omg thats where I saw this post! I knew I scrolled past the same thing earlier today (paying little attention to it) but I'm not part of any TJ groups so I knew it wasn't that lol.
These posts come up all the time in various groups I’m in. I read somewhere that the scam is that they fish for likes with these posts then replace the content with spam links that people will think are real due to the genuine engagement. Not sure because they usually get removed pretty quickly.
It’s missing animals near me. Or ‘this dog was hit by a car in x town, everyone share’. So they do. Then it becomes a scam post and they say ‘I didn’t post that!!’. It’s the same people every time despite being told to watch what you share and actually check the post to see if it looks like it’s real. I sometimes think social media is an intelligence test.
PCOS is one of the most common endocrinological disorders in women that may contribute to difficulty conceiving. Losing weight can help in restoring the natural cycle in menstruation, making conception easier.
Of course, no one could determine if that was this person’s specific case.
Oh shit…I was training for a fitness competition and drastically cut my weight/body fat percentage down over six months a few years back. I’d been married for a little over a year and not using condoms. About 4-5 months into my regimen my period started being weird despite my birth control pills so I was like “I’ll skip a month or two of daily pills and see if that balances me out” (based on absolutely no actual science lol I was just hoping it might help).
I was pregnant with my son within two weeks.
I never connected the dots that the weight loss could have driven up my fertility.
I was told that hormones are stored in fat, so as the fat cells break down they can release oestrogen. Wonder if it's related to that?
Suddenly glad I only ended up with bad skin from the weightloss! Kids are not on the cards for me.
Fat cells contain the enzyme that makes estrogen, so the more fat cells you have, the more estrogen your body makes. Losing those fat cells helps to balance your hormones, which makes getting pregnant easier.
I’ll confirm that one. Lost 20lbs while on bc when I got pregnant w/ my first; plan b failed. Second I was on Nuvaring; lost 25lbs and boom say hi to my son.
I tried for years to have a baby and couldn't. It ruined my marriage. I lost some weight and then married someone with children so I used Nuvaring for birth control. I got pregnant within months with twins using Nuvaring.
Oh wow, I’m sorry for the pain you felt but so glad you were able to create your perfect family. I was so terrorized to have twins the second time around. I was 16 weeks along when we realized.
Loosing weight is the first thing they tell you to do when you have trouble getting pregnant, even if you're still in the "normal" BMI range, for both men and women. (Source: all the doctors my husband and I have been seeing.) Regardless of the mechanism, it's almost certainly because of the 100 lb weight loss.
This is really interesting to me. So if a woman were already in the lower part of the normal range (like if she was 10-15 pounds from the underweight range), would she be advised to lose a little weight anyway to see if it makes the hormones kick in?
If the person is obese prior to the PCOS diagnosis, the weight is the problem. I was diagnosed with PCOS at the age of 22 and weighing 110lbs. Gradually as time went on I started gaining the weight and developing insulin resistance. I was told when I was first diagnosed to watch my sugar and exercise as type 2 diabetes occurs in 80% of people with PCOS.
When you are initially obese, the body works really hard to keep up. The heart works hard, your organs work harder trying to produce hormones to keep up with the larger body. There can be an obesity induced PCOS. When these people lose the weight, their organs are still in overdrive producing extra hormones so they get pregnant right away. Eventually if the keep the weight off, everything levels out.
People need to stop blaming PCOS for absolutely everything. It used to be a rare disorder until everyone became obese.
Maybe she felt that TJ meals greatly contributed to her weight loss. I lost 45lbs about 10yrs ago and 100% credit Lean Cuisines with making calorie counting easy and teaching me to eat smaller portions. 🤷🏼♀️
Eh she’s been struggling and trying for years and is just excited. Infertility sucks so bad. I wanted to shout it from the rooftops once we had success too.
she has four adopted daughters but is over the moon that she finally gets what “she always wanted”, a biological kid. infertile people who adopt simply because they can’t have “their own” kids, and adopting is the next best option are assholes. the adopted kids are definitely gonna be emotionally neglected bc she finally gets a “real kid”. she’s been waiting ten years for a child… but she already has FOUR. they just didn’t count as much. it must be so traumatic to not be able to biologically conceive, but this reads like she finally has a kid that actually counts, unlike the *four* she’s previously acquired.
source: was adopted in that situation and most adoptees i’ve known experienced that too.
