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Thank you so much:)
Hi Atomic,
I am swaying blue from next cycle, shall i continue weight lifting or walking during 2ww?
Atomic,
Is it important to keep the level and resistance on cardio machines low/moderate when swaying pink? I don't really work out at a high intensity (i.e. my pace is pretty slow), but I typically have our home elliptical set up to the max for both level and intensdity, so I wanted to check. TIA
Yes! As long as you're not doing something like Olympic weightlifting it is fine and safe to continue exercise even into early pregnancyQuote:
Originally Posted by Ammue
We generally try to avoid muscle building exercise, but as long as you're losing weight on a lower protein diet, it's impossible to build muscle. Since you're used to it anyway, I'd probably just continue with that - but be sure you are not gaining weight on a boy-friendly diet when you are doing that!Quote:
Originally Posted by Lucky#4
Hi Atomic!
Personal question for my situation: If I'm super disciplined, I could increase my normal 30-minute a day jogs to an hour a day. Doing the LE/PCOS diet, at 18.5 BMI and 98 LBS: do you think doubling my workout time will be okay - if we're aiming for me to not lose any more weight? I still have at least six weeks on the diet.
Things to consider:
Running is my stress relief - the endorphins, staying fit - all of that gives me a "I'm winning at life!" feeling. And it's hardwired in my brain because I've been doing it daily for 10+ years. It gives me a sense of normalcy/control. Not sure how that plays into all this.
I'm also kinda boy shaped - no hips, petite, toned. I've had quads since I was like 4. I build muscle easily. The thing that nags at me is that I'm 99.9% sure MORE running will mean more muscle. I'm trying to up my protein to get my ovulation on track, etc. And thinking more protein = more running = winning at life will be back to my boy lifestyle.
Doing the no workout, or just long walks (something to decrease muscle mass) would really throw my body into a "what's happening, is this the apocalypse?" state of mind.
Annnnnd: Thinking about your last pink sway and how you said you were mushy. Crystal ball question: Knowing what you know, would it better for me, personally, to be mushy, if I can do it without gaining weight?
People with PCOS need to do exercise even if you can't get up to the 60 minutes. So it may be best for you to just keep doing what you're doing because the benefits to blood sugar control are so huge they outweigh any risks of building muscle.
You literally cannot build muscle without a LOT of food and some weight gain. Besides, "muscle building" is just a theory, while we know for a fact that exercise WORKS because our results have shown that it does. Based on our results I strongly urge everyone to include exercise in their sway even if you have to eat somewhat more cals to do it.
I really really REALLY must insist that you continue exercise. DO NOT do couch potato. If you can exercise more without losing weight (and you will need to up calories, very likely, to manage this), then do. But no matter what continue the exercise you're already doing.
Me being mushy was just an observation. Again, we know exercise works because we've seen it work so well for so long. Don't let my theories and mushiness LOL keep you from doing what has actually WORKED. I see it time and again where people get so hung up on speculation and guesswork that they don't even do the things that have worked for people.
Do what works. Don't worry about the whys and wherefores because none of us have any idea how swaying works anyway.
Hi atomic! I'm jumping on the girl sway bandwagon kind of suddenly. I'm hoping to be put on Clomid next week. AF due in 1 or 2 wks, then TTC. I'm starting LE diet now. I'm a sporadic exerciser but willing to do intense 60/5-7 for a sway. But is it too late to begin that??
Thank you!
We started off worrying that there might be a "too late" but over time exercise has proven itself so effective we now just encourage everyone to do exercise and don't worry about any of that. Totally fine and then if you don't end up pregnant the first month you'll have enough time on it by the second to benefit your sway.
Hi Atomic,
Great info, thanks! I’m just a bit confused as to how I can influence the gender by adjusting my hormonal levels. I understand that e.g. acidity has a direct impact on sperm. But my hormonal levels don’t have much impact on what sperm reaches the egg first right (as the sperm determines the gender)? So how does it influence the gender?
Thanks in advance!!
We have a beautiful baby boy and will start ttc for a girl soon :)
We don't know how it works. If we did, we could have it all figured out. But all we have are a lot of theories most of which are in direct contradiction with each other.
My guess is that somehow, the sperm get a signal from your body and one gender stays dormant and the other gender "wakes up" and goes to fertilize the egg. But that's just a guess, we dont' know for sure.
