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Hi,
I am not quite sure I understand this.
Tier 1 is the most important girl diet foods, down to Tier 4, the least important.
- Tier 1 eat as much as you want, all the time when ever
- Tier 2 is once a day or maybe 2 times a day, but no more
- Tier 3 is every other day or ever 3rd day
But what is Tier 4?
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"Tier 4 is sort of like the last resort tier. Like if you are going out to eat or can't be on the boy/girl diet and need to focus on only acid/alkaline, etc. "
Tamara told me it was also ok to have it once in a while in the 2ww
But what exactly is on tier 4?Quote:
Originally Posted by Chicky
GREAT question and something I know a lot of people have wondered about.
Tier 4 is foods that are on the French Gender Diet that may be alkalinizing OR
foods that are on the acidifying diet that might have the wrong minerals OR
foods that are on the Progesterone diet that might be alkalinizing and/or have the wrong minerals.
Obviously that covers a LOT of foods that you shouldn't eat on a day to day basis - way too many to list.
Basically what Tamara is driving at with Tier 4 is, if you are in a situation where you seriously can't eat the IG Diet, like you're at a restaurant with your child's field trip class or your MIL is standing over your shoulder trying to shove a roast in your mouth, try to pick foods that are at least doing SOMETHING for you in some way. So if you are given a choice between a food that is 100% boy friendly with no redeeming qualities, and something that has at least something going for it, pick the food that has something going for it. Don't do it more than once a week and don't do it the week of O.
Examples - beans rather than red meat (even tho they are usually very salty and have potassium)
chicken rather than red meat (even if it is very salty bc IG believes chicken is better for minerals and has less testosterone)
cheese rather than red meat (even if it is very salty because it has calcium)
broccoli rather than red meat (has some calcium and is less salty, altho it is alkalinizing)
eggs rather than red meat (IG believes eggs raise progesterone)
unsalted red meat rather than salted red meat (less salt)
red meat without potatoes rather than with potatoes (less potassium)
alfredo spaghetti sauce rather than red sauce (has a lot of sodium but does have calcium)
red spaghetti sauce without meat rather than with meat (meat raises testosterone)
Tier 4 just means, when ya gotta choose an evil, try and choose the lesser of two evils.
Oh and one more thing to consider is what your diet has been like for the rest of the week previous and also what your pH is doing - if you've had a lot of sodium already but your pH is super low, you might want to pick an "evil" that is lower in sodium but alkalinizing. If you haven't had much sodium and ESP. potassium (never forget your body needs at 700-1000 mg sodium per day and also 2500-3500 mg of potassium for your health and even survival, do not drop below this amount) then a Tier 4 meal can actually be very beneficial to making up some of this deficit. Tier 4 can almost be viewed as a weapon in your arsenal towards getting some of these nutrients if your diet is severely lacking them.
If you feel like testosterone is more of a prob. for you (example, I can be quite thin and still have very muscley arms) then always err on the side of not eating meat - so choose beans/cheese/alkalinizing veg rather than meat even if those foods are higher in potassium and alkalinizing. But if testosterone is less of an issue, you might have the very rare cheat of red meat now and then but make sure it's on a day or week when you're doing good in other ways and (tho this is not IG advice here) be sure to be losing or have lost at least a couple of pounds on a lower protein, lower fat, lower calorie diet.
Think ahead to upcoming holidays and events and plan your cheats accordingly and this may even help you stick to the diet somewhat...like, you can tell yourself if you KNOW you will get to have a small portion of turkey and potatoes on T-Day, it may be easier to do the diet for the rest of the month.