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I think diet coke is likely great for pink but if your eating off the blue diet,high in testosterone ect and you have a few cokes a day i doubt it will matter at all bc your doing more for blue.Like Atomic said its not just doing the opposite of what you did when you got preggo with your boys bc sometimes doing the opposite will make you even moreboy friendly. There are many things i plan to change but some i will keep the same even after 6 boys if there is evidence it helps pink.
Sorry I jsut now saw this!Quote:
Originally Posted by jennibel
If your body stays boy friendly despite this, you'll have boys. It's not doing or not not doing (? LOL ?) any one particular thing that sways, it's what your body does as a reaction to those things you do or don't do. So one person may be able to drink a gallon of DC every day and her body is able to overcome that due to other factors, while another person drinks half-a-glass and gets a girl from it.
Diet Coke and Coke Zero sway pink, not blue. Even if people have conceived baby boys while drinking it.
Thank you!!! Couldn't ahve said it better!Quote:
Originally Posted by queen-of-harts
If drinking pop is something you've always done and it's scary to you to drink it, by all means leave it out. But it's very probable that it's your diet as a whole that was swaying and not any one food/drink that made the difference.
Protein + carbs sways blue, as does eating/drinking frequently throughout the day. Blood sugar stays level for the entire day. So pop as a part of an overall blue friendly diet, only makes you more blue friendly.
Just caught this but Barq's DOES HAVE caffeine (or at least it used to.) It is one of the few root beers with caffeine as my husband and I found out after several horrific experiences giving Barq's to DS 1 and 2 when they were younger on car trips. o.OQuote:
Originally Posted by purplepoet20
With DD1 my entire diet and lifestyle was so typical girl diet (this was before I actually really believed in the diet having a true effect :nono: ) and I drank so much Diet Gingerale that it wasn"t even funny. And at a lot of pickles. And drank chocolate milk.
DD2 is where it all goes wrong. Diet was diff. Gave up the diet anything drinks (with some sneaking in).
There is a luck factor at play and also what your husband brings to the table!!!
Plus, if as you seemed to indicate on another thread, you did the IG Diet - I honestly think it's miraculous that anyone gets a boy eating that unhealthy a diet, KWIM??
This is a really interesting thread! :agree:
I'm wondering...does ANY kind of diet pop sway pink? Or does Diet Coke do it the best? I'm not at all a big pop drinker (probably one of the many reasons why I have two boys!), but I do kind of like Dr. Pepper. If I started drinking Diet Dr. Pepper, would that help sway pink just as well as Diet Coke does?
Totally agree Zana, I too was not a coke/diet coke drinker before. I only drank it once in a while w/ pizza or at parties and if I had it alone w/out food I would totally gag and hardly could finish 1/2 can (oppositie of every girl mom I know). I have 2 boys. being on the LE diet (for 8+wks), I have started to add 2 diet cokes (caffeine free) 2 my meals each day. I am really starting to enjoy it and somedays crave it lol..it does suppress hunger for me and totally lowers my PH..I gave it to DH as well..lowered his PH as well:)Quote:
Originally Posted by zanacal
I think so, but not totally sure...Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetpea
Anything with Splenda, Acesulfamate K, or aspartame :agree: Avoid anything with Truvia/Stevia (Zevia and also Safeway has a stevia-sweetened brand. Stevia may sway blue.Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetpea
I find Diet Dr. P gives me really bad headaches.
I'll try the Diet Dr. Pepper and see how it goes, since I like the taste much better than Coke or Pepsi. If I have problems with it (headaches or anything else), then I'll try switching to Diet Coke instead. Thanks! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush
Wow I love diet coke, does it have to be caffine free? Or is normal diet coke ok. When I was TTC DD and got boy I didn't drink loads of it but sure did when I was pregnant. Maybe next time when on girl diet.
Clarabell, how much did you drink when you were TTC girl? how many oz/cans?
Clarabell- diet coke W/ Caffeine is fine ...that's what I'm drinking and never did with my boys
oooh i drink loads of diet coke or pepsi max hope it helps me sway for a girl
Sorry somehow I never spotted this! :/ Never be afraid to give a post a bump, I try to respond to all q's as quick as I can.Quote:
Originally Posted by clarabell
Regular diet Coke with caffeine is fine to drink for a pink sway. The whole "avoid caff. for pink" is based on bad info that has been debunked.
