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IVF Meal Plan: Maximize Your Chances of IVF Success Through Diet
Nourish your eggs and genes—easy recipes for IVF success
A healthy diet can play a huge part in reproductive success. IVF Meal Plan offers more than a fertility diet—it shows you how powerful wholesome food can be in enhancing the health of your eggs and genes for conception.
IVF Meal Plan features four easy-to-follow 7-day meal plans, developed for women who have undergone IVF or those who have tried other medications with no success. Cook your way to IVF success using 31 tasty, nutrient-rich recipes—each designed to nourish your body, mind, hormones, and long-term health, as well as the overall wellness of your future baby.
IVF Meal Plan
Happy eggs—Explore how “food as medicine” can aid a healthy IVF cycle and take a deep dive into egg science covering everything from follicle to fertilization.Conception comfort foods—Improve your egg quality with fertility-friendly foods that come with dietary labels, storage tips, and more.Meal maps—Build a strong food foundation using hormone-healthy meal plans, complete with helpful shopping lists and easy time-saving tips.Boost your IVF odds (deliciously) and choose the right foods for your own successful path to parenthood.
A healthy diet can play a huge part in reproductive success. IVF Meal Plan offers more than a fertility diet—it shows you how powerful wholesome food can be in enhancing the health of your eggs and genes for conception.
IVF Meal Plan features four easy-to-follow 7-day meal plans, developed for women who have undergone IVF or those who have tried other medications with no success. Cook your way to IVF success using 31 tasty, nutrient-rich recipes—each designed to nourish your body, mind, hormones, and long-term health, as well as the overall wellness of your future baby.
IVF Meal Plan
Happy eggs—Explore how “food as medicine” can aid a healthy IVF cycle and take a deep dive into egg science covering everything from follicle to fertilization.Conception comfort foods—Improve your egg quality with fertility-friendly foods that come with dietary labels, storage tips, and more.Meal maps—Build a strong food foundation using hormone-healthy meal plans, complete with helpful shopping lists and easy time-saving tips.Boost your IVF odds (deliciously) and choose the right foods for your own successful path to parenthood.
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Published November 19, 2019
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August 8, 2021
I was expecting more from this book.
January 29, 2020
A useful book. There are better books. 4 stars feels too generous, 3 seems a little unfair. I rate it 3.5 stars.
I think I expected too much from this book. I've been struggling with infertility for more years then I care to mention. Only recently did I finally find out I have Endometriosis. While diet does help increase ones chances of conception, it sometimes isn't going to be enough. In my case, I need surgery. There is also very little mention of Endo in this book (one paragraph actually). PCOS gets a similar mention. PCOS, Endo, they are all big players in infertility. And of course there is the man, we can't forget him. I don't know about you ladies, but trying to get my man to eat healthy isn't easy.
Okay, so onto the diet & recipes. First, I avoid nightshades. These are foods like tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, eggplant, goji berries, etc. If I can substitute or omit, I do. I noticed that when I eat nightshades my Endo makes living utterly unbearable. Be sure to pay attention to your body & your reactions. We are all different. Just because a food is healthy, doesn't mean it's healthy for YOU.
So far I've only made two recipes from this book:
-Cream of Mushroom Soup
This wasn't as creamy as the canned stuff, but it did have good flavor. I couldn't use the mushrooms listed (they aren't available in my grocer) but I did manage to use three different varieties. It turned out very good. Overall, I am happy with the results.
-Caesar Salad Dressing
This is delicious. I haven't had a good Caesar dressing I could use/eat for years. Boy have I missed it! The down side to this recipe is it makes an insane amount of dressing. This wouldn't be a bad thing, but she says to only store it in the refrigerator for 4 days. There is no way I can eat that much dressing that fast. Otherwise, this recipe is another winner.
What I absolutely, passionately HATE about this book is the physical book itself. It is a rather small book. It wont lay flat. It. Just. Wont. I have actually broken the spine (repeatedly). It still wont lay flat. It's too flippn' small. Trying to put stuff on the pages to hold it open is another royal pain in the behind. You don't want to block your view of the recipe, but in order to get enough weight on the book to keep it open, you have to block your view. It is a major flaw to design a recipe book so poorly. Zero stars for this.
The author provides four weekly meal plan & shopping list along with recipes. Be sure to check closely so that your list & your actual recipes match up. Thankfully nutritional info. is included for each recipe. Towards the back of the book their are 12 weeks worth of planning pages. These are done as Day 1, Day 2, etc. with a space to write Breakfast, Lunch, & Dinner. Nothing fancy, not a lot of room to write much.
