Brand sparkly (pink) new diet thread for GIRL sways!

[XXforhubby]

That sounds so good beautiful rainbow!!
Well done XX can you remind me what we are meant to be sticking to for fat, protein and carbs please? I could check but am being lazy lol. On my fitness pal it gives you percentages of each, do you know what they're meant to be?
Not sure what am doing for lunch today yet but I stole a couple of chocolate buttons to have with my coffee this morning. Might make more cinnamon swirls since we have the stuff in for them. My boys have a play date and they're having melted choc with marshmallows and fruit xx

Don't track carbs. Calories 1500-1800, protein 40-50g, fat 40-50g. Can go up to 60g for both if need be. Just don't go lower than 40g for both as that can stop ovulation.

[XXforhubby]

I adopt the 80/20 rule. 80% healthy and 20% sweets/junk. The LE diet is too restrictive to not have some sweets/junk to make it tolerable!


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[Mulberry Smurf]

Thanks XX xx

[squigglepink]

Squigglepink are you seriously thinking about going ht? If I was younger I would do another ht cycle but go to the Czech this time. My problem was the opposite to chocolate in that I got a nice amount of eggs and always two of my desired gender to transfer but they never stuck. 5 cycles down the line, lots of immune testing to produce no good eggs on my final cycle when I have an immune protocol in place. It's not an easy way out by all means but if you can do it I would say go ahead but choose your clinic carefully! Feel free to pm me if you want any details.
I actually fine swaying a tad harder than ht but that's just my opinion.

Hi - it only dawned on me today that i should actually look in to it before just ruling it out and assuming its not affordable nor an option for us! Ive spent most of the day searching clinics and options, all very costly and still the risk of not getting a BFP first cycle and we dont have an endless pot of money.. I have not chatted to my DH about it yet - he's not exactly desperate for a daughter he just knows it would be nice. But im not sure if he's willing to spend allot of money on something that may or may not take even though the guarantee of a daughter is there.. vs trying naturally and ending up with 3rd boy.
We dont seem to have fertility issues and fall preg in under 6 months. Although i am 39 now so dont know if it might take us a while now.. but thanks for your feedback/info i will deffo be in touch for details (if my DH is ok with HT which i dont think he will be) x

[chocolate]

I think it's worth discussing... But how would you feel if Ht didn't work and then time.had passed and you couldn't get pregnant naturally? I honestly thought at my age, it would work easily for me, but it didn't. However I am glad I tried but that was after 3 children and enough time to have another naturally after if it failed.


Can someone remind me of the girl friendly fruit and veg. Thinking of trying to get some magnesium in, so maybe I should try a bit of green spinach and kale salad, with roasted carrot/mushrooms, sweetcorn? Feta cheese? With some green grapes and yoghurt?

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[3'sacharm]

That's the thing with HT isn't it, still no guarantees just that if all DOeS go to plan, then it should be guaranteed a girl. There's no way we could afford it and no way hubby would go along with it, plus the barriers of being within Europe. Funnily enough, my dh has openly admitted that had our boys been girls, he would be the one pushing the issue of "trying again", yet even so, he won't commit to this for me at the moment, he's still "thinking about it". So I'm just cracking on with swaying as it requires so much preparation time in terms of diet and exercise in the hope that he comes on board with it...
Diet wise today has been shocking, I just let myself go in the end as I've not been myself today so needed to do what I needed to to get through the day. Feeling better now though x

[atomic sagebrush]

I hate to be a negative nelly but at 39 the odds of getting pregnant via HT with one attempt are really, really slim. Unfortunately age is the number one thing and it doesn't even matter how fast you've conceived with prev. conceptions, 35 and up it's a whole new ball game and the older ou get, the worse your chances. I think it is more illuminating to answer this question - which feels worse to you, walking away with no money and no baby (because by the time you do all the HT stuff you may end up unable to conceive naturally and YES this has happened to people) or walking away with the money and an opposite. Worst case scenarios

[atomic sagebrush]

That's the thing with HT isn't it, still no guarantees just that if all DOeS go to plan, then it should be guaranteed a girl. There's no way we could afford it and no way hubby would go along with it, plus the barriers of being within Europe. Funnily enough, my dh has openly admitted that had our boys been girls, he would be the one pushing the issue of "trying again", yet even so, he won't commit to this for me at the moment, he's still "thinking about it". So I'm just cracking on with swaying as it requires so much preparation time in terms of diet and exercise in the hope that he comes on board with it...
Diet wise today has been shocking, I just let myself go in the end as I've not been myself today so needed to do what I needed to to get through the day. Feeling better now though x

if we had had 4 girls and my husband had wanted a boy (which he would have, and he even had a weird kind of boy GD with our 3rd because our first two are not sporty boy-boys like he always was) I would have been FRANTIC to make it happen for him. I would have done anything for that to happen. But it felt like for me it was like "eh get over it" and he didn't care at all. :/

[squigglepink]

I hate to be a negative nelly but at 39 the odds of getting pregnant via HT with one attempt are really, really slim. Unfortunately age is the number one thing and it doesn't even matter how fast you've conceived with prev. conceptions, 35 and up it's a whole new ball game and the older ou get, the worse your chances. I think it is more illuminating to answer this question - which feels worse to you, walking away with no money and no baby (because by the time you do all the HT stuff you may end up unable to conceive naturally and YES this has happened to people) or walking away with the money and an opposite. Worst case scenarios

If you were asking me - i would say my tickets booked, i fly to the US tmw .. If you were asking my DH - he would say lets just stay as we are, happy days!!
But Yes - on a serious note - i didtn realise my age throws a spanner! Probably just as well because we would have to wait for some time before going HT anyway.. we have too much going and and too much to pay for, to chuck in HT as well! But im glad you spotted this post, so thanks for mentioning because you know us girls can get caught up in all this and before you know it we've spent two days researching and the money is spent

If we had 2 girls, id be swaying for a boy now - no doubt about it!

[Frilly Lady]

Lunch today was just rubbish coffee, jam tart and a few biscuits. Dinner will be last nights left overs of the sweet potato and spinach Dahl I made which was really tasty and filling and probably a few plain biscuits for my sweet tooth.
Hope you're feeling ok squigglepink.