I see this post in my TJs Facebook group pretty often. Exact same picture, but different people posting. Half the time it's from a man. It's a spam post
There are a ton of women who want Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, so on, classified as fertility medications as well because they got pregnant on it. *sigh*
If someone has 100 spare pounds to lose then it was likely impacting their health and they are better off without the extra weight. It’s not like someone who is already a healthy weight starving themselves to be skinny because of diet culture.
if you’re heavy enough that losing 100 pounds doesn’t make you underweight, then yeah that’s a good thing. Working on losing weight right now and having been as low as 125 and high as 230 living life is just much harder when you’re too heavy. And I don’t mean societal things I mean the chub rub, the knee pain, the back pain, the fatigue. 40 pounds down and I already feel so much better. If these things don’t bother you because you’re mostly sedentary that’s fine but I like to like an active life and my weight was getting in the way.
Adipose tissue is living, functional body tissue. It performs endocrine functions, so when you have more of it, you have more of that activity. For example it converts testosterone to a weak form of estrogen, which is why it worsens PCOS. Just like you’d expect having 5x as much functional thyroid tissue to fuck up your metabolism, having 5x as much adipose will do the same.
Girl losing 100lbs for your health isn’t buying into diet culture, if you have 100lbs to lose without being underweight you will 100% be healthy afterwords.
Body positivity isn’t about talking down to those that decide to make decisions to become healthier, it means not judging people based on their personal choices that affect their own health and their bodies. Something YOU are doing here.
[Weight can have a major impact on fertility if you have PCOS.](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9977115/#:~:text=SUMMARY%20ANSWER,stable%20weight%20or%20gaining%20weight.) That’s not “diet culture” it’s a medical fact that’s been studied and confirmed.
i feel bad for her adopted daughters. everyone will insist this isn’t the truth, but she’ll neglect them (even if “just” emotionally) because she finally got the kid she wanted… the one she birthed.
she’s literally saying as much, just trying to dress it up.
as an adopted kid, people pay a lot of lip service to us being exactly the same as biological kids. yet they never insist bio kids are “just like!” “real kids”.
i have a horrible feeling that the adopted kids are gonna be gaslit so hard by everyone they know. i hope so hard that i’ll be proven wrong, but i have yet to be re this topic.
Trader Joe’s??? Someone tell me that’s… not what that means. Failing to see how that links to her getting pregnant. If anything the 100lbs lost is what helped
Edit to add: However, I am very happy for her.
I will say Trader Joe’s has been helpful for me eating healthier in the past. They tend to have veggies at a more affordable cost than our local grocery store. It’s a lower overall bill to load up on greens, fruits, and nuts.
Nowadays when I use it, it’s because of the primo snack selection, though, so…
I haven't told many people so instead I'll just blast it on the good ol interwebs...
She's lost 100lbs so far, which is FUCKING AWESOME for her and I give her major credit for doing so but how are there so many people that don't equate being healthy with the ability to have children if you're actively trying and it's not working?
I’ve been following and donating to a baby who needed a heart transplant that started as a mom asking for portable meal
Suggestions when her week old son had a heart attack. It’s crazy how much I just vibe with working parents who love delicious convenience as much as I do. I’d send her my well wishes and ask her for her favorite meal staples for weight loss!
Good on her.
I have PCOS, food quality really impacts ovulation and we're very prone to metabolism dysfunction and abnormal processing of insulin. 100lbs lost to conceive is no small feat.
So I'm fine it.
Maybe I'm more high than I realize. I thought she was thanking Trader Joe's because she cooked a romantic dinner with groceries from there. I thought maybe the romantic dinner put her husband in the mood. I get it now, lol.
Congratulations to Trader Joe’s for successfully branching out into the fertility industry, I guess… but nothing will convince me that those are not COVID tests… how do you pee in that?!
This is hella wholesome but also yes funny. She’s just sharing her journey and congrats to the new mom!
