So upset! I think I messed up royally and lh surge either today or tomorrow. Advice needed please.

[Trishy74]

Thanks! Same here hope you catch your egg too this month!

Def not hitting high calories bc if I eat cookies, I'm making sure my portions for meals are smaller. I'm also trying to eat them when I'm eating lunch or dinner so not snacking.

Thanks for the comment about semi sweet morsels. That's good to hear!

Hope you catch your eggy!

Semi sweet chocolate chips are only like 46% so not dark at all. Atomic is talking about the good stuff like 60 or 70% and up which is what I love but have stayed away from. Cookies and cookie dough are not high in nutrients so I think your probably just fine, as long as your not eating 2000 calories.

[atomic sagebrush]

Yes at the end It's definitely in God's hands! The only reason why I don't feel guilty when I have red meat cheats It's because I see how my 3 SIL's eat and they all have 2 girls each. They eat everything and seem to never diet, no exercise or potions. I've asked them only and the only pattern I see Skipping breakfast. They are SAHM's and they tend to eat their first meal at 10-11 (that's what they told me). One even told me that she dtd close to Ov straight( so perhaps, abstained and then dtd close to Ov)

I know everyone is prob. sick of hearing this from me but TIMING DOES NOT SWAY and roughly 50-50 boys and girls conceived every day of cycle in all reliable studies done on the subject. http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gend...le-timing.html I also got my girl practically spot on O (late at night the day before O day) and 3 of my 4 boys with cutoffs.

[atomic sagebrush]

Hmmm . Very interesting! Just wondering do they work out? I know chasing toddlers around can be a work out itself! Lol. I work 3 days a week and stay home 4 days with ds. I notice on the days I'm home I def eat brekkie later. Thanks for sharing the info. I'm really curious if they work out. I know I just can't find the time for it in my sway bc you really have to dedicate a lot of time and days to it. On my work days I am out if the house for 10 hours do by time I get home I have to feed ds, bath abd hopefully bed but reading books takes forever before bedtime and then I'm ready for bed myself! Lol.

Exercise is getting 90% pink and not all those ladies did the full 60 6-7. When I make recommendations I have to pick some number that I believe will work for most people, most of the time and for various reasons I picked 60 6-7 but that does NOT mean you can't get a girl with less. I think the 60 minutes is ~probably~ more important than the 6-7 days per week so if you are able to do 60 min. even 4 days a week that may help.

While I do expect that 90% to come down somewhat as more people include exercise, I strongly recommend that everyone at least try to do the exercise - the results are just too good, KWIM??

[atomic sagebrush]

You have put me in the mood for x-mas cookies! I think I might just have a couple tonight with dinner and not give two craps about it "ruining" my sway! No worries mama! We ALL have our "cheat" days or a couple of days every now and then!

If you are still in your overall cals for the day, cookies are not even a cheat anyway. Cookies are 100% allowed on LE Diet (exception people iwht PCOS/IR). A LOT of girl moms are sweets addicts and will make entire meals of sweet things - aka the "girl mom" lunch of a candy bar and a diet coke

[Trishy74]

I'm happy to say my lunch just consisted of 5 homemade chocolate chip cookies! I can't wait until this last cookie tin is finished. I've been living on homemade cookies past few days! I did have my mini plain bagel today at 1030am with reduced fat strawberry cream cheese! Love that stuff! So tasty!

So at Xmas celebration yesterday I was talking to my sister in laws friend who has 2 girls. I was telling her about the le diet as I was cheating with a piece of pepperoni in my hand! Bad! And she was looking at me like I had 5 heads! I was on my migraine med fioricet which makes me loopy do maybe it was my imagination? Lol. However I asked her if she skips meals. Her husband jumped in and said sarcastically that he knows not to call her in the morning at work until she eats breakfast bc she's crabby without her meals! Lol. She doesn't skip any brekkie or other meals but she did say (bc I asked what she likes to eat) that she would eat a cheese sandwich sometimes with ham and sometimes without). It sounded like she eats bland meals but she did say she snacks a lot and loves chocolate every day. She admitted she eats a lot if carbs. I don't think she eats too much meat by the way she made it sound. She is def in her 40s as is her husband and I don't believe she works out bc her job with traveling was a very long day 5x per week. She works in manhattan and takes subways and train. She isn't really thin either but not heavy. Id say average. I was surprised when she said she snacks all day and can't skip a meal! Lol. Just wanted to share this story.

