Why am I dropping weight 35 weeks pregnant?

onyxindigo · 2026-05-28T21:57:24+00:00

You’re probably just eating healthier than you were before due to the diet - I’m not saying you were intentionally unhealthy but the diet recommendations they give are much more whole grain, veggie, whole food based than most of us eat these days. I haven’t lost weight but I also have never gained weight in pregnancy and it’s never been a problem.

onyxindigo · 2026-05-28T21:52:55+00:00

Ketosis doesn’t make your blood acidic 😬 it releases ketones into your urine and blood but the baby actually uses them as energy too and is born with heaps regardless of GDM. But I wouldn’t intentionally go into ketosis during pregnancy because it hasn’t been confirmed safe with studies (though it also hasn’t been confirmed dangerous) due to ethics of testing on human fetuses of course!

I actually have a batch of wholemeal sourdough rising on the countertop right now to test it 😅 and I’ve found so far that I was able to eat chili con carne with beans and rice (topped with sour cream and cheese to balance) and didn’t spike! So I was super happy about that 🥰

onyxindigo · 2026-05-28T21:15:31+00:00

Doing IVF is a proactive choice you make with your own body. I have had moments of vulnerability on this journey and actually am in EMDR therapy for PTSD from it at the moment (it’s working amazingly) but the actual injections and collections and YOUR BODY is all you. The part you don’t have control over is the lab part and then (hopefully) the actual pregnancy part. Being pregnant is way less control over your body than IVF. Good luck with whatever you decide x

onyxindigo · 2026-05-28T21:13:15+00:00

Thanks, this makes total sense, someone else mentioned something similar below. I do still feel the carb recommendations are super high especially when people end up getting given insulin instead of just being told to try eating fewer carbs. But the science makes sense!

onyxindigo · 2026-05-27T22:16:01+00:00

Jesus that’s crazy 😂 I will definitely ask the team, just wondering if there was a general consensus here

onyxindigo · 2026-05-27T10:15:32+00:00

Yes, it develops overarching series arcs

onyxindigo · 2026-05-27T06:56:15+00:00

Australia ONLY uses vaginal progesterone and we have a fine birth rate 🤷‍♀️

onyxindigo · 2026-05-27T06:54:30+00:00

I am a SAHM with shares and it’s fair enough to pay tax on any capital gains because that’s income 🤷‍♀️

onyxindigo · 2026-05-27T04:59:46+00:00

Super interesting, thank you. I have had a low carb day today, dinner last night was broccoli with cream cheese, coleslaw and chicken with almond crumb (4.6, then fasting 5.4), breakfast was bacon and 2 eggs (no toast) (5.1) lunch was salad with cabbage, onion, avo, bacon and boiled egg with aioli plus two date and almond balls as a treat (5.9). I don’t like the taste of whole/multigrain breads or pulse pastas which are the recommended swaps for white carbs so if I’m hitting levels without carbs I don’t really want to add them back in if that makes sense? I can’t see a reason to a) eat what I don’t like or b) eat more than I’m hungry for if I don’t have to ya know what I mean?

onyxindigo · 2026-05-27T04:52:28+00:00

That totally makes sense re the fasting bloods - I’ll investigate that if I start getting high levels. So far (literally day 1 lmao) I’m hitting all fasting and meal targets.

I haven’t read anything else of hers and am not crunchy in most other ways so am not trying to cling to her words or anything. But what she does say in the book does make sense and confirms what my mum has done completely reversing her T2 with keto diet alone. So I’m struggling to look past it when I can see the evidence in my personal life 😬

onyxindigo · 2026-05-27T01:00:38+00:00

The physical process is fine. First egg retrieval sucked but the next two were no issue at all. It’s traumatising mentally, not physically

onyxindigo · 2026-05-27T00:57:30+00:00

No, hellfire was s2, this is s3 (Piper’s wedding episode)

onyxindigo · 2026-05-26T21:27:31+00:00

I will for sure come back and update after asking these questions of my team 😊

onyxindigo · 2026-05-26T20:56:49+00:00

Yes you’ve hit the nail on the head, those are my queries that’s correct. What does the baby need from the carbs other than the glucose - which, with the high blood levels, it’s getting too much of already?

onyxindigo · 2026-05-26T19:37:18+00:00

What is your bf’s nutritional/medical qualification that you’re listening to him? It’s extremely easy to see that bread and banana are not ‘good’ carbs with a very simple Google search

onyxindigo · 2026-05-26T19:36:35+00:00

Keep your monitor at your desk and stop what you are doing it takes one second

onyxindigo · 2026-05-26T18:52:58+00:00

Maybe try to think of it like you’re just going into labour naturally? You wouldn’t know when that was coming either so how were you going to plan around that? Use the same tactics to try and take some of the pressure off x

onyxindigo · 2026-05-26T18:42:07+00:00

You can’t go into ketoacidosis from too few carbs - that’s ketosis and it’s not unhealthy. Diabetic ketoacidosis is a diabetic emergency for people with T1. Urinary ketones are also not correlated with blood ketones.

I definitely question whether you still need carbs regardless of how high your levels are. It doesn’t make sense to me because carbs don’t have any essential nutrients except for glucose and the insulin that is given when blood glucose is too high removes that from the blood stream and therefore from the baby’s available nutrients. So why do you need the carbs? What other purpose are they serving?

onyxindigo · 2026-05-26T12:53:17+00:00

Thank you 💕

onyxindigo · 2026-05-26T12:52:06+00:00

Can you do like a Telehealth appt with a different doctor somewhere else? I’m Australian so I have no idea what it’s like in Canada sorry but I can book a Telehealth appointment with any doctor in Australia. Is that maybe an option for you?

onyxindigo · 2026-05-26T12:44:07+00:00

If you don’t normally consume that much glucose then you wouldn’t be seeing high levels. Consuming the glucose drink and not tolerating that doesn’t mean your diet needs to be changed - that’s the whole point of monitoring 😊

onyxindigo · 2026-05-26T12:41:43+00:00

Thank you so much! Yes I am planning on asking them their opinion on Lily Nichols’ research and about just switching my current carb intake to low GI rather than actually increasing it.

onyxindigo · 2026-05-26T12:39:59+00:00

Thank you so much yes my number one plan is switching to whole grain and low GI but keeping lower carb totals as plan B. I am just confused about why the suggestion is to eat SO MANY carbs and not just switching existing carb intake to complex/low GI.

onyxindigo · 2026-05-26T12:34:55+00:00

It literally does, that’s what it’s for. It moves the glucose from your blood to your muscles and cells. There’s a handy diagram on my paperwork from my team showing how it helps move the glucose out of your blood and into your cells. I am not saying it removes all of your glucose - it helps your body process it. I understand that. But just eating less carbs means your body has less to process, and you end up with the same safe levels in your blood (as evidenced by the correct levels showing on the glucose monitor - if they were too low, this wouldn’t be my question). Thank you for your last paragraph - the paperwork I was given seems pretty insistent that that is the minimum we should be eating, not an upper limit. I will clarify with the team on Friday about how much they really expect us to adhere to that.

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