Anyone else having side effects with girl diet?

[purplepoet20]

I did a test diet and had the same issues... I went bakc to eating fruits, veggies, about 6 oz of meat, and still trying to hold breakfast off.... My ph didn't go back up. I am still drinking crystal light but not as much and taking all the herbs/vita. I just started using rephresh and I will see if it works.

[Glittergirl]

Oh Ok...I def think it's the acidic part of the diet. Like I said my lips are very chapped and I have ulcers inside my mouth which is not normal for me The lady at the vitamin store told me ulcers are a sign of an acidic diet (I was pleased to know it's working LOL). I've become forgetful and like I said just snapping at Dh and the kids. I think I can go with eating light salads and fruits and skipping protein as much as possible. maybe my only source of protein will be yogurt or kefir or whatever cheese i put on my sandwich. Then I'll continue with supplements and all. YAAY that sounds like a plan....skipping breakfast is doable for me...hard but doable!

[WantingPink]

As someone who is new to this sway thing I have to ask what is diet suppose to accomplish?? I know about hormone, pH, low calorie, and Calcium/Mg/Na/K but is there something else that I am missing? Doesn't seem like you would want low nutrition, just low calorie. I ask because I have been eating a diet which (I believe) has changed my hormone levels and is low calorie. I can easily adjust it to make it high Calcium/Mg and low Na/K. For the pH there seems to be a few options to take (baby aspirin, aspartame, etc). I am worried about this girl diet?? Any thoughts??

[DoulaMama]

I haven't even started this diet but reading this makes me very uneasy I think I'm going to be terrible with diet after potentially not getting preggo the first try I'm really getting myself psyched up for having 4 boys...it's most likely going to happen cause I just can't do a diet that is this strict for very long....I can see why AS says to BD throughout so you get pregnant quickly. I think I will most likely do that.

[3boys]

I am starting the diet tomorrow. I know I am going to find it so hard. I will be majorly concentrating on the diet and sups and just bed through ovulation (I will be on Clomid which I can't afford to waste with missing the darn egg altogether). I'm hoping that concentrating really hard on the diet will compensate for the timing. I eat lots of salt and potato normally it's no wonder I have three boys.

[atomic sagebrush]

I am starting the diet tomorrow. I know I am going to find it so hard. I will be majorly concentrating on the diet and sups and just bed through ovulation (I will be on Clomid which I can't afford to waste with missing the darn egg altogether). I'm hoping that concentrating really hard on the diet will compensate for the timing. I eat lots of salt and potato normally it's no wonder I have three boys.

I think that is 100% the right thing to do esp. with Clomid.

If you have a lot of CM, you ~might~ want to take an antihistamine to dry up that CM when you BD through O! But Clomid can dry up CM in some people so make sure you actually need it before you take it.

[atomic sagebrush]

I haven't even started this diet but reading this makes me very uneasy I think I'm going to be terrible with diet after potentially not getting preggo the first try I'm really getting myself psyched up for having 4 boys...it's most likely going to happen cause I just can't do a diet that is this strict for very long....I can see why AS says to BD throughout so you get pregnant quickly. I think I will most likely do that.

The diet works - of all the things out there that have mixed results like timing and pH, we KNOW the diet does help and we even know some of the reasons why it makes evolutionary sense (unlike with timing, which I have never been able to come up with a single scientific reason why it would be true.). IHMO, it's better to go with the one thing that has been proven to work than waste time chasing after things that don't. I'm for you Doula.

[atomic sagebrush]

As someone who is new to this sway thing I have to ask what is diet suppose to accomplish?? I know about hormone, pH, low calorie, and Calcium/Mg/Na/K but is there something else that I am missing? Doesn't seem like you would want low nutrition, just low calorie. I ask because I have been eating a diet which (I believe) has changed my hormone levels and is low calorie. I can easily adjust it to make it high Calcium/Mg and low Na/K. For the pH there seems to be a few options to take (baby aspirin, aspartame, etc). I am worried about this girl diet?? Any thoughts??

Well there are at least two schools of thought on this idea. The French Gender Diet is based around the idea that high cal/mag and low pot/sodium sway blue and so if you believe in that diet then no, you wouldn't want necessarily low nutrient (although the FGD is pretty low nutrient in a lot of ways). The IG diet took this further and encorporated the French Diet into a highly acidic diet as well and then later added some stuff from "my" diet and this diet is very very restrictive.

The "low-everything" diet that I "developed" (I mean I hardly developed anything, I did some research and wrote up a few diet suggestions LOL) based on the Trivers-Willard Hypothesis, the Maternal Dominance Hypothesis, the Oxford Study, and Elissa Cameron's blood glucose research, is based around the idea that moms in best physical condition, with high testosterone and good blood sugar levels, have more sons and in declining physical condition (i.e. losing weight), with low testosterone and low blood sugar, have more daughters. So for that diet, you want to eat less protein, less fat, less sodium, n and less calories overall, and yes, you do want to aim for lower nutrients to a certain extent and avoid megadoses of vitamins, but the lower protein, fat, and calories is much more important than the nutrients (through food) are. (so for example, no limiting potassium or trying to make yourself acidic, fruits and veg. in moderation are fine, and cheating now and then is allowed). The low protein/fat/calories are not dangerously low and I strongly urge people to drop timing and get pregnant as quick as possible anyway.

When people try to do all the diets at once, it does get very restrictive but the good news is, you don't HAVE to do all the diets. You can focus on one diet or another and that is FINE. They all sway. I think the problem that arises is when you are planning a sway it's very easy to think, "Oh, I'll jsut avoid all the "bad" foods and have a "perfect" sway," but in the real world, it's a lot tougher to do. The thing I really don't want people to do is start out superstrict on diet only to find that they can't stick to it, and give up after a couple months, because that is a recipe for a failed sway - you sent the message to your body that times are hard but then suddenly started eating a lot more again. It would be so much better to start off less strict on diet and then give yourself a place to cut back if you really want to, if you're doing a lot of other things to sway (which all make it tougher to get pg) OR to hit it hard on diet for 6 weeks and then pull out all the stops and get pregnant the first month of TTC.

[atomic sagebrush]

Oh Ok...I def think it's the acidic part of the diet. Like I said my lips are very chapped and I have ulcers inside my mouth which is not normal for me The lady at the vitamin store told me ulcers are a sign of an acidic diet (I was pleased to know it's working LOL). I've become forgetful and like I said just snapping at Dh and the kids. I think I can go with eating light salads and fruits and skipping protein as much as possible. maybe my only source of protein will be yogurt or kefir or whatever cheese i put on my sandwich. Then I'll continue with supplements and all. YAAY that sounds like a plan....skipping breakfast is doable for me...hard but doable!

That is the type of swaying diet I LOVE - hard but doable. Good luck and I hope you feel better really soon.!!!