This is a brief overview of the various options available for diets to help with Natural Gender Selection. I of course recommend my Low Everything Diet for pink and my High Everything Diet for blue, but maybe you want to know your options before deciding! It is my personal goal to always offer you the most information about natural gender selection techniques, even the ones I heartily disagree with. Knowledge is power.
If you have questions about what diet is right for you, you can find me at Gender Dreaming.
Updated 10-3-22
On this site, there is no “right” or “wrong” way to sway and no one “official” diet. We present data from various sources, and then it is up to each individual to make up their minds about what diet is best for them and what makes the most sense to them.
However, since some of these diets are a bit contradictory, it is leading to some confusion so let’s do a quick comparison of the various diets (and a few other ones just for fun!)
1) The French Gender Diet – based on the idea that mineral ratios and not any other factors (cal/mag for girls, sodium and potassium for boys) sway gender. Somewhat restrictive. More info is available in this thread.
2)The IG-Style diet – This diet is found on the In-Gender site. The IG Diet incorporates ideas from the French Gender Diet, the acid/alkaline diet, and a few other diets. It is highly restrictive and may be difficult or even harmful for people to follow in the long term.
3)The Trivers-Willard-style diet or “High-Everything” for boys, “Low-Everything” for girls at Gender Dreaming– This is based on the idea that when food is plentiful, your body is more likely to conceive a boy and when food is scarcer, you are more likely to conceive a girl. It is somewhat restrictive, but there is much more flexibility to this diet than the others.
4)Acid/Alkaline Diet – based on the idea that being very acidic sways pink and being very alkaline sways blue. This is not a specific swaying diet but people have used it as part of a sway attempt (and the IG-style diet is partially based on this premise). Less restrictive than some of the other diets. Info widely available online but here’s a place to start.
5)Vegetarian/Vegan for TTC pink – A vegetarian/vegan diet seems to sway pink – although this is not a swaying diet per se and it is very possible to conceive boys even if you are vegetarian, it may be a good choice for people who have a hard time sticking to other diets. It’s also a good option for pink swayers with history of eating disorders. If you have an eating disorder DO NOT follow any standard swaying diet, it will mess with your head. Just go vegetarian or vegan.
6) The Caveman or Paleolithic Diet for Blue – This is not a swaying diet per se, but is instead based on the idea that we should eat like our ancient ancestors, mostly meats and vegetables with little to no refined carbohydrates. This has some potential for blue swayers but you need to take care to eat more carbs than most do. Info widely available online but here’s a place to start.
7)Atkins, keto, and other very low-carb diets – There have been mixed results with both boys and girls conceived while people were following these diets. Until more is known, it’s probably best to avoid being on a very low-carb diet while trying to conceive if for no other reason than it may not be safe for a baby and may disrupt your fertility.
8)General weight loss diets such as Weight Watchers, Slimming World, Jenny Craig, etc. These have seemed to help some people sway pink. Weight loss and reducing calories does seem to help with a pink sway. Care must be taken not to delve too heavily into proteins and fats as they do need to be limited on a pink sway diet.
So how do you decide what diet is right for you? You will find foods that are ok on some diets that are not ok on others (don’t panic, that doesn’t mean that the diet doesn’t sway, it may sway differently). Some have a lot of evidence to back them up and others have very little. One may just make “sense” to you on a gut level, when you think about how you ate before conceiving your other children. But most importantly you may find that one of the diets fits in better with your lifestyle than another does. If this is the case, then that’s the diet for you. It does NO good killing yourself trying to follow a diet that you hate – either you’ll cheat or you’ll risk ruining your sway by increasing your stress level.
Not saying even a little bit that anyone should throw diet out the window when things get a little tough, because diet is one of the things that has the most evidence supporting it, but if you really truly find that you cannot follow the diet you are on, if it is ruining your life, your health, or giving you tons of stress and aggravation, it’s time to stop and choose a new one.
Also, before writing off the LE or HE Diets, PLEASE message because there are a lot of “very helpful” (NOT!!) people online who will tell you completely inaccurate info about what the HE and LE Diets are all about. The HE and LE Diets are EASY to stick to and if you’re scared to try them, it’s often that you have a misunderstanding about what the diets actually entail that I can easily correct! Don’t hesitate, that’s what I’m here for: Gender Dreaming
There IS no one size, fits all swaying diet – both boys and girls have been conceived while their parents were eating a wide variety of food. Above all else you must do what works for YOU and that you can stick with. Don’t toss the entire idea of swaying away because you can’t stick to ridiculously restrictive diets – the important thing is that you’re eating differently than you were recently, and to a lesser extent than how you were eating when you got your other children. Swaying diets are NOT all or nothing; we can always find ways to make the diets work for you rather than the other way around!
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