LE diet vegetarian clarification [Archive]

amiapiratemomma

February 25th, 2019, 01:08 PM

So, I need some clarification... Everyone asks a lot of "well, doesn't potato and tomato sway boy and milk sway girl? But you can't have cheese because sodium sways boy." So I have fallen into this cycle too even finding posts from atomic on ingender from 10 years ago subscribing to these ideas. SO, my question is ... On the low everything diet I could eat a low sodium cream cheese on a low sodium bagel with a cup of berries (or something) for breakfast (or maybe 2 bagels/cream cheese to hit 900 Cal's). And then do pasta with my husband and kids at home with spaghetti sauce (perfer homemade for salt control) and about 3 oz of non-red meat. OR I could go vegetarian and still have to stay within limits but eat whatever (ice cream included in small portions?)

What I need clarification on is that on the LE, nothing is off limits (except excess salt maybe) as long as you eat within your limits? Or are there girl foods and forbidden foods?

I have a theory I'm excited to test when my cycle returns from nursing ds2... Right now the current recommended diet is protein and fat. And we are seeing at our daycare a SURPLUS of boys. My 2 almost 3yo's class has 11 boys and ONE girl!! The attitude is that carbs/sugars KILL us don't eat pasta, bread, etc. If you want to be healthy and I've always been health concious. when I conceived ds2, I would down a 30 gram protein drink and pack in another 26 grams with protein powder and blend. So, I'm curious to see if I throw caution to the wind and eat my love bread (which is off limits on the ingender diet and the French diets), and pasta if that is really the difference...

I do plan on being a dream member when my period returns.

atomic sagebrush

February 28th, 2019, 03:13 PM

I never subscribed to those ideas. They don't make any sense when you look around the world and see tons of people eating all kinds of foods and getting boys and girls doing that.

When I started this journey 10 years ago I was not an expert and I hadn't done any research into this stuff yet. I knew it didn't make any sense to me based on my life (I always had tons of dairy) and those people around me (lots of girl moms who are addicted to coffee and salt and potato and tomato) but I didn't have the science to back it up yet, and since I'd been basically "hired" to help on Ingender I went along with what they told me.

For my trouble, I got a 4th boy doing things their way even though it didn't make sense to me.

Once I started to research all this stuff in earnest I found out that the mineral diets were based on really sketchy information, made no biological sense in about 10 different ways, and had no actual basis in reality. The stuff I've learned in the 10 years since I was back on IG originally is much more valuable, reliable, factually based information than something I wrote 10 years ago when I was following the rules and suggestions of other people.

I got my girl eating tons of sodium, potatoes, and tomatoes (not to mention coconut water, loaded with potassium). The IG stuff DOES NOT WORK and it makes it really, really hard to stick to the diet. While I do keep the sodium in the mix for those who choose to do it, most of us have given it up and our results are higher than ever.

I'm really not following your question - you could have a bagel and cream cheese or pasta or a vegetarian entree or whatever you like. Ice cream, berries, all fine. None of those things are off limits.

THe ONLY thing that matters on LE Diet is limits. There are no forbidden foods. Now that having been said, some foods make it easier to stick to the limits than others. So when you say "eat 3 oz non-red meat" - yes, that's ok, but what happens is you will have consumed very few calories (only about 150-300 depending on how fatty the meat is) and have gotten about 21-25 g protein https://www.nutritionix.com/i/usda/chicken-breast-grilled-3-oz/463d623797fd4d0a9f16ffe2 So in a couple bites of meat you've eaten half your day's protein for the day and have only eaten 300 calories. Then what do you eat the rest of the day? Dairy, eggs, grains, nuts, beans, all have protein in them. How do you get 1200-1500 calories (or more) with only 20 g protein to "spend"? Eating meat makes it way harder to get enough calories without going over on protein, and so it's generally best to keep meat minimal because it makes it harder to stick in the limits.

In the Dream Members section I have gone thru and rated lots of different foods from A-D (there are no grade F foods forpink) and a lot of people find that really helpful.

Now, when it comes to carbs, yes, that's what studies have seemed to find as well - more carbs = more girls. BUT you have to be somewhat careful if you have any underlying PCOS-type tendencies. Because there's a quirk that a lot of us with all boys seem to have - where if we eat a lot of carbs, it affects our body as if we WERE eating lots of meat...our blood sugar rises, our testosterone goes up, and it may both be harmful for egg quality but also may sway somewhat blue. So we can't just eat tons of carbs for pink, we have to do it at the same time as restricting calories somewhat overall (most people to 1500-1800 cals) and being sure we're also still getting adequate protein and fat not only to get and stay pregnant, but also to prevent getting SO many carbs that we give ourselves very mild cases of PCOS, basically.

But that having been said YES you can absolutely have bread on LE Diet! Just don't have 3000 cals of bread a day if that makes sense. :)