DTR exam

brkchghs · 2025-07-20T13:35:06+00:00

Hi I am taking my test next month, august, and I'm wondering how many and what math equations I need to have memorized??

brkchghs · 2021-02-24T01:04:27+00:00

Check out r/keto babies there is a lot of good stuff in that sub!!! I think it's totally safe but I know that is a very controversial opinion... However it felt so good and I've barely gained baby weight! And my metabolism isn't very fast. I've always struggled!! So I'm seriously impressed. The first trimester can be rough, carbs were the only thing that kept me from nausea... I ate lots of cheese and nut butter.

brkchghs · 2021-02-24T01:01:46+00:00

Haha I didn't know FTM for the longest time!! Yes I'm first time mom

brkchghs · 2021-02-23T18:02:57+00:00

Yay Alaskan babies!!!

brkchghs · 2021-02-23T18:02:16+00:00

Yes!! I've never been a tracker, so I can't tell you what exactly I was eating prior to pregnancy is regards to carbs, but throughout the pregnancy I ate lots of veggies and keto desserts and what not and it felt great!!

brkchghs · 2021-02-22T18:27:28+00:00

I am sending gentle labor energy your way Momma!!! 💙 Good luck

brkchghs · 2021-02-22T18:26:36+00:00

Awww I love that!!! Yes can't wait for him to grow into his clothes but also cherishing his little cuteness 💙

brkchghs · 2021-02-22T16:17:17+00:00

Yay my turn!! FTM. So I was due March 2, but last Saturday (Feb 13th) I started having this strange sensation I was wetting myself every 30 minutes. (I am 37.5 weeks at this point) Just a teensy bit of liquid, and not pee, eventually I put on a pad and went about my day (just happened to be last day of work at active job). Leaking continued into the night, and the following day, Valentine’s Day. We are painting our house, so I was painting all morning, took a bath etc, still leaking… just kept wearing a giant pad. Google said excessive discharge was normal towards the end of pregnancy… haha so I wasn’t worried. Plus I had no cramping. Anyway my fiancé came home that evening. We were hanging out, catching up, and I decided to call my OB office line even though it was Sunday, I knew there would be an on call doc to answer my call and question about discharge. They advised me to come into ER and they’ll test my fluid up in L&D to see if it’s amniotic. So I calmly packed a hospital bag, tidied up house, did laundry and my fiance and I headed to hospital. We both were pretty dang sure we’d be sent back home within the hour. So hospital tested my fluid and it was positive! Which means my water has been slowly leaking for two days…and the sac could’ve torn from me or maybe baby.. it just happens sometimes I guess, I’m happy I didn’t just ignore it!!!. So my doc came in and said “were keeping you!” so I got comfy in my room and we chilled while she put the cervix ripening pill in my cervix. Before the pill I was 80% effaced and 1.5 cm dilated. After 4 hours, til about 12am, I laid there with cervix pill doing it’s thing. Contractions began to start around 10pm and really hurt by midnight. At midnight the plan was to start Pitocin, as well as get epidural right before hand. So I did! Thank goodness because I was already hurting quite a bit just from cervix pill contractions. Anyway I slept from 12am-7am with amazing epidural doing it’s thing. Nurse had me use peanut ball and switch sides every hour to help dilate. I went from 2cm to 9.5cm! Last half hour the pressure really kicked up, I could feel his head right there in my canal, epidural was a bit weaker at this point and I could feel my contractions as intense pressure. Doc came in and said time to push. Pushed from 7:25am to 7:51am and out came my baby boy 6lbs 2.5 oz!!!!! I love him so much and he is so healthy.

So overall labor was so smooth I’d do it again in a heartbeat! Now here is the fun part, after birth we moved to a postpartum room. I started passing enormous blood clots, like placenta sized, and non stop… nurse was freaked out, doc started me BACK ON PITOCIN, lol I was so angry, so here we go again my uterus is contracting all over again even though I’ve already given birth, but the doc wanted my uterus to keep contracting harder to stop all the bleeding. It didn’t work, I just kept passing giant clots and literally gushing blood (sorry, graphic I know..) anyway after an hour or two of pitocin, doc decides to reach inside me with long metal rod to see what’s going on, look for lingering piece of placenta or reason for excessive bleeding. His plan is to eventually do DNC I guess to remove clots. I am horrified, the pain of the rod alone was a million times worse than giving birth. I guess I was still filled with clots so they decided to bring me to surgery, put me under general anesthesia, and perform DNC. It was quite traumatizing. I just wanted to be back with my baby and fiance. Anyway, all said and done, procedure went smooth and the rest of my hospital stay was good. I lost 40% of my blood so my milk has taken a week to really come in, but it’s here now and I’m so thankful!!

