Who here went vegetarian and got a girl?

[atomic sagebrush]

No probs! :-)

Also, my reading that I've done on here and elsewhere does seem to suggest that being a raw foodist is probably not the best idea while trying to sway pink. I was untill recently trying to make a point of having 50% of my diet be raw foods, as fruits and vegetables lose their nutritional value when they're cooked. So it seems like it would help with the LE diet to cook vegetables as much as possible.

I think that's going to be the hardest part for me, as the way that my digestion functions and the amount of fresh fruits and veg I eat are very closely correlated.

It may help to some extent but will also cut down on potassium, and I want everyone to be super sure they're getting enough potassium!

[atomic sagebrush]

I am usually having cucumbers, lettuce and tomatoes at noon with 2 slices of french unsalted loaf with cottage cheese. Then leave the rest of the veggies for dinner. I cut everything into small pieces, put them in frying pan, cover the pan, but instead of cooking them in oil, I add some water and leave them simmer until cook. The water gets absorbed in them. Then I either put the veggies in a tortilla, or on a matzo, then include either some rice, or noodles or couscous. Does it happen to you girls that when you cheat on some food which has either been bought take away or else prepared by someone else not by yourselves, that you taste the food as very salty? It's been such a long time since I started cooking without any salt at all that when I eat something with added salt to it, it tastes really really salty!

Weirdly, I have lost a taste for salt during my pg and I wasn't even limiting sodium on LE Diet. It was like the baby didn't like salty foods or something like that!! I tried to eat Campbell's soup one day, which I ate with all my boys, and I thought I would die. I couldn't finish it and had a headache for the rest of the day. I still don't think sodium sways, but I did think it was intriguing.

[atomic sagebrush]

I'm eating a lot of grilled mushrooms (sometimes with a little grilled cheese) and griddled courgettes - or home made aubergine dip and homemade tortillas with lots of iceberg lettuce and other low nutrient veg.

At dinner time I have veggies with rice or rice noodles (like the ones in Pat thai) with no salt stock, cornflour, sugar and rice vinegar as a sauce.

I ate far more healthily with my two boys including seafood which I have cut out altogether.

BTW I think that cooked tomatoes are healthier as it makes the lycopene easier to absorb - so if TTC pink eat raw or not at all. It is one of the only foods that is better for you cooked.

Yes, you're right on that Emily, cooked tomatoes are more nutritious than raw. Both for the sake of the lycopene, and also because tomatoes cook down and become more concentrated in salsa, spag sauce, ketchup, etc.

[cocos-mum]

i ate only chicken when i conieved my dd and wasn't healthy no veg. when i conieved my ds i was eating meat

[atomic sagebrush]

I'm vegan, and we're trying to conceive a girl. I can see where a vegetarian diet is much easier to make girl-friendly, however there are many things veg which sway blue such as salt, bananas, avocados, tofu (which I understand actually sways pink if the man eats it), soy, beans, antioxident-rich vegetables, etc. As far as my friends who are vegans go, only one so far has had a child, a girl, I went to school with her. But she also didn't have a lot of money when her child was conceived, so probably not eating well, and a few years earlier she had anorexia. But then also the one person I know who has been vegan since birth is a man. So being veg helps, it's certainly a healthy way to eat, but it's not substantial enough to rely on for swaying.

Vegans are typically very informed about food and put a lot of thought and effort into eating healthy and balanced diets.