new and have lots of random ?

So I came over from IG so I am not new to swaying but I have a lot of lingering questions about my TTC pink sway.

First, I got cranberry supps but I see in the ingredients it contains gelatin. Is this going to totally hurt my sway as gelatin sways blue?

Aspertame--I get headaches from just drinking one glass of CL or diet coke. I love both though, so I often drink them with a lot of water. But for my sway, is the aspertame really going to do any good if I am drinking all that water with it?

AF showed yesterday, so I started the LE diet yesterday and hope to TTC in November/December. yesterday went great, but I already caved on the diet today since I felt so awful. Yesterday I skipped breakfast, had a yogurt, cucumber sandwhich and diet coke for lunch, and had rice, mushrooms, and piece of low sodium bread for dinner. Today I skipped breakfast, had a low fat cream cheese cucumber sandwhich on low sodium bread, with diet coke, but by 3 pm I had to lay down I felt so crappy. I drank a cup of OJ and had a banana and felt sooooo much better. Maybe I need to wean onto this diet?

Timing and abstaining--DS was a 5 day cut-off after BD every day for over 7 days, so to TTC pink I am thinking of doing a 14 day abstain and a O+12.... but I am afraid of missing that little eggie and/or stressing too much. Are there really any other options besides O+12 and cut-off for TTC pink?

Thanks ladies!

Are they soft gel like capsules, the cranberry ones? As that is what the capsules are made out of - gelatine. Personally I would not worry as the amount would be so minimal. Us TTC blue mummas, have to take 3 TABLESPOONS of gelatine daily, lol.

Hi carmella! I am in the process of swaying pink, and it sure isn;t much fun! I have been on the ig diet for about 3-4 months and am currently 5dpo from our 3rd attempt.
I have taken some supps over the last few months that have been gelatine caps, adn so has my dh. Mainly because I just couldn;t find an alternative. I figure the amount of gelatine that is in them is so minimal, and also gelatine is acidifying, so I'm sure it won;t hurt.
The aspatame gives me a bit of a headache aswell, but not always. But I guess it could be the diet too! I have been drinking alot of sprite zero because we can't get cl in oz, and this seems to bring down my ph pretty well. What about cranberry juice? I found the diet really hard to get used to. I felt like s*#t for the first couple of weeks, but it does get better. It's such an adjustment your body goes through, I usually eat what I want when I want, so I find that part really hard.
I am doing abstain with 0+12, as this method seems to have the best results. Dh isn't too keen on the abstaining bit, but thems the breaks !! I concieved ds#3 with a 3-4 day cutoff and pretty frequent bding, so we are trying the opposite this time....
Good luck to you !

does splenda give you headaches as well? I believe that is an alternative to aspartame just may not be quite as effective. best of luck to you!

I have not tried the splenda, does it still sway pink? I am not a big soda drinker or artificial sweetner gal, which might be how I ened up with :DS: but I have been trying CL and diet coke and putting equal in things and while the taste doesn't bother me the headaches are out of this word. I have heard people say that aspartame is a neurotoxin and now I can understand why! how do people drink 3-4 diet cokes a day (some who aren't even swaying!)

I won't worry about the gelatin in the cranberry.

I am thinking about easing into this sway diet, first cutting breakfast for a week, then the next week cutting red meat, then nutritious fruits and veggies the next week, etc. It will just take a while to adjust I guess ...

Wow I never knew gelatine was acidifying!!!??

I never knew it was either until I realised half of the supps I had been taking were gel. caps, so I looked into it and found out that it is actually acidifying. I think you would need a fair bit of it to alter testosterone.
Aspartame is the best at lowering ph, but splenda is also ok for a pink sway. Just don't have truvia or stevia, or products containing either because I believe these can raise your ph !

I used to get awful headaches from aspartame as a teen, splenda never bothered me that way. Somehow I am now able to tolerate the aspartame without any issue. I have noticed quite a few people use splenda as an alternative but as I mentioned it isn't AS effective but I think it still helps.

I can drink the aspertame if I drink a lot of water, just wondering if the water washes it all away! Does water sway? I mean like, does drinking a lot of water or drinking very little water sway at all? I drink a lot of water every day!

Hi and welcome :D

Do you have the nutritional goals for the Low Everything diet? It doesn't sound to me as though you're eating enough and the aim of the Low Everything diet was that it would sway pink but that it would also be healthy enough to stick to long term. How many calories are you eating each day and how much weight do you have to lose? I did the LE diet for 3 months and lost 42lb and I enjoyed it! I had lots of sweet treats (which are allowed!) so I didn't feel deprived.

As for the Cranberry supplements, many of us take low dosage (baby) aspirin instead because it's acidifying but doesn't provide all the nutrients that cranberry does (and we're trying to keep nutrients low when swaying pink).

If aspartame gives you headaches you could try another sweetener as others have suggested (I prefer Splenda). Most baby girls were conceived without the benefit of artificial sweeteners so I would say don't make yourself ill - if you can't tolerate it then don't worry about that aspect.

The other option besides a cut-off or an O+12 is to DTD around ovulation, which will give you a greater chance of conceiving. There have been tonnes of studies done on timing and they all contradict either other, which suggests that it probably doesn't matter at all (particularly if you're doing lots of other things to sway like acid gels/antihistimines/shallow release/JAD). The only part of 'timing' which I believe is important is that your BD pattern works to lower DH's sperm count. If you feel that frequent release (once a day for at least 7-10 days) isn't enough for you personally you could either abstain or do even more frequent release. My DH did it twice a day for around 10 days and our attempt was his 3rd release within 24 hours. He's a 'once a day' guy anyway but abstenance wasn't an option for us because he wouldn't be capable and he's 37 and I'm not comfortable with it at his age.