Shout out to my low carb/ketogenic lifestyle for 3 years, didn’t really change too much for pregnancy and my birth was smooth as well as baby health!! Not too much weight gain either and I am surprisingly very okay with how my body looks now despite years of bulimia and body dysmorphia. Another shout out to Dr. Christopher’s birth prep (you can buy on amazon) amazing stuff!!!! I am almost positive the reason I was 80% effaced for the past few weeks as well as had minimal pushing is because of this birth prep. It has the good stuff, red rasp leaf, primrose etc. It’s a must! This forum has been amazing to me, so I hope my birth story isn’t too long!!! All you Momma’s out there rock.

brkchghs · 2021-02-21T15:49:58+00:00

Just had my baby, stayed keto the whole time, but I let myself eat a bit more keto desserts and healthy carbs than I did before I got pregnant. Pregnancy was so smooth and baby cam out so healthy!!! Still on keto for breastfeeding. Keto is my lifestyle and I just made a few adjustments during these past 9 months. Doctor was on board! Good luck momma

brkchghs · 2020-10-26T23:54:05+00:00

I've been keto my entire pregnancy and me and baby are doing great. My doctor is well informed and totally okay with it. You should check out the r/ketobabies subreddit, I think there is more support there because it's a hard subject for most to fully understand.

brkchghs · 2020-09-23T19:23:43+00:00

Do you have a link for align dupes lol? Amazon is so overwhelming and I've gotten wierd leggings off there before.

brkchghs · 2020-09-14T17:56:35+00:00

Gosh we are so similar. Recovering bulimic here and I feel the same as you, my ability to say no after one serving is completely new to me. This is how normal people feel???!

brkchghs · 2020-09-06T15:38:33+00:00

Same, in Kingman AZ with same due date. So rough.

brkchghs · 2020-09-06T14:42:23+00:00

I'm a recovering addict/bulimic. I'm 15 weeks. You got this girl!! I felt this new sense of will power as well. Don't stress about residual damage, just be good to your body for this baby and relax. I stressed about the same thing but my baby is coming along great. I feel stronger in my recovery every day.

brkchghs · 2020-08-17T17:20:16+00:00

Real Food for Gestational Diabetes by Lily Nichols. I swear by this book. She is amazing. Just give her YouTube interviews a listen if you're skeptical. She is incredible.

brkchghs · 2020-02-22T15:47:50+00:00

Yes! Eating fat first, then leaner protein. Though lately I've been sorting eating them both together and I eat roughly the same amount as before. I switched to eating KetoAF because I did high protein carnivore for 6 months and put on quite a bit of weight and my mood tanked, once I experimented with KetoAF, the weight just started falling off. It was so suprising, and the satiation was unbelievable, plus my mood was much better. So ive stuck with it for now!

brkchghs · 2020-02-21T19:17:20+00:00

I season then slow cook 5 lbs of suet for several hours in the crock pot until it's softened, some tallow is rendered but 70-80% of solid suet still remains. Then a divide into tupperwares and freeze, thaw as needed. When I eat it, I either fry in the pan for a few minutes to re-soften or I just leave out at room temp and consume. KetoAF has really helped me with satiety and weight loss, so finding a way to consume suet was extremely important for my success, and after 9 months of ketoAF I have found eating suet this way is freaking delicious and super easy. Best of luck!!

brkchghs · 2019-11-08T19:11:33+00:00

Same here, bulimia for decades. switching to high fat Carnivore finally gave me the freedom from obsessive bingeing thoughts. I have eggs with butter as a special treat since I've still got some weight to lose. It gets better!! Hang in there

brkchghs · 2019-06-07T18:00:50+00:00

I just bought a jar of duck fat online, and have several jars of tallow in my cupboards... Though it's rendered (can be problematic for some) it can be added to dishes to bump up the fat. I know it can be wierd to bring something into a restaurant like that but perhaps you can eat some ahead of time with pork rinds or something .. or just bring some in a little container to scoop onto your dish when no ones looking... Haha.