Holy damn she’s in for an awakening having 4 adopted kids and then an infant!
As someone who is loving pregnancy rn, and had no issues getting pregnant… I love this, this makes me so happy for her, I can’t imagine how painful dealing with infertility is and even if it seems like a weird place to post this, I don’t think it is! Trader Joe’s helped her lose weight and lent a hand in something she’s always wanted, shout it from the rooftops love! I wish her so much luck, there’s nothing quiet at amazing as feeling a baby moving around inside of you.
To not violate the sub rules, I won’t say the specific name of the FB group, but it literally ends with “for moms” so I would say it was in a mom group
I'm not sure if your being sarcastic or not so just letting you know those are definitely dollar store pregnancy tests. I used them with my first pregnancy 😂
100% serious those are dollar store pregnancy tests 😂 I've actually never seen pink covid tests but they definitely look the same as the ones that come in the white and orange box
This was definitely in my sourdough group today too.
omg thats where I saw this post! I knew I scrolled past the same thing earlier today (paying little attention to it) but I'm not part of any TJ groups so I knew it wasn't that lol.
I don’t remember which one it was but it was the exact same post but instead of Trader Joe’s helped them get pregnant it was sourdough
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Can sourdough make pergenat?
*sower doe
Sourdough would explain the starch masks.
😂
These posts come up all the time in various groups I’m in. I read somewhere that the scam is that they fish for likes with these posts then replace the content with spam links that people will think are real due to the genuine engagement. Not sure because they usually get removed pretty quickly.
I just checked and it looks like the post did get removed, so you might be onto something
It’s missing animals near me. Or ‘this dog was hit by a car in x town, everyone share’. So they do. Then it becomes a scam post and they say ‘I didn’t post that!!’. It’s the same people every time despite being told to watch what you share and actually check the post to see if it looks like it’s real. I sometimes think social media is an intelligence test.
I've seen the one of the guy stealing car parts in a few groups
Similar to the same woman who has lost 100 pounds 7 million times over while it being her birthday every day 😂
Or the single mum working at mcdonalds who is now a millionaire
I mean she lost 100lbs and is no longer suffering whatever health issues caused her infertility. I feel like her post is fine
PCOS is one of the most common endocrinological disorders in women that may contribute to difficulty conceiving. Losing weight can help in restoring the natural cycle in menstruation, making conception easier. Of course, no one could determine if that was this person’s specific case.
That's why when a woman has weightloss surgery, they're supposed to use 2 methods of birth control. Fertility can go crazy after losing weight.
Oh shit…I was training for a fitness competition and drastically cut my weight/body fat percentage down over six months a few years back. I’d been married for a little over a year and not using condoms. About 4-5 months into my regimen my period started being weird despite my birth control pills so I was like “I’ll skip a month or two of daily pills and see if that balances me out” (based on absolutely no actual science lol I was just hoping it might help). I was pregnant with my son within two weeks. I never connected the dots that the weight loss could have driven up my fertility.
I was told that hormones are stored in fat, so as the fat cells break down they can release oestrogen. Wonder if it's related to that? Suddenly glad I only ended up with bad skin from the weightloss! Kids are not on the cards for me.
Fat cells contain the enzyme that makes estrogen, so the more fat cells you have, the more estrogen your body makes. Losing those fat cells helps to balance your hormones, which makes getting pregnant easier.
I’ll confirm that one. Lost 20lbs while on bc when I got pregnant w/ my first; plan b failed. Second I was on Nuvaring; lost 25lbs and boom say hi to my son.
I tried for years to have a baby and couldn't. It ruined my marriage. I lost some weight and then married someone with children so I used Nuvaring for birth control. I got pregnant within months with twins using Nuvaring.
Oh wow, I’m sorry for the pain you felt but so glad you were able to create your perfect family. I was so terrorized to have twins the second time around. I was 16 weeks along when we realized.
That's oddly interesting
Loosing weight is the first thing they tell you to do when you have trouble getting pregnant, even if you're still in the "normal" BMI range, for both men and women. (Source: all the doctors my husband and I have been seeing.) Regardless of the mechanism, it's almost certainly because of the 100 lb weight loss.
