Anyone with PCOS

xoxofelicia
xoxofelicia Posts: 34
edited October 7 in Introduce Yourself
Hello! I'm new to this :) I'm 23, looking to lose around 40-50lbs. I was diagnosed with PCOS almost a year ago and have been gaining weight! I'm finally ready to take control of this condition and the weight gain! Anyone else here in the same boat?
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  • kelsiemojean
    kelsiemojean Posts: 15 Member
    Meeee :)

    Watch your carbs!! Are you taking any meds??
  • AllsmilesMom
    AllsmilesMom Posts: 12 Member
    I was dx with PCOS in 2000. I would recommend that you check out The PCOS Diet and the Insulin Resistance Diet from the library... AWESOME resources.

    I am 33, totally in your boat. We can do this! :o)
  • MasonMelissa
    MasonMelissa Posts: 525 Member
    Hi there
    i was dignosed with PCOS 16 years ago. I am now 32 and am married and trying to lose weight for me and my future family. I have been up and down in weight all my life. I am about 45lbs over the weight i would like to be. if you need motivation I think i can help.

    G.I diets help as a resourse.


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  • hloftin32
    hloftin32 Posts: 86 Member
    I know my little 4lbs lost ticker isn't very impressive, but let me tell you there is hope and you just need to read all of your resources!! Get a book by Dr. Elizabeth Vilet! She is amazing. Also start following lower carb diet. Refined crap is terrible for us! Please everyone feel free to add me!! :)
  • xoxofelicia
    xoxofelicia Posts: 34
    Meeee :)

    Watch your carbs!! Are you taking any meds??

    Hey! I'm suppose to be taking Glumetza but I don't.. I figured once I started to try for a baby again then I would start it back up.. but the more I think about it now, the more I realize it might help me lose some weight :) I'm gonna send you a FR
  • xoxofelicia
    xoxofelicia Posts: 34
    I was dx with PCOS in 2000. I would recommend that you check out The PCOS Diet and the Insulin Resistance Diet from the library... AWESOME resources.

    I am 33, totally in your boat. We can do this! :o)

    I'm gonna check into that book and I'm sending you a FR :)
  • xoxofelicia
    xoxofelicia Posts: 34
    Hi there
    i was dignosed with PCOS 16 years ago. I am now 32 and am married and trying to lose weight for me and my future family. I have been up and down in weight all my life. I am about 45lbs over the weight i would like to be. if you need motivation I think i can help.

    G.I diets help as a resourse.


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    FR accepted :) And I'm looking for all the motivation I can get and looking to give it out also :)
  • CornbreadCountryFed
    CornbreadCountryFed Posts: 25
    I have PCOS, I have only had 3 periods in 10 years and im only 33. I was recently put on Metformin 500 2 times a day for borderline diabetes. Friend me if ya want!
  • xoxofelicia
    xoxofelicia Posts: 34
    I know my little 4lbs lost ticker isn't very impressive, but let me tell you there is hope and you just need to read all of your resources!! Get a book by Dr. Elizabeth Vilet! She is amazing. Also start following lower carb diet. Refined crap is terrible for us! Please everyone feel free to add me!! :)

    I'm going to look into her! Thanks! I'm also gonna send ya a FR. I'm new to all of this never thought about what I ate, the amount of anything or even the portion size this is a all new outlook for me!!
  • xoxofelicia
    xoxofelicia Posts: 34
    I have PCOS, I have only had 3 periods in 10 years and im only 33. I was recently put on Metformin 500 2 times a day for borderline diabetes. Friend me if ya want!

    Okay I'm gonna send ya a FR. I get my periods, about 3 times a year. I was originallyon Metformin but it made me horribly sick so I was prescribed Glumetza but I haven't been taking it here lately (Just being lazy & down) and I'm pretty sure I'm insulin resistant and was told if I don't change my lifestyle i would become diabetic!
  • MasonMelissa
    MasonMelissa Posts: 525 Member
    Thanks all motivation helps.

    here are 2 books that have helped me out and i am now going to have to get reaquinted with them again.

