Completed 6.23.12
Red lentil, chick pea and paprika soup completed this item.
Here's the recipe I used.
The other meals I made:
+Vegetable barley soup
+Curried lentils
+Barley chili
+Vegetable curry w/ rice
YUM!
Monday, June 25, 2012
Saturday, June 9, 2012
#16
# 16: Chart my cycle ala Fertility Awareness Method for a year
I had to give up on this goal because I've just run out of time. Fertility Awareness Method is something I read a bunch about a few years ago. I don't think I would ever be comfortable using it as my only method of birth control, but I was interested in charting because I thought it would be interesting to have such a close understanding of my body and my cycle.
So, basically, FAM has you chart different fertility signs, like your temperature when you first wake up (basal body temperature), consistency of cervical fluid, and cervical position. Based on the condition of these signs, you can determine exactly when you are ovulating.
Want to learn more about it? It's pretty interesting. Check out this stuff:
http://www.fwhc.org/birth-control/fam.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility_awareness_method
So, I probably could have told you right off the bat that I was never going to complete this goal. You have to track these signs every day. And lets be honest, I'm not very diligent and really kind of lazy. I bought a thermometer to take my basal body temperature in the mornings, thinking if I could get in a routine with that, that I could add the other trackings on later. Well. It wasn't super successful. Either I forgot, or just didn't want to do it. I mean, seriously, when I wake up at 6am to go to the bathroom, I don't want to wait the 10 seconds to take my temperature, I just want to go back to sleep as quickly as possible. If I can't handle even taking my temperature every day, let alone charting it, then I know there's no way I could chart all three every day.
So, yeah. Fertility Awareness Method is an awesome idea. But it's just not something I'm capable of doing, apparently. If you think you could do, by all means, give it a shot! I just don't have the motivation.
I had to give up on this goal because I've just run out of time. Fertility Awareness Method is something I read a bunch about a few years ago. I don't think I would ever be comfortable using it as my only method of birth control, but I was interested in charting because I thought it would be interesting to have such a close understanding of my body and my cycle.
So, basically, FAM has you chart different fertility signs, like your temperature when you first wake up (basal body temperature), consistency of cervical fluid, and cervical position. Based on the condition of these signs, you can determine exactly when you are ovulating.
Want to learn more about it? It's pretty interesting. Check out this stuff:
http://www.fwhc.org/birth-control/fam.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility_awareness_method
So, I probably could have told you right off the bat that I was never going to complete this goal. You have to track these signs every day. And lets be honest, I'm not very diligent and really kind of lazy. I bought a thermometer to take my basal body temperature in the mornings, thinking if I could get in a routine with that, that I could add the other trackings on later. Well. It wasn't super successful. Either I forgot, or just didn't want to do it. I mean, seriously, when I wake up at 6am to go to the bathroom, I don't want to wait the 10 seconds to take my temperature, I just want to go back to sleep as quickly as possible. If I can't handle even taking my temperature every day, let alone charting it, then I know there's no way I could chart all three every day.
So, yeah. Fertility Awareness Method is an awesome idea. But it's just not something I'm capable of doing, apparently. If you think you could do, by all means, give it a shot! I just don't have the motivation.
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