First off greetings from Iowa Taytum!!! :) nice to see a neighbor on here from the awesome little cornfield state of Iowa!
Alright so Hello everyone:) saw this thread and was excited to get caught up and join the chat myself!! I'm ttc a boy in the fall! So excited but so nervous:( I always pictured myself with boys.. God had different plans and blessed me with a beautiful baby girl two months ago! But in not giving up on my dream of at least one boy yet!! :)
So- after reading though this site up and down about boy sways and girl sways, looking back it's not wonder I got my little girl! Didn't know a thing about swaying.. So, pre-conception I was at my smallest! Running 3-5 miles a day, training 2-3 times daily and hour to 2 hours daily. I was eating a very strick low fat low carb low sodium diet (I was prepping to be a women's physique body building competitor)! We also conceived outdoors in a tent believe it or not! HOT HOT HOT summer day:)
Long story short tho I had cut my fat% down so much I was becoming thin and lean, but wasn't building enough muscle as I was not in taking a bough calories. I had a definate caloric deficit!
So- I say all that to let my fellow blue sways know what NOT to do :p for a boy anyways!
That being said, I'm now swaying for my little dude this fall and I can tell you it is NOT EASY!!! I've never been a big eater.. And I've never been big on hardy meals with red meats and potatoes.. Never.. So this is a huge switch for me! One of the hardest parts truthfully is getting a good breakfast in as I'm used to just doing a smoothie if that! So training myself to get a decent meal in before 10:00 is so much harder said than done for me! But I'm getting there:) also, the working out is so insanely hard for me. I'm aching to run every day and hit the gym hard like I was, but I'm too afraid to sway pink.. So I'm holding off.. I gained 15lbs with my dd so all I wanna do is burn the fat pronto.. But according to the blue diet, I probably shouldn't! Or at least not the way I would like to /:
As far as timing at attempts goes, when are all of you bding in reference to ovulation? I've heard so many different thoeries and such. Curious what you are all gonna try! Let me know!! :)