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Sammy, we are getting GREAT results with the PCOS diets, please don't feel you're selliing your sway short in any way. Our results for PCOSers on standard diet were not good and ever since I started changing it up with PCOS diets, our results have skyrocketed. I am actually using these diets more and more and it may actually be the case that they are better for everyone!! This is a work in progress and
Don't cross fingers and hope unless you are ok with another boy.
Both timing and pH have been debunked and you can read more about the reasons why in the links below. You 110% do NOT need to keep douching and testing pH for days on end. That is a bunch of baloney and our results have done nothing but improve since we dropped all that silly stuf.
http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gend...le-timing.html
http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gend...ph-pickle.html
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once again, thanks Atomic. really appreciate it! I will follow the pcos diet, I fell like its better for me anyway (with the whole grain stuff especially) and veggies.
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I'm intrested in the pink fertility diet, since I've been ttc'ing for a year now and I am in my early 40's. However, the diet includes meat and fish, and I am vegetarian. With peas, beans and other legumes excluded from the diet, I'm left with very little protein sources. Since I do not have pcos (not that I know of anyway), is it ok to eat some legumes? How about wheat and corn? Any suggestions??
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The legume avoidance is not for the PCOS issue, nor for swaying, it's because legumes have compounds in them that may be harmful to fertility. Peas were even being investigated to be used in new kinds of birth control. It's not that you can NEVER have them if you choose, just keep it to a few times a week.
In your early 40's, you actually should limit carbs to some extent and since legumes are carby you may not want that many of them anyway.
Dairy, eggs, and nuts a possibility??
Wheat and corn are not considered great for fertility either.
What you have to understand as you look at these diets is that it's best to look at them as a guideline. If you need to include SOME wheat, corn, legumes in your diet, that's ok. But you may want to treat rice, fruit, veg, dairy, eggs, as your primary sources and then fill in what you need iwth foods that aren't strictly on the diet. These diets aren't "eat this and only this or fail" it's just a guideline to changes you can make that may help overall. It's totally possible to do this in a 70-30% or even 60-40 kind of way where you just do what you can do and then what you can't, let go of.
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Wow, I keep learning new things from you Atomic! Thank you!
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So would I need to make sure I had the minimum from each group or does it not matter if I only have 1 serving from the 2 to 3 times a day?
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there are two ways to approach it, chocolate. If you want to be "perfectly perfect" on LE guidelines you'd want to use that as a guideline while sticking in the limits for cals, protein, and fat. But a lot of the PCOS swayers have found it very difficult to track all that stuff and so I came up with those guidelines with the number of servings and stuff like that. If you were to do the max number of servings on everything, you would prob. be beyond LE Diet limits but it's meant as an easier to follow compromise diet that you don't have to think so much about. REmember, getting enough food is actually just as important as limiting your food intake because cutting back too far can really wreak havoc with your ovulation.
So nutshell version:
If you want to be absolutely "perfect" on the LE Diet front you would do the type of foods we discuss in this thread while sticking in PCOS LE limits (1500-1800 cals, 50-60 g protein, 50-60 g fat) and yes in that case you may need to do less servings than are in that diet at least on SOME things, some days.
BUT if you find all the tracking and balancing too stressful (and it is extremely tough to get it right on PCOS type diets) then just follow those limits and you'd want to have those minimum number of servings (so where it says 2-3 servings, you HAVE to have at least 2 servings) because we need to be sure you're getting enough. Some days you may go a little over but that is ok, because you'll be getting enough for a healthy and safe pregnancy and also be in line with your needs with the PCO.
No one should drop below those guidelines in the PCOS diet UNLESS they are also tracking nutrients ON THEIR OWN.
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oops no questin in the message, babii
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I didnt mean to post in this thread sorry =)
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