Do I REALLY have to track nutrients?
If you're swaying pink, the answer is YES.
Pink swayers, you guys have got to track calories, protein, and fat intake.
Period, end of story. While tracking can be a bit tedious, I have already eliminated as much tracking as possible from my pink sway suggestions. I have dropped tracking for timing, pH, mineral levels, and a lot of other “old school” sway tactics that require constant attention. On the Low Everything Diet, you do not need to track any other nutrients (though some people choose to track sodium and potassium, you don’t have to) aside from fat, protein, and calories. I have simplified my methods of Natural Gender Selection as much as I can but we simply cannot get away from tracking the “Big Three”.
The nutrient tracking of protein, fat, and calories is MANDATORY because the benefits of tracking them vastly, vastly outweigh any inconvenience.
Calories, protein, and fat must be tracked, or you are not doing the LE Diet correctly. I am having far too many people - like seriously practically 100% lately, which is why I'm writing this - who are flat out refusing to track these nutrients, as if it's impossibly difficult. It is not. Tracking calories, protein, and fat intake is quite easy, and you can learn how to do it in a few days to a week.
You don't need a fancy app, all you need is a paper and pen and a calculator if you aren't comfortable doing the math. The apps are quite frankly harder to use, and are completely unreliable anyway. To track your nutrient intake, just look on the back of the package of whatever you’re eating, or Google things that didn’t come in a package, write the amount of fat, protein, and calories on the paper, and add it up. Keep a running total and at day’s end you will know how much you ate.
Once you get a basic understanding of how much you are eating on a day to day basis, and roughly how much protein, fat, and calories is in the foods you eat the most - which takes two weeks tops - then you can stop tracking and just keep a loose running tally in your head. Plus, you'll have the skill for a lifetime, which is great when you’re trying to manage healthy eating for yourself and your family.
Why is tracking nutrients so important? Why can’t we just eat magic foods? Well, because there are no magic foods, it is all about the total intake of nutrients you’re eating and that varies by the amount you eat. When people do not track the Big Three, not only are they running the risk of eating too much, but far, far more importantly, they are risking not eating ENOUGH. Not eating enough fat, protein, and calories on the Low Everything Diet is a recipe for disaster, because when you don't eat enough, you’ll lose too much weight and delay or even stop ovulation. You’ll have to end up basically swaying blue just to get your cycle going again, and then you've sent the message to your body that times were hard, but now they're better. This is terrible for your pink sway!
After seeing into the tens of thousands of sways, both successful and not, I promise that if you want your sway to work, you will start off eating more than you think you need to, and then cut back as needed, IF needed. Eating too little and then having to add food in to restore ovulation is a recipe for a failed pink sway.
Tracking is critical for avoiding cutting back too far. You cannot assume you're eating enough just by eating a few magic foods, because pink swayers nearly always err on the side of eating too little, not too much. 9 times out of 10, when finally I cajole people who aren't tracking into adding up their food intake, they are eating very much different than they thought - usually far less.
The Low Everything Diet is not and never was intended as a starvation diet. Starving yourself is no way to get a baby girl - not only because you can mess up your cycle, but because people panic after a few negative pregnancy tests, and give up on swaying all together. They go off diet all together, do a bunch of stuff to boost fertility, and end up with another boy. This too-strict-to-too-lax swing is one of the biggest causes of pink sway opposites. Your absolute best chance of a girl is a reasonable sway diet where you are getting enough food, continue ovulating normally, and conceive in a timely fashion.
Additionally, I cannot help you with your diet if you refuse to track your nutrient intake. I can't look at a list of foods and know if you're eating enough because I have no idea of your serving size. Telling me you eat "rice cakes" does not enable me to help you on your diet. There is a big difference between 3 rice cakes and 30. Even if you only add up one average day I can help. I can't help you off of food lists, not even super detailed food lists stretching back months. I have to have the nutrient info.
Just so everyone is aware, I will not, repeat WILL NOT, calculate your servings, look up the nutrient content of the foods you eat on Google, or add up your food for you. Even if you are a paid subscriber, you have to do that part of it yourself. It makes no sense for me to spend my day being a Googling/adding machine for people, all of whom have the capability of adding things up themselves in a fraction of the time it would take me - since you already know what you ate! And of course it would be massively time consuming for me to add everyone’s food intake. What takes each of you maybe ten minutes tops would take me ten hours and I’d not be able to help you guys in any other way.
What I AM happy to do is look over the foods you are eating and the nutrient content that you provide for me, in order to make suggestions that may suit your needs better. That's always what I've done when I help people with their diets. But you have to do your share of the work. I can't help you when given lists of foods, because I do not know how much you're eating and I just don’t have time to add it all up for people.
When I try to explain this concept, people will tell me “but atomic, you said not to get too control freaky and adding up my food intake IS control freaky!” But there’s a big difference between tracking timing and pH and mineral intake and CM consistency and hormone levels and 97 other things that the “old school” sway gurus have people track, and tracking three measly things. When I warn you about control freakishness it’s because I don’t want you to track things that are unnecessary, but that doesn’t therefore mean I don’t want you to track things that ARE necessary. And tracking calories, protein, and fat is totally necessary, and it’s only for a week or two at the beginning of your sway. Any potential control freakishness is vastly outweighed by the benefits of tracking the Big Three nutrients.
Do yourself a favor - track your nutrient intake! A little work now will pay off big dividends when your pink dream comes true!
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