    The New Glucose Revolution "shopper's guide to GI values" by Dr. Jennie Brand-Miller
    and
    The GI diet by Rick Gallop (this is a Canadian book)
  • mathaholic
    mathaholic Posts: 15 Member
    I've been using the PCOS diet book for about two weeks now... Before I was just tracking calories. I was starving at 1200 calories and not losing weight at all. But now that I'm using the the food pairings this book mentions, I'm down 1.5 lbs in barely 14 days. Hopefully this will keep working and my hormones will regulate.

    Good Luck!
  • carpediem3
    carpediem3 Posts: 320 Member
    Me :) Feel free to FR me. PCOS is a depressing diagnosis, but losing weight is possible!
  • MeghanAM
    MeghanAM Posts: 222 Member
    I have PCOS, too. I love having other PCOS-diagnosed friends on here!
  • hausofnichele
    hausofnichele Posts: 531 Member
    I have PCOS -- feel free to add me please!!!

    I can't take metformin so I'm just eating better and trying to get my health problems under control. I eat 100 carbs a day and I have been losing weight ;)
  • salmat77
    salmat77 Posts: 310 Member
    PCOS sister here too, I was diagnosed in 09, currently taking Metformin and seems to be working.. Feel free to add me too!!

    :bigsmile: lets fight this together!!
  • LeighYan91
    LeighYan91 Posts: 129
    Hi,,
    I have pcos and struggle alot with my weight.
    I am takign no medication as the doctor wont give me anything apart from the contraceptive pill which I dont want to take.
  • GCNerd
    GCNerd Posts: 63 Member
    Seems like there's a lot of us here! I was diagnosed about 5 years ago. I've been taking birth control, but no other medications. It's definitely a struggle to get through all the symptoms, but we can get through it together! :)
  • joeylu
    joeylu Posts: 208 Member
    Im in the same boat. Watch your carbs and sugars. Feel free to friend me :)
  • abbysmommy1
    abbysmommy1 Posts: 48 Member
    I have PCOS too! I was just diagnosed in June of 2011, but have had symptoms since my teen years. I take metformin and that does seem to help some! Hubby and I are currently TTC #2, but the PCOS is not making it easy...

    Feel free to add me as a friend, fellow PCOS'ers. It's always nice to have friends who know what you're going through :)
  • galegetsthin
    galegetsthin Posts: 1,340 Member
    I was diagnosed with PCOS in 2008. I am on Metformin, Aldactone (testosterone suppressant) and BC pills. When I found out, I was 342 lbs. I am down to almost 185 now. I want to get to 150. It takes so much more work for us than other people, but it is possible. If you ARE insulin resistant, the meds help a lot.
  • mgmlap
    mgmlap Posts: 1,377 Member
    I have insulin resistance, PCOS, and hypothyroid. Watch your carbs...only do natural carbs...(fruits/veggies) . Are you on any meds? Make sure you take them...I have lost 40 pounds..and doing amazing...stick with it..the weight will drop..
  • StrlJmnz
    StrlJmnz Posts: 23
    I have PCOS. I was on the meds had 2 beautiful kids. I no longer take the meds. I am trying to eat right and exercise to loose weight.
  • vballscriscuolo
    vballscriscuolo Posts: 39 Member
    I have PCOS! I was diagnosed in July of 2010, so not too long ago. It's been a battle and depressing at times since I've been trying to get pregnant and the diease is preventing it sore to speak....my doctor had recommended this website and it has helped me to try and keep on track.....I know my "weight lost" ticker says 0 but I don't base my actual like "weight loss" off weight if that makes sense.....to me it's more important how you feel and such. I haven't actually lost much, but I have "exchanged" fat for muscle so I am leaner, but weigh the same as of now! Keep you head up and you can do anything!

