Women with PCOS and BMR

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.)

Is also bad temper a symptom of PCOS?
Just wondering...

MelissaPhippsFeagins wrote: »

bfanny wrote: »

Is also bad temper a symptom of PCOS?
Just wondering...

Actually, yes. it can be.

Now I get it

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.