Check out Pinterest for low carb snacks. So many good ideas. I second avacodo with a little sea salt and olive oil. Yum.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks PP's. I already do low carb and have been for the last 3 weeks now. I limit myself to no more then 50g a day. I also don't eat any fruit at the moment but if I get that craving, I'll have some blueberries or a few strawberries but that hasn't happened in weeks. Right now I'm doing a GNC lean 25 shake for breakfast, lunch is generally a salad with tuna or ham & cheese roll ups with some nuts. Dinner is lean protein (usually grilled chicken or bun less turkey burgers) with veggies (broccoli or green beans). If I crave an afternoon snack, I'll have a unsalted rice cake with natural PB on it or a quest bar. Occasionally I'll have a hard boiled egg if I can stomach it. I'm also drinking tons of water and completely cut out coke (which was an awful habit of mine).

This sounds awful. Eat some fat!

Op here- what would you suggest? Right now I'm doing okay following this but I can see myself getting sick of it quick. I'm not a breakfast eater at all so a shake works for me. I like eating a salad for lunch and it fills me as well as dinner. Snacks (if needed) are either unsalted almonds or cashews or rice cake with PB. I just don't know what else to eat.

Cheese, avocados, nuts, pickles, olives, full-fat greek yogurt (this would be better than the shakes you're doing). Low carb snacks that fill you up and keep your taste buds interested.

Anonymous wrote:I followed a diet as outlined in Endometriosis by Dian Sheppardson Mills and fell pregnant the next month.

I'm going to look into this, thanks!

Anonymous wrote:Aren't shakes and quest bars typically full of fake sugars that aren't necessarily good for dieters?

My endocrinologist looked at the ingredients in the shakes and the bars that I occasionally eat and okayed them. The shakes I drink 5 times a week but the bars I only eat 1-2 times a week.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks PP's. I already do low carb and have been for the last 3 weeks now. I limit myself to no more then 50g a day. I also don't eat any fruit at the moment but if I get that craving, I'll have some blueberries or a few strawberries but that hasn't happened in weeks. Right now I'm doing a GNC lean 25 shake for breakfast, lunch is generally a salad with tuna or ham & cheese roll ups with some nuts. Dinner is lean protein (usually grilled chicken or bun less turkey burgers) with veggies (broccoli or green beans). If I crave an afternoon snack, I'll have a unsalted rice cake with natural PB on it or a quest bar. Occasionally I'll have a hard boiled egg if I can stomach it. I'm also drinking tons of water and completely cut out coke (which was an awful habit of mine).

This sounds awful. Eat some fat!

Op here- what would you suggest? Right now I'm doing okay following this but I can see myself getting sick of it quick. I'm not a breakfast eater at all so a shake works for me. I like eating a salad for lunch and it fills me as well as dinner. Snacks (if needed) are either unsalted almonds or cashews or rice cake with PB. I just don't know what else to eat.

I followed a diet as outlined in Endometriosis by Dian Sheppardson Mills and fell pregnant the next month.

Aren't shakes and quest bars typically full of fake sugars that aren't necessarily good for dieters?

Anonymous wrote:Thanks PP's. I already do low carb and have been for the last 3 weeks now. I limit myself to no more then 50g a day. I also don't eat any fruit at the moment but if I get that craving, I'll have some blueberries or a few strawberries but that hasn't happened in weeks. Right now I'm doing a GNC lean 25 shake for breakfast, lunch is generally a salad with tuna or ham & cheese roll ups with some nuts. Dinner is lean protein (usually grilled chicken or bun less turkey burgers) with veggies (broccoli or green beans). If I crave an afternoon snack, I'll have a unsalted rice cake with natural PB on it or a quest bar. Occasionally I'll have a hard boiled egg if I can stomach it. I'm also drinking tons of water and completely cut out coke (which was an awful habit of mine).

This sounds awful. Eat some fat!

I was going to say to follow a diabetic diet, but then I read you are a diabetic. I have PCOS and a lower carb diet is what worked best for my hormone imbalance caused by too much fat.

Thanks PP's. I already do low carb and have been for the last 3 weeks now. I limit myself to no more then 50g a day. I also don't eat any fruit at the moment but if I get that craving, I'll have some blueberries or a few strawberries but that hasn't happened in weeks. Right now I'm doing a GNC lean 25 shake for breakfast, lunch is generally a salad with tuna or ham & cheese roll ups with some nuts. Dinner is lean protein (usually grilled chicken or bun less turkey burgers) with veggies (broccoli or green beans). If I crave an afternoon snack, I'll have a unsalted rice cake with natural PB on it or a quest bar. Occasionally I'll have a hard boiled egg if I can stomach it. I'm also drinking tons of water and completely cut out coke (which was an awful habit of mine).

Low carb is the best for insulin resistant people.

Introduce a lot more non-starchy vegetables in your diet. You have to be careful with fruit because it has a lot of sugar (as I'm sure you already know). If Keto worked for you, re start that again.

Can you try to go back on keto or low carb but be prepared with recipes so you don't just eat eggs and bacon? I am not diabetic but always had irregular periods, long history of diabetes in my family and probably on the spectrum of insulin resistant. I got pregnant in 3 months once we started trying and I had been doing keto for almost a year before that to lose weight for my wedding. Being diabetic and insulin resistant, low carb is going to be the best way to lose weight for you. Get a crock pot to make it easy. Reddit has a huge Keto community with grocery lists and recipes to start.

Weight watchers? A lot of people I know have had success on it and it seems focused on maintenance and a balanced diet, which will be important if you are TTC.

Hubby and I met with an RE this past week and will be starting fertility meds in the next 2 months once we get blood works and ultrasounds and all that done. I have PCOS and really struggle to lose weight. I would like to lose 40-50 lbs to help with us TTC. I understand I may not lose it all before potentially getting pregnant but want to get the ball running.

I tried Keto in the spring and lost 10 lbs in 2 weeks but fell off the wagon with that as I found it really limiting. I got sick of eggs so fast to the point where they were making me gag and I don't like bacon at all. I do have type 2 diabetes that is very well managed (last week my A1C came back at 5.5) but I try to limit my carbs as my body just doesn't handle high carbs very well.

I'm ideally wanting a simple meal plan that's around 1200 calories a day that will help me lose weight but also be maintainable too.

I appreciate any help!