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Hi Shellburke77,
I am in Brisbane. The sway hasn't been too bad, you get used to it. I am just so determined to do everything possible, so it motivates me to continue with it. I figured the longer I was on the LE diet, hopefully the better chance I have of getting pink. I don't want any regrets.
Good luck with your sway
Thanks for the welcome everyone!
I am finding the LE diet okay the moment, as I did weight watchers last year to help shift some weight from having ds 2. Obviously doing a vegetarian version this time, but using lots of the low fat recipes and weight watchers products, bread and soups are great! For me it's portion control that I struggle with, but feel that my stomach has shrunk down and is getting used to eating so much less!
For any boy swayers, it's seems so obvious why I had two boys! I lead the boy making lifestyle completely! Big breakfast, lots of snacking, lots of attempts in my fertile window.
As others were saying, I totally study families now too and think of my friends children's genders in relation to their lifestyle and they are usually very accurate to the HE and LE lifestyles as well.
It's difficult to not get carried away though, feels awful when you read of people with perfect sways and it has not worked of them. I feel that I still need to only imagine conceiving another boy, so I don't set myself up for disappointment.
Welcome Pink Pony! Your sway sounds amazing so far! You are going to be on LE a long time before your first attempt. You have great will power. Have you lost a lot of weight? Is herbal tea ok to have while swaying? Is it better than normal tea?
hopper, if you need to add protein but not fat try fat free cottage cheese. Your dinner sounds great too! Especially the tomato sauce because I never have any sauce, just plain pasta/rice and vegetables and some cream cheese/margarine to add fat/flavor. What kind of tomato sauce are you using?
I'm taking fiber twice a day. I use powder and it doesn't taste that good. I take 1200mcg of folic acid daily. I think I read somewhere in here that iron supp isn't bad for ttc girl but not sure if I remember right!
My DH is taking cranberry and drinking soy milk. And will drink peppermint tea closer to attempt. I'm actually quite surprised how he remembers to take those daily, usually I don't even have to remind him. Are any of your DHs willing to go vegetarian? Mine is not but I told him it's better for him to eat chicken or fish if he has a choise. But trying not to worry about it.
Jenny, I often find myself getting really excited about swaying and thinking we may have a really good change having a girl but then I read about failed sways that has been perfect. I feel like that's going to be us. It's hard trying to be positive and relaxed about our sway but then again trying to prepare having a third boy.
My favourite dinner by far is pasta with leeks asparagus and a squeeze of lemon and a spoon of Parmesan cheese with a glass of white wine-could eat it every night.
I've also taken to peeking into other people's trollies as I wait in line at the supermarket and analysing whether their diet is more girl or boy friendly. Weirdo. I know ��
We have been doing lots of burgers :) which I am totally okay with! And normally I'm not a greens person, but I've been trying to eat more vegetables like spinach and avocados. I also eat potatoes when I can! I've never been a breakfast person so that has been challenging.. But I usually have an egg and spinach sandwich. I'm taking a prenatal as well as potassium, fish oil, grapeseed extract, folic acid and b12. I'm also taking cassava but that's unrelated. And then for drinks I've been trying to drink the v8 splash to get more veggies in.
I get excited all the time reading about successful sways and it makes me so hopeful! But then I read fails and I'm like "yep that's probably going to be me..." I keep telling myself I'm going to have an all girl family. So I'm trying to get excited about it.. But I tried to do this too with DD and when I found out it was a girl everything shattered. I tried SO hard to get excited just in case she was a girl. Totally thought I was prepared but nope! /:
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Shellburke, your dinner sounds delicious. I think I have to try it as I I'm getting bored to my usual dinner. Today I ate my normal veggies for dinner and added a new thing, rice noodles lol. Was good to have something different than regular pasta or rice. Today I bought strawberries and ate 100g of them. They were so good. Luckily they are fine when swaying pink. I made smoothie for my boys in the evening (strawberries, bananas and youghurt) and it smelled so good but didn't drink it. And I would love to eat ice cream, not a small portion but lots of it. I have always loved ice cream. Maybe I have to make a list what to eat when I'm done with swaying lol.
Nann, your diet sounds great! Can we ever be fully prepared having the opposite? I know I can't even if I'm really trying. Especially now when swaying I feel like we have a good change because if I wouldn't sway I'm 99,9% sure we would have a boy. And still I feel like we are not that lucky to get a dd. Such mixed emotions. How can I prepare myself for a third boy? I know I will love him but it's going to be so hard letting go of that dream of a daughter.
2x I am fairly sure that herbal tea is better than normal tea. Regular tea sways blue according to Atomic. I had a Dolmio pouch called "Creamy Tomato". Had very little fat considering how tasty it was. Like 2.6g of fat, 86 cals and 1.5g or something similarly low of protein. Great way of adding flavour to a plain bland dish! The cheese I used was a Lidl brand and it was really low in fat too so was delighted with that! I looooove cheese lol, it's been a hard one to cut down on so finding a low fat one that tastes good has been great!!
Would you believe I have NEVER eaten cottage cheese!! What does it taste like? I see people pairing it with fruit all the time so it must be nice enough...I feel like an uncultured bumpkin lol!!
I don't think we are ever prepared for getting an opposite! I did a super mild IG sway on DS2, obviously it was so so so wrong and someone over there mentioned this site so here I am since waiting to sway! I think the principles of a GD sway make way more sense and are so less convoluted than an IG sway. Though saying that I didn't do diet last time so praying this works this time. I knew though I would hear boy last time. I have had Hyperemesis lasting 20 weeks on both of them so the sickness was a dead giveaway even if nothing else in my majorly boy friendly life was lol. Am trying to remain positive and pink right now! Sometimes I look at other families with BBG and think I couldn't be as lucky as them!! And I irrationally think that there's not enough pink dust to go around so I can get my BBG too!
Under a bit of pressure with other household stuff at the moment and DH is thinking it should take precedence over another baby. I have tried explaining I am doing everything I can to LOWER my fertility and it most likely won't happen first time like our boys did. He is sceptical to say the least! I have however gotten him to start taking Cranberry supplements starting tomorrow. I got them today and switched myself over to Chitosan fibre too. Can't believe how full I am this evening after taking it! Have taken a night off cardio, instead I have had a lovely long soak in a delicious lavender essences bath!!! I am so Zen right now lol!!!
Hmm cottage cheese literally tastes like cheese to me... Like milky cheese:) but subtle.. Almost like mozzarella! Like raw mozzarella if I had to pinpoint it:) I LOVE it! Some people add fruit like peaches or pears.. My husband likes to add pepper.. Ew..
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Cottage cheese doesn't taste like much to me. I add salt and pepper. My kids eat it with honey or strawberries. We eat tons of it around here.
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Thanks 2X - I have lost weight on the diet, I am petit anyway, so I have got to watch myself, but that's what chocolates are for :) :)
Atomic suggested herbal tea over normal tea, but not to have it more than 3 x a week, which is challenging. Its cold here is Australia and I just want to drink warm drinks all day long and I get tired of coffee.
My husband loves meat, so I have no chance getting him to be a vegetarian. I must say, since I have stopped eating meat, its has made my cooking for the family feel really difficult. Hoping I am successful on my first attempt and that it is a girl, so that I don't have to stay on the diet and longer than I have too.
A girl I know announced on FB last night that she is having a "princess" - she lay on the couch and got her hubby to take a picture of her tummy with a pink tiara on it. I felt so sad after seeing that. I, too am so scared of failure, I have never ever wanted something so bad, if I get my baby girl, it would be as good as winning the Lotto for me.