How did all you girl Mums do it?!

How did you all keep from snaking? Are you just not hungry people? Do you fill up on high calorie meals that take ages to digest? Constantly drinking diet soda? :DD:

I have come to the conclusion I am a moo cow - I constantly graze. I am having so much trouble stopping myself from snacking, it's second nature to just stick food in my mouth. Only small amounts (a rice cracker here, a few slices of cucumber there), but I shouldn't be doing it!
Please tell me how you all did it!

I can eat a late breakfast and an early dinner, and therefore go 14 - 17 hours over night without food, but then that block of time between I just find myself poping food in my mouth. I'm a bit of a piglet I think :worry:

Atomic - I eat a vegan,low carb / low calorie diet within the LE diet ranges (1200 - 1400 most days naturally) and am fairly slim ( currently at my lowest adult weight since I conceived my daughter), and stay empty for a fair amount of time overnight.
I know nothing is certain BUT...... Are big spaces between food MORE important than lower calorie intake in your opinion? Wouldn't higher calorie intake send messages to your body that times aren't so tough? Or does snacking send a bigger message that food is plentiful, even if calorie eaten are low? Or is it the combination of both that's the kicker?

Am I better eating more calories and REALLY filling up at each meal in the hope it helps me cut down on snacking, even though I will gain weight if I eat more? Or should I stick to what I'm doing and just cut down on the snacks as much as I can (it won't be completely)?
I don't want to use soda as a 'filler' as I am fearful of fake sugars and the health implications.

I feel so embarrassed - I sound like such a guts!

Yes, I guess most of us are just not the hungry people. I never ever snacked, was thin, I practically lived on low fat diary.
I can't stand potatoes for example.

Eventhou I've changed my life style dramatically in order to have a :bigboy: I still ended up pg with a girl. I'm feeling really miserable and lost, no matter what I do I can't have my baby boy.

LE diet seems to work like a charm for :XX: everybody is getting their long awaited girls just like that. So stick to it, I'm sure it will work for you too.

Big hugs ZB

Little Bairn lol I´m just like you, snacking all day long so I wondered how girl moms do that too during my sway.
Did you try chewing gum and tea or coffee as snacks?

LittleBairn - you sound just like me...i was a constant grazer! And i struggled with cutting it out, and i still do.
I think the no snacking is a 2 pronged attack, it makes your body think times are tough = girl sway, and it keeps your glucose long = girl sway.
The things that help me are sugar free chewing gum...i eat tons of it, the stuff with aspartame as that is supposed to sway girl too.
I also drink tons of tea, peppermint from AF-O (again thats a girl swayer) with aspartame as sweetner, and rooibos tea from O onwards. I have about 4 cups a day.
Diet coke helps as well with the hunger

Good luck :luck: and just keep thinking pink! Sometimes when i am struggling with the diet i google some pink things and that helps me too :)

I have no advice as I haven't even started my sway yet, but I think the no snacking thing is going to be the biggest challenge for me too. I graze all day, I don't eat that much in calories but I spread it all out across the day so I'm constantly eating.
I think I'm just gonna have to try and find ways to keep myself busy, because I mainly eat when I'm bored.

I found Diet Pepsi to be really good at tricking my belly into thinking it was full, but if you're leery of fake sugars then I guess that's not for you. I also drank tea all day long: peppermint and raspberry leaf. That really helped. And I could never have done the no eating till noon thing without my morning coffee.

Good luck - I know it's tough, but soooooo worth it.

My mom never ate breakfast, never snacked, ate a tiny lunch and then a small dinner. That's just how she ate for years. She smoked, drank plain unsweetened tea/coffee and chewed sugarfree gum between meals.

When I conceived DD I was really distraught and had pretty much lost my appetite. I never noticed if I was getting shaky, I was drinking a TON of coffee so I think I was filling my stomach with that. I usually eat like 5 times a day so very very different for me.

Bearing in mind that I have no way to say for certain without a study, I think the lower caloric intake would outweigh the "no snacking" idea. Obviously, combining the two is better. But if you're already going 14-17 hours without eating, you have no reason to worry about how often you're eating in the meantime. The point is just to have several hours out of the day where you have lower blood sugar, and you've already accomplished that.

There is no one-size, fits-all approach with diet. What works for one person will render another totally miserable. So you have to be flexible and forgiving with yourself - as long as you're moving in the direction of less FOR YOU, it doesn't matter what anyone else is doing. Your body notices what is less for you and takes note of that...it has no way of knowing what anyone else is eating. Your body cares about your environment, not anyone else's.

Just having had 3 girls after my son, my biggest difference was in how I ate. I always just had a cup of coffee, then 3 hours or so a piece of fruit and a cookie an hour later maybe. Then my kids would go down for nap ans I would finally eat my first meal around 2pm. Usually salad and chips. Then dinner was peanut butter and ice cream.
Anyway, I got very used to skipping in the am, but would get hungry and that's when I'd grab the cookie or the piece of fruit. I think it was more impt. that I didn't eat a lot. Maybe just one piece of cheese on a cracker when you're really hungry?

What about chewing gum to help with the grazing?

I think it all starts at the supermarket. Dont buy it and you cant eat it. I know lots of people do a whole weeks worth of grocery shopping, but i used to just grab a few dinners, bread, milk, coffee when DD was concieved i had the mind set that cooking and eating were a chore that i didn't like, don't get me wrong i was not anorexic or anything, i would only find something to eat when my stomach would really growl at me, that was just the way i lived. I think eventually your stomach shrinks and you fill up on very little food, for example instead of making a sandwich for lunch i would just cut a chunk of cheese and eat that and be full.

I lived in the buzz of feeling hungry and keeping thin.. sad I know but I think this is why I never had a boy..