WOW- what an interesting read! ATOMIC SAGEBRUSH, I have a few questions that i'm totally confused about lol, firstly we've been ttc since oct 2011, i started out following the strict girl diet but just couldn't do it and since jan im actually on weight watchers! i've been taking calcium,magnesium +cranberry supps (+ folic acid) I've got dh taking calcium supps and tomorrow im off out to get some licqorice root + sudafed. I've just started drinking caffeine-free diet coke + regular milkshakes (nesquik) and dh has dropped his very caffeine-heavy drinks for juice. we have 3 boys and the few things i can link to all 3 just before i got pregnant were - my diet was naff + carb heavy! and the only drinks i drank all day were regular coke + red rooster/red bull! i've never drank milk in my life because it makes me gag and my diet hardly had any calcium rich foods if any at all! i'm literally turning against everything i did that got me my 3 boys.
Looking at all of that would you say i was ok to do all of that or do you think thats all boy friendly? im on the uk thread in the forums and most of them are hard-core girl dieters (from ig) and over 50% of them are now having boys hence my change of diet/way of thinking.
hi pinkprinces and all,
We sound so alike, I am also in the UK, just down the coast from you with my three boys, aged 8, 5, and 5 months. I didn't know about these sites when I was ttc the third time but had read snips on the net. So I tried to drink milk shakes and eat a yogurt every day, I took calc., mag and LydiaPinkman. We DTD up to O using ov strips but not sure we even got that right. With my second and third son I tried the Shettles method of DTD lots and then stop, the complete opposite to the 12+O theory. I love diet coke but didn't drink much whilst ttc, didn't know about it then. Plus my DH didn't help in any ways other than the obvious, he would have taken supps but I didn't know so much then. I look forward to reading about the diet, I too am on Weight Watchers but not doing so well. When the time comes when I ttc again I will be strict as I can. Just got to work on DH. I will also be so scared as I know it will be our last (I bullied him into number 3 so guess I am pushing my luck, plus my body kinda knackered !) Good luck to you all, I know how desperate you can feel to want a girl (by the way three of my friends have had girls in the last two weeks I feel so guilty to feel a tinge of jelousy, not fair stamping my feet !)
Hi Pinkprincess - the girl diet Atomic devised and which many of us on this Board follow is the Low Everything diet and it's quite different to the IG diet. The full details are in the Dream Member section but it's low protein (and vegetarian), low calorie, low fat and low nutrient. There are no 'magic' foods so long as you stick to the overall principles but it's also advised to skip breakfast and eat only 2 or 3 times each day to keep blood sugar levels lower for longer.
In line with the 'low nutrient' theory, many choose to take baby aspirin instead of Cranberry for acidity. It also has the advantage that you don't need to stop and start it all the time (you can't take Cranberry in the 2ww) and it's much cheaper!
You'll need to make sure your Nesquick is saved for meal times because drinking drinks with calories in between meals will elevate your blood sugar levels (so the diet coke is ok). This would also have applied to your full fat coke and energy drinks (full fat coke is ok on the LE diet but with meals, not throughout the day!) You may also find that the Nesquick is high in protein (milk is high in protein) and that you'd rather save your allowance for real food! I personally wouldn't worry about DH's caffeinated drinks - I certainly didn't!
Atomic doesn't believe that high calcium is good for a girl. I'll post links to those threads in a moment!
Here you go - this is the first in the series (there are 3 with links at the end of each):
http://genderdreaming.com/forum/tryi...roversial.html
Hi PinkPrincess85!
We do things a little differently around here and you can read why that is here: http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gend...sh-anyway.html
Zana posted the link about calcium and swaying already which will answer many of your questions. My concern with your diet and why I prefer the LE Diet to IG Diet, is that according to the Trivers-Willard Hypothesis, high maternal nutrient intake and improving/high maternal condition, should lead to more male offspring being born. This was independently corroborated a couple years ago by a study from Oxford University where they found moms who went onto conceive sons, ate more calories and also all nutrients including calcium and magnesium, than moms who went onto conceive girls did. The guidelines for my LE Diet is 1500-1800 cals, 40-50 g protein, 20-30% fat (25-60 g depending on how many cals you eat) 700-1000 mg sodium, 2500-3500 mg potassium.
I drank tons of dairy my whole life and had 4 boys doing it, my last a failed sway where I was taking really high doses of cal, mag, vit D. My mom never drank milk or ate dairy and had mostly girls. Remember, all failed pink IG sways were to people taking/eating tons of dairy...cal/mag can't be a magic bullet or there would be no failed sways!
My concern with your diet as it is right now is that the Nesquik milkshakes are very high in cals and protein (and if they contain fat, fat as well) Your body uses those raw materials to manufacture testosterone and estrogen and also the protein + sugar in the milk keeps your blood sugar elevated for a long time after drinking it, which favors boy conceptions. If you are really sold on cal-mag, it might be best to take it as a supplement rather than getting it thru foods.
