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Thank you Atomic! In that case I prefer to keep doing the exercise. If I do the couch potato route I'm afraid I will start eating too much again.
So I will keep doing the exercise and when I lost enough weight (somewhere around 4kg I think) I will try to maintain the weight, but still follow the diet as much as possible. Right?
:agree: right! just increase cals at that point, without inc. protien and fat intake if possible.
I was just reading that link about DH & their offspring that you posted.
My DH is a very hard worker (runs companies), works in the yard/garden every weekend but does not excercise or play sport AT ALL!
He is considering starting to train at a gym in the new year. This would include bulking up muscle mass & taking proteins & supps. Will this sway blue & ruin my attempt? :(
Have him wear tight underwear when he works out and if he is willing, have him hold off on the supps until baby is on board!
The LR may slow down the rate he adds muscle mass (no need to tell him that.) ;)
Thank you AS!
So if I never really exercised at all and have 5 girls....I should start exercising and weight training of some sort.
Hi POP, yep i highly recommend the weight training, i was into yoga and aerobics when DD came along, then circuit training and weight lifting when DS was hatched :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Princess of Pink
I highly recommend weight training for blue!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Princess of Pink
I was wondering what exercise would be good for me? We are wanting to try for a girl in March... I weigh about 10st. I'm don't have much muscle and the extra weight I am carrying is baby weight.
This makes a lot of sense to me. I was working out HARD, weightlifting plus intense cardio 4 or 5 days a week when ttc DS2. I ate a very nutritious vegetable, fruit, nut, lean meats and occasional dairy diet. I had the ideal boy sway without even knowing it :(
if you don't have much muscle then I'd probably go couch potato, providing you can lose weight with out exercise.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tree
Thank you! I have actually been trying to loose weight just by diet (not The Diet, I still need to find info on that?). Anyway I don't seem to be shifting weight. I am still breast feeding so I don't know if my body is just holding on to the food that I am eating... I would like to exercise but won't if it will ruin my chances of a little girl.
Info about LE Diet is in these two threads
http://genderdreaming.com/forum/tryi...l-version.html
http://genderdreaming.com/forum/tryi...-diet-faq.html
So thankful I found this topic. I have joined a gym and lost 50lb since July, but because of holidays, ill health and work commitments, I hadn't been able to attend since mid December. I still have a load of weight to shift and am hoping to get back to the gym within the next couple of weeks.
I usually do mainly cardio at the gym for 1-1.5 hours (exercise bike and eliptical trainer), previously did dumbells to tone my horrible upper arms and do leg presses, but will stop for now - they can wait! :happy: My problem is I normally go 4-5 days each week. Can simple, everyday things like taking the stairs at work rather than elevator work? I walk daily to get to the station for work (brisk, 15-20 minutes) and should be able to haul myself back up the hill in the evening (another 15-20 minutes), plus whatever walking around I do on the weekends, so can I add these bits into my 'exercise plan', or is it not enough? At the moment while I'm at the gym, I have no problem shifting weight at all, just need to get back into it. I'm not planning to start my sway for a girl until March/April.
Thanks for your help!
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also I will include this in your custom plan, bunny.
Would this take place following a long period of no exercise, or just intensifying an everyday hour somewhat intense walk? thanks!
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Originally Posted by pink carol
Would the opposite of this work also? I exercise a lot, but have conceived two boys. So, could I continue that up until 6-8 weeks prior to bd for my sway? thanx!!Quote:
Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush
Whoa not sure how I missed these posts, sorry. This is the drawback of trying to answer q's from my Kindle. :(
It is best to get in at least 60 min. straight exercise at least once a day. Along with that you can def. take the stairs and stuff like that and it will only help, but there does need to be one 60 min. block.Quote:
Originally Posted by bunnywabbit
If you are doing intense exercise 5 days a week, that is ~probably~ going to be enough. The 60 6/7 recommendation is just what I think will work for most people most of the time, but it's not a light switch solution, 60 min. 5 days a week is still pretty darn good and if you were able to do more those 5 days, even better.
