OWL week 4 and update

Week 4 was my best week yet.  I lost 3 pounds for a total of 6.5 pounds in 4 weeks.   I am not craving the sweets nearly as bad as I was.  I even turned down cake at a baptism over the weekend.

In TTC news, I am 8dpo today.  My body seems to be doing everything right this month, except my temps are heading south so it looks like I'll be starting bcps this weekend.  My husband's urologist appt. is coming up next week so I will soon know for sure what our plan of action is.

Week 3 of OWL

I lost 2 pounds!  Total weight loss of 3.5 lbs in 3 weeks.  With the amount of cheating I still do I'll take this any day.  

Two Weeks Into Operation Weight Loss

I'm down a total of about 1.5 pounds.  At this rate I am not going to be down the 20 pounds I wanted to before IVF, but any weight loss will help so I'm going to do my best to stick with it.  The past two weeks have been tough to fit  working out in, but I am going to get back to focusing on that.  Hopefully that will speed up the loss a little  bit.   I'm still drinking Pepsi here and there, but it is definitely more of a treat versus the only liquid I consume.  The fact that I survived Halloween and my first CD1 without binging gives me hope that maybe this time I can stick with it.

One week into Operation Weight Loss

I lost half a pound.  I'll be honest, I'm seriously cranky about this.  I woke up to pants that were snug, and only a tiny little loss on the scale.   The only thing keeping me from a full on rage is that I'm pretty sure that I can blame hormone bloat.  I did cheat and have 2 Pepsi's over the weekend so I'll have to try a lot harder this week.  Knowing me, if I don't see a little bit better results after this week I'll give up. 

Operation Weight Loss starts today

I recieved an informational video from the IVF clinic last week detailing their success rates among other things.  It turns out that if I can manage to lose about 20 lbs before we do IVF our chances go up about 5%.  It doesn't seem like a huge jump in odds, but with the amount of money on the line I am going to do everything I can.  So Operation Weight Loss (OWL) has officially begun. So here is the plan of action.

1. I'm giving up Pepsi.  It has been my emotional crutch for as long as I can remember, plus it always makes food taste better.  I figure if my husband can quit smoking, I can do this but I am already craving one sooo bad.

2. I'm going to start making a weekly meal plan and following it.  I've done meal plans in the past but I always stray when my husband calls me up and says he wants to go out.  

3. I am going to make it a goal to work out a minimum of 3 days a week for half an hour.  It isn't much but it is 3 more days than I've been doing so hopefully it makes a difference.  I've got a stationary bike and I'm also going to start looking for a good video with some strength/flexibility workouts.

I survived the laparoscopy

The surgery only took a half an hour.  They doctor found no physical reason why I have not gotten pregnant, so it was disappointing but luckily my recovery has been really easy.  I've had pretty minimal pain.  My husband will be talking with a new urologist next week, and then after my post-op appt.  I think we will be in search of an IVF center to start IVF sometime next year.  We have a few weddings next year that we are in, so we will have to try and work IVF around those.  Until then we will just try on our own and hope for the best.

It's been awhile

I haven't really had much to update since the last month has just been sitting around waiting for my lap but I am happy to announce that once again, I had a short cycle.  I didn't temp so I can't say for sure I ovulated, but my other signs suggest that I did.  My LP was still borderline short, but I say close enough!   This makes me hopeful that if they find something during the lap and remove it, we will be able to get pregnant without meds.   It would be absolutely amazing to be able to get pregnant without having to pump myself full of hormones.  If nothing is found during the lap to explain our lack of success, it will be a really tough decision whether we want to try on our own and hope my body continues to cooperate, or go forward with IVF since obviously nothing else we do seems to work.