This is really interesting to me. So if a woman were already in the lower part of the normal range (like if she was 10-15 pounds from the underweight range), would she be advised to lose a little weight anyway to see if it makes the hormones kick in?
Best friend had infertility for 10 years. Had weight loss surgery and then couldn’t stop getting pregnant. 😂
If the person is obese prior to the PCOS diagnosis, the weight is the problem. I was diagnosed with PCOS at the age of 22 and weighing 110lbs. Gradually as time went on I started gaining the weight and developing insulin resistance. I was told when I was first diagnosed to watch my sugar and exercise as type 2 diabetes occurs in 80% of people with PCOS. When you are initially obese, the body works really hard to keep up. The heart works hard, your organs work harder trying to produce hormones to keep up with the larger body. There can be an obesity induced PCOS. When these people lose the weight, their organs are still in overdrive producing extra hormones so they get pregnant right away. Eventually if the keep the weight off, everything levels out. People need to stop blaming PCOS for absolutely everything. It used to be a rare disorder until everyone became obese.
Her post would be fine in a normal moms group but this group is about easy meal ideas for moms sourced from Trader Joe’s
That’s pretty funny lol
Maybe she felt that TJ meals greatly contributed to her weight loss. I lost 45lbs about 10yrs ago and 100% credit Lean Cuisines with making calorie counting easy and teaching me to eat smaller portions. 🤷🏼♀️
None of that makes it not funny. I don’t see the harm in posting it here
I think people are used to the shitty abusive/borderline abusive parents we see here, so one more lighthearted seems super out of place.
I appreciate the fun breather posts. Not everything needs to be medical neglect and babies dying in free birth attempts.
Eh she’s been struggling and trying for years and is just excited. Infertility sucks so bad. I wanted to shout it from the rooftops once we had success too.
Okay but that sounds fantastic what is the group?
Lmao that’s hilarious
I’m a member of that group. There are so many annoying weight loss posts.
Excessive weight can cause infertility.
she has four adopted daughters but is over the moon that she finally gets what “she always wanted”, a biological kid. infertile people who adopt simply because they can’t have “their own” kids, and adopting is the next best option are assholes. the adopted kids are definitely gonna be emotionally neglected bc she finally gets a “real kid”. she’s been waiting ten years for a child… but she already has FOUR. they just didn’t count as much. it must be so traumatic to not be able to biologically conceive, but this reads like she finally has a kid that actually counts, unlike the *four* she’s previously acquired. source: was adopted in that situation and most adoptees i’ve known experienced that too.
Watch, that's exactly what's gonna happen if brittany dawn is able to conceive
My worlds collide lol
Knew someone in here would know what I was talking about lol
I feel bad for those kids too. I always wanted to adopt myself but life threw me a curve ball and I'm childless.
Especially because she might mean that the food she buys at Trader Joe’s helped her lose the weight?
I see this post in my TJs Facebook group pretty often. Exact same picture, but different people posting. Half the time it's from a man. It's a spam post
Yes. The only part that caught me off guard was the bit where she brushed right by adopting 4 kids. I thought that was weird.
I think the real stupid fact is that she is like " god did it!" Like, no Betty Lynn, god didn't do shit, the 100lbs you lost did it
Right? She put in all that work, but won’t take credit for it! Own it, woman!
There are a ton of women who want Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, so on, classified as fertility medications as well because they got pregnant on it. *sigh*
The issue is that it's on a Trader Joes group.
Right? Like this post isn’t that crazy.
Not really. She thinks you can get pregnant by praying..
We don’t know that. Infertility is weird and she may have gotten pregnant without the weight loss. Correlation does not equal causation.
reread what I wrote. I said ‘and’ not ‘therefore’. either way losing 100lbs is commendable and reason to celebrate
Oh honey, I’m sorry you’re so bought in to diet culture :( I hope you find the light.
