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

[zanacal]

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!

Wow, that's great!

[angiesscripts]

How long do we need to be on the LE diet? I know IG's is at least 6 weeks. What do you guys recommend? Thanks!

[zanacal]

I think many aim for 6 weeks on the LE diet also.

I'm doing it for longer because I have lots of weight to lose and I want to try and get to my lowest ever pre conception weight. I believe others try to be on the diet for 3 months in case there's some truth to the theory that an egg is produced primed to accept either a boy or girl sperm - and an egg takes 90 days to develop.

If you're planning a girl sway come and join us on the ttc pink chit-chat thread There's a diet thread too if you're interested.

[rainbowflower]

I'm going to do 3 months on the diet (whichever I pick) before TTC since eggs take 90 days to mature (or something like that)

[atomic sagebrush]

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

Not sure how I missed this thread to begin with but I jsut wanted to reassure everyone regarding the Oxford study - the reason why it was criticized was because it did not include dietary data from DURING pregnancy (they weren't even studying gender ratio, they were studying something else and only noticed the gender ratio stuff after they had collected the data for another purpose) and the researchers were accused of cherry picking the evidence to support their theory. But as we all know, once you are pregnant, gender is already determined and a diet when you're like 3 and 4 months pregnant has NO bearing on your baby's gender. It's actually quite ridiculous that they were criticized for this, but there are political reasons (a lot of scientists don't like anything about determining gender because they think everyone will use it to pick boys.)

Fiona Matthews is designing a new study that will not include data from during pregnancy and we will just have to wait around for that!

PS - I think the FGD people really DID cherry pick their data. :/

[atomic sagebrush]

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.

Just gotta chime in here again to say that I too drank 3 cups of milk minimum with my DS 1 and 2 and with DS 3 I ate 4 oz. of cheese for lunch most days (I was at work and it was easy), and had either a huge breakfast cereal with milk or a big bowl of full-fat yogurt with blueberries as a bedtime snack every day. With DS 4 I was swaying pink and taking very large doses of cal, mag, Vit. D.

[atomic sagebrush]

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!

Thank you, that is a total fact. Not only that but they eat a lot of healthy fats and fruits/veg/whole grains/legumes, all of which sway blue.

I live down the road from a 7th Day Adventist academy and the teachers at that school have SO many girls it's carazy.

[atomic sagebrush]

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

There really weren't that many people doing it at first...we're only just now getting to a lot of people TTC. Most of the people at the beginning were wanting to stick with the FGD/IG style diets and just encorporating skipping breakfast, etc.

[atomic sagebrush]

How long do we need to be on the LE diet? I know IG's is at least 6 weeks. What do you guys recommend? Thanks!

6 weeks to 90 days - I see you already got some great responses and explanations. I tend to err on the side of 6 weeks rather than 90 days because MOST pink swayers will be doing a lot of other things that will make it hard to get pg, so it may be best to start sooner rather than later in case it takes you 2-3 months to get a BFP.

[rainbowflower]

who is Fiona Matthews and how long do we have to wait?