January Pink Food Thread

[Out of the Blue]

Well, your internet family is here for you !!

YES! That goes for everyone on this thread!!!

[HopeandDreamG]

I was at the store yesterday, HnG, and I looked at the medium jar -- yep, that one is 105 mg of sodium. I don't know why there would be such a difference between the mild and medium flavors, but there you have it.

And you're right, 105 is still quite good compared to other ones. I think the kind DH usually gets has well over 200.

Thank you! Guess I will be buying the mild! Glad you mentioned the salsa. I had looked at the other brands before I saw your post about the newmans and there was no way I was using over 200mg sodium in 2 just tablespoons.

We had some last night with the trader joes no salt tortilla chips while we watched the Giants game!!!

[purple sky]

Oh Surgena I'm sorry about your dh's family. Being that far from your own family has got to be tough I agree, I think maybe your IC didn't pick up O and you already O'd.

I went to trader Joe's this weekend and couldn't find anything really good No salt free tortilla chips, no low sodium salsa and the worst is they didn't have any frozen yogurt. Ugh the search continues...

On a last note - I CANT BELIEVE THE NINERS LOST!!!!!

[HopeandDreamG]

Purple sky~ did you ask at trader joes for the chips? How did they not have them? The aisle is huge here filled with tortilla chips, don't think I would have had the patience to find them myself. And BTW: Go GIANTS!! LOL

[suregena]

I have a LOT of potatoes I need to get eaten up in the next few days. I'm in the 2ww... if I skinned them and only ate mine, say... with no butter and only creme fraiche, think that would be okay? Also, how much should I stick to without eating potato overload? My past two days with my son's birthday and meeting up with friends not knowing we were out to eat (thought we were getting drinks!) and having already cheated a bit yesterday anyway, I am trying to revert back to how I ought to be on the 2ww...

[HopeandDreamG]

Suregena~ I think the important thing about diet in the 2WW is to keep your sugar low- skip brekkie and don't snack in between. This gives the egg the best chance of implanting.
I'm not sure about this- maybe someone else can chime in: my thought is as long as you do above you should be fine (to ensure implantation of the bean) but if you eat potatoes in the 2 ww (or anything else) it cannot really effect you because the egg has already been fertilized and can't switch genders. It is already what it IS!!

[suregena]

So is low sugars true for implantation regardless of the gender then or something specifically tied to girls?

I did bad the past couple days but I would hate to throw away potatoes! My husband is lazy with cooking and hasn't used them up. I hope I haven't messed up things over the last couple of days...

[HopeandDreamG]

Pink beans prefer low glucose enviornments. something to do with the efficiency of how the suck up blood glucose. lower blood sugar = more likely for pink bean to implant. There's a thread on here somewhere about it. I'll look for it.

[Out of the Blue]

I went to trader Joe's this weekend and couldn't find anything really good No salt free tortilla chips, no low sodium salsa and the worst is they didn't have any frozen yogurt. Ugh the search continues...

Sometimes shopping at TJ's really foils my plans b/c they seem to be out of a certain thing every now and then and sometimes, it's not just a week but even a month or more on certain things... This is the 2nd week that they've been out of my organic frozen raspberries and they didn't have the fro-yo this week at mine either.

[Out of the Blue]

I would not be worried about a few extra nutrients in the 2ww but H&D is right...Try to keep skipping breakkie and not snacking b/c BS is key. Upping your cals/fat/protein/etc. a bit is sort of risky b/c even w/skipping breakfast and not snacking, it still may alter your blood sugar levels depending on what you eat. In this 2ww, I admit that I have eaten more cals/protein/fat/sodium but just a little bit more. That's just my take on things...

Here's something BIG and LONG I had saved about diet in the 2ww. This is Atomic's response to someone's question about diet in the 2ww:

It's not because they need less nutrients, it's because they suck up glucose more effectively and if there's too much in the environment they may suck up too much. The males do not suck it up effectively and probably prefer more in their environment. You're right that we don't know which gender has been conceived but it's about giving the gender you've swayed so hard for the best possible chance of thriving after conception.

It's likely that big and strong beans of either gender can withstand a wide variety of environments. My thinking is simply that it makes no sense for us to desperately TTC a baby girl, and then not do everything we can to ensure that she has an optimal environment to develop in. This may be esp. true for those of us with 3-4-5-more boys already because the odds are good we prob. already HAVE a good environment for boys to develop in and so we may need to be extra diligent in providing an XX with the best environment we can.

http://genderdreaming.com/forum/tryi...tml#post110857 - XY NEED more glucose than XX do because they can't suck up as much (and this is the one aspect of swaying that is 100% proven beyond a shadow of a doubt because researchers have seen it happen in a lab and can even use it as a test to tell apart XX and XY.)

Some people are worried that if they cut back too far and do conceive a boy, they will lose him and I do admit this is a possibility. But, in the same study that proved XX and XY need diff amounts of glucose, they also showed that the healthy and best-developing beans of either gender were the best at sucking up glucose (and those are the ones who are most likely to produce viable pg anyway). So a healthy boy who was going to go onto successfully stick, will STILL be able to suck up enough glucose to survive anyway even if it is less than optimal environment, and a boy bean that couldn't make it due to environment, very well may have not been destined to make it anyway.. A healthy girl will be GREAT at sucking up glucose so there is no "too low" for girls (your body does everything it can to make sure a baby has a shot of survival so it's going to keep pumping glucose into the CM). In fact, it may even be the case that too-high glucose is worse than too low, for BOTH genders.

My thinking has always been, A) it's silly to do everything we can to try to conceive a baby girl and then not do everything we can to ensure she has the best shot at survival and B) it's almost certain to me that if this mechanism exists (as it definitely appears to), then there is another, as yet undiscovered mechanism at play PRIOR to conception that takes note of glucose and works to ensure that you conceive a baby of the gender that your body is most likely to successfuly carry to term. Eggs are "biologically expensive" for your body to make and it doesn't "like" to just send them out willy nilly and risk miscarriage (even more "biologically expensive") - that is why swaying works to begin with, because your body only wants to chance a pregnancy/birth/child raising that has the best odds of survival. Obviously this mechanism, like all our body's mechanisms, are not foolproof, which is why swaying can never be 100% and people do have miscarriages sometimes unfortunately.

One of the first gals I helped with swaying info was one of those who tended to take things further than I would like - she stuck with the blood glucose stuff religiously and did it even AFTER her BFP (against my advice BTW) and her baby was a boy who is now 1 and perfectly normal in every way. So I have evidence that blood glucose does not cause healthy baby boys to be miscarried.