LE diet question

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Originally Posted by Lexzeppelin89

Also, no I don't believe you should cut down or eliminate fruits & veggies. Just no prenatals or multivitamins (but take plain folate!).

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:agree: yep. Low carb vegetables are free and unlimted. YOu have as much as you want, no need to count them. Higher carb veg and fruit are free for protein and fat (do not count any protein and fat in any fruit and veg, even potato) and you count only cals in those.

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Originally Posted by ForeverRestless

Got it girls! Thanks! I conceived ds1 on Xmas holidays so I was surely eating some extra cals and my weight lifted of about 2 kilos.
Ds2 was conceived in a very low cal diet, but mainly proteins. I barely ate pasta, rice, bread. I was more on proteins like white meat, eggs, loads of veggies, ham, mozzarella... 3 main meals (baby portion really) and 2 snacks (like a fruit or some creakers)
So I would have to change it into eating carbs and low nutritive foods? Like plain pasta and rice all the week long? What about veggies? I can leave aside easily meat and fish but I use to have some sushi with wine once a week... would it be so terrible?
And skipping breakfast... this is the concerning part, I suffer from low pressure (not cronic just a temporary condition when I dont eat enough) and feeling weak. Breakfast for me i ls really important, I take milk with coffee and 30 gr of biscuits (like 3 biscuits). It's not big deal I know but skipping it would make.me.feel really weak.
Is there any solution or something that I can eat to do the trick?
Thanks and sorry for the amount of questions!!!

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You would eat more carbs than you were in the past, yes, but you would NOT eat nothing but plain pasta and rice. that is not the LE Diet at all.

Sushi and wine once a week is fine and in fact sushi is one of my most frequent recommendations.

Anyone who needs to eat breakfast for their health should continue doing that. Don't skip breakfast in that case.

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Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush

On LE Diet you will be eating lower protein and fat, getting your protein and fat from mostly vegetable rather than animal sources, cutting back on fortified foods and vitamin supplements, having different eating patterns like skipping snacks and pushing back breakfast. Those things are likely different from how you're eating now (and in fact are much more important than the calorie limits.) There are also lots of other smaller differences with LE Diet too, like coffee, more fiber, alcohol, and cutting back on some nutrient dense foods.

The importance of the weight loss is minimal. While it likely helps, for those who are already thin, the recommendation is and always has been to hold steady where you are.

If you are 110% sure you're only eating 1200-1500 cals a day (and I mean 110% sure, because 99 out of 100 people who have told me this went onto LE Diet and immediately lost massive amounts of weight because they were underestimating their cal intake) then continue doing that. Just make the other changes already described and add in exercise if at all possible (and you may have to eat more calories to include the exercise, but you should do so anyway) Just be sure you've made the other changes on LE Diet and do not lose any weight. Anyone who's BMI 21 or below should hold steady where they're at, and if you hit BMI 18.5 (please do not treat this as a goal, BMI 21 is the lowest you should go before you try to stop losing weight!) then do whatever it takes to stop losing weight.

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Thank you for the insight Atomic! The more I read the more I get intrigued by your essays and info.
Actually I was planning on doing the FGD but I conceived DS2 on a diet full of dairies, white meat and cal+mag supps. Ok, I wasnt properly swaying, I was just following some advises I found on the internet.
I had only one intercourse, probably day b4 ovulation, after 7 months of unsuccessful cut offs.
If timing doesn't mean anything and diet is the Main gender swaying factor, I would say I had a very good chance at a girl right? Or at least... assuming that dairies and cal+mag sway girl. But no.. it did not work for me.
I thought about all my friends that had girls... and I realized that many of them have very irregular meals, skip breakfast, drink alcohol, coffee and train very hard (cardio).
So basing on these info, I bet it does match with what you states about low glucose levels.
Also my mother had me in her late age (40) and she was barely eating due to a stressful moment of her life. She also drinks just black coffee for breakfast and nothing till noon.

Back to my diet, yes I am quite sure about my cal intake cuz I am following a diet my nutritionist gave me when I had to loose weight put up during DS1 pregnancy (I had 13 kilos to lose).
That diet is about 1400 cal per day but it became my regular cal intake since 2 years and half :)
Now I am 19 ish BMI but I still have to lose something to be back to my pre baby weight (51-52 kilos). I've always been very thin (weighting around 50 in my twenties) but doing very well and full of energy, so I suppose it's ok with me.

In view of my sway I will privilege carbs and vegs and eat less animal proteins and fats. I am happy for the vegs bcs I eat tons! Lol!
For the breakfast, I will try to have my coffee with milk and eat a meal at noon. Skip snacks and eat dinner direclty. The goal is have 2 or 3 meals right?

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Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush

You would eat more carbs than you were in the past, yes, but you would NOT eat nothing but plain pasta and rice. that is not the LE Diet at all.

Sushi and wine once a week is fine and in fact sushi is one of my most frequent recommendations.

Anyone who needs to eat breakfast for their health should continue doing that. Don't skip breakfast in that case.

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Great!!! I love sushi! Glad I can keep my habit once a week 😉😉

A lot of us, myself included, got boys with the high dairy intake and cal-mag supplements. I personally (and the best study ever done on maternal diet and gender conceived, showed) believe that nutrients across the boards, all of them, sway blue, and there are tons and tons of nutrients in dairy. Even taking cal-mag was shown to sway blue. I got all 4 of my boys with lots of dairy, and my last two boys taking cal-mag, and gave it all up to get my girl. And if you were eating a lot of white meat, you weren't limiting protein either. You of course need to do what you feel comfortable with but I can not ever say that I think the FGD is the best way to get a girl because I don't believe it. I think the FGD appears to work not because of minerals, but because many people eat lower fat, protein, calories, and nutrients than they do normally.

No sway tactic is 100% - we do get opposites even with one attempt. It never comes down to one thing like that. you have to look at what works for most people, most of the time, and do that. Just because you got a boy last time doesn't mean it wasn't swaying pink for you...what if because you did that one attempt, you went from 80% likely to have a boy, to 60% likely to have a boy? That would be a huge sway! You wouldn't want to not do that in the future just because you got tricked by some statistics, you know? Our results do show one attempt sways and I'm happy to explain why I'm so sold on it if you'd like.

Since you're sure you're eating that much, then please continue and just limit protein and fat in the LE Diet limits.

I do not want anyone BMI 19 deliberately losing weight. Ive seen too many people who stopped ovulating all together even though they'd been thinner in the past.

yes push breakfast back and have 2-3 meals a day.

What do you class as low carb vegetables. I’m a little confused on this one. Thanks


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Originally Posted by paul121george

What do you class as low carb vegetables. I’m a little confused on this one. Thanks


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any non sweet, non starchy veg, which is most of them.

It's easier to say the ones that AREN"T low carb veg. Potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, beets, carrots, beans/legumes, and preparations with cooked tomatoes (which almost all have added sugar) all have higher carbs. Everything else (including fresh tomato) is low carb.

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Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush

any non sweet, non starchy veg, which is most of them.

It's easier to say the ones that AREN"T low carb veg. Potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, beets, carrots, beans/legumes, and preparations with cooked tomatoes (which almost all have added sugar) all have higher carbs. Everything else (including fresh tomato) is low carb.

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Great thanks very much.


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