Chocolate and swaying pink?

[Irishmom]

Is eating a little bit of chocolate a big no no while swaying pink? :(
By a little i mean say a really small tiny bar?lol..

[Ribbons]

I eat chocolate frequently... mostly in the form of unsweetened cocoa, about 1 tsp or so every few days (I mix it with ricotta and a splash of brandy and a tiny bit of maple syrup, it is an AWESOME dessert and keeps me from eating a tub of ice cream!) of course, I don't have the girl to prove it yet :) but I'm not worrying about it too much!

[Irishmom]

Thanks ribbons. I have been going cold turkey from chocolate since January but a really naughty bar found it's way into my mouth earlier.I'm hoping it won't do too much damage.:O

The best of luck ribbons ttc your :DD:xx

[Ribbons]

You too Irishmom! I am sure you'll be just fine - I understand, chocolate is VERY hard to resist :)

[atomic sagebrush]

No, it's jsut fine as long as it's part of your day's diet.

The whole, chocolate-sways-blue idea was originally based on the idea that choc. blocks calcium absorption. But that's been debunked, not to mention that we don't evne know for sure whether calcium even sways and if it does, whether it's better to have it absorbed into our bones or floating around free.

My concern about chocolate is that the antioxidants in dark choc. may help boost fertility to some extent so it's best to stick with white chocolate and milk chocolate, rather than the dark stuff.

[Irishmom]

I did'nt think it was possible to :heart: you anymore than i do already Atomic lol. Thank you for putting my mind at rest. I literally only had a fun size milk chocolate bar.I had a moment of madness and before i realised what i had done it was gone haa! :nyd:

[myGirl]

"a really naughty bar found it's way into my mouth earlier"

:rofl:

[Ribbons]

I did'nt think it was possible to :heart: you anymore than i do already Atomic lol. Thank you for putting my mind at rest. I literally only had a fun size milk chocolate bar.I had a moment of madness and before i realised what i had done it was gone haa! :nyd:

This happened to me yesterday with a bite-sized piece of sausage - YIKES!!!

[amari]

I normally eat dark chocolate every day. While swaying I eat milk chocolate.

[Kiesse]

trust me that is nothing, i completley went all out the other weekend, I felt so guilty especially when stealing my dear partners bacon and eggs from his plate, but the smell was just too much and it was just there and once i started i couldnt stop and blew all my levels out the window for the entire weekend on just that one meal im certain .....Kinda got him to make me some, BUT i figured and after much re assurance from the dear Atomic, i know I have enough time to get things back on track before i ttc, one treat here and there wont hurt, although i am on the LE diet i think for some reason the IG diet still is in the back of my mind when it comes to foods, I keep reminding myself No food is out of bounds as long as i keep within my ranges of calories sodium protein etc. But i have cut out meat and fish altogether which has been soooooo hard for me but its only for a short time not forever and if it helps make my dreams come true then it was all worth it!

[atomic sagebrush]

I normally eat dark chocolate every day. While swaying I eat milk chocolate.

I ate dark choc almost every day with DS 3 too!! :) My boss realized I liked the dark choc Dove bars and brought them to me all the time!!!

[atomic sagebrush]

trust me that is nothing, i completley went all out the other weekend, I felt so guilty especially when stealing my dear partners bacon and eggs from his plate, but the smell was just too much and it was just there and once i started i couldnt stop and blew all my levels out the window for the entire weekend on just that one meal im certain .....Kinda got him to make me some, BUT i figured and after much re assurance from the dear Atomic, i know I have enough time to get things back on track before i ttc, one treat here and there wont hurt, although i am on the LE diet i think for some reason the IG diet still is in the back of my mind when it comes to foods, I keep reminding myself No food is out of bounds as long as i keep within my ranges of calories sodium protein etc. But i have cut out meat and fish altogether which has been soooooo hard for me but its only for a short time not forever and if it helps make my dreams come true then it was all worth it!

Think of it this way - even our prehistoric mammal ancestors occasionally found a woolly mammoth or a nice beehive to eat. But one feast doesn't really tell our bodies anything about how much food we have access to on a daily basis - it's the day in, day out diet that matters for the survival of our future offspring.

[Irishmom]

Thank you all for making me feel at ease.;) I have the boys warned to hide when eating their easter eggs this weekend ,so mammy does'nt accidently eat some.:fingers:

[auroara78]

omg Atomic, lol I had a crazy obession with Dove Dark Choc bars & squares before i concieved DS2, enough that for secret santas or bday presents at my old job, the employees spoiled me with Dove bars LOL, I blame the dark choc. Dove bars for DS2's existence! :oops:

I think milk chocolate, esp. cheap chocolate is perfect for a girl sway as a 'treat' here and there :agree:

[Mochagirl]

I ate a small amount of chocolate almost every day in the last month or so of my sway: hot chocolate, chocolate wafer cookies, chocolate ice cream, mini chocolate bars - you name it! One concession I made was switching from my usual dark chocolate to milk chocolate. I even ate a piece of chocolate cheesecake the day before O and on O day since it was Christmas Eve, I was depressed, and I felt I deserved something special :oops:. No damage done, though - I still got my girl :cheer:.

[atomic sagebrush]

I just read a study that claimed to prove that eating chocolate during pregnancy yielded a better behaved child!

Probably just nonsense but hey, my thinking is, that's a pretty good excuse!!!

[Irishmom]

I just read a study that claimed to prove that eating chocolate during pregnancy yielded a better behaved child!

Probably just nonsense but hey, my thinking is, that's a pretty good excuse!!!

Lol that explains why my boys are so well behaved. I was the chocolate
Monster for 10 months!!;)

[Mochagirl]

Lol that explains why my boys are so well behaved. I was the chocolate
Monster for 10 months!!;)

Didn't work for me - my boys are all terrors! :fight:

[Irishmom]

Didn't work for me - my boys are all terrors! :fight:

Awe! You will have the perfect referee in September to make them all softies. :)

Has it sunk in yet? I'd say you are walking on air the past few days.:kiss:

[Mochagirl]

It still doesn't feel real. I still find myself calling the baby 'it', but we DID finally decide to tell our boys they're getting a baby sister, and they were pretty excited ;).

[Mochagirl]

It still doesn't feel real. I still find myself calling the baby 'it', but we DID finally decide to tell our boys they're getting a baby sister, and they were pretty excited ;).

[Irishmom]

Ahh! Brilliant! Again wishing you all the best. Im thrilled for you.;)

[love-my-kids]

I myself never ate any type of sweet when I got pregnant with my dd but I also didn't with my boys either. This time I was eating a lot of jelly beans. Don't know the gender yet though.

[atomic sagebrush]

It's never doing this thing or that thing that really sways, it's what our body does in response. It's totally possible to eat straight off a girl menu and conceive boys and vice versa, depending on other cues our body receives from the environment and its own natural settings (based on things that may even date back to childhood and even when we were in our mother's womb!!) It's just that overall, the sway tactics have worked for the majority of people (even if it's only 55-45 majority!). None of this can ever be 100% or the whole human race would have died out a long time ago!!