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TTC After a Loss
KarenBeth714
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Healthy Living Check- In *Week of Sept 11th*
KarenBeth714
member
Hello ladies! Healthy Living check in time.
We'll start with our inspirational quote of the week...
Ha!!! Hope you are all feeling healthy this week!
1. How are you feeling? Any progress to report?
2. What are your nutrition goals for this week?
3. What are your fitness goals for the week?
4. What have you struggled with this week/ biggest hurdles?
We'll start with our inspirational quote of the week...
Ha!!! Hope you are all feeling healthy this week!
1. How are you feeling? Any progress to report?
2. What are your nutrition goals for this week?
3. What are your fitness goals for the week?
4. What have you struggled with this week/ biggest hurdles?
Me:35, DH 37 ~ Married July 2014
ttc July 2015 ~ bfp Nov 2015 (cp)
bfp Dec 2015 ~ (tfmr 17wk, March 2016, genetic disease)
ttcal May 2016
ttc July 2015 ~ bfp Nov 2015 (cp)
bfp Dec 2015 ~ (tfmr 17wk, March 2016, genetic disease)
ttcal May 2016
Re: Healthy Living Check- In *Week of Sept 11th*
2. What are your nutrition goals for this week? Not eat out so much. We had pizza and Wendy's this week and I tried to make good choices but it's always worse than at home.
3. What are your fitness goals for the week? Gym at least twice at work and DVD workouts at least three times
4. What have you struggled with this week/ biggest hurdles? This week was decent. I got a free week at Orange Theory because my friend is a member. Did 3 workouts there but won't be joining since I have access to the office gym. Food is harder. DH loves his junk food. He's supportive of me doing what I want but he wants his chips and pizza and it's hard for me not to share.
2. What are your nutrition goals for this week? Eat more fruits and vegetables.
3. What are your fitness goals for the week? Do core/ball exercises three days this week.
4. What have you struggled with this week/ biggest hurdles? I am not a morning person. Getting up an extra 45 minutes early on Wednesday and Friday to work out is really hard for me, especially with how tired I have been. We got up early Wednesday, but didn't manage to Friday.
Me: 40 DH: 47
Married: 10/2015
DSD: 17
BFP #1: 6/2/15, ectopic, metho 7/15
BFP #2: 12/4/15, cp 12/7/15
BFP #3: 8/5/16, MMC discovered 9/1, Misoprostol 9/19
BFP #4: 5/10/17, EDD 1/20/2018
Baby boy born January 12, 2018, 6 lbs 3.3 oz, 20.5 in.
1) I'm still riding the high of ovulating at a semi-normal time and having good timing so I don't feel as bad about my body as I typically do. I'm not sure why but these 10 lbs will not budge and I hate them!
2) I need to eat more veggies at lunch time. I'm good about having protein and veggies at dinner but lunch I struggle to eat much green. Like today I have chili...wonderful for the cool New England day but no color in this meal (well except red of course)
3) I had three really good workouts last week but I would prefer 5. My biggest thing is I'd like to workout so hard that I actually sweat. It takes A LOT to make me sweat, like I've had a pit stain in a shirt once in my life and I was kinda proud of myself. I didn't even really sweat through my uniform when I played college basketball and not to be cocky but I played a lot, just didn't really sweat.
4) My biggest hurdle is going to be not indulging in too much sweet stuff. I got asked to go out for girls night dessert on Wednesday night and it's DHs birthday on Friday so of course will have dessert in the house (I'm thinking I'll try my hand at a chocolate/peanut butter pie). DH doesn't like fruit pies and he's not huge into cake so I struggle to think of what to make him.
Married 7/13
TTC #1 since 10/13
BFP 2/4/15, MC twin boys at 18w3d 5/15
IUI #1 2/25/16
2. I want to eat at home, and eat lots of homemade vegetable soups and green salads. My goal is to ALWAYS have a pot of homemade soup on hand so I'm not tempted to grab something convenient but stupid.
3. I mapped out a good 2 mile walk in our neighborhood. I want to do that walk at least 5 times this week.
4. Netflix is the enemy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2/3.) This week is going to be tough. Have a bunch of social events during the week and Im going away for a wedding this weekend. I wanted to work out a lot during the beginning of the week to offset it but now I am coming down with a cold so probably won't make it to barre 4x this week. Just going to do the best that I can though.
4.) Still feel the need to treat myself too much. Treated myself to a frosty after blood work last week and if Im hungry late at night sometimes I will grab another ice cream sandwich. So I have to work on treating myself and my sweet tooth.
1. How are you feeling? Any progress to report? Bah!
I'm scared to step on scale. My Heavy Chloe clothes still fit, so I'm concentrating on that. I sent a bunch of size 6/8 suits to Goodwill and DH asked if I was sure I would never wear them again. First of all, it's super rare to see women wearing actual pant suits these days in my professional circle, so no. Second of all, I haven't fit in a size 6 this decade, so I think we are good there.
