IG Diet or Another...

[Coccinelle33]

I do think that not eating 3 meals a day does have a lot to do with conceiving girls! Eat up!!

i agree with this. this has been my hard thing to do while swaying pink. i normally eat 3 meals a day along with something small at night and a snack in the day sometime.

[LolaInLove]

Light, take some time and read all of the posts under the TTC a Boy thread, there is a ton of info in there. There are really a ton of beliefs about diets for swaying, and the IG diet is a bit different than the diet that is supported on this site, which is based on the Trivers-Willard Hypothesis. Again, there are posts all about this, so I suggest you read through them because I can't begin to explain it as well, and it would take me too long, but this is the basic gist of it for the TW: eat a high calorie, high fat, high nutrient, high sodium diet. Don't skip meals. Try to eat at least 9 servings of fruits and veggies a day, and try to vary your intake to provide the widest array of nutrients. Eat protein and a carbohydrate at every meal.

Not sure if I'm missing anything.....how'd I do, Atomic? It's really not confusing at all, and I think that the more you understand WHY things sway, you will feel more comfortable with it and also with making food and lifestyle choices to aid in your sway. You'll be fine, we're here to support you!

[LolaInLove]

Oh, and the dairy or no dairy thing is really up in the air....like Atomic said above, zillions of boys are still produced on no-dairy and lots of dairy diets. Personally, I think dairy is a good thing for ttc blue, and I drink whole milk and whatnot. If you can't tolerate dairy, then you can just take Vit D supplements (which raise testosterone) and maybe think about how you feel about taking a calcium supp. Thing is, I'm trying to do the OPPOSITE of what I did when I had my girls in hopes of a boy. Maybe thinking of it that way will help. I don't think you need to add dairy, but you should beef up your diet big time and eat a lot and more stuff.

[lightofmylife]

thank you very much LolaInLove...........i really appreciate it every time i lose hope and think to give up some nice ladies like u give me hope , i ll surely act upon what u suggested

[skrimpy]

I will just say that I have not avoided dairy at all - I did the IG diet to sway for my 2yo son, but I did NOT cut out dairy, at least not milk - and I also still had cheese in some recipes.

The reason I chose this is b/c I follow the Brewer diet during pregnancy, which emphasizes high protein for a healthy baby - and 4 cups (8oz cups) of milk are part of the basic diet. To me, being healthy and getting the fat/protein I needed to conceive a healthy baby was more important than leaving out the milk to sway...

Also, I have 3 sons and I conceived my first two having my 4 cups of milk daily (I am one of those unusual ladies that wished for a one gender family... all blue... but love my pinks to pieces), so I felt it would not stop our sway for blue.

With our sway I did follow the salt/potassium/drinks/supps and most of the rest of the diet.

One other difference is I had Cod Liver Oil, which the IG diets discourage. But I think it helped my cycles a lot so I kept it up.

[TTC5]

Really ttc5!! You are unable to have dairy but you have 4 daughters??

Hey there! Sounds funny hey but i have only just found out after years of testing since having DD4!!!!!
So when having the girls, yep I had lots of dairy products!

[atomic sagebrush]

Light, take some time and read all of the posts under the TTC a Boy thread, there is a ton of info in there. There are really a ton of beliefs about diets for swaying, and the IG diet is a bit different than the diet that is supported on this site, which is based on the Trivers-Willard Hypothesis. Again, there are posts all about this, so I suggest you read through them because I can't begin to explain it as well, and it would take me too long, but this is the basic gist of it for the TW: eat a high calorie, high fat, high nutrient, high sodium diet. Don't skip meals. Try to eat at least 9 servings of fruits and veggies a day, and try to vary your intake to provide the widest array of nutrients. Eat protein and a carbohydrate at every meal.

Not sure if I'm missing anything.....how'd I do, Atomic? It's really not confusing at all, and I think that the more you understand WHY things sway, you will feel more comfortable with it and also with making food and lifestyle choices to aid in your sway. You'll be fine, we're here to support you!

NO, I think that's just about perfect!! Thanks!!!

[atomic sagebrush]

then im really confused ,, what kind of sway shud i do ?? shud i sway pink to get blue ?
this confusion stops me to TTC. i really cant understand what i shud avoid now which gave me girls

I know it's confusing because it is not completely like the diets that are on other sites but I think it will give us better results.

Your diet is already somewhat boy friendly, but you need to eat more protein, more nutrients, more salt, more calories, more healthy fats, keep your blood sugar very nice and stable by eating protein and carbs at every meal and snack, and try and gain a bit of weight in the form of muscle!

You don't need avoid anything that gave you girls or didn't give you girls. NO food causes more of one gender to be born than another. That's just not true. What you need to do is make your body think that you have access to as much good food as possible. Boys need more nutrients than girls do, so if your body thinks that you have a lot of good food, you are more likely to conceive a boy.

If your diet "tells" your body that you don't have as much good food available, then you are more likely to conceive a girl. So skipping meals makes you more likely to have girls, even if you eat only boy-friendly foods, because your body thinks you do not have enough food.

Please don't worry, I know it's hard to understand at first but just keep asking questions until you understand everything! Just let me know the parts that don't make sense and I will explain them and explain them until you do! Good luck, and I hope you WILL get your son someday!

[lightofmylife]

Please don't worry, I know it's hard to understand at first but just keep asking questions until you understand everything! Just let me know the parts that don't make sense and I will explain them and explain them until you do! Good luck, and I hope you WILL get your son someday!

thanks atomic , so nice of uu , i surely wud ask where i wud b confused

[TTC5]

That was GREAT advice there Atomic!! xx