do IVF instead of IUI.