HOW important is the exercise?

[atomic sagebrush]

Thank you so much both

Butterflies- massive congrats on your girl- when you say you walked- were you breaking a sweat or was it just normal walking? So you weren't out of breathe etc?

Mrshc- when you say low impact do you mean you didn't break a sweat/ weren't out of breath? Funnily enough I was also accidentally swaying pink in the run up to wedding- was the lightest weight I'd ever been and was actually underweighT- got a boy! Not sure how that happened. I'm veggie too. Although I did do quite a few attempts in the fertile window.

None of these things are guarantees. Even under ideal circumstances there seems to be an upper ceiling of success for sways, which makes sense because if being thin and eating fewer nutrients swayed blue then the whole human race would have died out a long time ago, since before very recently the majority of people were thin and ate fewer nutrients than most of us do nowadays.

[ksmom]

I agree with Atomic, it's never a guarantee. I exercised 60+ minutes a day, 4-6 days per week along with the LE diet for close to a year and still had a boy. I think people need to stop looking at one thing in isolation doing the swaying and look at the overall picture if that makes sense. If you can fit in exercise, great but if not, that's fine too.

[mrshrc]

None of these things are guarantees. Even under ideal circumstances there seems to be an upper ceiling of success for sways, which makes sense because if being thin and eating fewer nutrients swayed blue then the whole human race would have died out a long time ago, since before very recently the majority of people were thin and ate fewer nutrients than most of us do nowadays.

You're right. I realize now I was suggesting it was a guarantee, which I didn't mean to. [emoji51]


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[ksmom]

I understand! It's so easy to feel like "okay if I do diet, exercise, and one attempt then I'm going to get a girl" because there is a pretty good success rate here on GD using just those tactics...but it's never guaranteed. You can totally get a girl without exercise. You could even do everything "right" for swaying pink and still get a boy, just like you could do a "typical" blue sway and get a girl. It's more about nudging the odds more in your favor.

[Butterflies buttercups]

Agree to all of the above it doesn't work for everyone but sometimes it does work - when walking I would have trainers on and walk fast and most of the time pushing my heavy toddler in a pram consistently for atleast 60 mins - I wouldn't sweat but defiantly get hot and a little breathless uphill etc
I would always sweat on the bike for 60 mins too . My sway is on here somewhere - good luck xx


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[cleopatra_2006]

IN my signature you'll find a link to our Complete Index. It has probably more info than you ever wanted.

The things that have really consistently worked are LE Diet 12 weeks or more plus fiber, coffee, and alcohol, cardio exercise for DW, jogging and biking for DH, smoking for DH, one attempt in the fertile window, and Clomid or Femara if you can get one of them. The rest of the stuff has been just getting in the way of conception and not helping.

Brilliant thanks... when you say one attempt is that frequent release or abstaining? Gonna have a good read now


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[atomic sagebrush]

Most people will start off doing one or the other - abstain for those under 35, FR for those over 35, if hubby has sperm health issues or is much over 40 you may want to have him do regular release every 2-4 days instead (but keep the one attempt)

[atomic sagebrush]

You're right. I realize now I was suggesting it was a guarantee, which I didn't mean to. [emoji51]


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No worries, I feel like other sway sites are too hesitant to stress to people that you can have a great sway but still get an opposite. They prefer to make unbelievable claims and then blame people when their sways don't work out, instead of acknowledging the reality - simply that if swaying was a surefire thing then the whole human race would not exist in its present form. I don't want you guys going into swaying anything less than fully informed that even with a "perfect" sway opposites still occur about 1/3 of the time.

[Mommy3boyz]

My next attempt is in about 2 weeks and I am just starting exercising.. atomic how long do you recommend exercising prior to attempt? Is it ok if I'm just now starting?


*Mommy to Mason 8/28/08 Tyler 5/25/12 and Brayden 4/4/15* Praying for healthy PINK to join my crew!

[atomic sagebrush]

Originally we theorized (with absolutely no evidence, this was just me theorizing here) that short times of exercise may be risky due to potential rise in testosterone at the start. BUT this was before exercise got such fantastic results and also some new evidence came to light that seems to weaken the case for testosterone and swaying, substantially. So because of that, I now think it is worth the "risk" (which is probably not even a risk, just me theorizing about the potential for a risk LOL) to do exercise even if you are only starting a couple weeks before.

Now diet, on the other hand, we do see a clear demarkation with 12 weeks or more vs. only 2-4 weeks so in that case I urge people to diet at least 6-8 weeks if not longer. But exercise we just don't have the numbers to say either way and since the results have been fab, I suggest starting it.