Eating tips for getting pregnant

[anetski]

I just thought I would post the following information. It may or may not be usefull but it can't hurt. I am originally from Denmark and my mother called me a few months ago telling me about a book called: Eat yourself pregnant, which is about lowering the insulin in your body as this is a direct cause of infertility for some women.

I am following this diet and if it doesn't help me get pregnant than all it can do is make me a little more healthy.
I have stage 1 endo and going through IVF so it thought maybe it could just help it along.

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In the book 'Eat your pregnant', published on Thursday, says dietician Charlotte Hartvig and gynecologist Bjarne Stigsby that women can help one fertilization on the way, if they eat the right diet. It's short for that dropping the food offered increases the body's production of the hormone, insulin.  For large amounts of insulin affects ovarian namely negative and reduces fertility. Every seventh woman has so much insulin that it is the direct cause of that they have trouble conceiving.

Here's expert advice to an insulin-lowering diet:

1) Avoid sugar in sodas, juice, coffee, tea and avoid sweet desserts, sweets and mingy.  Use a sweetener instead.
2) Drop the 'fast' carbohydrates - rice, bread, wheat pasta, oatmeal and potatoes.
3) Eat plenty of "slow" carbohydrates - fruits, vegetables and whole grains
4) Get plenty of protein from meat, poultry, fish, shellfish, eggs, and from rye bread, nuts and legumes.
5) Eat a little more fat - especially unsaturated fats from fish, olive oil, rapeseed oil, avocados, nuts and eggs.
6) Eat fish.
7) Eat a varied diet of the above and especially for dinner.  Supplement with a vitamin-mineral pill with extra folic acid.
8) Do not forget breakfast.  Especially a proteninrig breakfast - for example, cheese bread, fried eggs and ham.
9) Drink up to ½ liters of water a day.  Drink tea in moderation and not more than two cups of coffee a day.  You can also drink artificially sweetened lemonade and diet drinks without grape sugar and a small glass of juice.

[piggy2]

anetski_  I think the diet looks great.  The only thing I would not do is use artificial sweeteners.  I think I would deal with the real sugar instead of the chemical.  Avoiding artificial sweeteners was in my book that I read.  I stopped using them a long time before I was pg and my headaches eased up!!

But I am going to try the rest of the things you mentioned.

[andria_luvs_her_boys]

I forgot to mention did this diet back in 2007 when I conceived my son... I was pregnant the following month!

So now I'm on the diet again....I started it last month (lost 13lbs) and I'm praying to get my BFP this month!!!

[Ladybugbc]

Hi.. Thank you for sharing this. This is some serous stuff. I dont know if I have the wills to do this though. I applaud your courage.

Pls pls pls.. do keep us posted how things are and I will be happy to follow you along through this diet.
Good luck!!!

[andria_luvs_her_boys]

Thanks, this is a good diet to go by... My RE actually puts his patients on this diet! You will will see impressive results! Its not easy, but worth it!!! But whats good about the diet is you can eat anything else without having to limit portion size.... Also bananas and yogurt have a lot of sugars that aren't good for insulin resistance!