Caff vs. no caff does not seem to do anything at all. The Oxford study found no difference between moms who conceived sons vs. daughters in terms of caff intake. In fact, we have observed a trend where guys who drink a lot of caffeine, actually father more daughters because caffeine is harmful to sperm.
Red Bull is loaded with vitamins so when you were drinking them regularly, it was providing your body with a big shot of nutrients regularly.
I'm sorry I am not familiar with the word "naff" but there ARE no magic foods. You can conceive a boy eating carbs if your overall nutrient intake, cals, etc. are high and your condition is good.
I understand the feeling of wanting to "do the opposite" but you must realize, sometimes doing what feels like the opposite, is actually WORSE than what you were doing to begin with. If you didn't lose weight on the Atkins Diet, it may have been because you needed to exercise or were eating too many calories overall. The solution to not losing weight on Atkins is NOT to do the opposite and start eating nothing but birthday cake, that's even WORSE. You have to understand the actual reasons WHY you have conceived boys and change those...and if a high caloric intake/higher blood sugar is one of those reasons, then switching from calories from carbs to calories from milk, will not help you at all and will actually be worse than if you had done nothing because you'll also be getting more fat/protein/nutrients from the milk!
Naff just means rubbish/poor :D
Got it, thank you! :) So a lot of biscuits, crisps, and chips LOL
Great thread! My question is, is Crystal Light just as good at lowering pH as Diet Coke or Coke Zero? I'm not fond of either, but want to up my chances of pink any way I can! Thanks!
Crystal Light is supposed to be quite good at lowering pH BUT it doesn't have the carbonated water which does lower pH.
It's totally up to you what you prefer, no reason not to have both as a change of pace! The important thing is the aspartame which is in both.
British dancer Darcey Bussell is a confessed Diet Coke addict and has two girls.
My three best friends also guzzle down Coke like water and have girls.
But then I also added Diet Coke to my sway and I'm expecting DS2...
Unfortunately none of these things are guarantees. It's not so much about finding the one magic bullet that makes people conceive girls, it's that your overall physical condition and what is going on in your body is what is actually swaying. Diet Coke and in fact pop as a whole, is not great for health or fertility, and so for many people in less than ideal health and/or with less than ideal fertility, Diet Coke/Coke is just another thing that they're doing that makes them more pink friendly.
If a person is in good overall health, they can shake off the Diet Coke and still conceive boys while drinking it. And I certainly got boys whilst imbibing large quantities of Dr. Pepper!! A sway is the sum of the whole and not just any one of the parts. :) Thanks for sharing your experience!
Sprite zero ok??
I conceived ds1 while drinking lots of diet coke (up to 6-7 cans a day). But my diet was completely different from the LE diet. I will be including diet coke in my sway.
I love soda, drank pepsi Max (loads of caffine i know) with DS1 and DS2 was pepsi diet. I also am a caffine fiend. I think it's caffine that sways. If I'm not eating much soda does fill me up I plan on drinking diet caff free coke or pepsi and stopping around O.
Yep.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mumness
The idea that caffeine sways blue has been debunked (it does not affect calcium levels or cause bone loss) and several of us have gotten girls while drinking quite a bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by ThroughWithBlue
Caffeine reduces fertility overall, esp. in higher doses (note, no one OD on caff to get a girl, it's not necessary). So to go from drinking caff to drinking none, may backfire and actually boost your fertility.
I've just seen this thread - so interesting. I've never drunk much fizzy drinks, but have been going through bottles of diet coke/7up free over the past few months!
Can i ask a couple of questions. I drink a cup or two of tea during the day as well as diet coke. I don't eat between lunch and dinner, but is it ok to drink diet coke at this time? Am i not raising my blood sugar by drinking it? Don't know how i'd get through til dinner without having something to drink to fill me up a bit!
Second question, did you say that carbs = boy? I'm keeping in the amounts for the le diet but am getting most of my cal/pro from wraps with swiss/goats cheese and lettuce for lunch and rice with veg for dinner.
Tea is fine, coffee ~may~ be marginally better.
As long as something contains no sugar, it doesn't raise your blood sugar. Diet Coke between meals is fine.
No, I didn't say carbs sway boy. Protein + carbs together sway boy and carbs eaten constantly throughout the whole day also sway blue (because blood sugar stays up), while empty carbs, skipping breakfast and no snacking sways pink because your blood sugar rises temporarily after eating them but then drops very low.
The only pink swayers who need to watch/limit carbs are those with PCOS and insulin resistance.
thank you, sorry skim reading and misread you x
I don't drink soda hardly ever. Maybe like once a month or once every three months. But when I do I would never drink diet and I have three girls. Probably doesn't matter but it could....