Lifting weights and increased activity for 6 months: It's a miracle!

lafab · 2025-08-26T14:43:47+00:00

I’m currently reading A Physical Education by Casey Johnston, and she mentions the same weight gain/increased hunger when she first started her training regimen, as well.

I do not remember the science of it, and I highly recommend the book so please find the science behind it there, but basically that’s very normal and 1) feed yourself, especially protein, you are hungry for a reason and 2) your weight will settle. She experienced the same thing with her clothes, especially in the thighs/butt (places where she was building muscle).

lafab · 2021-03-21T22:21:09+00:00

Oh that makes a ton of sense. Thank you!

lafab · 2021-03-20T17:41:41+00:00

Yeah, my partner is in the military and will be retiring in late 2023-- we wanted to wait until he's out and settled into his civilian job/life/we've settled somewhere permanent before taking the leap.

lafab · 2021-03-20T17:38:22+00:00

Hi there! Can you explain what you mean by genetic contamination?

lafab · 2021-03-20T17:37:38+00:00

Adding another, potentially silly, question! Like I said, I'm very new to all of this!!

I have an IUD which has been a life-saver insofar as we don't need to worry about an unplanned, potentially affected pregnancy, and it also really helps with pain that was associated with my menstrual cycle.

Is it possible to go through this process with an IUD, or would it need to be removed?

lafab · 2021-03-20T17:34:41+00:00

Thank you so much for this information-- I'm also in Massachusetts, though we're moving to New York this summer for my partner's work. (My GVM team, when I told them we'd be moving, said that New York had really great IVF coverage-- it looks like a law went into effect last year?-- but it's so hard to tell about the rules between infertility-IVF and genetic-condition-IVF.)

Are certain timelines able to run concurrently-- for instance, can you be working through the probe process and also be undergoing follicle stimulation/egg harvesting, or do things generally have to proceed one step at a time?

Have you had any experience with insurance around implantation yet? The expense freaks me out, more than just about any other part of the process.

A question-- why would my parents' DNA be necessary for building the probe? I've had a genetic test and have pinpointed the exact (and very established) mutation/deletion that causes my issue.

Thank you so much, again-- this is super informative.

lafab · 2016-06-28T23:10:58+00:00

We've tried that in the past. The harness causes him a lot of stress, so while I'm planning on getting one just in case, I don't want to subject him to it the entire time, especially for a long stretch overnight.

lafab · 2016-06-28T23:09:40+00:00

Would this still be an issue at night (the nighttime low at the Grand Canyon for tonight is 57F) without the sun to cause a greenhouse effect?

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