You know I almost said that too, that the flip side is it can make you feel more down. Well, your internet family is here for you :) :bighug: !!
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You know I almost said that too, that the flip side is it can make you feel more down. Well, your internet family is here for you :) :bighug: !!
Aww suregena, you sound so sad. Where in the UK are you? Have you made friends here?
Is your cm still fertile?
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I'm in West Yorkshire. I know people but am hesitant to call anyone friends like I have back home. Last I checked (haven't checked this morning yet) my cm is hard to decipher but my cervix now, last night, seemed lower and feeling of the cervix itself feels different, more firm. So I hope I did ovulate but the cheap OPKs just didn't pick it up. Maybe all the swaying stuff made my LH harder to detect, maybe just with the cheap tests?
cheap OPKs really are bad sometimes... even though I got my peak on my CBFM and a good pos on a clearblue OPK yesterday morning, the internet cheapies were still negative (albeit a lot darker than the rest of the cycle, but only about 2/3 intensity of the control line)
The most I have seen with them is a sliver of a line that is similar in color as the control line. You know where maybe 1/3rd or less shows a nonfaint color? That's the "strongest" I've ever gotten.
So... I don't know. Maybe I started paying attention to cervical position and CM at the right time and maybe I DID ovulate but those tests just couldn't pick it up, for a variety of reasons. Well, one can hope...
This morning I decided to join the rest of my little family for an eggy breakfast (cheese scambled egg, crumpet, and mushrooms) but I'll skip lunch. I'm sure the cheese sent me over, but it's my last day off before a new work week so I'm just going to stay mellow.
what time of day do you test with using the ICs? I find FMU gives me best results with them but that#s normally the time of day you're told NOT to test with them!
I think CM and cervix position is often the best way to tell really
don't feel guilty about the breakfast, it's no harm now and again
I was following the 1-2pm and night-time rule (usually 6-9pm) I also did some morning, too (three tests a day!)
I was at the store yesterday, HnG, and I looked at the medium jar -- yep, that one is 105 mg of sodium. I don't know why there would be such a difference between the mild and medium flavors, but there you have it. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by HopeandDreamG
And you're right, 105 is still quite good compared to other ones. I think the kind DH usually gets has well over 200.
I'm really sorry, suregena. Being homesick feels just rotten. I was never more than three hours away from my family and even that was really tough. :bighug:
Suregena, last spring I bought a BUNCH of ICs and never could get a + off of them...not once. It just sucks that things are so confusing for you. I know it's compounded by the fact that you've been on this diet awhile and just want to go back to normal life and not be so strict about things. Also, BIG HUGS from me b/c I know things are so rough w/out family around. :HH:Quote:
Originally Posted by suregena
YES! That goes for everyone on this thread!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by HopeandDreamG
Thank you! Guess I will be buying the mild! Glad you mentioned the salsa. I had looked at the other brands before I saw your post about the newmans and there was no way I was using over 200mg sodium in 2 just tablespoons.Quote:
Originally Posted by dramabird
We had some last night with the trader joes no salt tortilla chips while we watched the Giants game!!!
Oh Surgena I'm sorry about your dh's family. Being that far from your own family has got to be tough :HH: I agree, I think maybe your IC didn't pick up O and you already O'd.
I went to trader Joe's this weekend and couldn't find anything really good :( No salt free tortilla chips, no low sodium salsa and the worst is they didn't have any frozen yogurt. Ugh the search continues...
On a last note - I CANT BELIEVE THE NINERS LOST!!!!!
Purple sky~ did you ask at trader joes for the chips? How did they not have them? The aisle is huge here filled with tortilla chips, don't think I would have had the patience to find them myself. And BTW: Go GIANTS!! LOL
I have a LOT of potatoes I need to get eaten up in the next few days. I'm in the 2ww... if I skinned them and only ate mine, say... with no butter and only creme fraiche, think that would be okay? Also, how much should I stick to without eating potato overload? My past two days with my son's birthday and meeting up with friends not knowing we were out to eat (thought we were getting drinks!) and having already cheated a bit yesterday anyway, I am trying to revert back to how I ought to be on the 2ww...
Suregena~ I think the important thing about diet in the 2WW is to keep your sugar low- skip brekkie and don't snack in between. This gives the egg the best chance of implanting.
I'm not sure about this- maybe someone else can chime in: my thought is as long as you do above you should be fine (to ensure implantation of the bean) but if you eat potatoes in the 2 ww (or anything else) it cannot really effect you because the egg has already been fertilized and can't switch genders. It is already what it IS!!
