LE Diet Thread

Yesterday I had a potato & green pea potage for lunch and a rice bowl with green beans, zucchini, and mushrooms for supper. Peanut butter on white toast to up my fat/protein a bit.

DS1 (3 1/2 y.o.) looks at his rice bowl and says "can I have sauce for my quinoa?"
Me: "sweetie, that's not quinoa it's rice"
DS: "no it's not. Rice is BROWN."

I feel like I won at parenting, but it's increasingly clear why I have two boys.

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How about snacking on something that doesn't raise blood sugar very much....like...pickles???

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Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush

All those things are FINE though. You would have to eat a MOUNTAIN of kale to get the amount of cals/fat/protein in a Big Mac, fries, and a chocolate shake.

No one ever got a boy vs. a girl because they ate some peppers. :) Rice bowl with peppers is great. Another thing to try is eating what you want to eat and then just having half of that. You cut your nutrient intake by default that way.

What about going to 4 meals though?? Would that not make it easier? Instead of snacking all day every 15 min or so, 4 meals is still an improvement.

I think you are having a combo of not really understanding what the LE Diet is (none of those things are even forbidden on LE Diet!!! there are no forbidden foods on LE) and also having the whole thing mess with your head a bit, in the way that we talked about before where you are looking for reasons not to do diet so then you start excusing yourself not to, because your vegan friend had a girl and so on. If you don't want to do the diet, that is totally fine, just make sure you're making the active decision and not giving up because it seems too complicated when it isn't. :)

Diets do mess with your head for sure. Even weight loss ones. Even those of us who are very experienced dieters (aka me, LOL) I go on a diet to lose a couple pounds and I catch myself thinking "well, I really NEED extra protein, because blahblahblah" whatever reason I come up with, but really it's because I just don't want to deprive myself of what I want to eat right then. ;)

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What am I not understanding? Nutrient dense diet leads to more boys conceived, right? I am used to high nutrient content food and lots of snacks, and keeping my blood sugar at an even keel.

I understood that is all against a diet that is "limited" ???
Is that wrong?

We are talking nutrient dense like red meat. Sure Kale, broccoli, etc have nutrients, but you would have to eat your body weight in them to equal a hamburger. That's what Atomic was meaning. You can have any vegetable you want. The main take home message is there are NO magic foods.

Stick to 40-50g protein, 40-60g fat, 1500-1800 calories. How you get there is up to you.



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My problem is that I can't count cals (eating disorder triggers). I really can't follow the L.E. diet because of that there.

But, as she said, being a vegetarian might get me my desired result even if I do snack and go over those cal suggestions ;)

But, thanks for that extra bit of clarification about nutrient density!

Unless you're eating a ton of dairy or nuts, or an entire avocado every day, it's kind of hard to go very far over protein or fat on a vegetarian diet. If you can't count calories because it would be a trigger for you, I think you can still feel pretty good that you're probably still eating a fairly low-fat, low-protein diet on the kinds of foods you were describing. :)

I was going to say the same, limit your cheese, nuts and avocado but otherwise go for it.

I had a cheat day on Saturday as we had a friend's party and then a date night but I did stay vegetarian. Last night I was out for Thai with friends so I had Thai crackers, a few starter bits with prawns in but then a main course of vegetables and a bit of tofu. Plus copious amounts of wine!

Unfortunately I've been really ill this morning with an upset tummy - something I ate or too much wine? Who knows?! But I lost three pounds because of it. And skipped breakfast AND lunch! :-) I finally feel like I could eat something now so have just cooked some vegetable fingers. Hopefully they'll go down ok!
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Originally Posted by XXforhubby

We are talking nutrient dense like red meat. Sure Kale, broccoli, etc have nutrients, but you would have to eat your body weight in them to equal a hamburger. That's what Atomic was meaning. You can have any vegetable you want. The main take home message is there are NO magic foods.

Stick to 40-50g protein, 40-60g fat, 1500-1800 calories. How you get there is up to you.



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Yes, exactly. Eating nothing but kale and quinoa would very likely yield a girl. The kinds of nutrients in kale just don't sway that much (if at all) when compared to the heavy hitters - cals, protein, fat, and the concentrated nutrients in fortified foods and multivitamins.

To put in historical perspective, imagine we are living in a nomadic tribe instead of getting our food in large amounts at a grocery store - subsisting on some kale and quinoa would send a very different message to a person's body than a nice hunk of bison, some honeycomb, and nuts. WE are so programmed by the media and nutritionists to think "kale = nutritious = healthy" that we never stop to even think that really it's just a handful of leaves with barely nothing in it. :) You would have to eat a Mount Everest heap of kale before you get the amount of nutrition in a griiled cheese sandwich.

Please understand, you always can do whatever you would like, but I don't have to sign off on it. If you need to snack on pickles or whatever, totally cool, your call to make. You very well may still get a girl doing that. But it isn't the best way IMVVVVHO because I think that part of what matters is that blood sugar idea, and while a pickle absolutely certainly doesn't do a whole lot (or pepper strips, or cucumbers) and certainly it's a lot better option than many things out there it's still a teensy amount of cals coming in that don't ahve to be, that could be put with a meal instead. But totallly your call to make and much better than a Snickers bar. :)

As long as you're making changes in your diet from when you got your son, that's great and it will still sway pink. Even if you don't go in LE Diet limits. All I can do is tell you what I think will optimize your chances and then you can take or leave that. Even I didn't do things "the right" way having my morning coffee with milk and sugar in it and also had that between meals on occasion. I just have to lay out what the basic tenets are and then you guys pick the stuff that is gonna work for you.

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Originally Posted by Lissastick

My problem is that I can't count cals (eating disorder triggers). I really can't follow the L.E. diet because of that there.

But, as she said, being a vegetarian might get me my desired result even if I do snack and go over those cal suggestions ;)

But, thanks for that extra bit of clarification about nutrient density!

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I don't want anyone with a history of disordered eating to count. No worries there.

Just go vegetarian but personally I would not be eating all day long. 4 meals or even 5 is still going to be better than every 15 minutes all day long. :)