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  • I am. My first baby was assisted, this one is completely on my own -- having a baby "reset" my hormones so many of the symptoms of PCOS (not all, but many) disappeared. With PCOS the one thing they watch for is gestational diabetes. Are you still on metformin?
  • There are a few organic vegetable suppliers, the ones that do weekly boxes, that have them. HolmSelect does a box of just spaghetti squash for £20.
  • My mom, my sister and my sister-in-law are all on here. I think it helps them more than it does me -- I'm not so much a good example as I am a horrible warning!
  • I have never been a happy veggie person myself! :) It does make it difficult to lose weight, but I'll never look at a salad and think "ooh yum!"
  • I directly attribute losing my job in 2008 to metformin -- I was too ill to go into work much of the time. When I was pregnant, my doctor took me off of metformin. Instead,I followed a diabetic diet and tested blood sugars a few times a day; the result was the same as the metformin without the gastric distress. I found a…
  • :) I'm a low carber. I have some serious insulin-resistance going on, if I so much as look in the direction of a piece of whole-grain bread my blood sugar goes insane. Low carb works for me, and works well. I had lost 50+ lb. on it while at uni, but then I met my husband and started eating carbs again...so now I have quite…
  • I really, really love my Bodybugg. My problem is that I have the older one which A: has a problem connecting to Macs and B: is worn around the upper arm, which isn't a great place for me as it keeps falling off. It is really great for getting a more accurate picture of your activity versus calorie intake, though.
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