Diets: IG, FGD, LE. How did you decide?

[Emmy2012]

Low Everything diet fan here....but then again I also did the IG diet last time and had my beautiful boy Noah....so I thought I would go a different route!

[rainbowflower]

I think I'm worried about how I'll cope with the LE diet - I do love meat and chocolate - giving up the chocolate I can just about cope with, but to give both up? I'm worried that meals will really bore me. I've been trying to make a list of vegetarian meals, but need to come up with some nutritional data for them too to see if they are likely to fit in with any diet.

Also, the studies I've read about vegetarian diets show that vegetarians do have more girls but only by a few %. One which showed more success than that was apparently dismissed as a "statistical fluke". It seems like it could be a lot of pain for not so much gain, unless it does have a drastic effect on the body with the weight loss and hormone balancing which will have a cumulative effect on the swaying chances of success. Even the Oxford diet has been criticised saying that the breakfast-boy link is not statistically significant: http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.o...1660/1211.full

Sorry, I'm having a wobble right now. Not sure what to do for the best! Good thing I don't start my diet, whichever that is, for another month

[Layla]

GL rainbowflower and thank you for all the other studies you have been posting. I am a blue swayer but you really helped me in my decision to go with the FGD. For me it was the opposite of what I ate when I conceived my 2 girls. I did eat less meat than that to be honest with you, but i did drink 3 cups of milk everyday and ate French home made vegetable soups. GL to you in your decision.

[Out of the Blue]

rainbowflower - Sorry you're having a tough time sorting through everything and finding a good decision. You could always just try to abstain from red meat while incorporating other types in. Or you could just try to cut out meat little by little as you get more veggie recipes. I think you'll be fine as long as you keep your protein down to 40-50g. Also, http://www.myfitnesspal.com/ has a wonderful food database. Also, I used it to create my own "Girl Sway" recipes which showed me the cals/protein/sodium/fat, etc. in my recipe. It's super easy! Coming up w/the recipes is the hard part, lol.

Best of luck to you! I know all this swaying stuff can really drag you down. Just try to stick w/what's best for you...go w/your gut!

[zanacal]

... and because you're not swaying yet you can go back and forth and be unsure on certain things but by the time you're ready to ttc you'll have done your research and figured out what feels right for you and you will be less stressed by the whole thing. This is what I've found - I started looking into swaying in April and didn't begin the diet until June with a plan to ttc in September. GL!

[swish]

I think one of the reasons the vegetarian thing alone wouldn't work is most vegetarians eat a lot of high protein foods. Maybe you could reduce meat gradually, gl!

[rainbowflower]

thank you ladies you're all so lovely and I really appreciate your wisdom.

Layla - nice of you to say so, thank you
OOTB - that's a good website! can you share some recipe ideas? I haven't been able to find too many so far
zana - yeah the months thinking time will still help.
swish I was thinking that too about the high protein... I might try reducing it gradually

[mis2ninos]

I can't wait to start seeing the BFPs and pink bundles resulting from the low everything diets here! Its so exciting

[rainbowflower]

mis2ninos - me too! how many ladies have already had a BFP after doing the LE diet? I think I've seen at least one?

[Sassy]

I'm going to second the myfitnesspal site - its also an app on my iphone where you can scan barcodes of foods and it will automatically bring up all the nutritional information about that food - makes tallying calories, sodium, fat, carbs and protein super easy!