Girl diet NOT working...

[Yuzu]

Hi, I agree with mocha, I felt much better after a week on the diet, I think your body needs to adjust. Also crystal light gives me terrible headaches and makes me feel generally awful! Maybe cut that out for now, gl!

Crystal Light gives me terrible headaches, too. It's the aspertame. Anyway, to the OP, like everyone says it's best to slowly ease into the diet or you'll make yourself miserable. And cutting down your calories a little bit is better than not at all.

[zanacal]

Hi

I found the first week or so on the diet difficult because I didn't know what to eat but I actually find it quite enjoyable now! I'm doing the 'low everything' diet rather than IG and am getting plenty of treats but still sticking to the calorie/protein/fat/sodium restrictions and I probably average somewhere around 1200 calories each day - it's difficult to eat more when you're only eating 2-3 meals each day and can't eat too much protein and sodium! Read the thread where a few of us are recording what we eat each day and that might give you some inspiration!

I'm drinking a lot more than I usually would, definitely stay hydrated and maybe drink some water and not just crystal light!

[Glittergirl]

Also, if you're used to caffeine and not drinking it that may give you headaches. I'm a caffeine addict..I only drink one cup a day but if i skip it, by late afternoon I feel like crap!

[pastelpicnic]

Didn't mean to highjack this thread, but I didn't want to start a new one. I was wondering if anyone else on the ttc a GIRL diet is gaining weight?!?

[zanacal]

Hi, I haven't heard of that. I'm doing the low-everything diet and have lost 13.5lb in 3 weeks (I'm overweight to begin with but not massively). Are you putting on weight? What are you eating?

[pastelpicnic]

I'm wondering if I'm just eating too late at night?? Maybe it's too many carbs too. I eat, matzo crackers with fat free cream cheese, salt free almond butter with strawberry jam on low sod. bread, cucumbers with fat free/ low sod. sour cream. For sweet treats, I eat low fat /low sod. cookies or strawberries with organic vanilla yogurt. I also eat organic gummie bears made with pectin. I chew a lot of gum!! I haven't been doing ANY sort of pastas. Oh yeah, I've been eating or organic Cornflake cereal with either non-fat milk or Rice milk at night. As another sweet treat I will get some organic fat-free frozen yogurt. I drink coffee/non-fat milk in the mornings. I don't eat lunch unitl 11 or 12 noon.

[atomic sagebrush]

Okay, I started the girl diet yesterday to see what would happen. Well, the only thing that happened was that I got a huge headache last night, woke up with it today and started throwing up!

I'm thinking that I don't get the gist of this diet...are we not supposed to eat until lunch time? Yesterday, I ate a big lunch consisting of greek yogurt, a cup of strawberries, a cup of organic milk, and a half a cucumber with a tablespoon of tahini paste. For dinner, I ate white pasta with a tablespoon of unsalted butter, parmasan cheese, green beans, and a cup of dried cranberries. In between meals, I had peppermint tea and Crystal Light. Like I said, I was good with this whole thing until about a couple hours after dinner when I started to get the headache.

I almost feel like I wasn't getting enough calories in...but isn't that the whole idea? Oy vey...I can't do this again! Any ideas on what I can do? Am I allowed to have snacks more often (girl diet approved, of course)? Maybe I should also lay off the cranberry supplements? Maybe those gave me a headache?

Ugh, if this is what I have to do to get a girl, it just isn't going to happen! Help!

First of all, cranberry supps gave me absolultely horrid headaches after only taking them like twice. Crystal Light can also give you headaches and Pep Tea upsets my stomach too. There is also the possibility that you caught a virus that just coincidentally struck the same day as the girl diet (although that seems unlikely to me).

Secondly, the guideline is 1500-1800 cals a day on the girl diet. Snacks are not the best choice (for blood sugar) but you can feel free to eat three meals rather than two, and hey, if snacks are the only way you can get through the day, snack away. It's best to skip breakfast (again, for blood sugar( but you don't need to starve yourself the rest of the day. Eating 3 600 cal meals is fine and may be a lot more doable for you.

In the Dream Members section I have the beginnings of a "low everything" diet for pink that is a lot less restrictive than trying to mix an IG diet with the Trivers-Willard stuff.

[atomic sagebrush]

I'm wondering if I'm just eating too late at night?? Maybe it's too many carbs too. I eat, matzo crackers with fat free cream cheese, salt free almond butter with strawberry jam on low sod. bread, cucumbers with fat free/ low sod. sour cream. For sweet treats, I eat low fat /low sod. cookies or strawberries with organic vanilla yogurt. I also eat organic gummie bears made with pectin. I chew a lot of gum!! I haven't been doing ANY sort of pastas. Oh yeah, I've been eating or organic Cornflake cereal with either non-fat milk or Rice milk at night. As another sweet treat I will get some organic fat-free frozen yogurt. I drink coffee/non-fat milk in the mornings. I don't eat lunch unitl 11 or 12 noon.

Hmmm...are you tracking calories at all? Honestly your diet looks great, I think you're prob. just getting more cals than you need.

[pastelpicnic]

Hmmm...are you tracking calories at all? Honestly your diet looks great, I think you're prob. just getting more cals than you need.

I agree AS. I'm just going to start counting Cals. now. Thanks for responding.