The Road Less Traveled

At our April appointment, as I said last time, we began the weight loss journey to a healthy me and hopefully that would lead to a healthy pregnancy. So for a month I counted calories and fat. Between 1100 and 1300 calories a day and no more than 20 gm of fat a day (the fat part is WAY harder). Keeping my food diary after every meal and calculating what to eat, looking up everything before I would buy it/order it. Soon found out that the fat was what I needed for focus on! I would be at 19 gm of fat and only 800 calories. WELL POO! Gotta find something fat free to eat for diner-which is nearly impossible to do and find something that would fill you up!  So I go in for my May weight check with the doctor. Scales say 10 pounds down! YEPPIE! On top of that, my body had done something it hadn't done in about 10 years. I had a normal cycle without the help of any medications. That was a crazy feeling! To know that with just 10 pounds, my body had started to remember- OH YEAH I am s...

The journey we have been on so far has already been 2 years and at this point, the end is not in sight-yet. For two years we have been trying to start our family. I decided to begin blogging about it because it has helped me to see I am not the only one struggling so I am hoping to be that inspiration to someone else. My husband and I met in 2011, got engaged in 2012 and got married in 2013. We decided to wait a year to start "trying" to have a baby so I stayed on birth control for the first year we were married. I had been on birth control since I was 19 years old because of menstrual migraines. I took the one that you only had a period every three months and gave you a low dose of hormones on you period week to prevent your hormones from bottoming out and causing the migraines. I had no reason to fret over not having a period every month so I enjoyed the freedom of taking the pill every morning and only having to deal with the "monster" every three months. Never ...