So AS if I told you I don't think I could commit to working out 60 minutes per day I assume you would tell me not to do any cardio right? I used to have a treadmill but it broke. The only thing I would be able to do is aerobics or something on DVD player. How bad are the numbers for ttc girl without working out? I've stopped taking the stairs up one level at work and using elevator bc of girl sway and muscle mass. Although my toddler had gotten heavier since he isn't sick every month anymore! Thank god!

If you are still in your overall cals for the day, cookies are not even a cheat anyway. Cookies are 100% allowed on LE Diet (exception people iwht PCOS/IR). A LOT of girl moms are sweets addicts and will make entire meals of sweet things - aka the "girl mom" lunch of a candy bar and a diet coke

[maidentomother]

If your SIL's friend needs to eat often she may be hypoglycemic or borderline hypoglycemic, which means she may naturally sway pink. Just a thought.

The overall stats for TTC girl are just under 65%, which is pretty awesome considering how many of those women already have multiple boys.

[Trishy74]

Thanks for the info. She didn't mention anything about being hypoglycemic. She made it sound like she gets moody. I gave a friend who is hypoglycemic and its so obvious bc she gets to the point of ill or passing out. This girl made it more like she just loves to eat! Lol.

As for the girl stats is that number without doing any cardio or working out? That's what I'm wondering what's the percentage with only dieting abd not doing any other sway tactics such as working out. Basically looking for being lazy or a couch potato. Lol.

If your SIL's friend needs to eat often she may be hypoglycemic or borderline hypoglycemic, which means she may naturally sway pink. Just a thought.

The overall stats for TTC girl are just under 65%, which is pretty awesome considering how many of those women already have multiple boys.

[atomic sagebrush]

If your SIL's friend needs to eat often she may be hypoglycemic or borderline hypoglycemic, which means she may naturally sway pink. Just a thought.

The overall stats for TTC girl are just under 65%, which is pretty awesome considering how many of those women already have multiple boys.

there are always going to be people who don't fit the mold, and in my experience this is particularly true of the girl moms. If as I believe, it's lowered fertility/declined condition that sways (keeping in mind that you can have lowered fertility and still conceive easily), then a person can go right off the TTC a Boy playbook and have girls.

Remember, it is NOT doing any of these things in and of themselves that sway. It's not that skipping meals/breakfast sways pink, etc etc etc. It's the effect that those things have on the body. So if someone has other issues going on, some underlying health issue that is not obvious or even known, then they are still going to be more likely to have girls. There are things that happen back in childhood or even when they were in the womb, for some people that may sway pink!!

[atomic sagebrush]

Thanks for the info. She didn't mention anything about being hypoglycemic. She made it sound like she gets moody. I gave a friend who is hypoglycemic and its so obvious bc she gets to the point of ill or passing out. This girl made it more like she just loves to eat! Lol.

As for the girl stats is that number without doing any cardio or working out? That's what I'm wondering what's the percentage with only dieting abd not doing any other sway tactics such as working out. Basically looking for being lazy or a couch potato. Lol.

The 65% is overall success rate for all swayers on the site including everyone who posted their sway. Some were strict, some were lax, and it includes the early days where we got a few things wrong that we have since corrected for. Compare this to the blue sways which are hovering at about 80%, that's a big swing from possibly 80% likely to have a boy, to 65% likely to have a girl.

Exercise is sitting at 90% right now which to me is unignorable for anyone who can possibly make that happen without risking having O stop, I would try to include it.

[b'smommy]

If exercise is getting close to 90% at what point in your sway can you start working it in? I am in my fertile window now, so I was thinking to hold off until after O. I know you had responded to me before about not having much information regarding yoga too, so I have held off for the past two months. I am thinking about working that back in 2/days week with cardio 3/4 days a week.