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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JoKalsbeek" data-source="post: 2265561" data-attributes="member: 401801">Since you guys are in a hurry to conceive, go for a ketogenic diet. That's 20 grams of carbs a day or less. She might experience carb-flu for a week or two, meaning she gets a little dehydrated while her body rearranges things, but bone broth, coconut milk and/or mineral and electrolyte supplements should help her get through it. ("It" truly feeling like the flu: aches and pains everywhere, headaches, fatigue. That goes away though!!!). It's the diet I follow, combined with intermittent fasting. Meaning I eat two meals a day, usually. Suggestions that work well are eggs with cheese and bacon, high meat content sausages, maybe a tomato or something. (That's basically no carbs except for a few in the tomato). Full fat greek yoghurt with a couple of berries or a hand full of nuts, maybe some coconut shavings for flavour. A salad with something fatty, like goat's cheese, bacon, salmon, tuna, that sort of thing, will fill and contain little to no carbs. (Dressing would be mayo, apple cider vinegar and/or olive oil. Yum!). Dinner could be meat, fish, poultry and above ground veggies. Just up those portions to compensate for the lack of spuds. With meals like that or similar solutions, keeping to 20 grams of less a day should be a breeze, and she shouldn't feel hungry all the time. For more elaborate meals, there's this site's Low Carb program, meal suggestions on Dietdoctor.com, and you can also google anything, from muffins to cakes and cookies, as long as you add "keto" in the search bar. There's loads of options out there.I didn't know carbs were a problem for me, so I blindly followed the advice I was given to eat more carbs and cut the fats. I ballooned and rushed all that quicker into the T2 that was waiting for me. I was blamed for eating loads while I only had one meal a day at one point, and still kept getting fatter. So yeah... people assume you're bingeing when no-one's watching, or lying about your intake. I believe your wife. I've been her. It can get better than this. There's hope. Oodles of it.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Jo</blockquote>

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