Discouraged..

So I'm currently around 13 weeks pregnant after swaying for a girl, but it's looking very much like this will be another boy, and the more I look into my sway, the less surprised I am. I was on the LE diet from June to November with a few weeks off due to a loss in October, but unable to exercise because I was losing weight too quickly (125 to 112 in my time on the diet. As I'm reading through successful sways, I'm seeing most women at 1200-1500 calories a day (and a lot at less than that), who are somehow managing to also exercise an hour a day and have 2-3 drinks of alcohol and stay under their calories for the day. I've still been tracking my normal diet since I got pregnant, and eating without looking at nutrition, my normal calorie intake is 2100, 60g protein and 55-65g fat. During the LE, I was at 1700 calories, 50-60g protein and usually 60g fat. I never had enough calories left to drink any alcohol, and I was still starving most nights when I went to bed. I'm trying to mentally prepare to sway again really hard pretty much as soon as this baby is born, but I feel like I'll never be able to get the calories down that low and still function. It's just discouraging to think I may never get a daughter, all because my basal metabolic rate is just too high :(


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I look at your profile picture and your boys are adorable :)

Regarding your new baby, wait and see...the calories intake it's not really a fact that sways boy, so dont panic!
Do you have any scans from doctor ultrasound yet?


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No, I go for my ultrasound on the 10th of March, but I had a home blood test that said boy.


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What is a home blood test?
You mean the Panorama?


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No, it's called "SneakPeek". You do a blood draw at home from a finger stick, send the lab .5ml of blood in a sterile tube, and they look for the Y chromosome. They claim 99% accuracy and even have a money back guarantee if it's wrong.


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I understand how u feel. I am currently on the le diet and I too am struggling big time with keeping calories down. I am so hungry and weak if I don't eat more than the normal calories most are on. If I wasn't exercising i might be able for less but the exercise leaves me so hungry.
I would say though that the home blood tests are known to be wrong so you could still have your little girl. Fingers crossed for u.

I never heard of this. I know Panorama is 100% and I made it at 8 weeks....
Just dont lose hope.
Have patience :-)



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I ate between 800 and 1200 daily and get 70-80 cardio each day. For me it was a succesfull sway.
I desperatly wanted a girl and DID everything but it was sure not healthy! I know that.

I saw great sways with opposite result and couldnt explain it either...I think in the end, just as I wrote in my sway, what is meant to be is meant to be..you can do everything and still get the other gender...I saw girls that did a few things for just a few weeks and got their girl...so, you never know.....
I really hope this is your girl.



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What I really struggle with is that to not be shaky and unable to even get off the couch to interact with my boys, I find I need 600-800 calories per MEAL, let alone per day. And that's not even exercising at all, just my daily living. When I was trying to do the exercise, 60 minutes of stationary bike, I was having to sleep for 4-5 hours in the afternoon because I was so weak at 1500 calories. My husband is an exercise physiologist and has done body composition analysis for me before and just for my body to stay alive, I need 1340 calories a day. And that's if I was completely comatose, only my essential systems (breathing, cardiac function, etc). I'm 5'3", a 20 bmi and less than 21% body fat. I've never watched my weight, just always ate when I was hungry, and I've always been around 120lbs when I wasn't pregnant. To survive on 1000 calories I feel like I'd need to be like 4'0" :(


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