Yay Robin huge congrats!!!
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Yay Robin huge congrats!!!
Thank you! Granted I've been getting such faint lines... only time will tell. Af isn't due until Friday so I know I am still super early! 😁Quote:
Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush
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Whoop whoop!! Congrats Robin!
I don't think I should record yesterday's food. Pure gluttony. I'm struggling to get back on the diet properly and STILL haven't re-started my exercise :-(
Hey is anyone interested in starting this thread up again?
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Yes!Quote:
Originally Posted by ScienceGirl
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Yay! Hi Eighme!
How long have you been on a ttc-girl diet?
I was on a more general diet for a few months (losing weight for a too small bridesmaid dress... sigh) but am just now getting into the LE diet.
Hi! I’ve been on the LE diet since the beginning of September! I’ve been eating A LOT of potatoes with hot sauce (recommended by Atomic) and vegetables. No breakfast. Lots of coffee. I’ve had the occasional meat and due to recent illness have backslid some on my diet. But! I’m always looking for new foods to try. I also like soup and a sandwich now that it’s getting colder.Quote:
Originally Posted by ScienceGirl
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Yes!!! I started the LE diet since September. I just eat rice, mushrooms, zuchinnies, peppers, pasta, white bread, white choclate, apples, strawberries with aspartame, and I drink coffee and Cola Zero. I skip breakfast and I have lost 3-4 kg since I started the diet and Atomic said that I should eat more carbs...But it feels like am still losing weight...I don't exercise cause I don't have the energy and I think it's because of the diet.
Hi, is hot sauce ok in the LE diet? I love chili sauce but stopped eating it since I started the diet. Chili sauce contains garlic and garlic is a NO in the diet. :(
I think so! I made a thread about potatoes and Atomic replied saying potatoes are okay to eat and that she ate hers with hot sauce. I use an organic one that’s one 10 calories per TBS just to help with calorie maintenance. I’ve been eating plenty of potatoes with hot sauce!Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
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It is fine. Some of the things in the diet are probably overly strict and most of us over time have given up on that kind of thing and our results have stayed good anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
Next year I want to buy a girl sway plan.
I want to do some preparations in advance.
Right now I dont eat breakfast and every afternoon soup with spelt crackers and hummus.
Soup is allowed at the LE dieet?
All foods are allowed on LE Diet as long as you stay in limits for the day.
Is parmasan cheese allowed on the LE diet? Or is it to salty
Yes parmesan is fine. ALL foods are allowed. No need to limit salt as restricting sodium intake would just make LE diet too hard to do anyway.
Is buckwheat OK once a week on the LE/Alternate diet (for people with possible insulin resistance)? I'd like to make some buckwheat galettes, although they also have some wheat flour in them.
Yes that's fine provided that you don't have sensitivities to wheat (which some of the people who follow the alternate diet do)Quote:
Originally Posted by gafan
Is it ok to drink instant mushroom & asparagus soup at the le diet?
What technically is red meat? I've always thought of pork as white meat? Can you ladies tell me what meats you are doing besides chicken?
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I am just doing chicken. I'm not weighing it but doing an estimate google search. I'm also not doing it as rare as others. Many skip completely, but I need it 3-4 times a week in my protein limits. Red meat as far as I thought was beef and that possibly raises testosterone. Not sure of pork. I only stick to chicken and cheese and very rarely a white fish that I poach first.
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Yes, it's fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by onebigwish
You guys, I have a very hard time keeping up with these very long support threads. If you have a question PLEASE just post a new thread and ask me there. I rarely read these support threads, since most of the posts are people sharing meal ideas/cheering each other on.
Red meat is mainly beef/venison but I consider dark meat chicken/turkey to count for red meat.Quote:
Originally Posted by HGmama
My favorite meats for you guys to eat are fish and shellfish. Chicken and turkey (white meat) are ok. Things like bologna, hot dogs, even bacon are also acceptible.
Pork is a gray area. No, I do not consider it "white meat", I consider it red meat, but the thing is that the fat profile of pork has a lot of Omega 6 fat and that may sway somewhat pink. So I have pork as being ~probably~ more pink-friendly than beef but we do not have the data to say for sure.
