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You probably have endocrine problems like I do. What MFP says for people like us as far as calories go is BS. If I eat as much as they tell me to, I gain weight. Don't eat your exercise calories, drop your overall calorie intake, look carefully over your foods to see if any are causing inflammation.
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OMG yes. The low carb craze is like the low fat craze of the 80s and 90s. Now it's morphed into this new animal where suddenly everyone I know who was PERFECTLY FINE before suddenly has "realized" they are allergic to gluten. I don't invite anyone to my house for dinner anymore because perfectly healthy people whine…
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All of those things are just fad diets. Women with PCOS half to eat about half of what other dieters do to lose weight. That's the hard truth.
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I'm here to be partly encouraging, partly realistic. The reality is that with PCOS, your weight gain is almost certainly not due to your "bad choices". That's stupid diet community talk made to induce guilt in you. I've seen phrases around here like "I'm trying not to blame my PCOS" - well that's silly. It IS your PCOS…
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Absolutely. For some women with PCOS, it is the ONLY way to lose weight. I had tried fora while sticking to a 1200 calorie diet and exercising up to two hours a day but my weight loss still stopped. I'm going back to the ONLY weight loss plan that has worked for me before, which is staying under 1000 a day and exercising…
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It's not surprising. I'm anorexic as well. It ruins your metabolism.
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I have PCOS and cannot eat above 1000 calories a day and consistently lose weight, even though I am morbidly obese. I do not have insulin resistance, so the carb and sugar thing makes no difference. Not all PCOS sufferers have insulin problems. I spent 2 years dieting to the extreme, 800-1000 calories a day unless I…
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Thank you, you were much politer about that terrible person than I felt like being.
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I never knew why I became overweight. I was a skinny, skinny kid. When I went to college I gained the "freshman 15" and then some, but I then dieted to take it off until I was thinner than when I started. I gained a little weight after college, but was still in my healthy weight range. Then I had to quit taking the birth…
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No. I know people will pick on me for what and how I eat. There's actually a ton of BAD science that people believe in and I get tired of having to repeat myself all the time (for instance, the 8 cups of water a day is absolute bunk. There is not one single study showing any evidence that it is helpful in any way. Yet…
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I'm sorry, I disagree with all the people who say it isn't sabotage. It really is. It doesn't mean you can't resist it, but if you know someone is watching their weight and are constantly pushing fattening food in their face after they ask you repeatedly to stop, they are trying to sabotage you. I'm dealing with it at home…
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What? On the rare occasions that I wear eye shadow that's what I always do. Of course whatever I do fashion wise is probably terribly wrong, I learned how to wear makeup in the 70s and 80s!