I'm sorry I am not quite grasping the question here.Quote:
Originally Posted by 1adorablebabyboymom
It's not just the exercise though, it's the whole package. It's your diet and other lifestyle things as well. I am wary of someone who exercises a lot, suddenly dropping exercise because I think that could be interpreted by your body as an improvement in condition/social status. I think it would be best for you to alter your diet and continue or even increase the exercise.Quote:
Originally Posted by 1adorablebabyboymom
Most recent stats have put exercise at 14 of 14 for pink. I hate to see you drop exercise when we're getting that type of results with it.
Wow now exercise! With my boy I was hitting the gym loads and lost quite abit of weight before my wedding then concieved on honeymoon. I now work and when I'm not at work I don't have time to go to gym etc. so I'm kinda thinking its best to stay as I am and not exercise. I am prob a couple pounds heavier but don't have as much muscle on legs etc although my arms are tonned from lifting my boy. I just ate super healthy was underweight when I concived him only put on 1 stone and he was nearly 10 pound so I'm doing something wrong when it comes to nutrients as clearly I gave him loads. Do you think if I do LE diet and don't exercise is best?
So I plan to TTC for a boy at the end of this year or the next. I don't exercise and I don't think I need to lose weight. (5'2" 114lbs). I've always had a hard time gaining weight. I was alway under 100 lbs until the girls. I think it's because of high metabolism. I snack/eat a lot and have asthma....was told that the inhaler was part of high metabolism.
I have never exercise, so I think it will be very difficult to start with such an intense and heavy routine. Can I start by running or jogging? How much weights should I be lifting?
If the point is to build muscle mass, can running/jogging be sufficient? I need baby steps. :) I've been reading about the boy diet...very daunting for a southerner! My sweet teas and pies have to be fazed out. :(
I'd like to start TTC girl in 3 cycles. I've been a couch potato for 4 years and I joined a gym 2 months ago. I've been working out with a personal trainer 3 times a week, doing cardio & weights. I'm going to drop the personal training and opt for running instead 4 times a week for an hour. I have 3 stone to loose. Working full-time & having 2 small boys I can only commit to cardio sessions 4times a week. I'm hoping with the LE diet and cardio 4times weekly my body will be shocked into thinking times are tough and a girl would survive better!
question to Atomic :
I am very small build, i dont have much muscle at all and i never exercise too.
My weight 53 Kilograms (1.68 M.)
Should i add exercise to my sway or doing Couch potato:P? when yes, what sort of exercise?
And i it safe losing weight during my sway ? i am alreay very thin?
Wow not sure what happened here, I do try to answer most questions (exception is the buddy groups which are too long for me to keep up with) so please if you don't hear back from me in a timely manner within a week or two please bump the post. Sometimes I start to reply and then get interrupted by my kids and have to close the page, then the thread is no longer illuminated.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mrs.tinkerbell
Anyway, I know we've talked about this more in your private forum Mrs. T but for anyone else wondering, we have seen such awesome results with the exercise (now running 17 of 18 pink) that I think it may be worth it to up calories (in form of empty cals) in order to do the exercise. Do we KNOW that will work, no not yet because no one has tried it but I do think it's worth a try. Even if you had to eat up to 2000 cals, as long as you kept protein and fat low, that exercise really seems to be yielding great results.
I am so sorry that I did not see this sooner!!! If you are TTC a boy, you should do weight lifting and NOT the running/jogging. That is for TTC a girl, not a boy. You want to gain a few lbs (3-5 up to 10-15) for a boy. Now some people who are TTC blue, gain too much weight and they may need to do a little bit of cardio to help slow down that weight gain, but if you just have a superfast metabolism then you wouldn't need to do that anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by julie1224
PS - you don't necessarily have to give up sweet tea and pie to TTC a boy??? I'm confused by that statement. I ate sweets and drink tea with all 4 of my boys. You just have to make sure you are getting protein WITH your sweets instead of eating just sweet stuff.
Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bean
The 60 6/7 recommendation is just what I think will work for most people most of the time. It doesn't mean you can't do less and still get a girl (and in fact we may discover over time that we can.) Since we have literally no info to go off of, I am being super conservative with the exercise recomendation and erring on the side of more.
