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Caseysface

Hello, just realized I never really introduced myself! I am 25 years old and another PCOS-er. I have been married to my wonderful husband for 4 years. We both work full time and go to school full time. Our lives are both very full. The only thing missing from our lives are children. When we first got together 7 years ago we agreed that we didn't want to have children until we were settled into a home, with good cars and good jobs. Well fast forward a few years and now we have all of those after purchasing our first home just under a year ago. I have always been a chubby girl but it has only gotten worse over the last several years.

About 3 years ago I was diagnosed with PCOS, after meeting with a rather awful endocrinologist, I have pretty much never tried to do anything about it. The appointment began with him walking into the room taking one glance at me and saying, You're morbidly obese, there is nothing I can do for you until you've lost weight. He then gave me a prescription for birth control, set me an appointment for one year from then and sent me on my way. I was mortified. I sat in the parking garage crying for 30 minutes before I left. It took me until January of this year to decide it was time to do something about this. I stopped taking my birth control, because I felt that I did not like the hormones. I started working on eating healthier and focusing on myself. So far this year I have lost just shy of 20 pounds, we only recently bought a scale so we could weigh ourselves.

In July, I saw my grandfather for the last time before he passed away. He told me that he was so proud of me for losing weight. He taught me that you have to work for anything you want, no one will just give you something. If I want children, I have to work my butt off (literally) to have them.

I am so excited for my journey here on MFP!!