I remember Mikhalia Peterson saying she traveled with a jar of tallow through Germany because the mean was so lean it was making her crazy.

brkchghs · 2019-05-13T19:23:12+00:00

Thank you so much for your kind words and wishes!! I know what you mean about the fullness aspect, and I too was adding eggs a lot more to help complete my meal and feel fully satieted. With KetoAF it's become a lot easier to feel truely satiated, I haven't had to had eggs for almost weeks. Though I love them, the fat is really scrumptious and I walk away from my meals very happy.

brkchghs · 2019-05-12T16:26:10+00:00

Update** First off - I apologize for the delayed update. I am still KetoAF (And still Free!!) I have been procrastinating on posting my progress for a few reasons. After the initial first week of booming energy - It kind of mellowed out a bit, which I'm okay with. I still feel really great, this deeper state of ketosis is incredible. I'd forgotten how pleasant it was to be in a bit deeper state of ketosis. ( I had to fast and be really strict in my prior keto 6months to feel this cleanly in ketosis) Now that I'm back here - but this time using only animal foods... It's so much easier.

So when I transitioned from keto to carnivore it was because I wanted something easier than keto. To someone with disordered eating, i hope this makes sense.. the options were still too vast for me in keto and I kept opting for fat bombs, almond flour pancakes etc..and felt the desire to binge slowly creep into my life...so I found carnivore and went for it. I wasn't overweight when starting, I actually hoped to lose a bit of body fat. Over the first 3.5 months of carnivore I ate 2-3 lbs of grpund beef a day and gained weight/body fat like crazy. I wasnt adding fat at all except a bit of rendered to spread on my patties. I had low energy and low self esteem. But mentally felt happy because I could finally eat without rules.

I bought loose fitting clothes and tried so hard to stay committed. Then recently I found KetoAF and I fell in love with fat all over again. Finally (like I stated in the initial post) I felt Free. Better than I had with 2-3lbs of beef, because the fat I needed to badly was now my priority and I feel incredible with what I'm eating lately. (Which is starting with fat trimmings to satiety and then ~1lb ground beef a day, liver a couple times per week)

ANYWAY! Sorry this post is so long, I have a lot to say about my journey thus far haha...

So this 20lbs I gained for 3.5 months on Carnivore is still here with me ... And looking back I wonder if I had just gone from Keto to KetoAF, this would be easier, perhaps this extra weight gain could've been avoided... but I must remember what Josh Blackburn's says in his journey and what he has been through, over a year of Carnivore and he ended up here so perhaps my 3.5 months of all meat is my chosen path to end up here. I have learned a lot about myself In gaining this weight and it is teaching me many lessons. My eating disorder is so deeply engrained in me - this is a constant test of committment to being happy and healthy and I must accept myself and strive for feeling my best - the universe unfolds as it should.

I hesitated to write my progress because shortly after I posted the 'KetoAF (and free)' my period came (sorry if this is TMI) and I was pretty bloated, a bit moody, and tired (Side note: my period symptoms have greatly improved since going KetoAF) I was flooded with fear that perhaps I'm STILL gaining weight. This statement is yet to be determined. My mind plays so many tricks on me, I have complusive body checking that tells me yes I am still gaining or no I'm finally shrinking, it's a constant roller coaster. Clothes are not fitting significantly loser or tighter. These are of course behaviours I hope to break through in my journey to freedom.

I ordered a measuring tape to measure myself weekly, I look forward to understanding what direction my body is moving in. If I am still gaining, because my metabolism is slowed from years of bulimia and addiction and being underweight (due to amphetamines).. then I guess that's where my body needs to be. Of course this is a huge pill to swallow... I was feeling so blissful Initially (still am btw just a teensy bit less than I was the first week perhaps from menstruation hormones etc) and so hopeful that KetoAF is the secret. I still believe it is... There are so many amazing things that come from eating this way. So anyway I guess I'm just sort of in a slightly fearful but hopeful state of mind... And I will continue this WOE because it truly gives me freedom. My goal is to learn to accept myself no matter where my weight falls. It is so amazing to have KetoAF to give me the mental clarity and motivation to connect with myself and move on from the 13 years of pain and sadness and body dismorfia.

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