03/01/2024
I was afraid I would have trouble getting pregnant…
You may be thinking, “Why? You’re so healthy!” And yes that’s true, but I wasn’t always this way…
Some of you know my story of how growing up I had a terrible diet. But what you might not know is when I went on a High Protein, Low Carb diet to lose weight in 2014, I lost my period…for a year!!! For me missing a period wasn’t all that abnormal. As a collegiate athlete it’s not that uncommon to have irregular periods. So I kept thinking it would come back the next month, and so I delayed going to the OBGYN. But at that point I knew I had to. So I went in and I was informally diagnosed with PCOS and was told I needed to go on birth control otherwise I could get ovarian cancer. Once I heard “cancer” I was like yeah ok let’s do that! So I ended up getting an IUD put in.
Well about 7 months later after still struggling with losing weight, I stumbled upon a Whole Foods Plant Based Diet. I decided to make some changes, and immediately I started to see results. I was so intrigued that I kept studying the benefits of a Plant Based diet. I learned a lot from Dr. John McDougall at the time and in May of 2016, I fully bought in!
So when it came time to take my IUD out 4 years later, I thought surely I’ll get my period back quickly. Well, to my surprise I didn’t. It took nearly a year, but then thankfully I never missed a month after that!
Fast forward another year when I was a few months out from getting married, I decided to get another IUD in. What was different is this time is I actually got my period every month, which was good. But with my past, I was still afraid that I might not be fertile and being 32, I thought wouldn’t help either, and so I didn’t really want to wait any longer. So the beginning of September 2023, we got my IUD taken out but was told we should wait at least a month before we try to reduce our risk of a miscarriage. And so we did. We were careful and I got my period in mid-end September. Well the following month because I was fearful that it would take a while, I felt like we could start trying. And so we did…
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