PCOS success with weightloss

Been almost a year since I begun my lifestyle health change. I'm pushing towards being at my ultimate goal by May 25th. That was the day I became self aware of wanting better for health and life.
I want to share with you FREE ways of helping yourself become a healthier and better version of yourself. That's right, I'm not selling a pyramid scheme (it works, shakeology, Herbalife) and only want to help give truths that YES will work. I will call what I learned mind and health hacks of transforming into a better YOU!

1. You need to first be self aware of any health issues you may have. I found by researching my medical standpoint, that I discovered which foods I need to stay away from and or have more of. This is very important as we have different issues and your plan needs to centered for your personalized needs. *This means just like parenting advice, some things that work for someone else may or may not work for you.

2. Are you an emotional eater? Or one who eats out of boredom? I personally am an emotional eater. When I found myself upset and or stressed, I would eat crap food for that brief second of "I feel good because this tastes good". Then I would feel awful because my body doesn't process carbs and or sugars as the average healthy person. (Thanks to insulin resistance with PCOS). When I feel down, I will exercise and or find a distraction to help me from eating crap food.



3. Plenty of sleep. I swear, I could write a book on this. I went 11mth with little to no sleep (lots of moms here can relate and even have 11mth beat!) and wow I learned a lot. For myself sleep was EVERYTHING. If I lacked here everything fell off. I was angry, not motivated and just wanting to lounge some days. The lack of energy led me not wanting to do the prep work in the kitchen and or make time in building a healthy meal plan. This also put a damper on days of working out. Whether I didn't give my workout my all or just didn't workout.



4. You need a circle of people who will support you. This is important, this helps keep your mind be focused and pushing yourself for more. My husband would help with the kids so I could make sure I put enough effort into my daily workouts. You need at least 30min to an hour. You can also split that time up somehow in the day. My husband also was aware that the first 2wks of creating a health change that it was helpful not bringing crap into the house. It takes about 2weeks without junk to stop craving the junk. This two week process is my temptation stage.

I go through phases of giving my all (with making better health choices) and tend to fall off. I have to look at each day as a new beginning and not be discouraged if there were days I made bad eating choices or didn't workout.

I found out certain times of the year I can't run or jog outside. I'm Asthmatic and during the cooler months I truly feel as though I'm going to die and can't breathe. My legs weren't giving out but the cool air hitting my lungs hurt. I found indoor exercise and or climbing stairs beneficial during those months.

For me, with the insulin resistance (PCOS) I found eating like a diabetic helped. I would limit my carbs and Sugar, reading packaging was important. As we know there's carbs in practically everything. I would say to have a better understanding of good carbs VS empty carbs.



Processed foods = less helpful with real results. I like being in control of how little to non sodium or carbs and sugars that I place into my meal.

Bakery goods and or breads, pasta noodles- this bloats me up very quick and assists with feeling sluggish. They are also high in carbs. I found Pintrest to be helpful with using vegetables to act as crusts, breads, tortillas and or noodles.

For meal times there's two snack times (mid morning and mid afternoon) lunch and dinner. I would build either a smoothie as breakfast or eggs with veggies. Munch on healthy fruits or veggies or source of protein for my snacks. Lunch, I would eat light (soup without pasta noodles and homemade, or salads or poultry or fish with veggies). Dinner, depending if I had a light or heavier lunch I'd do vice versa for this meal. Rice would be a side with veggies and poultry or fish. I used my fitness pal to keep me on track mainly with my carb count. Also remember the more you exercise, the more you burn and more leeway you have to still losing weight. You can also treat yourself occasionally without seeing yourself going backwards. I wouldn't treat yourself until you gain control of sticking to moderation and knowing how to curve temptation with crap food.

Meat- I try staying away from red meat and stick to chicken, fish and or occasionally ground turkey. Again Pintrest for recipes helps with not feeling this transition isn't do-able.

Fast food- Ha! Try taking out of diet, this alone will highly improve your health and detoxing your body.

I will say with a solid 8wks of eating zero crap and being focused with exercise I had dropped 30lbs. I have learned so much and I'm in better shape now than I was in Highschool. Im currently down 55lbs. I searched exercises to be personalized for my troubled areas. I found the best workouts for those areas, as well with cardio to work my entire body..

This isn't just about looking good but about feeling good, improving ones overall Heath. It's about trying to prevent illness' or worsen your current health conditions and extending ones life.



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