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Re: Iam going to lose weight and change my eating habits for ever
From: kim (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 14 Jul 2001 07:29:44 -0400
Welcome Shelly,
A couple other good boards are
www.soulcysters.com this is all pcos info etc.
www.preconception.com this one go to the pcos board
They are both great sites.
I gotta get off that suger!! That for the encouagement.....
Kim
>From: anonymous@obgyn.net (Shelly)
>Reply-To: anonymous@obgyn.net
>To: Multiple recipients of list PCOS-DIET
>Subject: Iam going to lose weight and change my eating habits for ever
>Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 16:41:02 -0500
>
>I was diagnosed as pcos about 4 years ago when a large cyst was found on
>my ovary. I am from the UK and feel we are still very behind on the
>medical subject here!! I read up from these discussion boards and went
>armed to my doctor who says there is a link with insulin resistance and
>pcos! sucess! I am now going to see a specialist in hormones and all my
>life I have been told that my weight causes my medical problems, well
>not this time I am going to tell the doctor that it is the pcos that is
>causing my weight. I want to do something about it and u ARE going to
>help me!!! I couldn't believe what i read on here about insulin
>resistance coz it described me to a tee, I am a text book case! I cried
>as I read it as it was finally there is something wrong with my body it
>not coz i overeat as I have been told all my life! As i read it all put
>the pieces of the jigsaw together for me, why friends i know who r obese
>still have periods and i dont! i was told i dont have them coz of my
>weight...but they do! Why my skinny friends can eat alot more than me
>and not put weigh ton! I have always said sugar is my enemy and any diet
>i have been on i dont need low fat just to cut out sugar. no one has
>ever believed what i said before, now i gonna show them. I can live
>with the fact that i can never eat sugar again, as i know what the
>affect of eating sugar has on me i dont want to!! i have not eaten sugar
>for 3 1/2 weeks and have lost 21 pounds!! yet i feel i eating more than
>i did before. But i really conscious of what foods contain sugars and
>check every label, i am trying to stick to natural things like fruit
>vegetables meat eggs nuts etc.. I feel soooo much better My hubby has
>commented on how my mood has lifted and i dont get so annoyed so
>quickly! also i know my hormones have kicked back in coz i got period
>spots round my mouth and stomach cramps and i felt emotional with it!! i
>not had a period for 3 years or any of these signs!! i sure one will
>start soon!!
>My doctor told me i would have a period if i lost weight, and when i
>have lost some weight before they have restarted, but i now relise this
>is coz i stopped eating ugar not lost weight!!
>My nan was born in 1907 and did not have my dad until she was 40 years
>old even though she never tried not to get pregnant. it all makes sense
>that she had pcos aswell, as my dad was born at the end of ww2 in the
>middle of rationing and my nan could not eat sugar so therefore she
>became fertile again!! does that not make sense?
>she was also a large lady all her life even though in her day her diet
>was poor and could not over eat, it was just the sugar that made her
>big!!
>i feel so relieved and thank you to everyone on here that has explained
>things so clearly that i am now so positive and confident enough to tell
>doctors NO the pcos is causing my weight do something!!!
>THank you all!!!!!!!
>
>--
>Shelly
>
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