Thanks for the quick reply!
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Do I need to follow these or does my husband also? We have a son and will be swaying pink, he works out 4-5 times a week doing moderate weight lifting and training. I do more body weight or cardio. I can’t imagine getting him to stop working out so I’m wondering if I just do this and follow a specific diet will that be enough?
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Just you.
For hubby, jogging and biking have been shown in studies to sway pink, but many men do lift weights and still get girls.
Exercise and diet are two of the four best tactics there are. A sway based on those two things is GREAT!! I can't ever say if anything is enough, of course.
Thank you! I need to read into what I should be doing I terms of exercise. Right now I do body weight stuff and some cardio, not sure how to alter that. I’m told diet is to affect your PH level? I have strips to test PH but they test urine and I thought they should be testing CM?
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I would drop the body weight and focus more on cardio.
No, diet is not to affect pH. It is actually pretty nonsensical the claims they make about pH. https://genderdreaming.com/forum/gen...ph-pickle.html We believe the reason why diet sways has to do with a gentle decline in overall condition (hormones and blood sugar) as per the Trivers Willard Hypothesis. (this is a pretty technical essay but has a scientific explanation about what is likely swaying https://genderdreaming.com/forum/gen...ypothesis.html)
You use the same ph strips to test CM if you want to but the fact is that we have had so many pH opposites it is absolutely impossible that it could possibly be telling us anything. I got a boy with pH of 4.5-5 range that never went up till I was already pregnant and got my girl without even bothering to test pH. I have the full case against pH here: https://genderdreaming.com/forum/gen...ph-pickle.html
I hope it’s OK to “wake up” this thread instead of just opening a new one. I was wondering if for a girl sway a brisk 60 min walk equals 60 mins on the elliptical (which I have at home and will be using for the exercise part of my pink sway). Currently I have very long daily walks with my 1 year old DS2 - 3-4 hours a day, 1 h walk per each direction that are pretty tiring. I could not do both the walks, and 60 mins on the elliptical so I was wondering do I need to chose or both options-1. Reduce walking with the stroller and have 60 mins home cardio & 2. Continue with the long intensive walks and skip home cardio - are equally helpful to the sway. Maybe I can do both- when I haven’t had a good walk just jump on the elliptical? I want to opt for the most recommended version and will do whatever will increase my chances :) I don’t have much weight to spare, current BMI 20.4, lost around 4 pounds after about 2 weeks of LE dieting.
One more thing- atomic, in one of your previous posts you mention there are 4 things that work best for a pink sway- cardio, LE, I believe the third one is one attempt on first positive OPK and what is the fourth? Thank you for your time!
Yes absolutely, and I actually prefer that as it keeps our threads chock full of goodness rather than people having to open and shut a hundred different threads to find everything out!
Just do the walk. Walking is actually my preference so you guys don't get injured or burned out. And sure, if you don't walk one day and want to use the elliptical, that's great.
No more weight loss, just stay where you're at. Once you're below BMI 21 I want you to stay where you're at and just do the basic macros of diet, eating more if you need to to keep weight on.
The other thing is Clomid or Femara if you can get them.
Phew, thank God ;) and here I was imagining myself half dead after 4 hours outside and 60 min elliptical. I can’t even imagine when I could find 1 full hour for cardio at home at the moment. Maybe during autumn and winter I will have to, though. We are going to start TTC in November so I may want to opt for the elliptical about a month prior to the first attempt, just to be on the safe side. I don’t like it very much and prefer a treadmill but whatever I have available that would be it. Thanks so much :)
No we do not want you to kill yourself for the sway! That level of intense self-control required would probably sway blue from control freakishness anyway.
Yeah, the control freakishness will be a challenge for me, because it really drives me mad when something is out of my control. My friend- the only one I’ve shared my sway intention with- says I am doing exactly this- by swaying I attempt to have everything under control. Which is exactly what it is, right? How do I let the control while swaying when swaying itself is a control attempt? There must be a full thread about it...isn’t there? Anyway, I wandered something else- if I am strict on the exercise, LE and 1 attempt, are these three things combined less effective than taking Clomid (only Clomid, no other tactics)?
