Just started diet....few q's

[boymom]

Hi All,
I have just started the girl diet, hopefully I am eating the right things but I had a few questions.

Is it important to make all the changes now, esp dramatically reducing salt intake along with the other diet requirements or are some of them only important leading up to ttc?
I am hoping to ttc in about 6 - 8 weeks so I am trying to get things sorted now.

Also I am dramatically reducing my calorie intake, but is something like that important this whole time or only in the few weeks leading ut to ttc?

I kind of find it hard to find things that I can eat, I guess there is prob not much. But what I am finding is that a lot of the food is pretty high in carbs, is this ok for the girl diet? For instance a lot of rice and pasta, I thought I could eat bread until I looked at the sodium in it, I think I saw a recipe here and will look that up. Are creamy sauces ok with the pasta? WHat about a tomato based sauce? I think we can't have tomotos but what about if it is cooked?

I am sorry for all the questions, especially if they have already been answered somewhere else. I can't believe I am so close to trying so I want to feel comfortable with my sway...I plan on getting all of the calcium and magnesium in my diet, no supps. What would I eat for the magnesium or would you all recommend supps more? Gosh I sound desperate dont I. lol

[3Pink1Blue]

I've got three girls and had been losing weight for months prior to each conception, I rarely ate bread or pasta and hate tomatoes. I would say since you're ttc in 6-8 wks I'd go cold turkey right away. I wasn't swaying but inadvertently did everything right, gl and please have all my pink dust

[boymom]

Thanks 3PinkNeedBlue, looks like pasta and bread have to go too, wow this diet is very limited. I know I can do that though aslong as I can see it is not forever. What would you have as a bread or pasta replacement in your meals? I would love to give you all my blue dust too

[jude17]

I thought you could eat pasta on the girl diet. I was going to base my main meals around pasta and rice dishes??

[jude17]

oh and bread is ok as long as its low in sodium??

[Indira]

Yes you can have rice and pasta and low sodium bread, that´s better than protein or fat food.

Boymom Try to eat the pasta and rice without sauces, they usually have a lot of salt and calories.
I dont know if you´re a snacker, but for me not snacking in between meals and eating a smaller breakfast, just yoghurt (for now) has made me loose a lot of weight easily! I also eat a salad before lunch and an apple before dinner, so I´m not that hungry and eat less.

[boymom]

ok thanks girls.

I usually do snack so that is a bit of a struggle, but not as hard as trying to check the sodium in everything.

I thought I was allowed to eat jalapenos until I realised that the sodium was g not mg...that was disappointing

I have cut out breakfast but do have a few morning coffees, I was going to give these up but I think I read somewhere that they make you acidic so I will switch to decaf and just reduce the amount.

So is salad ok to eat, I could do that for lunch as long as I could add a little something to it like small cheese or chicken or something?

I am going to make some lo-sodium bread too.

And I am going to have to find a health food store to buy some cranberry juice without added sugar, I also noticed that the cranberry juice I did buy from the supermarket was no added sugar it had a certain amount of potassium in it, is that normal?

[3Pink1Blue]

Jude17- It is allowed just don't go nuts. I literally weighed and measured everything eating only 1 serving of rice or pasta.

Boymom - I ate a sandwich everyday it was with Sarah Lee Delightful but that was my only bread. Dinner was 1 serving brown rice, 1-2 servings chicken or turkey burger, usually broccoli and a glass of milk.

Again I never swayed but from discussions with other girl moms I think it's much more about limiting calories, lots of cardio/exercise and weight loss.

[Coccinelle33]

Tomato sauce is ok on the french gender diet as well as cooked tomatoes but i wouldn't do it all the time. Creamy sauces are ok but make sure their low in salt. I was eating them when ttc my dd but this time I skipped them and just put yogurt or cottage cheese on my pasta. I found the my local bakery would bake no salt bread for me. you might want to ask.

[boymom]

Thanks girls....I was also wondering if the whole breakfast fasting thing (ie lo suger levels) is important the whole time or just leading up to ttc. Like if I was doing everything I could to lose weight, reduce salt, potassium, increase calcium magnesium and just basically reduce calories, is the sugar level thing important now or untill the days of conception..I hope that makes sense