Women with PCOS and BMR

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  • smileylace
    smileylace Posts: 12 Member
    I'm currently 5'2, 174, 36% BF (strarted at 194 42% BF). Diagnosed with PCOS/IR/metabolic syndrome in Sept. I consume 1330 calories - less than 25g of carbs, more fat than protein. Been on low carb diet for almost two months. Endo prescribed metformin, decided to try low carb to see if I was able to lose weight. I also started boxing (hitting bag) 3-4 times a week and use a HRM to track calorie burn. I've lost almost 20lbs and have decreased my BF from 42% to 36%. I've played around with my macros a bit and find that I need to consume fat in order to lose weight. If I don't meet my macros I stall. I also have insosital but wanted to see if I could lose weight without any type of pills other than vitamins. I've never been able to lose weight until now. Hope this helps
  • MelissaPhippsFeagins
    MelissaPhippsFeagins Posts: 8,063 Member
    OP - PCOS, IR and Celiac...stick with the GF diet another 12-18 months and you will begin to find the PCOS and IR resolve themselves. IR resolved itself in about 18 months, PCOS in just over 2 years. Auto-immune diseases affect everything more than you think they should. Let your intestines get better. Maintain where you are. If you have enough muscle to burn 300 calories per pilates session, you're probably not actually fat even if you aren't in the normal BMI range. (which you may be, I didn't look it up.)
  • senecarr
    senecarr Posts: 5,377 Member
    cafeaulait7 wrote: »
    jemhh wrote: »
    cafeaulait7 wrote: »
    I wonder if anyone has ever studied PCOS and weightlifting? Out of our teeny little sample size here, lifting is coming up among those who have PCOS and do great.

    Thanks for the condolences on GERD! It can get really painful when I overdo, yep!

    I don't know if it's been studied but I have read, over and over and over, recommendations for women with PCOS to build muscle. Most women, PCOS or not, would benefit from building some muscle, though.

    They would; I agree :) I'm wondering if there's a hormonal effect. I'm not up on weightlifting hormonal changes.


    I do know that the extra androgens from my PCOS probably help explain why I grew up "naturally muscular". That's a nice little perk to go along with the bad. I eventually got the bad kind of facial hair, though, so I did decide to cut down the androgens a bit by going on progesterone!

    If I recall correctly from another thread, androgens are usually up in PCOS, but it is not free androgen, it is bound, and thus isn't as anabolic - I believe it was said free androgen levels might actually be lower in PCOS.
    Having extra muscle might dilute the androgens / provide more receptors to bind them but that would be pure speculation on my part.
  • bfanny
    bfanny Posts: 440 Member
    Is also bad temper a symptom of PCOS?
    Just wondering...
  • MelissaPhippsFeagins
    MelissaPhippsFeagins Posts: 8,063 Member
    bfanny wrote: »
    Is also bad temper a symptom of PCOS?
    Just wondering...
    Actually, yes. it can be.
  • bfanny
    bfanny Posts: 440 Member
    MelissaPhippsFeagins wrote: »
    bfanny wrote: »
    Is also bad temper a symptom of PCOS?
    Just wondering...
    Actually, yes. it can be.

    Now I get it ;)
  • plantgrrl
    plantgrrl Posts: 436 Member
    This is an old thread, but I'll just leave this here.
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18678372
  • emmycantbemeeko
    emmycantbemeeko Posts: 303 Member
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    jemhh wrote: »
    rainbowblu wrote: »
    We have all met a person who eats A LOT of EVERYTHING and never gains weight,so why is it so hard to believe the opposite? One of my best friends is 5'8 and 120lbs.. People made fun of her for being too skinny so she used to eat 2 whole pizzas a day and drink a gallon of chocolate milk,snickers and everything to try to gain weight.She never gained weight..why? She was obviously eating way more than she should(for Years!). We all know people like this... If there are people who overeat and don't gain weight why is it so hard to believe that not every overweight person overeats? "Science is just science until it's not." K.W. I have been saying that for years.. There are many things in science that were not fully known or understood until some other scientist discovered something. I believe that weight/metabolism/hormones have a looooooong way to go in the scientific world.
    All I know is that before I had PCOS I was like most of you... Judgemental. I used to hear people saying " I'm doing everything I can..ect,ect." I secretly would think that they were lying,binge eating,or not being accurate. But,now I know better.

    Your journey is YOUR OWN- the way that you are affected by PCOS will not be the same for another person.

    I call BS on eating 2 whole pizzas, a gallon of chocolate milk, and a Snickers every day. Maybe once or twice? Maybe. On an ongoing basis? No. Very light people who think they eat "a ton" and never gain eat less than they think. A good number of them are also more active than other people, whether through exercise or through NEAT activity (fidgeting, etc.)

    Yeah - it's amazing how when you put these 'magical-metabolism' people under the microscope it turns out that there is no magic or different metabolic rates - it's calorie intake and calorie burn only

    there's a good example of that on video I've posted a few times but I'm not on my home pc so can't link now - if anyone else can to the metabolism testing and the doubly water trials that would be good (for the lurkers)

    I had a friend like this growing up- she was always rail thin, and she ate nothing but junk food, so I had the idea she must have a raging metabolism.

    Then when we lived together in college, I realized- she ate no breakfast. She generally ate no lunch. Hungry by dinner time, she might eat an order of fries and chicken nuggets for dinner, and then... that was it. She was a very picky eater- she really only liked fried foods and only a few of those, so few snacks, no desserts. Just about one meal of fast food a day. And she was pretty active.

    So while it was technically true that she ate "nothing but junk," she didn't eat all that much food, total. It just *looked* like she ate a ton to those of us who eat more often and assume that in addition to the high-calorie meals we see someone eating, they must also be eating more at home.

    I've also known several people who frequently ate enormous amounts in public but were bulimic, or exercise bulimics in private.

    Diet is like budget- you can't extrapolate from what you perceive other people to be doing to really know the whole story. Just because someone drives a fancy car doesn't mean they're rich, and just because someone eats a whole pizza in front of you doesn't mean they're actually consuming more calories than they burn.

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