The problem with ALL meats is this - because meat has a lot of protein and very few calories all things considered, it is SUPER easy to go over on protein from a small piece of meat and then have only eaten 3-400 calories. Then what do you eat the rest of the day??? Grains, legumes, nuts, dairy, eggs, soy - all have protein in them. YOu have no more protein to "spend" and still have to "buy" 1200 more calories of food and quite a bit of fat as well. This devolves into an awful diet where people are eating chicken and gummy worms (and will often just drop fat requirement totally which will delay or stop O for the majority of people) and cucumber or whatever. The LE Diet is meant to be a safe, healhty prepregnancy diet and eating chicken, margarine, and Craisins is NOT going to be safe and healthy.
So while you can have meat, just avoid that pitfall and all will be fine.
OMG!!!!! I had no idea about the dark chicken. *$#%
Because there is so much more protein in the breast due to weight, it was easier calorie wise to choose a drumstick or thigh to help with protein in my day.
Ugh. I have been working so hard in my sway and now I have been doing red meat all along [emoji24][emoji24][emoji24][emoji24][emoji24]
Doesnt help when my OB says to me just now, "you can try for another, but dont expect to ever have a girl"
And I'm eating red meat. F@#$
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Please don't worry about it, I don't think it makes any difference really as long as you're in limits. Red meat is allowed within limits! As long as you're in limits all is well. The thing is that some people DON"T stick in the limits and are doing more of a mineral balancing diet and they may be better off doing just white meat, but it's no biggie either way. Limits are what count.
Get a new doctor. They have no right to speak to you that way first of all, secondly you absolutely CAN have a girl, everyone can have a girl, there has never been any mechanism proven to prevent someone from having both genders!
Thank you. No need to respond to my other post... was venting. Literally just left the doctor. Can you help me delete posts? I cant figure out how. Sometimes I post things and then find answers on the site and dont want extra things for you to respond to... especially because ppl have way more pressing matters.Quote:
Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush
I left this practice because this same doctor sent me in to get induced with a full term 4 lb baby and never showed up. But he is one of the smartest local doctors and I am on some depression meds that arent exactly studied in pregnancy. I needed his opinion safety wise.
He claims there are no studies that prove chlomid makes any more girls than boys. So now I'm wondering about his knowledge. And I'm so glad I didnt say a word about swaying.
I will find another doctor if I manage to succeed. With Male or female baby.
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And I am in the limits. I stay at 50 protein and fat every day. Carbs and sugars sometimes I go over on the fitness app. But those and calories (1500) i stay in daily.
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Thanks atomic! I'm not going to lie, I'm even more concerned that I am not doing the LE diet correctly. There's so much protein in everything! I tried tracking and failed miserably at the protein limit. It makes sense why I have not been losing weight at all....actually gaining. Let's just say I need more time to attempt the LE diet. That's the only consolidation to not getting pregnant as quickly as I'd like. I made some fish and squash for lunch for the next couple of days.
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I know! Protein in everything!!! Make food and post on the thread with meal ideas. It really helped me to see what ppl eat. Although I eat significantly more. They eat one matza and I'll eat two for sure. I've been pigging out more, I think. I need to chill. Sometimes I just get so hungry, I overeat. I lost a little weight. Nothing spectacular.
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At 1500 calories, it's vanishingly unlikely that you could have done any harm at all over the dark meat chicken. I would not even worry about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mom25boys
I think we mentioned this already but are you counting the small amounts of protein and fat in fruits and veg (including potatoes?) If you are, DON"T. They are free for protein and fat (and of course low carb veg are free and unlimited) Also, if you're tracking on one of hte apps be aware that they are riddled with errors, I've just had a person being told that egg whites had like 5x as much protein as they really do, and that tahini had way more protein and fat than it really does.Quote:
Originally Posted by HGmama
My experience with LE Diet was always getting ENOUGH protein, not geting too much. Can you tell me the things you're eating where you really seem to be getting the bulk of your protein from them?
Here is my legit attempt today. The tilapia had 28 g of protein and the turkey burger 22. Thats 50g right there. Then i had a cheese slice, guacamole, etc. My old self (aka my yesterday self) would have easily had another burger. Also, last week I figured out that my 5 oz chicken boneless breast had all my protein for the day. I was shocked.Quote:
Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush
I'm going to keep trying for balanced low protein meals. I'm doing fine on the fat grams I believe. Do you see any red flags that I should try instead?
