Minus 6

I've been on a mission to lose weight. There are a million + reasons for me to lose weight, but right now the # 1 motivator is that the more weight I lose, the better it is for making a baby. Baby K is pretty awesome motivation. I've lost about six pounds in the last two weeks and I'm super excited about it! Right now I'm following my doctor's advice by eating a low-carb, high protein diet and by exercising. Here are some recent eats.

Organic chicken with broccoli, yellow bell pepper, carrots and broccoli.

Organic eggs with feta, tomatoes, mushrooms, garlic and fresh parsley.

Hummus and whole wheat crackers for a snack.

Today's lunch/snack: Plain Greek yogurt with walnuts, whole wheat crackers with hummus, organic apple with cheese, salad with organic sliced chicken breast, tomatoes and some cheese.

I feel really great and I hope that the weight keeps coming off. This morning I booked our appointment to meet with our RE to discuss all of our results and I'm ridiculously excited. And nervous. And excited... and did I mention that I'm nervous? I hope that we go in and the doctor gives us instructions for how to prepare for IVF. I am so ready to get this show on the road. I am worried that the doctor will have other concerns or have some devastating news for us. I try not to think about that though.

In other random news-- I am reading this book Simple Abundance (which I love and highly recommend) and one of the tools that the author uses is a "daily dialogue". She recommends using a non-fancy notebook where you can carry on a conversation with yourself to empty your thoughts on to paper. You can write down all of the things that are on the horizon of your brain. I think that everyone has those nights were your brain is running 90 miles an hour and you can't quiet your thoughts.

I have now gotten into the habit of sitting down before bed (or anytime I feel like my thoughts are getting crazed) to write in the notebook. It's amazing what that voice in your head sounds like. I just write and write and it feels great to get the worries and demons out of my head. I have found that I'm sleeping a lot better and I have also been tackling the things that are plaguing me. For example, I found out that two days in a row that I was stressing out about the condition of my kitchen floors. On my day off I scrubbed them and it was one less thing for me to think about.

It may sound weird, but I promise that if you try it for a day or two I think that you'll love it too.