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blossom696
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Hello,
I'm a PCOS lady with a mission! After years of battling the wrong way, a month ago I finally joined the gym. I was doing great until today & I realized I needed to reach out further & find support with others that know this battle all too well.
My basics: I was a 20 yr old 5'4", 105 lb active young lady when I woke up in the middle of the night with what I found out later to be a ruptured ovarian cyst. 12 hours later & panting with pain as awful as labor (yes, really), I ended up having emergency surgery on a ruptured cyst the size of a large grapefruit. It took 10 years for the doctors to tell me "you might have discomfort each month due to the fact that you could be a cystic woman". Right around that time I began having trouble losing the babyweight that all my friends were melting off with our walks... and I was staying the same! It took 5 years for the doctors to give me the right series of tests. I fought hard, cried at night out of frustration & kept saying "I'm NOT LAZY! I am not crazy! something inside my body is broken! Something isn't working right!". The doctors would tell me my thyroid is fine, my sugars are all good, I just need to eat better & do more. 6 years ago, I finally found an endo & begged to retake all labs again. Immediately I began my 2000 mg of Glucophage a night & felt a difference. 30 lbs came off in about 6 months. It wasn't nearly what I needed to take off, but I knew for sure - I was right, my body was the issue, not my laziness.
Now I am not getting any weighloss from Glucophage and stress has ballooned me up well beyond where I can live a healthy life. I just woke up one more about a month ago and said "I can't stand this & I don't want to die young from health issues!" I got up and went to a gym and joined! I walk on the treadmill, I ride the bike... AND I GO TWICE A DAY. I only see weightloss when I go 2 times a day. I have zero metabolism. I know I have adjustments to make & things to add to my workout routine. I have cut out many white carbs & fatty crap, but I have to make an appt with a nutritionist to get a more personalized meal plan I can live with.
MFP is a fantastic app. It really shows me where I am screwing up & were I am progressing at a good pace.
Today was a hard day. I had been sick for 3 days and didn't hit the gym. I ate the same... at about 5 meals a day at approx 1300 calorie intake. I GAINED 5 pounds on the scale this morning from last week's weigh in (NOT water weight!). I nearly broke down at the gym on the scale. Instead, I decided to come home, join some groups, shake off the bad stuff & keep moving forward. I hope I find a few good eggs here that "get it" ... I need to support & I am more than will to give it back ten-fold!
Kimi
(I'm posting this in a few groups to introduce myself - so if you see it in another group, your not going crazy. LOL)
I'm a PCOS lady with a mission! After years of battling the wrong way, a month ago I finally joined the gym. I was doing great until today & I realized I needed to reach out further & find support with others that know this battle all too well.
My basics: I was a 20 yr old 5'4", 105 lb active young lady when I woke up in the middle of the night with what I found out later to be a ruptured ovarian cyst. 12 hours later & panting with pain as awful as labor (yes, really), I ended up having emergency surgery on a ruptured cyst the size of a large grapefruit. It took 10 years for the doctors to tell me "you might have discomfort each month due to the fact that you could be a cystic woman". Right around that time I began having trouble losing the babyweight that all my friends were melting off with our walks... and I was staying the same! It took 5 years for the doctors to give me the right series of tests. I fought hard, cried at night out of frustration & kept saying "I'm NOT LAZY! I am not crazy! something inside my body is broken! Something isn't working right!". The doctors would tell me my thyroid is fine, my sugars are all good, I just need to eat better & do more. 6 years ago, I finally found an endo & begged to retake all labs again. Immediately I began my 2000 mg of Glucophage a night & felt a difference. 30 lbs came off in about 6 months. It wasn't nearly what I needed to take off, but I knew for sure - I was right, my body was the issue, not my laziness.
Now I am not getting any weighloss from Glucophage and stress has ballooned me up well beyond where I can live a healthy life. I just woke up one more about a month ago and said "I can't stand this & I don't want to die young from health issues!" I got up and went to a gym and joined! I walk on the treadmill, I ride the bike... AND I GO TWICE A DAY. I only see weightloss when I go 2 times a day. I have zero metabolism. I know I have adjustments to make & things to add to my workout routine. I have cut out many white carbs & fatty crap, but I have to make an appt with a nutritionist to get a more personalized meal plan I can live with.
MFP is a fantastic app. It really shows me where I am screwing up & were I am progressing at a good pace.
Today was a hard day. I had been sick for 3 days and didn't hit the gym. I ate the same... at about 5 meals a day at approx 1300 calorie intake. I GAINED 5 pounds on the scale this morning from last week's weigh in (NOT water weight!). I nearly broke down at the gym on the scale. Instead, I decided to come home, join some groups, shake off the bad stuff & keep moving forward. I hope I find a few good eggs here that "get it" ... I need to support & I am more than will to give it back ten-fold!
Kimi(I'm posting this in a few groups to introduce myself - so if you see it in another group, your not going crazy. LOL)
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Welcome to the PCOSis Group! You found a great group of women who understand your struggles with loosing weight! I had DR's roll their eyes at me when I would tell them how I ate and worked out because if I did those things I shouldn't be 60 lbs over weight, well over some time those 60 lbs became 100 lbs! IT wasn't till I saw a DR who had PCOS herself that I was diagnosed. I have been on Metformin and it has been helping me a lot. It helps keep the hunger at bay and I am now ovulating! (I have fertility issues and want a baby desperately).
We have all been there where the scale doesn't tell the story I am down almost 40 lbs in a little over 3 months but I have been working out like mad to reach that and tracking everything I eat I don't track drinks unless I get a late at a coffee shop but I mostly drink coffee, water and tea. Lots and lots of water. I do find I have to work out like mad to get my results as well. I do an hour in the AM 4 days a week, work out over lunch 5 days a week, and try to get out for walks every day I can I shoot for 7 days a week. So I hear you with having to workout a lot to keep loose the weight.
Good luck with everything!0
