Losing weight with PCOS - need help

Even if you do not prepare your own meals, you can choose how much you eat. Losing weight comes down to eating fewer calories than you burn. Fill out your MFP profile accurately. With 48 pounds to lose, I would suggest setting it to lose 1 pound per week. Weigh your food on a digital kitchen scale. Log it accurately using good MFP database entries (the USDA entries, entries that match food labels, etc.) Since you have PCOS, your BMR is likely lower than women without PCOS.

While you can certainly lose weight without exercise, I would suggest adding some in. I know that, for me, it has been key to losing weight while still eating at a comfortable level. Start with walking 15 minutes a day 3x/week. Add another 5 minutes per session or another 15 minute session after a week or two. Keep adding time. Consider some sort of resistance training as well (bodyweight exercises, lifting weight, etc.) as they will help you retain muscle and get stronger.

Make your health a priority now. You are young and this is the prime time to learn and develop good habits. I am sure that you are busy. However, we all are busy. You won't get less busy when you are out of school. At that point you will have a job and develop other interests that take up time. Throughout all of that, being healthy should be a priority.

Best of luck!

Both my daughter and I have PCOS and neither one of us are overweight. What "cured" me, or at least got my hormone levels "right" was having a baby! Don't recommend THAT at 18! My daughter just went on the pill to "trick" her body into thinking it's pregnant. Apparently, pregnancy can help with symptoms of PCOS---the problem is that PCOS makes it hard to get pregnant!

First, relax. PCOS is very very common.
If you have not seen a reproductive endocrinologist, see one. This is something that, while very common, needs ot be treated by a specialist. It is very easy to end up with a diagnosis when in fact you are perfectly healthy and just experiencing normal hormonal fluctuations in your teens.
If you have been given contraceptives as treatment, I would suggest you get a second opinion. This is very outdated advice, and can often cause more harm than good (my rerpoductive endocrinologist, even 20 years ago, was cursing for 15 minutes the dr who prescribed them to me).
There is no reason to be overweight with PCOS. I have lived with it more than 20 years, never became overweight. You need to be careful about how much you eat and you need to exercise. Exercise is very important in symptom control, regardless of weight loss. Talk to your parents about how having a healthy weight will help you manage PCOS. Ask them to come with you to the next dr appointment, so you can discuss all together how they can support you.
Good luck.

Emily3907 wrote: »

I have PCOS too and one thing I want to tell you is DO IT NOW. I am 31 and have over 100+ pounds to lose. I wish I had lost the weight at 18/19/20 when I only had about 50-60

Yes!!! I second this. I am 36 and let myself get up to 327 lbs. I have lost 83 lbs, but still have 90 to go. It would have been easier at 20....and I was only at 220 lbs then! Enjoy that younger metabolism and get everything taken care of early! My symptoms were finally managed a few years back, but then I lost weight so everything needs to be constantly adjusted. Just keep at it. My best weight loss is a super low sugar, lots of veggies (very little fruit) and LOTS of exercise!