No more sugar :-(

September 27, 2012:  Cycle Day 27:  So I decided today, actually since I left the acupuncturist's office, that I was going to give cutting out sugar a try again.  After I took Brad to school today I decided to go by the store and get some healthy food to eat.

Here's a sneak peek at my buggy:

In the cart there is Tortilla chips and Wholly Guacamole, baby spinach, a low-calorie ranch salad dressing with omega-3 in it, bananas, oranges, a small container of Simply Orange orange juice, baby carrots, a shrimp fried rice kit, organic brown eggs, salted butter, Swiss cheese, plain Greek yogurt with hone, and preservative free honey ham and chicken, buried under the cheese.  I also got a gluten-free frozen pizza and a couple of bags of steam fresh vegetables after I snapped this picture.

I ran into two people that I know at the store from church and ended up telling them about Brian and I doing fertility treatments.  I don't know why I have shared with so many people this time, but most people are really supportive and say that they will pray for me, so that can't hurt right?

After the store I came home and made myself some scrambled eggs with ham and cheese along with a slice of gluten-free toast with butter.  This was really good and had over 35 grams of protein, which is what the acupuncturist said that I need to be eating a lot of.  It kept me full from 8:00 a.m. until about 2:00 p.m. so that's a good thing.

I split the frozen gluten-free pizza with Brian for lunch and snacked on some tortilla chips and salsa while I was waiting for it to be done.  I had some grapes before supper since we ate so late tonight, again, but this time for a different reason.  For supper I made a recipe I found on Pinterest for Alice Springs Chicken like Outback.  It was really good.  We had that and baked potatoes.  I ate half a potato, but all of my chicken.  In the future, should I choose to eat they way the acupuncturist says, I will be buying organic meat as well as eggs.

I have had no sugar today so far.  I did have a really bad headache earlier and had to take a nap for 30 minutes to feel better.  I have been drinking lots of water today.  I'm a little worried because I know that I should have done all of these things, i.e. getting off sugar, eating more protein as well as a healthier diet, and findings more ways to relax such as acupuncture and meditation before I got this far along in my IVF process, but as Betty and the acupuncturist have told me, you can't go around focusing on what you did wrong in the past, you can only change it from this point forward and do better, so I am trying not to beat myself up too much about it.

Well, I'm off to watch a little TV and relax before taking my meds and calling it a night.  Tomorrow we will see how the follicles are doing.