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Hi Robin,
I'm just starting out too. Welcome. You definitely don't have to do only two meals. If you're finding it really hard, do three! I think the important thing is to have drops in your blood sugar, which will happen on three meals if you're not snacking on between. I wake up at 6:30, do lunch at 11am, supper at 6:30, and a snack around 9:30.
Awesome Thank you for your response! Ya I still have a solid 15 pounds to go until I reach my goal weight .. so I'm just finding the whole thing difficult. I find I don't lose weight with any sort of carbs. But maybe when I add cardio to my routine I'll drop the pounds! Lol
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I eat lunch around 11:45, a snack at 4:45 because that's when my boys eat their dinner and my dinner at around 7:45
Argh. Yesterday I was sooooo over my fat/protein totals. We went out for brunch with friends and there was nothing both vegetarian and gluten free on the menu so I had three eggs with bacon, two foods I almost never eat, but I figured one time wouldn't hurt if I had a low-fat, low-protein supper.
Supper was leftovers from a very LE-friendly bean/rice/veggie chili I'd made. But while I was busy with the baby DH warmed up my plate and grated like a POUND of cheese all over it without asking me. I had to eat it anyway since I didn't have time to make a whole new meal from scratch. Pretty sure the cheese alone was like 60g fat & protein. :/
You're allowed a cheat day! It's good for sanity :-)
I have cheese almost every day!! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Erin514
I just thought I would take a cheat day when I'd been doing the diet a little longer than 6 days! :P
I'm slowly going off coffee.. Can't keep up with the 3/4 cups anymore.. haven't had today.. just don't feel like it..
Both 2 or 3 meals are perfectly acceptible on LE. You DO NOT have to eat only 2 meals. Just push breakfast back a bit.
I always had 3 meals and got my girl that way.
Have one instead.Quote:
Originally Posted by squigglepink
If you can't do something to the nth degree, the solution is to cut back. People have this misconception where they can't do EVERYthing, so they do nothing. There is a huge amount of wiggle room between 4 cups of coffee and zero.
The coffee is easy and it's getting great results. Dont' throw the baby out with the bath water!
Thanks for the uplifting.. I'm going to make sure I get a morning cup then. Even if I have to reheat it 5 times.Quote:
Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush
I struggle with the coffee too.Would two cups in the morning with artificial sweetener be ok on pcos diet? I skip breakfast everyday
hi everyone can i add nutella with bread to my diet? i figure since its chocolate might be ok
Yes that's fine!!Quote:
Originally Posted by queen-of-harts
There are no forbidden foods on LE Diet if you're fitting in the overall limits of the day.Quote:
Originally Posted by sohappy
Atomic... i dont drink coffee. I never have. Will this affect my sway for a girl? Is there an alternative?Quote:
Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush
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You can get a boy or a girl drinking or not drinking coffee. Tons of people have. It's just that in our statistical results, coffee has been very effective for us. Tea, on the other hand, has seemed to be 'bluer' so I would do coffee if possible.
I have stopped drinking tea altogether. But i cannot drink coffee. Even the smell makes me want to vomit! i just cant do it :(Quote:
Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush
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Don't fret. Remember that in some countries people religiously drink numerous cups of coffee daily and they still have about a 50:50 ratio. As Atomic always says, if anything had a magic quality of gender prediction we'd know about it! Focus on the parts of the diet you can do not those you can't :-)
:agree: exactly!!
The L.E. diet is just too hard. I just don't think I can do it. I am a compulsive snacker. The only thing I can stick to is not eating meat. Skipping breakfast is simple enough, but, then my hunger gets the best of me and I binge snack and eat the rest of the late afternoon and evening. Are there other things I can do to make up for the fact (offset) that I don't exercise and I can't limit anything but meat!!! Arggghhh!!! I really want a girl, but, I like eating waaay too much!! Lol
Well, every tactic you can manage will help your odds, so even if all you do is no meat, single attempt and skipping breakfast, that's still better than if you did nothing at all.
How many meals are you eating? If only two, would you maybe find it easier to stop snacking if you tried three or even four? Or could you eat something more filling at meal times?
I agree with Erin. Anything will help a bit and maybe you're not eating enough. Remind me of your daily consumption and how many cals/fat/protein that is
I haven't been doing exact counts because I am a former anorexic and that will send me down a slippery slope. I could try to make each meal more filling. I have been doing 2 meals and snacks in between each, but only in the evening/night.
I have adult adhd and I take adderall sometimes which helps me do intermittent fasting, which I love! I just had dinner and no snacks at all...but I don't think adderall is safe to take a lot when TTC. I also saw that it could increase the chance of miscarriage :/
I just had a miscarriage last cycle, but, I actually didn't take my meds at all.
So what foods are you eating?
I think skipping breakfast and no meat at all are two solid sway tactics, you also have the chemical pregnancy swaying your odds of pink as well, so don't lose sight of that. There is just do much chance with it, you could get a girl easily with that sway, whereas someone else could exercise everyday, stick to two meals and get a bo. Don't stress about it, stress I think sways blue, just get a sway that you think sways pink but is something you can stick to and live with if it takes a long time to conceive if you know what I mean? You don't want to force yourself to go strict and then give up it all up because you cannot do it longer term. Remember I think the pink diet is all about decreasing fertility so it may take some months to get a bfp and therefore you might be on this lifestyle for a while.good luck!