My crystal ball is in the shop this week and so I can't tell you what will work for you. We;ve seen great results with the exercise, but at the same time I believe that people who have started off too strict, ended up stopping ovulation and then had to basically sway blue just to get pg at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by onebigwish
three options are:
Exercise while eating more calories and trying to hold steady on weight (stick to limits on protein and fat, just eat more empty cals)
Stick to diet and do not do exercise
Do exercise and diet but drop all other sway tactics and try to get pg the first month of trying and the first month on diet.
Does exercise on an empty stomach naturally burn muscle?
I currenty exercise 45 mins, aprox 4 x a week. I can't up it anymore for personal reasons. However, I'm hesitant to stop exercising altogether if at all possible.
I always exercise on an empty stomach and am wondering if this will help my sway by burning muscle and lowering blood sugar, or if I would be best just to drop it and do nothing if its swaying blue instead of pink.
Unsatisfying answer - I don't know.
I do think it may help because you simply won't have any carbs for your body to need to burn off, so maybe it will go right for the fat/muscle.
We have seen such great results with exercise that I hate to see people drop it unless they're literally like stick insects - altho we don't yet have the data to say, it seems like it may be better to up calories and keep exercise.
I don't know that you hAVE to do the full 60 6-7 recommendatioin, that's just what I think will work for most people most of the time.
Re-reading this I feel like I was doomed from the get go! Even with a BMI of high 16's, low 17 I am so muscular. I always have had big bicep muscles even though my arms are sticks. I never worked out, and if I did it was a quick jog on the treadmill for max 10 mins maybe twice a week. I think I'm one of those girls that will never have a girl simply because of my body type. *sigh* I guess we'll find out for sure what this baby is in December.. but I doubt there's any hope! Holding on to my late ovulation/short LP to pull through for me lol!!
Is this the place to say how unreliable I personally believe BMI to be as your fat indicator? I am athletic and muscular. When I enter my BMI (just by height and weight) it says I am borderline overweight. I really am not though. I think the only reliable methods are the under water measurement, etc. Anyway, it's not that important I just felt like voicing it somewhere. :)
the interesting thing was that even tho i lost a lot of weight with DS 4, I was still quite muscular, then I gained a lot during that pg and lost it all again and I was a lot more mush and a lot less muscle when I conceived DD, even tho I was the exact same weight.Quote:
Originally Posted by MSBLAKELY
I agree, it's terribly imprecise. I ahve a way higher BMI than what I look like.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lizzie Lizard
Hi! New here but full of questions!
I'm the mother of 4 sons, want to conceive a daughter in the next three cycles :pray:
I've been doing the LE diet for about a month now, but I know that I have a lot more weight to lose.
I'm not a complete couch potato (I mean, how could I with 4 sons anyway?!) but I don't intentionally exercice either, and honestly, I really don't think that I could stick to the 60 minutes 6-7 times a week...
So my question is, should I exercice as much as I can or avoid it entirely because the on-off could sway blue?
Thanks to all of you lovely ladies who take the time to read and post here, it's really a great place to be!
We just don't know. The reason I recommend the 60 6-7 is because I think that is what is going to work for most of the people most of the time and I have to make a general recommendation. it doesn't mean you can't get a girl doing less exercise, esp. if you are losing a bit of weight on a lower protein diet. The stats have been so great that it seems to support the idea that less exercise can still sway pink provided that one is following a diet and losing some weight, but I just don't have as high a level of confidence in that.
If you're cheating a lot on diet or NOT dieting, then I would not do the mod. exercise no matter what. Stick with the 60 6-7 if you are not solid with diet.
Thank you for your reply!
I really am sticking to the diet, in fact, I build my menu for 1300 calories, so if I go over inadvertantly I won't freak out. I rarely feel hungry, even without snacks, so I think it's a great, great diet that I will surely follow after my pregancy!
Is there a minimal amount of weight to lose or any pound lost is a good thing?
Any weight is good, I only lost 3 lbs before I got my daughter (I had lost more but it had been quite a few months earlier, then I held steady before losing those last 3 lbs right before I got pg). You actually need to be careful not to lose too much too quickly! I really prefer people stick to 1500-1800 unless they have a whole big bunch to lose.
Ok so my DH just bought me a bike so we can ride together as a family during summer. Should I worry about the occasional leisurely ride and just make sure it is really low intensity, or should I try to ride for an hour everyday at least 5 times a week?