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

[lovemy2blessings]

Thanks Happylane for your input, I feel so much better now that I have decided to wean of LE for my own health sake. I'm on day 2 of modified LE and have decided to include lean chicken once a day, maybe it will help with my egg quality and perhaps OV.

[atomic sagebrush]

Sorry for gatecrashing the thread, but just wondered about the whole exercise thing. I run (or rather ran- at 39wks preg I'm currently not running anywhere)! 3 times a week and really upped my mileage when ttc a girl.
I also lost lots of weight and was strict on diet.
My SIL is overweight and doesn't do exercise- she likes baking, and she got her girl, whereas I'm having my third boy.
I remember reading on here about testosterone possibly increasing chances of boy? And a study about women who are more active having more boys?? Something about a NZ hockey team if I remember rightly?
Can u shed any light on this AS?

Am still considering swaying for no.4 or HT, so still studying sways like crazy!

But on plus side, my boy is due in 2 days snd can honestly say I'm very excited and currently GD free ; )

exercise 3x a week is moderate and tends to sway blue. Exercise does not exist in a vaccuum and if a person were very active and eats a boy-friendly diet, that is still going to sway blue.

I have an essay on how being thin and overweight both can sway pink here:
http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gend...irls-boys.html

Not sure what your question is regarding testosterone??

[atomic sagebrush]

Thanks Happylane for your input, I feel so much better now that I have decided to wean of LE for my own health sake. I'm on day 2 of modified LE and have decided to include lean chicken once a day, maybe it will help with my egg quality and perhaps OV.

If you want to change LE Diet to improve egg quality and make it mroe likely for ovulation to occur, lean chicken is not your best bet. I recommend 1 serving full fat dairy a day, 4-6 eggs a week, and 2 servings of salmon

[lovemy2blessings]

oh no! lol I'm glad you posted this, but how can I stick with low protein with dairy and salmon? For this reason my crazy self has been living on fruit, rice and vegetables for the past 7 months...those were the only foods that have kept me on 40-50gms of protein .

[atomic sagebrush]

First of all you don't count the protein in any fruits or vegetables other than legumes. Those are free for protein and fat (and low carb veg are free for calories as well, you can ahve as much as you want without counting them).

Secondly, 1 serving of full fat dairy has 8 g protein, an egg has 6-8 g protein depending on the size, and one serving salmon (3 oz) has 20 g protein. These things can fit in on LE Diet just as easily as chicken, that's for sure.

Thirdly, you DON'T. If you have stopped ovulating and want to up protein, then UP it. Increase to 50-60 g. I personally think protein is way way less effective for restoring ovulation than fat and upping cals thru carbs, but if you think it's going to help then please actually increase it to out of the LE Diet range.

Finally, just to reiterate in a bit more detail, I believe lean protein is precisely the wrong thing to increase if you are having trouble with ovulation. Your body will use it to build muscle and that may possibly raise testosterone or sway blue in some other way that we don't understand yet, and the absence of fat will STILL make it more difficult to ovulate because you aren't providing your body the raw materials it needs to build the hormones to develop eggs, lining, CM, and LH. And lean meat is very low cal/fat but very high in protein, so you immediately go over on protein and then have nothing left to eat for the rest of the day, because most foods have at least a little protein in them - if you get 50 g protein from a tiny piece of chicken breast for 400 cals, then what are you supposed to eat the rest of the day?? A diet of chicken, vegetables, and sugar will not restore your ovulation. Please actually eat some saturated fat in order to restore ovulation.

[lovemy2blessings]

Thank you so much for the advice, i'm so glad you pointed those things out.! I will be eating more eggs from now on and skim milk. I have been drinking tons of rice milk with sweet bread (I used to drink Almond milk after I gave birth to ds2, I fell in love with the taste)but that sways blue right?. Is it still ok to do my cheats twice a week with some chicken in them?

[atomic sagebrush]

FULL FAT MILK. Not skim. If something has just protein and no fat, it is not going to help restore your ovulation and may inadvertently sway blue by building muscle mass so you take the risk for no benefit. Plus skim milk has been shown to be bad for fertility for reasons we can only guess at.

You can certainly have chicken, but I just think it's a waste of protein because it's not going to help you ovulate. I would much rather see you have eggs or salmon twice a week.

[4 blues~hopingforpink~]

I didn't follow any diet plan and ate whatever I wanted.. Steak, cookies, ice cream. You name it, I prob ate it. AND I always ate hard boiled eggs for breakfast and I had a very very lazy light sway and I'm having a girl!

[Trishy74]

Thanks for sharing! Congrats on your little girl! That's great news!

I didn't follow any diet plan and ate whatever I wanted.. Steak, cookies, ice cream. You name it, I prob ate it. AND I always ate hard boiled eggs for breakfast and I had a very very lazy light sway and I'm having a girl!

[lovemy2blessings]

Seriously thank you for sharing 4blues!!! That's great to kno. One of my SIL eats tons of beef , shrimp and chicken and has 3 girls. Everytime we are at a party I see her serving herself up 3 times lol...she's kind of heavy too, she doesn't diet at all.