IUI and swaying girl

[atomic sagebrush]

Thanks AS for the input. I read through the LE diet and have mostly followed it for the past 2 days. The hardest part is skipping breakfast. I teach morning Kindergarten so I need some energy in the mornings. I also don't really understand how you can only have 2-3 meals but get in 1500 cals a day. Those would be some huge meals, right?

If you can't skip breakfast, then don't! It's not a magic bullet, it's just something that may help a bit. There have been several people who couldn't skip brekkie due to work obligations and still got girls anyway.

It's really not hard to eat 3 500-600 cal meals - it's actually less food than you think.

[atomic sagebrush]

Could the LE diet hurt my chances of conceiving? We are not doing any sperm lowering. I am also going to start femara in February. For now I am taking cal/mag, folic acid, and vitex which I will stop before I try the femara.

I did the diet today and I ate 1253 cal, 956 mg of sodium, 34g of fat, and 39g of protein. but, I actually ate 6 times! Does that mess everything up?

Thanks for the help.

Over the course of time it may lower fertility somewhat but that's how it sways. LE Diet is designed to be in line with reproductive endocrinologists recommendation for safe weight loss while going HT (so people need to stay fully fertile) and the protein/fat amounts is what is recommended by the WHO for safe protein and fat intake for women of childbearing age.

[atomic sagebrush]

The thing with eating 6 times, is that you want to give your blood sugar time to drop between meals. so we try to avoid snacking if possible. That having been said, you have to do what you have to do to make it through your day, and if you're miserable constantly then you end up cheating the whole time and not accomplishing anything anyway. It's much better to set a reasonable goal that you can meet instead of trying to get to a place that's undoable for you. "She who reaches for the stars, often ends up flat on her face!!" As long as you're moving in the direction of less, it's all good.

[NatalieM]

Thanks for all of your help!! Yesterday I had my IUI. I was on the diet for about 5 1/2 weeks and lost 6 pounds. I kept everything diet wise within the LE limits and gave up all meat. I kept sodium at or a little under 1000mg a day. I did not do anything to lower pH and we didn't do any sperm lowering. I ended up doing Follistim and a trigger shot instead of Femara. I am really tempted to cheat today now that I know what's done is done. I know that's probably a bad idea though because I may have to do all of this again next cycle if I don't get my BFP!!

[atomic sagebrush]

Thanks for the update! Good luck!!!

[NatalieM]

Well IUI #2 did the trick. I am pregnant.
I did the girl diet but I did add in cal and mag pills. I will update when I find out gender.

[Wanting-a-girl]

Congrats

[atomic sagebrush]

congrats!!

[NatalieM]

Just wanted to update that I lost the baby... I had testing done and found out today that it was a girl so now I am even more crushed. I hope and pray that this means I can get a girl again with the next IUI...

[coocoobananas]

My friend is now on girl #3 with iui so its possible!!!