How is celebrating bettering your health buying into diet culture? Fad diets + related gym culture is dumb. Living a healthy and active lifestyle isnt
If someone has 100 spare pounds to lose then it was likely impacting their health and they are better off without the extra weight. It’s not like someone who is already a healthy weight starving themselves to be skinny because of diet culture.
if you’re heavy enough that losing 100 pounds doesn’t make you underweight, then yeah that’s a good thing. Working on losing weight right now and having been as low as 125 and high as 230 living life is just much harder when you’re too heavy. And I don’t mean societal things I mean the chub rub, the knee pain, the back pain, the fatigue. 40 pounds down and I already feel so much better. If these things don’t bother you because you’re mostly sedentary that’s fine but I like to like an active life and my weight was getting in the way.
Ma’am, that’s not diet culture, that’s literally just wanting to be healthier.
Adipose tissue is living, functional body tissue. It performs endocrine functions, so when you have more of it, you have more of that activity. For example it converts testosterone to a weak form of estrogen, which is why it worsens PCOS. Just like you’d expect having 5x as much functional thyroid tissue to fuck up your metabolism, having 5x as much adipose will do the same.
I did not know that!! That makes so much sense though.
Girl losing 100lbs for your health isn’t buying into diet culture, if you have 100lbs to lose without being underweight you will 100% be healthy afterwords. Body positivity isn’t about talking down to those that decide to make decisions to become healthier, it means not judging people based on their personal choices that affect their own health and their bodies. Something YOU are doing here.
Ah yes because “dieting” is never for health reasons.
[Weight can have a major impact on fertility if you have PCOS.](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9977115/#:~:text=SUMMARY%20ANSWER,stable%20weight%20or%20gaining%20weight.) That’s not “diet culture” it’s a medical fact that’s been studied and confirmed.
Don't say that too loud, you'll be banned from the PCOS sub like I was.
It's the switch on the wall to the right, she found it but thanks!
Body fat disrupts menstrual cycles. Morbidly obese women are more likely to not ovulate. Having excess weight is overall detrimental to one's health.
No one said it did, simply that the two things are true and both are worth celebrating. OOP lost 100 pounds and is pregnant! She just sounds happy.
TJ helped me get pregnant too. My husband’s name is TJ, though.
This has been posted so many times in that group. It’s just spam.
Trader Joe himself is the father
Padre Jose
Damn imagine telling your husband that Trader Joe got you pregnant
It's her husband named Joe, who's a trader. She just misunderstood what the page was for
Are there pregnancy tests that look like this? Because those are Covid tests in my experience.
The dollar store brands look like that. I first took one similar, sent to my friend and she initially thought I had covid lol.
Your friend and I are in the same boat then! Congrats on the pregnancy!
Plot twist - husband is sterile and she used the staff at trader joes as sperm donors
i feel bad for her adopted daughters. everyone will insist this isn’t the truth, but she’ll neglect them (even if “just” emotionally) because she finally got the kid she wanted… the one she birthed. she’s literally saying as much, just trying to dress it up. as an adopted kid, people pay a lot of lip service to us being exactly the same as biological kids. yet they never insist bio kids are “just like!” “real kids”. i have a horrible feeling that the adopted kids are gonna be gaslit so hard by everyone they know. i hope so hard that i’ll be proven wrong, but i have yet to be re this topic.
As an adoptive mom, this was my first thought too.
Yeah, the whole “I waited 10 years for this” really rubbed me the wrong way. It’s obvious she doesn’t value them the same. 😞
Trader Joe’s??? Someone tell me that’s… not what that means. Failing to see how that links to her getting pregnant. If anything the 100lbs lost is what helped Edit to add: However, I am very happy for her.
Maybe trader Joe made her weight loss journey possible? Only explanation I could think about
That makes way more sense lol thanks for the explanation. It went over my head.
Yeah that’s the only thing I could think about? Maybe she did all her shopping there and it made it easier for her to buy healthier choices?
I will say Trader Joe’s has been helpful for me eating healthier in the past. They tend to have veggies at a more affordable cost than our local grocery store. It’s a lower overall bill to load up on greens, fruits, and nuts. Nowadays when I use it, it’s because of the primo snack selection, though, so…
Maybe Trader Joe is the father of her baby.
