If you are starting your fertility diet, I recommend you ease yourself into it, eliminating one or two “stressful” food items, such as caffeine and alcohol, at a time. After about two weeks, eliminate another one or two additional items, such as sugar and overly processed foods. It can take up to two or three weeks of strictly abstaining from a food item to begin to lose the craving for that item. So give yourself and your body time to adjust.
A list of other tips for starting a fertility diet can be found in these two previous blogs: Fertility Diet Tips and Top 5 Fertility Diet Tips.
To support your mind and your emotions as you make this journey, and also to help relieve the inevitable stress, I recommend daily meditations and visualizations. For these I recommend the following:
Circle + Bloom™ has a fantastic set of mind-body meditation products tailored to your cycle (natural or IVF) to help you achieve pregnancy. I’ve even reviewed one of their products in this blog. It takes only about 15 minutes a day. Check it out.
I also highly recommend the CD of visualizations by Julia Indichova, the author of Inconceivable, which can be found at her Fertile Heart Community. I recommend all her work, including her workshops at her home in Woodstock, NY. She’s amazing at helping women and men tap into the mind-body link to bust through emotional blocks and clear paths toward parenthood. Her visualizations will take you 10 minutes a day at the most. Very doable.
Changing how you eat and incorporating daily meditations and visualizations is already a lot of positive change. I would also recommend working in one additional modality: Yoga 4 Fertility, and for this I recommend Brenda Strong’s DVD. If you can squeeze in two sessions a week, I believe this helps too.
Congratulations on making a fresh start. Let me know how it goes! I love to hear from you.
OTHER NEWS
On December 16, 2010 I was on the Surrogacy Lawyer Radio Program along with Carolyn Gundell, a nutritionist at RMACT to chat all about nutrition and fertility. To listen in, click here http://www.voiceamerica.com/voiceamerica/vepisode.aspx?aid=50734.
We have two events coming up in March. The first is a book-signing on Sunday, March 6, 2011 with the fantastic group: http://bayareafamilywellness.com/. They will be doing an all-day fertility event. More details coming soon on our Events page.
The second will be an amazing Fertility Focus Tele-Summit conference you can attend by telephone that will be taking place the entire week of March 21, 2011. I will be one among many, many fertility experts talking about ways to optimize fertility and achieve pregnancy. More details coming soon on our Events page.
We hope you can attend one of these events, and get support and inspiration on your journey. Above all else, remember to be kind to yourself.
photo by: http://blog.foodnetwork.com/healthyeats/2011/01/01/have-a-happy-healthy-new-year/
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