Fertility Foods

[GeekMaker]

If this has been done before, I apologize and also have no issue with someone just linking me to an older thread on it.

I am wondering what foods are good for TTC. I have been eating black beans, having tea (green, mint, or raspberry depending on mood but green daily). Well I mean I eat more than that but those are what I have seen can help. Plus I just want to be healthier anyhow.

I also noticed once I started eating better and drinking tea daily...my period came and they said my cyst shrank almost a full cm so I do think it helped.

What do you ladies (or your guys) eat/drink while TTC to be healthier?

 

[Kitana]

I ate normally but cut back on the coffee. I used to have 3 cups of coffee each morning but I had switched it to decaf the month I got my bfp.
I barely drink alcohol and I only snack like once or twice a day. I did work out 2 or 3 times a week.
I think food and weight is so important in having good functioning hormones and body.
Good luck hun!x

 

[SockVortex]

I am an obsessive planner so we started healthy eating and exercising about two years before we started trying to conceive. It was a lot of changes made slowly, like joining a gym together and religiously going two times a week but once we got used to it it became easy. (Easier for me than D who is a snackaholic! Lol).

More recently I've switched from caffeinated tea to decaf and then lowered my cups of decaf and replaced them with water. We drink nothing else just tea (my husband drinks two cups of coffee) and water.

Alcohol is the exception but even then it's a glass of gin or something on a Friday night or a cider if it's someone's birthday.

In regard to food, we try and keep to a balanced diet. We eat out maybe once or twice a month and fill our fridge with vegetables. We're adventurous cooks so we like to make our own sauces and curries etc from scratch. We also cook our own lunches to take to work every day and our snacks are fruit and nuts.

I didn't look too hard into foods that were good when trying to conceive as I didn't want to add any more pressure to an already stressful experience but I think as long as you keep your portions sensible (we weigh out meat and rice for example) and you make sure there's lots of veggies on your plate, you're doing good

 

[GeekMaker]

Thank you so much! I didnt wanna like obsess over it but I am trying to make some changes. I had done pretty well (while not TTC) until my sister passed away last spring. Then I lost it...and gained some weight too. So I was slowly making changes again but wanna make better changes than I had been.

 

[chattychar1990]

Hey geek. Here a few I introduced
Veg - asparagus and spinach
Fish - salmon is a brilliant one.
Snacks - pomegranates and nuts apart from peanuts. X

 

[SugaryIris]

I read about the SOS diet

Salmon (or anything with omega 3s, protein and fish)
Olive oil (a Mediterranean diet, lots of veg, tomatoes etc)
Spinach (anything green)

 

[Sunflower1]

Eating more alkaline food like vegetables is good, and less processed food. There are books on fertiity foods. Berries are good too and two doses of oily fish a week. It's good to limit caffeine. Even green tea is caffeinated so make sure you don't have too much. And staying hydrated is important.

 

[GeekMaker]

Thank you ladies!!! Yes I am trying to be careful with caffeine and lots of water of course. I dont let myself have more than 2 cups a day (using the same teabag). Which is wayyyy less than I was having before for caffeine! lol Thats been my hardest thing to kick.

 

[Bambi42]

Thank you ladies!!! Yes I am trying to be careful with caffeine and lots of water of course. I dont let myself have more than 2 cups a day (using the same teabag). Which is wayyyy less than I was having before for caffeine! lol Thats been my hardest thing to kick.

I did a fertility diet for quite a few months which involves cooking everything, eating 5 portions of veg (green veg like spinach) and 3 portions of fruit a day. I stopped coffee altogether and ate pulses lentil soup), nuts and eggs for breakfast.
I’ll see if I can find you the link, my acupuncturist gave me it. To be honest I felt great for eating well AND tmi but it’s really important that your digestive system works ie you go for a poo regularly. All the veg & fruit certainly made that happen! Like someone else said fish that is rich in omega 3 like salmon is excellent.
I plan to continue this when we get settled in a new house again.

Good luck x

 

[Bambi42]

I did a fertility diet for quite a few months which involves cooking everything, eating 5 portions of veg (green veg like spinach) and 3 portions of fruit a day. I stopped coffee altogether and ate pulses lentil soup), nuts and eggs for breakfast.
I’ll see if I can find you the link, my acupuncturist gave me it. To be honest I felt great for eating well AND tmi but it’s really important that your digestive system works ie you go for a poo regularly. All the veg & fruit certainly made that happen! Like someone else said fish that is rich in omega 3 like salmon is excellent.
I plan to continue this when we get settled in a new house again.

Good luck x

Thank you ladies!!! Yes I am trying to be careful with caffeine and lots of water of course. I dont let myself have more than 2 cups a day (using the same teabag). Which is wayyyy less than I was having before for caffeine! lol Thats been my hardest thing to kick.

Here you go.

Acubalance Fertility Diet | Acubalance Wellness Centre

I did my best with the recipes but in the end I found it easier to just list the foods I liked and eat those in what I guessed to be the right portions. Nuts are my mid afternoon snacks ....not a patch on a chocolate digestive! I also take COQ10 to improve my egg quality ....which is what the fertility diet is meant to do.
X

 

[GeekMaker]

OHHH! thank you thank you!