Weighty Issues

I dared to stand on the scale today.

Since late January I've lost about 10 to 11 pounds or so, depending on whose scale you believe. But today I discovered that I am within 1.5 pounds to get back to where I was when I started my last FET last September.

Gone is a large portion of the fat on my ass from my trip to NYC to visit Dr. Hungarian where we enjoyed way too many lovely meals....then Bologna, Italy, where I inhaled everything in sight: pizza, tortelloni in porcini mushroom cream sauce, near-pint-sized servings of gelato, and let's not forget the chocolate....the divine chocolate..... then came Thanksgiving dinner, my birthday dinners (yes plural), and of course all of those boxes of candy from Christmas, pre Christmas dinners, the actual Christmas Eve dinner, etcetera, etcetera, ad nauseaum. It's no wonder why I gained the weight.

I've been doing a 45 minutes to an hour a day on the elliptical trainer, followed by about 15 to 20 minutes of weights. I'm a wimp though. When I am done with cardio I can barely move. I slither off of the elliptical trainer all sweaty and with "bad hair" and am barely able to get my sweatshirt back on. I make my way back downstairs to the weight room, legs trembling, and try to do 15 minutes of weights. That is about all I can do. As for diet/food, I've been laying off of all things white (sugar, flour, rice, potatoes) and eating lots of protein (especially at night). I am thankful that it worked. I pray my eggs have not suffered from the change in my diet and hope that the increased cardio means that more blood has gotten to my ovaries.

Dr. Moustache puts these pages in with his IVF documents that discuss BMI and probability of conceiving. If you're too thin, you don't get preggers. If you're too fat, you don't get preggers. I understand the skinny part of it. Fat produces estrogen and you need estrogen. But if you're heavier, how does that function in infertility? Why is it that BMI screws with an IVF cycle anyways? Anyone? Please pipe in. So my BMI is about 23.4 once again. I am thrilled. No quite in the middle of that safe zone of 20 to 25, or is that 19 to 25? But close enough.

I would love to lose the other 11.5 pounds I've gained in the last six years, but I think I will try to be pleased with the progress I've made. If I could lose the rest of this weight I'd suddenly have access to a huge wardrobe of clothes I've put aside. Stims start Thursday night or Friday morning so I guess I just try to maintain from here on out.

The protocol from the RE is looking like the following:
5 iu Lupron AM & PM
225iu GonalF AM & PM
75iu Menopur AM &/or PM (TBD on Thursday)
10 days of doxycycline before retrieval

The protocol from Dr. S is as follows:
50mcg Synthroid (1X/day)
30mg/.3ml Lovenox AM & PM
30g IVIg on day 2 of Stims and 2 days before transfer
Dexamethazone (1X day) *This is something we're likely to skip out on
Baby Aspirin
Folgard
4g Fish Oil

The protocol from Dr. Hungarian is as follows:
500mg Zithromax 1X/day.

It's hard to keep this all straight in my head.

Dr. Hungarian said "No immune meds!" so he doesn't want me to do Dexamethazone or Humira. Both of which I will be a bit afraid to cycle without. (What is the reason for the steroids anyways? Thalia? Anyone?)

I guess we'll be making a few quick decisions if we have the green light on Thursday.