So is low sugars true for implantation regardless of the gender then or something specifically tied to girls?
I did bad the past couple days but I would hate to throw away potatoes! My husband is lazy with cooking and hasn't used them up. I hope I haven't messed up things over the last couple of days...
Pink beans prefer low glucose enviornments. something to do with the efficiency of how the suck up blood glucose. lower blood sugar = more likely for pink bean to implant. There's a thread on here somewhere about it. I'll look for it.
Sometimes shopping at TJ's really foils my plans b/c they seem to be out of a certain thing every now and then and sometimes, it's not just a week but even a month or more on certain things...:) This is the 2nd week that they've been out of my organic frozen raspberries and they didn't have the fro-yo this week at mine either.Quote:
Originally Posted by purple sky
I would not be worried about a few extra nutrients in the 2ww but H&D is right...Try to keep skipping breakkie and not snacking b/c BS is key. Upping your cals/fat/protein/etc. a bit is sort of risky b/c even w/skipping breakfast and not snacking, it still may alter your blood sugar levels depending on what you eat. In this 2ww, I admit that I have eaten more cals/protein/fat/sodium but just a little bit more. That's just my take on things...
Here's something BIG and LONG I had saved about diet in the 2ww. This is Atomic's response to someone's question about diet in the 2ww:
It's not because they need less nutrients, it's because they suck up glucose more effectively and if there's too much in the environment they may suck up too much. The males do not suck it up effectively and probably prefer more in their environment. You're right that we don't know which gender has been conceived but it's about giving the gender you've swayed so hard for the best possible chance of thriving after conception.
It's likely that big and strong beans of either gender can withstand a wide variety of environments. My thinking is simply that it makes no sense for us to desperately TTC a baby girl, and then not do everything we can to ensure that she has an optimal environment to develop in. This may be esp. true for those of us with 3-4-5-more boys already because the odds are good we prob. already HAVE a good environment for boys to develop in and so we may need to be extra diligent in providing an XX with the best environment we can.
http://genderdreaming.com/forum/tryi...tml#post110857 - XY NEED more glucose than XX do because they can't suck up as much (and this is the one aspect of swaying that is 100% proven beyond a shadow of a doubt because researchers have seen it happen in a lab and can even use it as a test to tell apart XX and XY.)
Some people are worried that if they cut back too far and do conceive a boy, they will lose him and I do admit this is a possibility. But, in the same study that proved XX and XY need diff amounts of glucose, they also showed that the healthy and best-developing beans of either gender were the best at sucking up glucose (and those are the ones who are most likely to produce viable pg anyway). So a healthy boy who was going to go onto successfully stick, will STILL be able to suck up enough glucose to survive anyway even if it is less than optimal environment, and a boy bean that couldn't make it due to environment, very well may have not been destined to make it anyway.. A healthy girl will be GREAT at sucking up glucose so there is no "too low" for girls (your body does everything it can to make sure a baby has a shot of survival so it's going to keep pumping glucose into the CM). In fact, it may even be the case that too-high glucose is worse than too low, for BOTH genders.
My thinking has always been, A) it's silly to do everything we can to try to conceive a baby girl and then not do everything we can to ensure she has the best shot at survival and B) it's almost certain to me that if this mechanism exists (as it definitely appears to), then there is another, as yet undiscovered mechanism at play PRIOR to conception that takes note of glucose and works to ensure that you conceive a baby of the gender that your body is most likely to successfuly carry to term. Eggs are "biologically expensive" for your body to make and it doesn't "like" to just send them out willy nilly and risk miscarriage (even more "biologically expensive") - that is why swaying works to begin with, because your body only wants to chance a pregnancy/birth/child raising that has the best odds of survival. Obviously this mechanism, like all our body's mechanisms, are not foolproof, which is why swaying can never be 100% and people do have miscarriages sometimes unfortunately.
One of the first gals I helped with swaying info was one of those who tended to take things further than I would like - she stuck with the blood glucose stuff religiously and did it even AFTER her BFP (against my advice BTW) and her baby was a boy who is now 1 and perfectly normal in every way. So I have evidence that blood glucose does not cause healthy baby boys to be miscarried.
