Weightloss update 3/20

Well I started the week (Sunday) at 181lbs.. this morning I was at 177!!! I'm elated! I feel great and I should have no problem meeting the goal I set for myself which was 170 by my dr appointment on 4/9. I have 20 days to lose 7lbs. That's less than .5 lbs /day which is about 2.3 lbs per week. A very reasonable goal.

This week has been good, I'm following the meal plan I talked about here. I'm eating a TON of food. I mean 3 meals and 2 snacks each day. Annnnnnd by breakfast includes chocolate so you really can't go wrong there. I think this is going to work out just fine. The food has been great for the most part. Only 1 recipe that I probably won't repeat (honey mustard salmon doesn't reheat well and when you meal prep days in advance, that's important!)

People at work make fun of my giant lunch box.. I don't care, it's working for me and that's all that matters.

On the baby making front.. Those of you who follow me on Twitter know that I thought I had O'd and missed the egg since hubs was at work and we hadn't gotten down in a few days... I may have mentioned getting a little rapey with him last night. But my erratic temps were back down this am so I'm not concerned about missing the egg.. but at CD15 with no ovulation makes me think this is either going to be another looooong cycle (last cycle was 50days with O occurring on CD36) or this could be another anovulatory cycle (which Dr suspects happens about every 3rd cycle with me but hasn't been confirmed yet). Either way I go see him in less than 3 weeks to figure out next steps. I'm still building my list of questions/concerns to take with me. I'm asking your help to help build this list

What are the things you wish you would have asked about in your first consultation knowing what you know now?

-h

When I'm not babymaking, I'm getting healthy

Babymaking and losing weight might seem to be counterproductive on the surface but many people that struggle with infertility were told at their very first appointment "just lose Xlbs and you'll be fine" I know, I was one of them.

Even though I KNEW it wasn't just my weight (212lbs) that was holding me and my uterus hostage, I took the advice to heart and jumped into the healthy pond with both feet and no swimsuit (seriously, I hate swim suit shopping). Now I'm sitting at 180.2 (seriously .2... go suck it 180's I'm done with you) and I FEEL better, but no more pregnant.

When I first started everyone joked about how I was going to get into this awesome shape and then get preggo. I laughed, I challenged them, I WANT that! Just think of how much easier it will be to lose the baby weight when I have all the tools. Like awesome trainers at the gyms I go to who ALREADY know me (and my excuses, and the best ways to trick me into going) and a super awesome lunch box:

Seriously, I can pack 5 meals and a 3L jug PLUS 2 water bottles in that thing and it stays cool all day!! 

Plus I came across this AMAZING site to help with my meal planning. It's only $9/mo and not only will it plan your meals by day within a calorie range but it makes it into a grocery list and EMAILs it to you the day before you tell it you go shopping!

I have tools to lose weight and get the body I want and frankly, that isn't going to HURT my chances of getting pregnant, and if I can't have a round baby belly, I'll have a sexy flat one dammit!