Struggling with HE diet, is this ok?

HE diet is really difficult for me. I’ve changed a lot in the last two weeks, please tell me if you think this is ok. I’m hoping that I’m getting an extra boost since this is so drastically different than how I normally eat in terms of quantity, frequency and dairy products.

Breakfast: one or two eggs. A couple bites of fruit. Sometimes cereal, usually shredded wheat or uncle sam. Two cups of coffee (I’m addicted and also have a 10mth old that still wakes up. I need it). This used to be 4cups so I’ve cut back.

I love love almond milk on cereal. I’m trying to quit this, but I just don’t like the taste of milk. To try and make up for this, I use heavy cream in my coffee. Am I fooling myself thinking this makes up for it?

Snack: Almonds, half of a Pb sandwich. Banana. Usually something like this. Maybe half of a whole milk yogurt.

Lunch: leftovers from dinner. Or I’ll make a hamburger patty, or eggs if I didn’t have it for breakfast. Some sort of fruit and a giant green tea or a coffee with whole milk if I’m tired.

Dinner: some sort of meat, veggie or salad. A couple bites of pasta or carb. Wine. Or maybe a beer.

Midnight snack: My little one still wakes to nurse and I wake up hungry also, so I always have a bowl of cereal.

I’m also still taking a prenatal (still breastfeeding), also fish oil and vitamin D.


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Yes yes that's right. The most important thing is that you eat more/better than when you got your girls. It is fine if you never get up to as much food as is in the diet. I had to make a blanket diet for people (because they forced me to LOL) but really I just want you guys to eat more HE than you were before.

Cutting back on coffee is fine, if you can go to tea eventually that's great but still step in the right direction.

RE the almond milk, that is fine. YES you actually are making up some of it with the heavy cream. We believe almond milk sways pink due to high amounts of vegetable oils in them, and studies show that higher intake of animal fats (like those in cream) instead of vegetable fats sways pink. This doesn't mean you can never have vegetable fats or almond milk, just that you have to be extra cautious you are still getting a good amount of animal fats, hopefully more than the vegetable fats

You might want to cut back on the peanut butter if you can't give up the almond milk, though, because the vegetable fats in the PB are another source of potential pink-friendly fat.

I'd stick to no more than 2-3 servings of alcohol a week if poss.

Everything else is looking great to me!!!

Thank you so much! I didn’t know that about the peanut butter, I’ll definitely cut that down. It’s a guilty pleasure of mine.

One more question: hubby is addicted to coffee/red bull. He drinks it morning, noon and night. Literally. He takes two 16oz cups in the morning, drinks several at the office, has some at home when he’s off. We’re remodeling our rental right now, and he’ll drink two red bulls at night while working. Is this really bad? Like, so bad we should wait til all the remodeling is done so at least he’s not on red bull. I didn’t want to tell him about the sway:/

This new way of eating really has me convinced this is a big contributor to all the girls in my family. My mom was always dieting, addicted to coffee, and I’m assuming even more so when she was young and got pregnant with my sisters and I. My sister, who also has two girls, was/is borderline anorexic and has always eaten very little and very low fat foods.

If I change my eating so drastically, and still get a girl, then I’m confident that’s what God intends for me.


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HE diet is really difficult for me. I’ve changed a lot in the last two weeks, please tell me if you think this is ok. I’m hoping that I’m getting an extra boost since this is so drastically different than how I normally eat in terms of quantity, frequency and dairy products.

Breakfast: one or two eggs. A couple bites of fruit. Sometimes cereal, usually shredded wheat or uncle sam. Two cups of coffee (I’m addicted and also have a 10mth old that still wakes up. I need it). This used to be 4cups so I’ve cut back.

I love love almond milk on cereal. I’m trying to quit this, but I just don’t like the taste of milk. To try and make up for this, I use heavy cream in my coffee. Am I fooling myself thinking this makes up for it?

Snack: Almonds, half of a Pb sandwich. Banana. Usually something like this. Maybe half of a whole milk yogurt.

Lunch: leftovers from dinner. Or I’ll make a hamburger patty, or eggs if I didn’t have it for breakfast. Some sort of fruit and a giant green tea or a coffee with whole milk if I’m tired.

Dinner: some sort of meat, veggie or salad. A couple bites of pasta or carb. Wine. Or maybe a beer.

Midnight snack: My little one still wakes to nurse and I wake up hungry also, so I always have a bowl of cereal.

I’m also still taking a prenatal (still breastfeeding), also fish oil and vitamin D.


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Hello !

For coffee, couldn't green tea and orange juice do the trick to help you in the mornings ? Plus it would be a good source of vit C ? Just keep an eye on your iron levels, green tea usually tampers with it, especially if taken during meals.

If you don't like milk in cereals, maybe try to use greek yoghurt instead ? You can add honey to help with the taste.

Try to have more fruits or fruit juices if you can manage. Be sure to have meat twice a day too. White chicken if you find it a bit hard to work up your appetite. Maybe also try to add beans, chick peas and lentils at lunch and dinner, be it in salads, plates or soups ?

Any way, don't loose hope ! You'll find your balance in time.

Energy drinks for DH are something we have observed anecdotally to be seemingly linked to more girls. I don't know how or why, but it was an observation I made first IRL and then has seemed to hold true on the site as well. So if there's any way to hold off till when he's not drinking the Red Bulls, or at least maybe have him cut down to one (not gonna be easy if he's not willing to do it and doesn't know about the sway, of course)

Yes that's how my mom was too - no breakfast, this tiny school hot lunch (she was a teacher), rarely snacked, and then ate a small dinner. I don't remember her ever eating a second helping of anything. Coffee and cigarettes all day long! She has mostly girls too, only one boy. I would starve to death LOL if I ate the way my mom did!!

:agree: wanted to echo what Sora mentioned about the yogurt...when I got my boys I often had yogurt (full fat) mixed with berries or granola cereal and it's really good that way. May be an option to try since you don't like regular milk.

Thanks ladies! I very occasionally eat yogurt, Ill try more often. Maybe if I put toppings on it I’ll like it better.


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Yes I very much prefer yogurt with toppings. By itself I find it to be a little too mushy. Fruit, cereal, nuts are all good.