Soul Cysters 40 in 4

Hey there! So just for clarification did you want our starting numbers this Saturday or next Saturday the 26th? Either way I can't wait to start!

Choirgirl!!! I am so glad to see your post. I was telling myself this week that I was going to make an appt with the doc and demand i get on this Metaformin aka miracle PCOS drug (so it seems), but after seeing your post this makes me think twice. I mean can it be done? Can I do it, more importantly...lol. Anyhow thanks for the post and the extra motivation!!!

Just for clarification, I'm not saying the Metformin is bad. I've read about healthy people who take it for whatever reason (I can't remember). Nonetheless, I chose not to take it because of the side effects. I just doesn't work for me. So, as long as what I'm doing is working, I'm okay with not taking the Metformin. If must go back to it later -then I will.

We gonna be doing this all hardcore and spreadsheety and reporting back and stuff? lol.

I don't know about you guys, (and I really don't mean to cause offence here) but sometimes I feel like it's just me who can't lose weight and (sorry for the terminology here) but I feel, personally, like blaming no weight loss on my condition is just kinda like an excuse. I don't know, maybe I'm just too hard on myself.

I guess because when I first starting losing weight, I lost 20kgs in 9 months and it just came off with no real exercise or anything. And now, for the past 2 years pretty much, I've been at the same weight (though not actively trying to lose mind you), and not seeing any results. I want to just blame myself for not trying hard enough, but I know that it is partially the PCOS ...

Sorry if that made no sense. Just want to lose weight! lol

That's an excellent idea! I'm terribly serious about managing PCOS -so any tool we can use to help is going to be an asset. I can work an excel spreadsheet, but I don't know how to post spreadsheets here. I've seen some threads where they chart stuff and then post a photo of the spreedsheet in the thread. Very nice tool if we can find somebody to work it.

As of 8/20
Weight 206
Chest 43"
Waist 40"
Hips 43"

Ok, here we go.

90.1kg

Will come back and edit to do measurements later as I'm not at home.

I know most people will be in pounds but that's all confusing and not the norm for me

Sometimes I'll post in lbs, but cos this is a group that's small and more communal, I'll post in kgs, as that's what I'm used to and it feels more successful to me

Okay... measurements from yesterday:

184 pounds
14.25" neck
43" bust
36" waist
43" hips

Today I did a hardcore class at the gym that kicked my butt, LOL. Step aerobics mixed with intervals of circuit training with weights. About 20 min in I thought I was going to die, LOL, but I pushed through the full 60 min!

Hope to see everyone else starting to put in towards their 300 minutes of exercise this week! Good luck!

If you want to post in Kilograms, I suppose that's fine. I hope you don't mind if I convert them (If I convert them, then I will convert the lbs to kgs too) so that everyone is aware of what is going on and we can feel like where on the same page. Once I converted them, i was so please to see that we're all close to the same weight! How about that :-) BTW, whatever happened to the spreadsheet?

I'm aiming for 400 minutes of exercise this week. What is everyone else doing?

I went to mvm.com and composed the virtual model you see as my avatar. She weighs 150. You like?


Hey SUGARCYRSTAL!!! I'm ttc in 2012 too. Best of luck to us both :-)

Did an hour of exercise at the gym last night, still aiming towards the big 300. Not ashamed to say it hurt like hell especially since I did a lot of squats monday and now my thighs are shot but it also felt so good to get back into exercising.
On a happy note small nsv - did jogging intervals on the treadmill and lasted longer than 15 seconds lol.

Not put my measurements on here, emailed them to the challenge leader, maybe I should add here too.

My food intake has been okay this week. On target (eating back some exercise). I'm gonna struggle meeting the 300mins. I think I'll go for an extended walk on Friday night or something.

I don't know what's going on with me. I'm not normally this tired...

Anyway

8/21 90 minutes
8/22 60 minutes
8 23 50 minutes
8/24 30 minutes
8/25
8/26
8/27



Total =230/400

I'm very tired lately. My adrenal glands have been overworking for ages so I have fatigue, have had for about a year. Starting to see a chiroprator. Energy levels are way down today.

I can convert from kgs to lbs, that's cool.

I will have to opt out of any exercise challenges for the foreseeable future. I snapped four ligaments in my left ankle a month ago and it's healed a bit, but not a ton. I can walk for about half an hour max at a very moderate pace and then hurt for ages afterwards, though it's rained a lot this week so even that wasn't really happening. I am hoping it with time and working on it it will be back to normal soon, but this is the fourth time I've done the same injury and the joint is pretty messed up now. Physio is in my near future

I'm very tired lately. My adrenal glands have been overworking for ages so I have fatigue, have had for about a year. Starting to see a chiroprator. Energy levels are way down today.

I've always been afraid of chiroprators! I'm holding out for the super vitamins. OH! By the way! has anyone seen the ads/banner running on this page forsupplements to benefit those with PCOS? It is very interesting, I might order some. They're expensive!

I'm very suscpicious of suppliments ... I ordered Liproxenol and there was a message board and everything and I thought "awesome! seems genuine!" did sh&t all for me. No food suppressant, no inches lost , no weight lost.

This week (i also tend not to count *walking to and from work* as exercise)
20/8: 40
21/8: 0
22/8: 30
23/8: 25
24/8: 30
25/8: 0
26/8:

125/300

PATHETIC, KATIE!!!

Wow. 18 supplements a day -I can hardly remember to take 3 vitamins.

I'm glad you told me because they market them so heavily to women with PCOS, and they make it seem like their products can reverse all of the symptoms. This was particuarly good news for me because I have a few hairs on my chin that are driving me insane. NSV: I shave less frequently :-) Instead of everyday, I only have to shave every 3 days :-)

Chrystal, I hope you put an online review some place like Amazon so that others can save their money.

Katie, normally I shy away from certain supplements. These particulary supplements were the first that I'd every heard of as specifically designed to reverse PCOS symptoms. From what I could gather from their web site, the ingredients were natural -herbs I'm not suggesting all herbs are good for us, but this information left me hopeful and curious, and at the same time I knew that there is no easy fix.

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