There's a big difference between "doing your part" and then understanding it's still in the hands of fate/God, versus trying to control every detail, every morsel of food, every second of every day, and imagining that only if you did it absolutely perfect you will "earn" a girl.
Like they say, "the Lord helps those who help themselves". We have swaying reduced to doing just the minimum amount of things that actually work, and we let go of all those things that DON'T work, and in that way we reduce the controlling elements to the minimum amount necessary. Then we let the rest of it go and chalk it up to being out of our control. And that's getting good results! trust me, all of us with all boys have this issue, we're all control freaks and yet we do get good results with swaying.
oh and as for the Clomid, studies indicate it sways about 3-5%. Diet, exercise, and one attempt seem MORE effective than that. I cannot say the exact percentage as I don't have any studies on those things to compare.
Thanks so much, DS1 was conceived on a very girl friendly environment (didn’t know about swaying then), DS2 was a sway opposite (did not follow the most effective sway tactics, though)- if that doesn’t teach me to loosen up a little bit I din’t know what will :)
Dears,
I am currently pregnant with my second boy and thinking on swaying for the next in order to get a girl. I am a total control freak also :)
Regarding exercise I have many doubts. With my first I was training for running a half marathon and in fact I got pregnant when I completed it as I got a positive OPK the day I run it. I had lost weight while training but not that much but my usually regular cycles where all over the place. It took me a lot of time to get pregnant so I don’t know if it was the running or the stress.
With my second I was into the sweat app, very committed to one of the strength programs and it was way more easier to get pregnant (it took like 3/4 cycles).
So I get the feeling that, I should become a couch potato if I finally decide to try again. Crazy cardio swayed blue and obv strength swayed blue, so kind of doing the opposite. Do you agree?
I have so much more questions but I will try to ask each on the correct forum :)
Thanks a lot,
Our couch potato method got way, way, way worse results than exercise. I can't in good conscience EVER recommend couch potato except for people who literally cannot exercise.
The crazy cardio is NOT what swayed blue for you. You got a boy not because of the cardio, but in spite of it. The solution here is NOT to "do the opposite", but to do WHAT WORKS. It would be silly to skip over a highly effective pink sway tactic in order to "do the opposite" when it likely had nothing to do with why you got a boy. Imagine it like this - let's say for the sake of argument when you conceived you actually were like 80% likely to have a boy naturally (I'm just making up easy to understand numbers here) and then thru the cardio, you got to only 60% likely to have a boy. That is still a HUGE pink sway, even though you might have still been more likely to have a boy, or gotten to 50-50. Or even if you ended up 60% likely to have a girl, you could have fallen into that 40% opposite range!
It would be downright crazy to skip out on something that we know beyond a shadow of a doubt, one of the few things we know for sure sways pink, that's been consistent all along since the very beginning of the site, to "do the opposite". Swaying NEVER comes down to one thing like that, ever, and especially not exercise.
Thanks a lot Atomic. I will then include running in the plan.
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Very old post but to give hope to you pink swayers...I am the epitome of control-freak perfectionist and yet, I only have had girls...4, in fact!Quote:
Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush
The exercise and diet will help you heaps ! (and WTH did I get girls? likely overwhelmingly my diet and exercise - more so cardio)
Hello!
Apologies if this has been asked before…
How much cycling does a hubby need to do to sway pink? My hubby is a keen cyclist (weird Lycra outfits and all) so will certainly be happier to add in more if his not yet doing enough! He tends to do just one long cycle a week at the moment, and back forth to the office a couple of times.
There's no right or wrong answer with this. We've seen good luck with all different levels of cycling and it may be something that is different to each individual. Too much can really cut odds of conception, and that's already what a lot of people are doing and having success with it, so my inclination would be to just have him keep doing what he's comfy with. It's been awhile since you conceived, so even if he was biking about the same amount then, you may have a totally different result in terms of sperm health and sway this time thru.
Okay thanks Atomic! He’s definitely doing more than he was when we had our boy so perhaps that’s enough anyway ☺️ Either way he’ll be pleased I’m sure haha!
:agree: if he's doing more than he was when you (or anyone) got your boy(s) then I'd just roll with that. We find that the more we ask husbands to do for the sway - especially when they're only marginally on board with TTC anyway - they start to balk. In this case, there's every chance he's already doing enough!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mochi