2. What are your nutrition goals for this week? More salads, fewer carbs. No sugar.
3. What are your fitness goals for the week? Work out 5 days this week.
4. What have you struggled with this week/ biggest hurdles? Honestly my biggest struggle is prioritizing working out. It's just so hard for me these days. I'd love to do Crossfit again or try Orange Theory, but I know I'm gonna get a BFP and be barely functional afterwork.
My RE called and my TSH actually went up even though my dose doubled. So frustrating! It's at close to 3, which isn't awful, but she wants me under 2.5. I'm pretty sure that my poor exercise habits are contributing.
2. What are your nutrition goals for this week? Already planning ahead for this week made some yogurt and fruit breakfasts and prepped a bunch of salad stuff for lunches, have blue aprons for dinner. Snacks of nuts and fruit for midday. Have to keep drinking my water so I filled a bunch of jugs with water and green tea for the day.
3. What are your fitness goals for the week? This is a tough one considering it's my bday and there is so much going on. My goal will be to hit the gym on Tues and Weds for spin and pilates. Really want to motivate to go on some short runs but I just can't right now. soon!
4. What have you struggled with this week/ biggest hurdles? This week I had no motivation to work out at all. This week it is my birthday, so we will go out on Thurs and Sat with friends.
@PleaseSendPicklesNow love soups in the fall! What kind do you make? I love my curried lentil with spinach and kale with white beans. I should get to making some next week.
ttc July 2015 ~ bfp Nov 2015 (cp)
bfp Dec 2015 ~ (tfmr 17wk, March 2016, genetic disease)
ttcal May 2016
My hypochondria went into overdrive when I read that liver disease could cause Synthroid not to work. I have drank my fair share in my 20s and 30's and so now I'm freaking out about that. I don't have any symptoms So DH and my mom are both trying to talk me down.
Let me know if you ever want to chat thyroid stuff - I've spent a lot of time reading about it over the last couple years. I know there are a good handful of other people on this board with hypothyroidism too.
TSH is the hormone produced by your pituitary gland that tells your thyroid to make more or less thyroid hormones. As your T4 levels drop, your pituitary gland makes more TSH to stimulate your thyroid. It's more sensitive to changes than T3 and T4 levels - a change of around 1 or so in T4 levels produces a 10-fold (roughly) change in TSH levels. That's why it's used to screen for hypothyroidism rather than the thyroid hormones themselves. So, as thyroid function decreases, your T4 levels can be normal, but if your TSH is high, it means your brain is telling you thyroid "Make more! Make more! Wake up!", while your thyroid gland keeps hitting the snooze button for five more minutes.
Thyroid peroxidase antibodies (TPO) and anti-thyroglobulin antibodies (TGAb) are two antibodies that are produced when your immune system attacks and destroys your thyroid tissue. This attack can (and often does) occur gradually over time in people with Hashi's (as in, can take years). If you have positive antibodies over a certain threshold, you have Hashi's. The treatment is the same regardless, although it does mean you need to be monitored at least yearly once you find a stable dosage to make sure your thyroid function is stable. I asked to be screened for antibodies because I wanted the most information possible.
For me personally, my PCP screened my thyroid as part of a pre-TTC check up. TSH came back at 6 with normal T4. After waiting three months to check again, TSH went up to 9 with still normal T4. I was diagnosed with subclinical hypothyroidism and Hashi's and went on Synthroid. It took probably 6 months to get my TSH down below 2 for TTC, and then every time I got pregnant and then MC, it threw my body out of whack and my dosage went up. I'm now on 150 mcg daily, which is a full replacement dose for my body weight. My Endo thinks that's why my last TSH draw was at a "perfect" 1.0, and it's why she thinks my next draw will be stable. She basically thinks my immune system was progressively damaging my thyroid, causing the weird TSH fluctuations, and she thinks it has now completely damaged my thyroid and I have no function left to lose. We'll see what happens when I get off my ass and get it rechecked.
FWIW, while your TSH is above goal, it's not horrible. I think most REs will let patients cycle with a TSH up to 4 as long as they are actively treating it. As long as your T4 levels are normal, you have enough thyroid hormone in your system and should be OK. You just will need to up your dose ASAP after a BFP (around 25-30% increase is normal). My doctor has me do this before I even get in to check my TSH levels after a BFP.
Also, despite all this rigmarole, my Endo, OB, and PCP don't think it played a role in my losses. And my Endo did a residency in OBGYN before going onto Endo, so she has a lot of experience managing hypothyroidism in pregnancy.
ETA: my doctors have said that a weight change of 20lb in either direction warrants a TSH check. So it's possible you may just need a higher dose because of that. But it could be a combo of factors.