New Year...New Me

Here is the first week updates on what is going on.

I have to start with saying this...MY HUSBAND COMES HOME NEXT MONTH!!!!

Next, I have started back with classes...crazy!

Working on getting in shape again.

I have started to take EPO again so we will see how this works out.  I have to take it twice a day with food.

I have also started taking my Prenatal vitamins to ensure that I am getting healthier and I am taking these with an extra Iron pill.  

On top of those three pill I take a tablespoon of guaifenesin and that is found in tussin cough syrup. (YUCK)

I have a friend coming up to visit this week.

Next week I have a meeting for what to expect for when my husband comes home.

I have lots of school work and regular grown-up job work.

Food!

I have to eat a little over 2050 calories a day to keep my weight where I need it to be to be healthy.

I eat almost all day if I can, sometimes it is harder than others.

A normal day will be breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, snack, dinner, snack.

I will eat healthy in the mornings since I cannot have milk or any type of dairy I will eat some type of fruit.

My snacks will be anything from nuts all the way to some type of oats, trail mix, and peanut butter.

This way it is healthy and will last more than just a couple of minutes.

As promised here is a recipe that I made this week:

Mississippi Roast

1 chuck roast (any size that you want)

1 packet of Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing Mix

1 packet of McCormick Au Jus Gravy Mix

4 or 5 Pepperoncinis (hot/spicy, regular, any will do)

1 Stick of butter

What you are going to do is this:

Put your roast in a crock-pot.

  Pour the Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing Mix over roast.

(I made sure that the dressing mix covered all sides of the roast)

You are going to do the same thing with the Au Jus Gravy packet just make sure you get all sides of the roast.

Now, you are going to put those peppers right on top of the roast.

Put the the stick of butter in the middle of the peppers.

Cover and put on low for 7-8 hours if you do not want to wait that long put it on high for 4-5 hours.

"God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless"

Chester Nimitz

Many times there are those that want to give up on HOPE, FAITH, and TRUST.  These are the times that we must hold onto those things.  I have felt that I have lost my HOPE in this struggle.  My FAITH has been tested.  Yet my TRUST in Him is still strong.  I am not saying that my trust has always been there, but I know that He knows that it has and that I have just lost my way.

God knows what I do not know.  There is a lesson to be learned, a path to be found, and struggles to be had before he gives us what we want.  God does not give us what we want, He gives us what we need to understand first.

I have found that He knew my husband was leaving and that I needed to learn patience first. He knew that I would have a hard time, but knew that I needed to find Him and my way.  I have FAITH that everything is going to work.  I have HOPE for the future that will come for my husband, myself, and our family.

A New Year!

I am going to doing a weekly update about food, thoughts, and infertility.  (I hate that word so from now on infertility will be known as pregnancy challenged.)

Here lately my brain has been full of thoughts about my husband coming home SOON!

When he left it was spring, so every time the weather changed I felt like a milestone was made.

Before he left we had been trying to get pregnant for months and no luck.  During that time we tried a few different things, tests, and other stuff.  Then when he left I continued to do different things to increase our chances.

I have completely changed my diet for starters.  I used to eat fast food, fried stuff, a lot of pop, just not anything healthy.  Since he has left I have started taking daily vitamins, no pop, no dairy, nothing fired, and I only eat out once a week or less if I can.  Trying to gain weight to be healthy to see if that will help our chances.  I eat mostly baked items and no red meat if possible, also salads.

Getting asked the question when are you going to have kids, have you thought about kids, do you want kids.  Is very hard.  You can ask my husband every month that we were trying and nothing happened I would break down and say that God hated us.  It seemed like everyone else around us got pregnant right away and with no issues.  Since he has left on this deployment I have gotten closer to God and realized that is not the case.  Everyone gives advice and only He can decide when it is our time.

Taking the stress off when my husband comes home we will be trying again and praying that this time it all works out.  With not a lot of stress and just glad that we have time together.  However, it just so happens that when he will be coming home is when it will be our "time" and hope that it works.  If not we will be on vacation the month after in the beautiful Punta Cana.

The things that we are going to be trying when he comes home are as follows, evening promise oil, pre-seed, drinking guaifenesin, more water, and less stress.  We hope that these things will be able to help us get to where we need to go since the doctors do not know why we are not conceiving.  I will give updates on how this all works weekly.

Enough about that here is a wonderful recipe for baked chicken that I eat almost all of the time.

2 Chicken Breasts

1/2 tablespoon of fresh rosemary

1 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon of pepper

1 teaspoon of lemon zest

1 teaspoon of lemon juice

1 tablespoon of olive oil

1. Preheat the oven to 450

2. Pat the chicken dry

3. Mix rosemary, salt, pepper, zest, juice, and olive oil together.  Then rub mixture all of chicken on all sides.

4.  Put the chicken in a roasting pan breast down.  After 15 minutes of roasting turn to breast side up.  Roast for another 20-35 minutes.  

This is easy as pie.  I put mine with some corn and potatoes.  It is a very quick meal that you can make right after work.  I even make mine a then freeze the other half.  It is very healthy for you too!