    Add me if you'd like! I'm always looking for new friends!!!:flowerforyou:
  • OnWisconsin84
    OnWisconsin84 Posts: 409 Member
    I also have (thin) PCOS. I was thin through high school, but gained nearly 100 pounds throughout college. I just chalked it up to poor eating & no longer being as active (I played basketball). In 2008 I joined Weight Watchers & lost 110 pounds and later found out last year (after unsuccessfully trying to have a baby with my now-ex) I have PCOS. This helped me understand my weight gain through college, and also helped me understand why I am able to put on 10 pounds in 1-2 days while 'eating well' (no one ever believes me...) Since finding this out, I've adopted a much lower carb & sugar way of eating (little to no fruit...that's what was killing me) and have found it is MUCH easier for me to maintain my weight loss than ever before. While trying to conceive I was put on Metformin, which helped regulate me & I never had any of the side effects most people talk of (I think that's because I stuck with low carb / sugar & little to no dairy). It IS possible to lose weight with PCOS...I'm living proof. It may take longer than most people (mine took 13 months, pretty average), but if you're committed to modifying your diet & staying the course, the end result will be well worth it :smile:
  • magonza
    magonza Posts: 1
    Wow!!! I did not realize how many women have PCOS, please FR me too. I am curios to learn more, and I will not take the metpformin... Have been married 7 years and unable to conceive...
  • mistersgirl
    mistersgirl Posts: 14 Member
    I have PCOS as well. I was diagnosed around 8 years ago. I've been on Metformin before but I am not currently. I took Clomid a couple of times for fertility but, it never did anything to help. I have struggled with the infertility of PCOS for many years. My doctor told me that if I lost weight there was a chance I could concieve but, since the meds never helped, I figured it was a bleak chance. I was scared to help myself. I was scared to lose the weight and face the heartbreak if I still could not concieve. Now, I am overcoming that fear. I am losing the weight regardless of how it will affect my fertility. I have a handsome little boy through the blessing of adoption and he deserves a momma who is fit and able to keep up with him! If I lose this weight and get pregnant, yay. If I still can not conceive, yay anyway! God has a plan for me as a mother regardless of my biological ability to reproduce. Anyway, just wanted to introduce myself and share a snipet of my PCOS story. :o) Friend me if you would like!
  • angelas0304
    angelas0304 Posts: 5 Member
    I am 38 and was diagnosed with PCOS at 26. I too started to gain weight and then they put me on Glucophage to help manage it. I did lose some of the weight but it is still a struggle to keep it off. I have to work a lot harder to lose the weight and REALLY make sure I watch my calories. My resting metabolism rate is only 1072 calories so it is very easy for me to put it on and extremely hard to take it off. I can't do the 1200 calories per day because i actually gain weight unless i do some really tough exercising to counter the calories. it is tough, but you can do it. I started in mid October and have lost 21 pounds so far. just about half way to my goal. keep your will power and you will see your results :) New Year, New You!!
  • mistersgirl
    mistersgirl Posts: 14 Member
    Also, there is a group, PCOS Cysters Unite, that is all PCOS ladies if you want to check it out for support.
  • FruityLoops
    FruityLoops Posts: 138 Member
    Hi, and hi to everyone else on here with the same problems, seems like there are a lot of us!!

    I was diagnosed about 14 years ago, initially I was put on metformin for the insulin resistance and the contraceptive pill to help with some of the symptoms, unfortunately I had to come off of the pill because it affected my blood pressure, and although initially I got on ok with metformin, eventually it started causing me stomach issues so I had to come off that also :-(

    However, I did manage to lose 7 stone over 2 years (around 2003/4, not on any medication) with a lot of hard slog, diet and exercise so I know it is possible to lose weight with PCOS if you're committed, and I defo recommend the PCOS diet book that others have mentioned :-)

    Alas I did manage to stuff up and put the weight back on again though through being lazy and complacent and not watching those scales! :-( I'm back on the metformin now though, but the extended release pill (Metformin XR) which means it spreads the release throughout the day so it's less problematic on your stomach, and I'm back on the wagon to try and lose the weight again and for good this time :-D Finding it a lot more difficult this time though as I now have Psoriatic Arthritis to deal with so I can't exercise much and am a lot more sedentary, but determined to lose as much weight as possible!!
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