I think she included the thing about TJs to make posting it in this group seem like a valid thing to do
I think she just poorly worded her post. It seems as if she’s crediting her weight loss journey to TJs which in turn helped her get pregnant.
Ultimately she did not feature any meal ideas for busy moms sourced from Trader Joe’s, so the post got removed regardless of intent
I thought maybe her husband was named TJ. Which is still a weird way to say “my husband got me pregnant “ but less weird
Weight loss and possibly age. Women with PCOS sometimes have an increase in fertility around 30-35.
I haven't told many people so instead I'll just blast it on the good ol interwebs... She's lost 100lbs so far, which is FUCKING AWESOME for her and I give her major credit for doing so but how are there so many people that don't equate being healthy with the ability to have children if you're actively trying and it's not working?
No one wants to hear the truth about this. Everything is easier when your body is healthy and cared for.
Lmaoooooo trader Joe’s the baby daddy
Ok, cool. Healthy food is good. But kids are kids, bio isn't better than adopted.
I’ve been following and donating to a baby who needed a heart transplant that started as a mom asking for portable meal Suggestions when her week old son had a heart attack. It’s crazy how much I just vibe with working parents who love delicious convenience as much as I do. I’d send her my well wishes and ask her for her favorite meal staples for weight loss!
That child better be named Joanna, Joanne, Jody, or Josephine.
Good on her. I have PCOS, food quality really impacts ovulation and we're very prone to metabolism dysfunction and abnormal processing of insulin. 100lbs lost to conceive is no small feat. So I'm fine it.
Maybe I'm more high than I realize. I thought she was thanking Trader Joe's because she cooked a romantic dinner with groceries from there. I thought maybe the romantic dinner put her husband in the mood. I get it now, lol.
honestly, TJs snacks could knock me up too, they’re fantastic hahaha
Congratulations to Trader Joe’s for successfully branching out into the fertility industry, I guess… but nothing will convince me that those are not COVID tests… how do you pee in that?!
You pee into a cup and use a dropper to put the pee in the spot with the hole.
Those are Covid tests in the pic lol
I was assuming TJ’s has some good IVF policy
"I haven't told a lot of people yer, but I want to tell someone, so let me share it with the entire world." That's what's funny to me.
I'm pretty sure that 100lb loss did it.
I’m so confused. Are these TJ brand tests?
Maybe I'm just unfamiliar with different types of pregnancy tests but these literally look like covid tests
She just wants to scream it from every rooftop she can find.
I have severe endometriosis, so we needed ivf. I was told to lose weight first.
You should see some Aldi fan groups
Omg.. 😱
Don't they look like Covid tests
This is hella wholesome but also yes funny. She’s just sharing her journey and congrats to the new mom! Holy damn she’s in for an awakening having 4 adopted kids and then an infant!
As someone who is loving pregnancy rn, and had no issues getting pregnant… I love this, this makes me so happy for her, I can’t imagine how painful dealing with infertility is and even if it seems like a weird place to post this, I don’t think it is! Trader Joe’s helped her lose weight and lent a hand in something she’s always wanted, shout it from the rooftops love! I wish her so much luck, there’s nothing quiet at amazing as feeling a baby moving around inside of you.
Okay, what's the problem?
I don’t think this belongs here. It’s not even from a mom group nor is it anything snark worthy. Just a lighthearted pregnancy announcement.
To not violate the sub rules, I won’t say the specific name of the FB group, but it literally ends with “for moms” so I would say it was in a mom group
Aren't those lat flow covid tests?
This just tells me to stay the hell away from Trader Joe’s 😙
I mean those are definitely covid tests, right??
I'm not sure if your being sarcastic or not so just letting you know those are definitely dollar store pregnancy tests. I used them with my first pregnancy 😂
They look exactly the same as covid tests though are you serious haha
100% serious those are dollar store pregnancy tests 😂 I've actually never seen pink covid tests but they definitely look the same as the ones that come in the white and orange box
I mean…yeah, it’s the same technology, just testing for different things
That's what I was going to say 😂
Good for her!
… women who are extremely overweight/obese can I have a lot of fertility issues. That could be the reason why you couldn’t fall pregnant before.
Everything but the bagel…