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Ladies something I have done a lot is eat veggies & I mean ALOT. I admittedly love my veg so I really enjoy them.
I always have low baked (for a couple of hours) eggplant, zucchini, capsicum, leek on hand which I mix through rice for lunch and add tahini or mayonnaise, nuts, lettuce, or chicken. I add it to stir fries too. I also have it alongside mash with chicken or salmon. My mash I always extend by adding cauliflower.
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I also love making vege soup adding quinoa to make it even more filling.
Veges have been my friend even more throughout the last 7-8 months [emoji2]
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Yeah it may have to be that you only have ONE of those options daily. But that having been said, 66 g protein is not terrible, if it's less than you were eating when you got your boy(s) and less than you've been eating recently.
you would not count anything in the squash and zucchini, would not count anything but cals in the peach. The guacamole as well likely has no protein and is not worth bothering with.
Unless u like fat free cheese, I'd get some regular fat cheese instead and you'd have a bit more fat (you're still on the lower end of that) and also some more cals.
Anyone on this diet currently? ;) DH & I have been attempting it for a few weeks. I've read some of the pages in here, seems curries are a good idea (I did one last night in fact!), Paninis, flatbreads, pastas... I feel like there's gotta be some other great ideas I'm missing!
We're doing homemade pizza tonight. Lots of veggies for toppings, possibly some chicken sausage as well. Is lots of cheese good for LE? I've read some of you down 2-3 full glasses of milk a day but I don't drink cow's milk ever XD
I am! Well not as strict because its been about a year on it now but still stay lower calorie and no breakfast and little protein but higher fats and carb nowQuote:
Originally Posted by Lexzeppelin89
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Just to clarify, if you read anyone having 2-3 glasses of milk a day that is not LE Diet at all. NO ONE should drink 2-3 glasses of cow's milk a day. That is not LE Diet and will in fact severely undermine the LE Diet.
3 cups of milk (not the larger glasses which many have) would be about 450 calories, 24 g protein (that is half your protein for the entire day) and for full fat milk, 24 g fat (all of which is the saturated animal fat which may sway blue). Since some people are aiming at 30 g fat for the lower levels of standard LE Diet,this means you'd have NO fat to "spend" the rest of the day. Even at the upper intake of 50-60 g fat, 24 g is a large percentage of that. Not to mention milk contains tons of Vitamin D and other nutrients that sway blue. That amount of dairy intake would really make it very difficult to stick to LE Diet as a whole because you'd have to come up with all your calories with very little protein and fat to spend (since you already used much of it up on milk!)
I personally do not believe dairy or calcium sway pink and got boys with a high dairy, high calcium diet but if you do believe in mineral balancing that is up to you totally, just be sure you are getting calcium from supplements ONLY, without Vitamin D, and not eating tons of dairy. DAiry is not a free food for pink, even on the mineral balancing diets - you can only have milk even on the mineral balancing diets, up to the potassium and sodium limits.
Since the mineral diets limit your sodium to 700-1000 mg, and potassium to 2500-3500 max, and 3 cups of milk (again, this is just cups and not those huge glasses many people drink on mineral balancing sway diets) has 320 mg. sodium and 1100 mg potassium, again, that level of milk intake even ON the mineral balancing diets has to be strictly limited and by "spending" the intake on milk, you end up having very little to eat the rest of the day.
The milk free for all ends up devolving into a very poor diet where people drink huge amounts of milk and then basically nothing else. Either they're starving all day drinking milk and eating cucumbers, or the limits go out the window and they're adding on a huge ton of nutrients onto an LE Diet and end up swaying blue. Many of the swayers from when I was back on IG, who were drinking a gallon of milk a day plus all the other IG Diet stuff ended up with boys. So please proceed with great caution no matter what kind of sway diet you believe in, because drinking tons of milk is NOT a good way to get a girl.
Cheese in limits only. I ate tons of pizza when I got my girl but with her I had the lowest dairy intake of my entire life. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Lexzeppelin89
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Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush
Okay that makes me feel a lot better now :) I was starting to worry I had misunderstood the diet o_0 Definitely won't be drinking any milk, lol. Your comment does remind me though that I should probably be double checking my fat intake!
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Originally Posted by strawberrybella89
Oh wow a year, you must be an expert then by now! Nice. Are you actively TTC?