H&D, that's why I can't send DH to TJ's, lol...b/c he can never find what I want him to buy. Their store is small but they have so much stuff that sometimes it's hiding.Quote:
Originally Posted by HopeandDreamG
Well, the past few days were total fails (I caved this morning and had a cookie with coffee, gah! Leftover cookies = evil...) so hopefully I haven't ruined my help towards a healthy pink bean! I did have mashed potato with creme fraiche and a couple small yorkshire puddings (I didn't realize how low in everything those were!) tonight but I'm going to be religious from tomorrow. I had a hard day during my son's birthday so fell off the wagon only SLIGHTLY, i.e. I ate a late breakfast about 11pm with my husband and son yesterday, had leftover hummus and tortilla chips, and had a slice and a half of pizza... and a lot of cookies. :x
Suregena, don't even give it a 2nd thought at this point...what's done is done and I don't think you did that badly. Just try to eat how you were eating while on the sway and stick to it. I'm right there with you...I reaaaaaaally want to eat something with lots and lots of cheese right now...:oops:
I haven't really been dieting... I was trying to start eating normal meals again but I can't. Dieting for so long has affected me. I can barely eat a non-fat yogurt at 10 without feeling full or sick. I have a few small snacks during the day, then a normal dinner, and fruit before bed. Last we ate Lettuce Wraps (cole slaw mix with pork) I didn't add anything salty or fattening because of hubbies diet.
Atleast if I do get preg I will be used to my morning sickness diet!
PP, I was the same way when I got preg last summer...All the sudden I could eat breakfast and anything I wanted but it was such a chore to eat before 11 - 12 and I ended up eating a lot of the same sway meals b/c that's just what I felt like. Food just wasn't as fun as I had thought it would be. I'm hoping you get a BFP before Valentines Day...what a wonderful V-Day prezzie. Your very own little cupid in your belly :awe:
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Originally Posted by Out of the Blue
I have eaten a loooooot of homemade cookies. The whole time, "I shouldn't do this... but I WANT ONE SO BAD." Then the domino effect where you walk by them and have to have another.
I really have no willpower. It's been horrible.
Hopefully all is well that ends well.
I still, because of all my failings (not daily, mind you) in terms of chocolates during December and cookies around/after ovulation, think I'll probably end up with a boy. That is... if I have a BFP this month!
Thanks out of the blue! That's what I was looking for :)
It will still be hard with hubby dieting... but every year I make a prime rib dinner for valentines day. Our 1st offical date was velentines, corny I know but we met shortly before that time. Wow just realized we met 5 years ago in just a few days. We decided to be a couple on 2/10. I need a new younger man :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Out of the Blue
How's everyone doing today?
I really think I need to change up my meal choices b/c I am absolutely sick of sauteed leeks/mushrooms/noodles or rice...I can't believe I've been eating this (and loving it!) for so long. Not too keen on salads anymore either...
Can you guys post some of your favorite sway meals? I'm so bored and unsatisfied the last two day. :(
Don't sell your sway short, Suregena! I think you've been doing better than you realize. :HH:Quote:
Originally Posted by suregena
I know the "domino effect" all too well...:) Cookies are one of my weaknesses...and CHEESE!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by suregena
ooth do you not eat cheese then on this diet, i do i have some soft chilli cheese that i put in my pasta sauce, oh and another thing is tomatoes a no no on this diet ?
and whoever it was that was asking about potatoes AS said to me recently that they are fab for a girl sway as they up your calories,
you can eat cheese as long as you stay within limits - fat, sodium, etc. because it's high in both of thoseQuote:
Originally Posted by littlemissnaughty7
you can eat most things in moderation on the LE diet. Cooked tomatoes are thought to be fine, though.
have you read the food list? it's quite comprehensive: http://genderdreaming.com/forum/ttc-...html#post34039
Cheese is fine on the diet as long as you can fit it into your daily cals/fat/protein/sodium but I am seriously addicted to it so I don't have much (b/c I'll want MORE) and I find it's usually too high in fat/protein/sodium to have much anyway. Tomatoes are okay on the diet but I think they're not something you'd want to eat everyday/all the time due to the higher nutrients.Quote:
Originally Posted by littlemissnaughty7
Edited to say...I was posting the same time as Rainbow :)
Why would we want to up our calories? Or do you mean get calories without going over the limits of protein, fat etc.?Quote:
Originally Posted by littlemissnaughty7
Yes...exactly! I find that once I've reached about 1000 cals, my fat/protein budgets are blown and I just need cals in. Sugar is great for this but potatoes can be too, especially if you can spluge a bit on sodium to make them more palatable.Quote:
Originally Posted by HopeandDreamG
Dh always comes home with the wrong stuff. I appreciate him going but sometimes its just not worth it! Especially right now bc of mny SWAY, if its not the exact product I dont want a substitute. I sound so unappreciative- LOL I often send him a pic of the product!Quote:
Originally Posted by Out of the Blue
some of us find it hard to eat enough calories to reach the limits some days, cheese can help us get up to a safer range