LabMonkeySteph85

Are you seeing a regular doctor, gynecologist or an endocrinologist? If you are not seeing an endo, I would highly recommend that. Most other health practitioners have very minimal insight into PCOS and even fewer suggestions on treatment. Are you insulin resistant? That also makes a difference. If you are, I would suggest…

I know my diet needs work, but I am never at home. I am either at school, the YMCA or running my kids around. I was doing better for a while but it was a lot easier to slide back into bad habits. i really need to buckle down. Also, I am a binge eater and when I am on a binge, I don't eat healthy, I eat crap. Like this…

I don't really mean extreme, I was just trying to differentiate between the classifications of exercise on the scooby calculator for TDEE. 3-5 hrs of moderate exercise versus 5-6 hours of strenuous exercise. Also, what is a compound movement? This was a class that I went to, we used dumbbells and did floor work. There is…

I did do a strength training class on Tuesday night and I was sore until yesterday LOL! I couldn't move without pain, especially my abs and quads, on Wednesday and Thursday. Friday was better but pretty stiff and sore still. I don't think I could handle twice a week but I guess I will suck it up! I can't stop working out…

I gained 7 pounds this time, even though normally I gain only 2-3. It went away a few days after my period was over and took an extra pound with it!

I want to be you.

I'm not there, but I hope to be someday :)

half a cheese quesadilla and steamed broccoli. maybe some fat free refried beans.

I have a medium frame and pretty wide shoulders and hips (ugh), so I'm shooting for 125. Right now I am at 160, down from 177 since January 14th.

5'4" 27 yrs Unofficial SW - 187 Official SW - 177 Current weight - 160 Goal weight - 140 Ultimate goal weight - 125

Are you saying you have lost 12 pounds in two weeks? What are you doing? It has taken me 10 weeks to lose 15 pounds.

Yep. I log all the time though, even though I only count my weight on Mondays. I like to see the fluctuations that way I don't freak out if one Monday I am up a bit because I know that it may just be due to sodium or extra exercise.

I am a full time nursing student and have 2 small children. if I can find time to to work out, so can you. If you can't find time to do it it the gym, there is always weights, youtube and your living room.

Yep. The only person I would be cheating is myself!

^^ Not realizing this is what caused me to gain my weight back after losing 40 pounds. Lifestyle, not diet. I will be a mfp'er for life LOL!

I haven't defriended anyone but I did make my diary private because of this. I can't survive netting 200 calories like some people. My weight loss stalls, apparently. I just did a post about it a couple days ago. I upped my calories to 1900 from 1400 on Sunday and then I just dropped 3 pounds as of last night!

A whole grain waffle with peanut butter and half a sliced banana. Folded in half like a pita. Yum!

That is why I have my diary private. I am doing a weight loss challenge right now and my partner works out as much as I do and only eats 1200-1400 calories a day. It is working for her (she has lost 15 more pounds than I have in the same amount of time) but it is obviously not going to work for me. Her encouragement to me…

Thanks everyone for the advice! I guess I will try to cut back to an hour of exercise 5 days a week and add in extra calories a couple hundred at a time.

I friend requested you. Thanks for the advice!

I wasn't asking if I should do these things. If you read my post, you will see that I am aware that I need to eat more. What I was really asking is that since I have been on a really big deficit, should I start eating the extra calories all at once or should I try to do it gradually. Like which would be best to do to avoid…

I just can't fathom that much food. In order to net 1400 calories a day, I would have to eat like 2200 calories on my heavy workout days. It just seems crazy.

Oh and I realize that it sounds ridiculous that I would net 200 cals a day, but if I go to kickboxing and Zumba I have problems eating after so I usually will have just a banana and some peanut butter instead of dinner so my calories for that day are lower anyway.

My cup size never goes down, just my band size, unfortunately. At 225, I was a 38DD, right now I weigh 163 and am a 36DD and at 135 I was a 34DD. I have a lot of back problems and shoulder grooves, so I wish they would go down but no such luck.

Right now, I am 5'4" , 165 lbs and wear a size12 jean. Even when I was at my smallest (135) I still wore a 10. I have hips and a booty no matter what size I am ;)

You aren't going to be perfect all the time. No one is. You have to let that go. Besides, do you think that you will be able to maintain your weight loss if you never eat out, never go over your calories and work out every day? I know I can't because I have been there, done that. I can do it for so long, but then I break,…

The physician group that I worked for before leaving to go to nursing school refused to prescribe this. It's dangerous. It can lead to serious cardiac complications. I would rather be heavy than dead, IMO.

Dear PCOS, I hate that you caused me to have 3 miscarriages. I hate that I have to put Nair on my face every other day to keep from having a beard. I hate that I have a period every two weeks. I hate that I have insulin resistance that I can't get rid of so I will eventually have diabetes. I hate that metformin makes me so…

So just to make sure I have this right, I should be eating 1817 calories per day and disregard my weight loss calories completely in order to loose 1 pound a week? Couldn't I do 1317 a day in order to loose 2 pounds per week? I guess I don't understand why I can't do this since the minimum is 1200?

I weigh 174.2 and my body fat is around 34%. I can't remember exactly from when I had it checked a couple months ago.