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Is there a "pre C25K" plan?
I read the tips pinned to the top of the group and I've done them all. I'm under a doctor's care and on medication. my doctor wants me to lose weight. This summer is the second time I've tried to start c25K - the first time was in the winter. Each time I've started it, within a week I've developed serious respiratory…
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Pointless frustration-rant-confusion
Got more labwork back from my doctor, same as it's always been forever. Ultrasounds on my ovaries show classic PCOS cysts (surrounded by small ones with occasional big ones, ouch) , I have most of the other outer symptoms, hirsutism, midline weight gain and frustrating inability to lose, carb/sugar cravings, migraines, bad…
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Just was prescribed Metformin yesterday
Part question asking, part VENTING here, lol I had a list of things to discuss with my doctor, and one was that my weight loss persistently stalls despite me sticking to a fairly low cal diet and exercising, trying IF (of which she disapproved of course), low carb, almost no added sugar, avoiding HFCS entirely, and so on.…
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Monthly (or whenever) cycles and massive temp weight gain
It's hard for me to record weight on mfp because of massive, an I mean incredible, off the chart weight gain I go through right before I'm about to have my cycle. I don't have anything like a regular cycle anymore between perimenopause and PCOS - so I know I am about to have one by the fact that I will gain 7-10 pounds in…
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Anyone here do IF in any form?
I am not doing the classic or strict version - I have no problems with gluten and I am not cutting out all carbs - but I am going back to a 16-8 plan as I've had the most success with that in the past. I kind of stumbled on this by accident - I find that if I eat in the morning, I am starving uncontrollably all day; but if…
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Another newb with a longish story (sorry!)
Not to PCOS, just to this group. I was an extremely active and athletic teenager - like EXTREMELY, and in fact anorexic. In spite of being excessively athletic and engaging in self-destructive levels of food restriction, I couldn't get my weight below 135 (at a height of 5'5" so no one ever caught on or felt I had a…
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c25k n00b
I am on week 1. Okay - I started week one 9 days ago. I'm not a light girl - I still have 100 pounds to lose. Now that my blood pressure medication has started doing it's job it's safe for me to do a more hardcore workout so I figured I'd start with something for couch potatoes which describes me pretty accurately. But now…
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Hullo, I'm new here
Not new to dieting though. I settled on this app after trying a few others that don't work well. I'm old and cranky. Well - 40 going on 41, anyway. I hit my high weight a few years ago - 300 lbs! At a height of 5'5.5". My weight story I find is not like that of many other people. I was a frightfully skinny child and…
