Lunaception & Earthing Updates

Okay, this is my assessment of my Lunaception and Earthing experiments. My April cycle started mostly on its own because I hadn't finished a full 2 weeks on the progesterone cream before AF was trying to start and I started spotting on CD39 of that cycle with AF starting 3 days later. My May cycle (the last one) I didn't even start the progesterone cream yet because I was waiting but with AF starting today that cycle was 39 days. Maybe I'm beginning to regulate to a possible 39 day cycle.


I do believe the Lunaception is helping a lot even though my cycles are not quite matching the moon phases yet. My husband and I have both started sleeping in a pitch black room as well as wearing sleep masks to block out any missed light sources. I am going to stop using the nightlight at the full moon until my cycle regulates its self for at least 2 cycles. I do, however, need to get a new BBT thermometer because I think mine is highly inaccurate. If I went by my most recent BBTs, I would think that I had possibly O'd about 2-3 days ago because I had a week of low temps then the last 2 days I had temp rises, but AF ruined that theory by showing her ugly head.


On to the Earthing. I do really enjoy Earthing but find I often do not have enough time to devote at least a half hour a day to do it. Most days I'm lucky if I get 10 minutes in. I can say that the days I do it, I experience less pain in my feet and ankles (I have always had foot and ankle issues) as well as less pain in my back the days that it bothers me.


Earthing makes me feel peaceful, and honestly, it helps me relax before bedtime if it's not too hot outside. I think I would do it just for the stress relieving benefits alone, but I do feel more, excuse the pun, grounded and even-tempered the days I practice it. I would love nothing more than to be able to walk around barefoot outside all the time, but it's not always that easy.


To sum it all up, if you have irregular cycles, for any reason, try Lunaception. It's actually very easy to do and once you get used to sleeping in a pitch black room, it's hard to adjust to sleeping in even a dimly lit room. As for the Earthing, if you need a stress reliever and can't find anything, then try it. It's not dangerous unless you aren't careful where you walk.

Another Few Things to Try

On the days that I go to work at 1pm, I usually watch Dr. Oz while doing my work. Well, last week he had a show called The Dr. Oz Approved 7 Day Crash Diet, or something like that. It's based on Dr. Joel Furhman's nutrient dense diet that has resulted in some of his clients losing 125 pounds in a year. And, most people lose around 10 pounds the first week.

At first, I was skeptical because I don't like crash diets, and it's not really a crash diet if you stay on it but as I watched the show, I realized that it's not really a crash diet, it is a nutrient-dense diet plan. In reality, it's the way we should be eating instead of the way people eat modernly. Basically, you gorge yourself on fruits, vegetables, healthy oils, beans, and nuts. And by "gorge" I mean you can eat as much of these things as you want. You can have healthy cuts of meat and full fat dairy but you only need about 6oz of meat-based protein per day and only 1 serving of dairy products per day. You will get all of the calcium, vitamins, and minerals you need from the nutrient-dense foods you are eating. There are very few nutrients in dairy, meats, and poultry, you are better off getting your protein from beans and nuts.

There is a little bit more to it than what I've said but if you click on the link, you can read up on it and the basics of the plan are there too.

The  second thing that I read recently on one of my favorite sites, Naturally Knocked Up, is about Vitamin A and Fertility. I never really thought about other sources of getting vitamin A other than through orange and red colored fruits and veggies, but this article has really opened my mind to another natural source of vitamin A, whole milk. For many, many years I have drank solely skim milk because it doesn't have the fat in it that regular milks do. Vitamin A helps the reproductive organs function properly and whole milk is a natural source of healthy fats and vitamin A.

The final thing I just discovered today is called earthing. It's based on the principal that all humans create energy and require physical contact with the earth to transfer that energy back to the earth. In this article, Can Walking Barefoot Lower Cortisol and Balance Hormones, this concept is discussed and it is very intriguing. In fact, I spent a half hour outside this morning walking around barefoot and getting my daily dose of vitamin D in, and I could tell in the first 5 minutes that my feet that I normally ache all day had stopped hurting and I felt more energy than I usually do in the mornings. Walking around outside barefoot may not be for everyone, so if that's the case, you can buy earthing sheets and computer mats to help ground your energy. This is also supposed to help with insomnia.

If you try any of these, let me know the results. I'll be posting about my results with hopefully all of these but if not all, at least the earthing.

Lunaception and Sugar Detox Update

It has been a frustrating second cycle with lunaception and a dismal failure on phase 5 of the sugar detox. First, I believed that the lunaception had actually begun working for me the first month because I had high daily temperatures (I didn't track my basal temps because we weren't actively trying that cycle) for a few days then it dipped back down to normal and despite the fact that I was still using the progesterone cream to start my cycles, the next cycle began on its own without me stopping the progesterone cream beforehand.

This cycle, I'm on CD26 and my temps have begun to seesaw drastically, which means an anovulatory cycle. Each day that I have a temp drop we do the baby dance, but I'm disappointed because I may have a significant rise the next day but two days after it'll drop drastically again. I have decided to follow the original author, Louise Lacey's suggestion that until my cycles begin following the moon we sleep in complete darkness. I don't think this will hurt us any to do this for awhile.

As for the sugar detox, I've had a major backslide on it. It's been a difficult month for us financially and when you depend on others for your food supply, it's hard to eat what you need instead of what's available. Phase 5 is when you are supposed to eliminate all refined sources of sugar. I haven't been able to do that and for the first couple of weeks, I managed to keep my intake under 15g of refined sugars per day but we also had some pretty steady money coming in but the last few weeks we have been broke and depending on the food my parents buy to eat. My parents are not healthy eaters and they definitely do not care if foods comply with the sugar detox. My dad tries, he asks me if things are okay but that's only if I'm with him when he goes to the store.

I also haven't lost any weight. Originally when I'd started phase 5 I dropped about 5 pounds but that hasn't stayed off since I've been eating what's available which more often than not contains more than my desired daily intake of refined sugars. I'm hoping to get back on track once we get some money to go grocery shopping.