OurInfertilityJourney

I want to start out by apologizing for not posting on here for a while! I have some fun things planned for July so I will be on here more often. Also I know this is my infertility journey, but for now I will be talking more about weight loss, as it is apart of the infertility journey. Now on to the post💚 As I sit here on this last day of June, I look back and reflect on how in just one month my life style has changed dramatically! All for the better though I've become a happier more motavated person in just 30 day! First of all I'm very proud of the fact that I've worked out 30 days in a row! I've never worked out for that long, I usually go gung ho for the first week, then just stop. Not this month I have gone all 30 days! Please head over to my  Allie'sweightlossjourney  Instagram account. I posted an after workout selfie each day along with some other content. I  have been fallowing The Fit Cyster Challenge by The PCOS Nurse on thepcosnurse.com go c...

I had my OBGYN appointment on April 13. This appointment was to see what our next steps where in trying to conseve. After talking with the Dr, she suggested I lose more weight before we go any further.   She wants me to lose another 10-20lbs to be at a healthy weight, and it will hopefully cause my body to have a period naturally. She had me make an appointment with the nurse practitioner to go over a nutrition plan to help me further my weight loss.   So after talking to the Nurse Practitioner, who works with pregnant women who have Diabetes, and helps with their nutrition. She also used to teach a nutrition class to anyone who was dignoised with Diabetes.   After going over my current nutrition, she wants me to stick with my current plan of 2252 calories daily, but she also wants me to start looking at consuming 35-45g per meal and 10-15g per snack of carbohydrates daily.   She also wants me to eat smaller meals through the day. And along with my current plan o...

As a lot of you know, I am over weight and have been trying to lose 147 lbs to be at the weight I should be for my age and hight. To do so last year I gave up Dairy, Gluten, Soy and meat. I did great and lost a total of 50 lbs. Now with this new year I have found that all though I'm still losing the weight I've also lost a lot of the motivation to go along with it. I want to eat healthy and I do try but I will plan meals, and an exersise routine and do it for about a week then go back to old habits. I'm still not eating the gluten, soy or dairy, but I've found alternative food like snacks that are free of all that so I eat them. What can I do to stick to the diet and exercise schedule I plan? I feel like not only am I failing myself but also my husband, and all of my friends and supporters.

I've been going now for a while, I go every week on Saturdays, and I've been going since January 1st 2018. I'm glad to say I got a period last week. I will say it came a a surprise I honestly was not ready or expected my period to come naturally. I was honstly expecting Acupuncture to be relaxing witch it is, but I was not expecting it to work to help with ovulation, because alot of treatments I've tried have not worked. But I'm gonna still keep going as long as I can and hope that it will help keep my hormones in check. I've also really gotten into drinking Herbal Tea, I've never used to drink tea because I didn't like the taste. Going along with the whole natural and holistic approach I'm also slowly transitioning over to using all natural and vegan products including make-up, cleaning products, and Shampoo.

My mom was talking to a co-worker some time before the holidays, they got to talking about my infertility issues, and PCOS. In their conversation the co-worker had mentioned that is wife is essentially a Chinese herbalist who does acupuncture. She said she has a really high success rate of getting women to ovulate. I did a little more research and asked around to some other women who have tried it. It was about 50/50, some of the women had success some did not. So New Years Day I had my first appointment. It was not as bad as I thought. I was really nervous about having needles on different areas of my body. It didn't even hurt at all and it was very relaxing and enjoyable. So for now I go every week on Saturdays untill I get a period. I've also started using herbal supplements and drinking herbal tea daily. The dr also gave me an herbal patch to wear for 3 days similar to a Thermcare Menstrual heat pad. Today (Saturday January 20th) will be my 4th appointment. I can't tell...

Just like everyone else I wanted to start 2018 out right, so I planned on working out more, eating right and everything in between. so far 2 weeks into the new year and I've all ready lost motivation. That is one of the unfortunate things about Poly Cystic Ovary Syndrome, one week I'm all gung ho about getting fit and healthy and the next week I have no motivation at all. I go back to eating things I shouldn't and not exercising like I should. I wish there was a way for me to keep the motivation going longer then a week or a few days. Latly I've been feeling unmotivated in a lot of different aspects of my life. I'm hoping this is just part of the winter blues🙁. If anyone knows of ways to stay motivated, please let me know!