Coming off the hCG diet and TTC pink

I've been lurking on here off and on for about a year and am finally getting ready to TTC. Let me just say you girls are amazing, the support and enthusiasm I see on here is contagious.

Don't know if anyone has heard of the hCG diet (human chorionic gonadotropin), it's for weight loss, not for swaying. I have two weeks left and then start the maintenance phase for 6 weeks but am hoping there is a way to incorporate the LE diet with it.

I've lost 30 lbs on the diet and hormones but could still stand to lose another 10-15 that I'm saving for my sway. My concern is that the maintenance phase (6 weeks) has you not eat sugars or starches for the first 3 weeks and then to slowly reintroduce them in them for the last 3 weeks, and the LE diet is so focused on sugar and starch. I'm planning on doing the intense exercise option for my sway, (know a few girls that got girls that way without knowing it :), so I'm hoping that will help me continue to lose weight despite the fact that I'm eating sugars and starches. During the hCG diet you don't really have any sugars or starches.

We have two DS, ages 4 and 2. I'm 36 and will be 37 by the time I have our next child and may still try to squeeze one more in there, so I feel like I'm getting impatient. I just got my IUD out and DH is seeming excited to start trying but I'm nervous I won't have been on the LE diet long enough before TTC.

When what I have been eating on the hCG diet is lean meats, veggies, fruit and one small cracker, do you think I'll just pile on the weight when I start LE? I'm scared that even if I'm limiting my calories, just starting the sugars and starches will make me put on weight. But I'm also hopeful that the weight loss I have done will sway pink. Is there a way to do LE without a ton of sugar/starch? I really liked the meal ideas like the matzo pizzas and iceberg lettuce salads.

I really wanted to get my old baby weight off before TTC again so I wouldn't just keep getting bigger. But I also wanted to have my kids close together, so this over 3 year gap is killing me (making me more impatient). And the biological clock is ticking.

I guess I just wondered if there was anyone else having success on LE without a ton of carbs, or if I need to just suck it up for a bit and hope I don't start gaining?

BTW, this site is amazing! Excited to be on here more!!

I posted this using Tapatalk, does it not post to the website? I can't find it nor others on here on the GD website?

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Thank you for your response, NBP, for some reason I'm still having trouble making sure they're linked. But I can see this post on the website now, it's just not where I thought it would be? Nothing shows up when I click "My Posts."

Hi! I see the post, sometimes it just takes me a few days to respond.

There is more than one type of LE Diet. The only thing that is REALLY LE is 1200-1500 or 1500-1800 cals, 40-50 g protein, 25-60 g fat 9you want 20-30% of your day's calories from fat.) The rest of it is up to YOU. Some people find that the crash and burn style carby diet works best for them, others do a more whole-grain, fruit and veg type diet and increase protein to 50-60 g. But they are STILL doing LE Diet. It's not that type of diet where you get a list of 10 foods you must or must not eat.

So if I were you, I would reduce cals to 1200-1500 (this is the lowest safe amount before TTC), up protein to 50-60 g, and get cals from full fat dairy rather than carbs. 60 g protein = 600 calories 25 g fat = 225 calories (or so), that only leaves you 375 calories to get from whole grains, fruits, and higher carb veg (lower carb veg are free and you can have as much as you want.) You can even increase the fat from 25 g to get a higher number of cals from fat and lower from grains/fruit/higher carb veg.

Wow, that was incredibly helpful, thank you! That sounds more doable too. I was hunting around on here trying to find something like that. Also, since I'm planning to do the intense exercise option, I didn't want to just be doing sugary stuff. Hopefully I can keep it low nutrient enough. Thank you!!

I need/intend to write that procedure up in greater detail and put it into the PCOS thread where there is a "reserved" blank spot because that's where I mean for it to go. but I haven't had the chance yet, I'm so sorry.

All you do is just shift where you're getting the cals from. Still LE Diet, just a diff. form.

I was wondering that too! Thank you for posting this question!