Overall, this is a common sense book. Eat lots of vegetables, eat quality protein (I personally try to eat as much fish as possible), next is limited carbs & even more limited fats. I do question the last two a little. I have to wonder if the carbs & fat should switch, albeit I'm not one who feels we should be loading up on healthy fats either, I do know that reducing starchy carbs is a big plus to our health. Basically just keep the focus on your veggies & healthy sources of protein & somehow, by some magical way, get off the sweet sweet sugar.
I've been sharing some of the following books lately as I really feel they have been useful to me. You may wish to check them out (or not). I feel that the better we can educate ourselves, the better choices we are able to make:
-Paleo Principles: The Science Behind the Paleo Template, Step-by-Step Guides, Meal Plans, and 200+ Healthy & Delicious Recipes for Real Life by Ballantyne, Sarah, Ballantyne Sarah (this is by far the most comprehensive book with recipes I've read so far. Dr. Ballantyne covers just about everything you can think of)
-The Endometriosis Health and Diet Program: Get Your Life Back by Cook MD FACOG, Dr. Andrew, Cook MS RD CDE, Danielle, Robert Rose
Wherever you are in your IVF journey, I hope you find success.
I think I expected too much from this book. I've been struggling with infertility for more years then I care to mention. Only recently did I finally find out I have Endometriosis. While diet does help increase ones chances of conception, it sometimes isn't going to be enough. In my case, I need surgery. There is also very little mention of Endo in this book (one paragraph actually). PCOS gets a similar mention. PCOS, Endo, they are all big players in infertility. And of course there is the man, we can't forget him. I don't know about you ladies, but trying to get my man to eat healthy isn't easy.
Okay, so onto the diet & recipes. First, I avoid nightshades. These are foods like tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, eggplant, goji berries, etc. If I can substitute or omit, I do. I noticed that when I eat nightshades my Endo makes living utterly unbearable. Be sure to pay attention to your body & your reactions. We are all different. Just because a food is healthy, doesn't mean it's healthy for YOU.
So far I've only made two recipes from this book:
-Cream of Mushroom Soup
This wasn't as creamy as the canned stuff, but it did have good flavor. I couldn't use the mushrooms listed (they aren't available in my grocer) but I did manage to use three different varieties. It turned out very good. Overall, I am happy with the results.
-Caesar Salad Dressing
This is delicious. I haven't had a good Caesar dressing I could use/eat for years. Boy have I missed it! The down side to this recipe is it makes an insane amount of dressing. This wouldn't be a bad thing, but she says to only store it in the refrigerator for 4 days. There is no way I can eat that much dressing that fast. Otherwise, this recipe is another winner.
What I absolutely, passionately HATE about this book is the physical book itself. It is a rather small book. It wont lay flat. It. Just. Wont. I have actually broken the spine (repeatedly). It still wont lay flat. It's too flippn' small. Trying to put stuff on the pages to hold it open is another royal pain in the behind. You don't want to block your view of the recipe, but in order to get enough weight on the book to keep it open, you have to block your view. It is a major flaw to design a recipe book so poorly. Zero stars for this.
The author provides four weekly meal plan & shopping list along with recipes. Be sure to check closely so that your list & your actual recipes match up. Thankfully nutritional info. is included for each recipe. Towards the back of the book their are 12 weeks worth of planning pages. These are done as Day 1, Day 2, etc. with a space to write Breakfast, Lunch, & Dinner. Nothing fancy, not a lot of room to write much.
Overall, this is a common sense book. Eat lots of vegetables, eat quality protein (I personally try to eat as much fish as possible), next is limited carbs & even more limited fats. I do question the last two a little. I have to wonder if the carbs & fat should switch, albeit I'm not one who feels we should be loading up on healthy fats either, I do know that reducing starchy carbs is a big plus to our health. Basically just keep the focus on your veggies & healthy sources of protein & somehow, by some magical way, get off the sweet sweet sugar.
I've been sharing some of the following books lately as I really feel they have been useful to me. You may wish to check them out (or not). I feel that the better we can educate ourselves, the better choices we are able to make:
-Paleo Principles: The Science Behind the Paleo Template, Step-by-Step Guides, Meal Plans, and 200+ Healthy & Delicious Recipes for Real Life by Ballantyne, Sarah, Ballantyne Sarah (this is by far the most comprehensive book with recipes I've read so far. Dr. Ballantyne covers just about everything you can think of)
-The Endometriosis Health and Diet Program: Get Your Life Back by Cook MD FACOG, Dr. Andrew, Cook MS RD CDE, Danielle, Robert Rose
Wherever you are in your IVF journey, I hope you find success.
December 30, 2024
Everyone needs this cookbook! Seriously. After following the meal plans for two months, I had the best bloodwork I’ve had in 6 years. I also felt so much better. I truly believe anyone that is wanting to get pregnant needs to take their food seriously, and it can start here. Definitely change up the recipes if it wasn’t your favorite, but you can do it!! There is also a lot of reading in this cookbook, with studies to back it all up. Highly recommend!
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