Iris and Holly, I simply cannot believe that other people can behave in such a way! I guess it is one of those things that makes belly belly stand out as such an amazingly helpful and supportive place!

Twomums, I think if my doctor said things like that to me, I'd be seriously wanting to hit him, or at least switch doctors! It must be tough trying to decide what to do in that situation.

I'm through the first week of my incredible dietary torture - and I've lost 2kg! My acupuncturist is really pleased with how I'm going, and how effective the FS's diet has been (I didn't do anywhere near so well on the one she put me on!), and says she can see that I look thinner than I did last week - mainly because my face is starting to lose the puffy, bloated look I've been sporting for a while. The current plan now involves getting DH in for some treatments (and she's going to try to nag him into following the same diet I'm on) to get him fitter, healthier and hopefully improve his sperm as much as we are able to without getting the varicocele repair done. We can't get DH into a new specialist until April, and I don't feel entirely comfortable with marching into ICSI without doing something to improve things. I snuck a tiny bit of chocolate today, that I'm going to completely ignore and just not record it in the food diary ( don't tell my FS!), and funnily enough I didn't really enjoy it that much! It seems that carrot sticks are now officially better than chocolate!

After a rough few days feeling really down about the insulin results and the delay in starting IVF, I'm feeling positive about things again. Probably because I'm really starting to see the difference that it is making in terms of how I feel, and the advantage of having the time to mentally prepare for IVF before jumping in and starting.

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