Am back full force on the diet since a further Bfn this morning, no af as yet but need to focus on July now! Today am going to have a salad for lunch, six mile run then dinner will probably be potato and vegetables and wine, yay for Bfn I can have wine!
I'm struggling today. Not that I'm hungry, I'm ok at skipping breakfast, but that I feel a bit hopeless. Somehow have to find my positivity!
Chow mein noodles, pasta with homemade tomato sauce. Sometimes waffles, sometimes eggs. Corn chips. Cheese. And I've been eating sweets: ice cream, cookies. I have a terrible sweet tooth.Quote:
Originally Posted by weeziewoozles
I am also like 20 pounds over my ideal weight :(
I eat healthier too, but, I try not to do super nutrient dense foods...I was eating crazy healthy foods before I started my swaying...
Hopefully Atomic will chip in but it sounds like a reasonable mix of foods to me. I find my lunch fills me up so much that I can't often fit it a snack before dinner, other than maybe a gin and tonic! So maybe you need more calories at lunch?
Here's my latest lunches:
A pack of low fat crisps, a wholegrain bagel, some low fat hummus and a huge heap of salad
A pile of new potatoes covered in a dollop of low fat mayonnaise and some spring onions, a heap of salad again, a chunk of low fat cheese, some chutney, and some crackers dipped in low fat hummus
Two low fat wraps filled with a smear of low fat mayonnaise, chopped lettuce, tomatoes, spring onions, mushrooms and peppers and either some cheddar, mozzarella or avocado, with a pack of low fat crisps.
A grilled vegetable burger (not soy protein but actual vegetables in a breadcrumb coating) in a bun or two slices of bread, with lettuce and low fat mayonnaise, and a salad.
All these really fill me up and are 500/600 calories x
Vegetarian diets alone are associated with more girls conceived anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lissastick
What I would do is try going to 4 meals. This is still ok and much different from all day snacking.
Most of those things burn off fast, you may have better luck focusing more on things that stick to your ribs a bit. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Lissastick
I do want to mention that the "old school" sway diets were all like, "do every. single. solitary. thing we pull out of our butts or your sway will FAIL!!" But that is not at all how the LE Diet works. You can do only a couple LE-type changes and still be swaying pink. The important thing is not what I wrote down on my computer 4 years ago, it is doing things "pinker" than you personally were when you got your boy(s)
To be honest I did not even WANT to make a diet, because I knew that people would then get too focused on the specifics and lose sight of the generalities. But you don't have to do the specifics, all you have to do is change your personal eating in a pink friendly direction.
Generalities:
Less snacking, longer time fasting than you were
Less protein, less fat than you were
More protein and fat from vegetable sources vs. animal than you were
Choosing lower nutrient options when possible and avoiding/limiting highly fortified foods
Possibly avoiding foods that are said to sway strongly blue IF YOU WANT TO
At the core, that's really all we are doing. Changing what you were doing in this general direction. All the numbers and limits and stuff are because people MADE me create a diet!! :p
It's been a tough day here in the UK with just over half of our electorate voting to leave the European Union! It's thrown me and all of my friends, really making it an unpleasant day. I've always used food as a mood changer so I've allowed myself a pizza sub, gin and tonic and my favourite pistachios as a snack. Sometimes you have to do it to stay sane. Dinner though will be homemade bean chilli and rice.
You HAVE to cheat when you need to!!! It's mandatory on LE diet to cheat as needed. :)
Weeziewoozles, I'm a bit stunned by the brexit! This must be a very turbulent time to live through for all the UK ladies on this forum.
I've been doing well with skipping breakfast and staying in totals every day except last Sunday, but I think I might have lost a few pounds even though I've been over 1800 cal and 50-60g fat/protein every day. I'm hoping the scale was wrong because I am already eating very large meals to meet my totals without snacking. Argh.
Af arrived, am gutted but back full force and regretting letting the diet slip during 2 ww, next 2 ww can you remind me not to do this? Today I had a salad for lunch with a slice of buttered toast. Did a six mile run and had pasta with pesto and garlic bread and glass of wine. I think am going to have to put a limit on how long I am prepared to try for, cannot face this month after month. I realise it is hormones talking and madness the idea that you would give up after one month but more in six months time I don't want to be in the same position!
I had a very stressful day today as I listed our current home for Sale. We are moving to our new house in 3 months or so... and my diet today went to crap!
At 11am I had egg whites some feta cheese and 1/2 avacado and hot sauce
Then around 3pm I had some saltine crackers .
6pm I had some roasted chicken (not alot though) and baked potato with some sour cream... and a white bun. I'm prob going to have some ice cream tonight too. I have not logged cals today... but I'll bet it was bad! Lol
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The only things that are difficult for me are the fasting parts, and the less protein and less fat. Being a veggie means I have to eat a lot of fat to feel full, but, at least my protein and fat DO come from non animal sources. And the lower nutrient thing is hard too! Before I started wanting to sway, I would eat really nutrient dense foods. Variety colors of peppers, qunioa, avocado, onions, garlic, kale just every healthy, yummy thing I could think of...in one meal!Quote:
Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush
So, cheating for me would be like...a nice rice bowl with rainbow colored veggies and avocado! Haha! But, again, I don't want to mention my vegan friend, but she ate super nutrient dense veg food and she got a girl (yes, I know other things could have nudged it that way, but she leads a very boy friendly lifestyle).
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. ;)