First day on the LE diet today!

[HopingWishingPraying]

Hi guys!

Am just beginning my first day on the diet today. We are planning our first attempt in September (if PPAF ever comes back!) but I would like to lose a fair bit of weight to get down to my lowest conception weight (about 10kg away) so am doing it for 3 months before my first attempt. My plan for today:

An apple for morning tea, peppermint tea
Lunch: One piece of mountain bread with ricotta, leeks and nutmeg in it, one piece of mountain bread with low sugar strawberry jam, a low fat yoghurt
Dinner: Baked rice in lemon juice, yoghurt and cumin (stolen that idea out of some of the food threads here), some salad, peppermint tea - then to assess how I am doing and if I still have room for empty calories (ie a biscuit or 2).

2 questions: 1) What are the serving sizes of rice and pasta that you guys are eating / recommend? If in cups, could you say whether you mean a cooked or uncooked cup. I know I have seen this info somewhere but cant remember where. 2) Is peppermint tea ok for DH to drink. I know IG said no, but I think I have seen somewhere here that it is? I am banning my hubby from his green tea, that he normally drinks about 5 cups a day of - he would like to have 1 or 2 cups a day of peppermint tea instead, is this ok?

So excited to hopefully be one step closer to my precious baby girl (please God!) I have been waiting to get to this point (beginning the sway) for a long time.

[fish2012]

hey welcome

loos a really yummy day! what's mountain bread? re the rice and pasta if you track your cals i think you're okay to just have whatever fits, i aviod pasta more than once a day just cause it ups protien so much!

Here's a link re mint

http://genderdreaming.com/forum/ttc-...pth-how-3.html

After doing this research, it looks to me like it is good for DH OR DW and so if your husband cannot do licorice root due to being overweight or having high blood pressure, you may want to give him peppermint tea instead (men WANT higher estrogen and lower testosterone for pink, and mint also appears lowers sperm count/quality as well.) Dosage for DH – 4 cups a day thruout cycle.

I would just say unless you have lots of spare weight be careful about starting teh diet too early i've lost a stone quiet quickly on LE and now on our first month of TTC I am the lowest I've weighed since in teens and worry how i'm going to keep it up if we're ttc for a while!

good luck

[clarabell]

HI congrats on your first day of diet. I need to do that, not for a sway yet but because I am soooooo fat since DS3. I need to shift a few pounds just can't seem to get my head into gear. I have a few good days then fall off the wagon. I hope your sway goes well. I too have 3 DS and would love DD one day, just so scared to sway as there are so many reports on here of excellent sways which still go blue. I am not ready to hear boy again. well done to you all. x

[atomic sagebrush]

Re your diet, it looks good but I want you to make certain you're getting 2500-3500 mg potassium a day. Not a lot of potassium in the foods you're eating.

1)Serving size on rice and pasta is 1/2 c cooked rice or pasta. Surprisingly little!!

2)Peppermint tea, I believe to be ok for DH to drink. The concern on IG was that pep tea caused testosterone and estrogen both to drop, and for DH we want lower T, higher E. Subsequently new info has come out (and I think Tamara has even put this in the pink sway FAQ) that seems to indicate estrogen can go up on pep tea. I'm actually more sold on the idea that high E in men = more daughters, than I am in the idea that low E in ladies = more daughters, so pep tea may actually be better for DH than it is for you!!

Personally, I prefer guys do licorice root and gals do saw palmetto simply because the info on pep tea and estrogen is sort of contradictory, but it can be a good option for guys who can't do the LR due to age or high blood pressure.