Getting Healthy for IVF

Today's exercise - check! Love hiking down into this little canyon.

We’re doing IVF again before too long (January), and since I’ve been back from California, I’ve been feeling like I need to get as healthy as I can in the intervening time. Thus, my somewhat scientific list:

Things To Do Each Day to Get Healthier

• Thyroid medication/prenatal vitamin – I am the worst pill taker in the world. Must have it on a chart to check off or it will not happen. Hypothyroidism is one of the things I was diagnosed with last winter in my fertility work-up
• 2 cups tea max – Love caffeine and I can officially drink it until my cycle starts, but it won’t hurt to go off, right? Next week it’s 1 cup, then 1/2, then zilch
• Healthy breakfast, lunch and dinner – Meaning lots of vegetables, whole wheat bread, brown rice, as little processed/packaged food as humanly possible. I’ve also been feeling a little anti-meat, so that may work its way in there as well. Having a really hard time losing the IVF weight I gained the last 3 cycles…it’s not that much weight, but still would be good to start this next cycle back where I was before all this went down
• Meditate – Which I’m not particularly good at doing, mostly because it’s hard to find the time. But if I need help with anything, it’s help with stress
• Work a reasonable workday – I am terrible about overwork. Causes huge amounts of stress. Need to stop that. My goal is 6 hours/day plus or minus
• Hike or yoga – Love hiking. Haven’t really been in the mood for yoga, probably because I haven’t gone in a while. Hope I can break out of that
• 1 glass red wine – Opinions differ on whether alcohol is good or bad fertility-wise. Of course during the actual cycle I’ll go off it, but in the meantime, a glass of wine is such a pleasure
• 1 sweet max – Includes fruit or juice, again trying to lose that IVF weight…

So I’ve got a little chart set up and today’s of course gone great. We’ll see how I hold up a little bit longer term. :)