Is 3 WEEKS enough for LE Diet Success???????

And just another thought.. I also sort of felt that a sudden change, like illness etc. would more help sway because it's drastic for your body whereas the longer you are on something, your body just gets used to being "starved" so to speak and deals with it. My SIL eats VERY little.. refuses to gain any weight but has been like that for years and has had 2 boys.. obviously everyone is different but that just seems to make sense. Anyways, I don't know a thing about swaying so I'm not claiming to know.. just what seems to make sense in my head :)

And the BMI, i've been that low for years and eat like crazy so it's just my genes right now obviously. I won't be aiming to lose any weight, just change eating habits. I do know for sure that for as long as I can remember I would eat every 2 hours just snacking all the time, and ate healthy, protein etc, high cal so I'm not shocked I have 2 boys.. This is definitely something new for my body

Yeah swaying is not really much fun. I just personally feel like the longer you have changed your lifestyle especially the diet the better odds you would have at your DG. Seeing as you really want a baby to fit into your family at a certain time you could just throw caution to the wind and you never know, maybe it will just happen to be a girl for you next or the sway you have done up until your attempt may be enough, unfortunatly there is no checklist that we can tick off as we go and see that yep we have done enough, or no we still need to wait a little longer.

Well, 3 weeks isn't enough time to rely on diet to be as effective as it could be. But if you're doing all that other stuff, it's still a pretty good sway!

I'm envious of you, I've never fallen pregnant that easily so any thoughts of timing are thrown out the window since it's always taken us 4-10 months to conceive. :P By the time I finally fall preggo, I'm usually just relieved to BE preggo. I do joke that I'm cursed to only be fertile in spring or something because all of mine are winter babies, and two out of 3 are redonkulously close to Xmas too - one on Dec 9, one on Jan 12. Go figure.

Anyways, you can still go for it with all the other stuff you're planning to do. I would say it's better to be super conservative and keep it to either abstain and one attempt, or FR with bd'ing on day 10 just once and leave it at that. You won't have done the LE diet long enough to really count that as swaying for you just yet. Odds are with all of the antihistamines and restricted bd'ing you won't fall first cycle anyways.

Okay, well thanks for the advice ladies!!! I'm going to have to decide what to do now! Not like it's a gaurentee obviously as I could easily not get pregnant, but just incase. This might sound ridiculous but one of the main reason I want a girl is so that all the annoying stupid people won't say "awwwww you didn't get a girl!!!" blah blah blah. I'm so sick of the "Aren't you going to try for a girl" like it's literally some magic solution. I'd be thrilled with another boy, kinda think same gender families are really cool.. but the peoples comments would drive me to insanity. Now DH is another story.. he wants that father-daughter thing so bad!

I completely understand Ms. Blakely. I am stressing because if I don't get pregnant this month or at least try then December is pretty out because of diet for holidays and travel and then by January my kids will be over 3.5 years apart (thats a way bigger gap than yours). Which is way bigger of a gap than I ever imagined. Who knows how long it will take for me to get pregnant. My sway this month sucks but I think I am just going to go for it. Its a tough decision but I want a baby. I am just counting on having a boy though. Seriously.

For anyone without weight to spare, then YES I BEG that you only do diet a short time. I would try to eat less fat/protein and give up multivitamins in the months before if at all possible, but even that's not a make or break. We do seem to see higher rates of success with people having been on diet longer, but virtually none of those people already HAD BMI under 17. Just your BMI alone is already pink-friendly.

PS - cheating on Christmas is mandatory!!

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Originally Posted by Wanting-a-girl

Hmmm I asked practically the same question about three weeks ago and got really different answers.... Hmmmmm I was on the diet for a month and it was ovulation time and I was planning on starting to try in Jan so I asked if it would be just as good to start trying on my nov cycle and I get preg very easy... Everybody told me ther is no magic time and that it would be basically just as good... So I don't know I'm a little discouraged myself now.....

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I would have to see the post itself to tell you why it was a different response.

The cold, hard truth of all of this is that we simply do not have the answers. We are doing our best. Until very recently I really did think that most people could hit it hard for a few weeks and still get good results but the proof is in the pudding and there have been a few sways where people weren't on diet for very long and got opposites, so now I'm coming around to the idea that for people of normal weight, it may be better to give it a bit longer on diet for better results. But there have been many people who were NOT on diet very long and did get successes.

The original poster is already perilously slim which is why I would err on the side of her not doing diet for very long.

I was of normal weight, did the LE diet for 3.5 month, lost abut 17 lbs, was down to an 18 BMI and conceived another DS. But I eat an extremely boy friendly diet and have all my life so it may take longer for my body to change. If we decide to have a 4th and we sway again, I plan to do the diet loosely for quiet awhile and then get strict for a longer period if I can do so without losing too much weight. I think everyone's body is different and while a short period on the diet may work for some, it won't for others.

In the end it's a sway and not a guarantee so I think you can only do what you can mentally and physically handle like for instance I refuse to give up my Starbucks lattes lol


I'm curious tho cause since having my 3 boys I have totally changed my life style and I wonder if that might work in my dg favor

I was just thinking a few days back how before I started swaying we were eating a lot more girl friendly - in that I barely ate meat. Anytime I made a meal, the protein was usually black beans - which I know is protein.. but the amount I'd eat wouldn't compare to a chicken breast, steak etc. I was also trying to be more cautious with what I ate because we were starting to slack and eat fast food quite a bit before that. So i'd say it's been a good few months of more girl friendly type foods. With both boys I was exercising - around 20mins (running) ever second day and our meals always consisted of some form of meat. I was always a HUGE snacker for as long as I can remember - that obviously wasn't girl friendly until I start LE.

Anyways, all that to say I'm attempting my best sway as possible. But at the same time I'm cautious because I want it to be as natural as possible - I've always been super careful about what I eat while pregnant and before (no processed stuff, aspartame etc) so the fact I've had a few diet cokes is just crazy for me. We aren't doing supps except folic acid and we're just going to hope for the best. If it's another DS, I will confidently be able to say I did what I could without going totally crazy and I won't regret it. I already want to be pregnant, so this can't be a long term thing for me if it's preventing pregnancy :)