Coming Back to MFP With PCOS

HI Amanda. I have PCOS and had 100+ pounds to lose. Now at 46, I have decades of PCOS management behind me (hopefully at least a few more in front of me.) Please feel free to add me. Sometimes it helps to have feedback from other "cysters", especially those of us that have been there, done that.

Started out at 297lbs, and now somewhere in the 250s (depending on the day), I've been stuck for about 1.5 years because of the meds my doctor has me on to control hyperplasia caused by PCOS, however I am also TTC and have been for 7 years.

Here are some tips that I have learned over the last 3 years:

1) Know your carbs! Eating Low Glycemic will not only help keep you full longer, but will help control your blood sugars, Insulin Resistance which is generally part of PCOS need to be controlled in order to successfully pass the sugar correctly. Otherwise it stores as fat. You don't have to go carb crazy, and do Atkins to be successful, just know which items are the right items to eat with PCOS.

2) WORKOUT! Exercise in general lowers insulin levels, however cycling is known to lower insulin levels more effectively than running, or walking. So keep yourself moving. I've found that without exercise I will not lose weight.

3) Have your thyroid checked! I did not find out until I lost 30lbs and gained damn near every pound back that I had hyperthyroid issues, and I had them checked in the past and they were normal, but some how during my journey they went whacko and I had to start from square 1 with losing weight.


Most importantly DON'T GIVE UP! Don't allow yourself to not log every single day, even if you don't log your food (on the weekends i don't log food), try and come here every day to remain motivated and focused. Get involved in workout challenges, PCOS groups, whatever it takes. It's a long process but it's truly life changing!


Your welcome to add me here and add my Fit Page on facebook http://www.facebook.com/stepitupgirl

I used to log everyday and I was doing okay with my weight loss. The community was always so great and supportive but somehow I found myself logging on less and less. Next thing I know I'm not logging at all. I don't know if I gained anything back, I haven't weighed myself yet, but I got another reality check from my doctor.

I've been doing a good job keeping my blood sugar within "normal ranges" (prediabetes) but I was just told I have PCOS when I went to discuss some fertility issues. Now I'm back because I'm 25 and I've got a lot of work to do to get my weight under control, which I need to do if I ever want to have children.

I'd love some friends with over 100 pounds to lose and/or that have PCOS. I'd prefer to avoid those that eat very low calorie diets as I used to be anorexic and seeing the low numbers puts me in the wrong frame of my mind. If that works for you that's great but whenever I aimed for 1200 calories I found myself eating 500.

I'm not letting this get the best of me and I'm hoping to find a supportive group of friends working to get healthier together!

I have over 100 to lose and I have PCOS. We were VERY blessed by God to have our little miracle after 3 years of trying, and now I have pregnancy weight and fat girl weight to lose. Friend me

Hi,

I'm stacy I had 100 lbs to loose I am down 40 of those 100 I have PCOS and am trying to conceive. We have a great comunity called PCOSis you should come check it out. Everyone in the group has PCOS and there are people who have known about it for a long time, and those who have just found out, some of us do lots of research on it and we all give eachother advise.

Good luck with your journy, the way I have seen being diagnosed with PCOS is I now know what my lifestyle needs to be like.

Hi!

I dont have PCOS (to my knowledge) but I do have a 100+ pounds to lose. I'd love to be there to motivate you and vice versa.

Hi. My name is Ashley. I just found out late last year i have PCOS. I also have Endometriosis. I have at LEAST 100 lbs to loose! I am right there with you! I do not do low calorie because i have so much to loose. I am ready to get healthy, and hope one day my husband and I will be lucky enough to have children. Add me i am looking for people to encourage and challenge me and I will do the same! Good Luck!

Ash

@100degrees, Lemme know how it works!

I'm currently taking metformin, which works well, but it took my body like a week and a half to acclimate, and that week was miserable! My body constantly thought my blood sugar was low because metformin is technically a diabetes med with a nifty side effect of decreasing testosterone levels!

I was on metformin for a while last year but they took me off of it because it was starting to negatively affect my kidneys. Shame, I could use it right about now.

Have you tried the XR version?

Hi everyone!
My husband and I have been trying to conceive for over a year and a half with no luck. After lots of lab work and ultrasound and failed intrauterine inseminations and more blood and needles than I care to ever see again I've been diagnosed with unexplained infertility AND PCOS-- two bummers. My doctor said that since I was on birth control forever it suppressed some of my PCOS symptoms until I stopped and started trying to conceive. He put me on metformin several months ago before he 'officially' diagnosed me and I haven't really seen an improvement as far as it helping with weight loss. I'm currently at 283 lbs, only down 7 pounds and have over a hundred to lose. I was convinced I couldn't get pregnant because of my weight and now Ive basically been told. I've have a few friends that have PCOS and are pre-diabetic that have had success on victoza. My OB won't prescribe it to me while I'm TTC... So I don't know what to do now... Any suggestions? I'm all ears...or eyes rather

Hi! my name is kayla and i was diagnosed in 2007 with PCOS. I was put on metformin and lost 65lbs, a year later the weight was back and my periods were gone again, just like that....my doc told me that the met just stopped working as well and up'd my dose to 1000mg x2 a day....i was so frustrated, i also did three rounds of clomid before i was precribed the metformin and it was not successfull. so over the years since 2008ish ive been on and off of bc still taking the metformin and still very much overweight (257) but in the last four months ive lost about 30lbs and 7lbs of that was just in the last week and a half when i started my very low carb low sugar diet. I can not tell you how much better i have felt getting off the carbs and sugar aka (the crack) lol. My husband and i hoping to start trying after the summer and i hope my periods come back after i lose more weight. Back when i was 16yrs old and 170lbs, i was having normal periods and was tested for pcos and was neg....then i gained 110lbs in 2006 and was positive in 2007 for pcos...so im very convinced that my weight is 98percent of my problem...This new plan that im doing is working better than anything ive done and ive done A LOT of different plans. I could use a few adds on mfp so feel free to add me! best of luck to all of us!!!!