PCOS-DIET Messages for May, 2003: Re: Losing Weight

Re: Losing Weight

From: Dee (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 21 May 2003 17:17:21 -0500 (CDT)

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I would be grateful to know what has worked for you. I would like to see if I can get anything new out of it. I have a nearly identical situation, at 22 I was 5'6" (sturdy bone structure) and weighing in at 150. Believe me I looked great. Already started having the the facial hair problem and lack of mense cycle. After exhausted tests and getting a final "Hormonal Imbalance" diagnosis a year later I started gaining weight with the Hormone therapy. I quit the therapy when I topped the scales at nearly 200. I knew something more was wrong but it took another 10 years (60 more pounds) and a Women doctor to agree. By then my both ovaries are crystalized and I can't have children. I shave daily now. I will be having a hysterectomy once I can get to my goal weight. In 6 months I have shed 40 lbs thanks to medication, Lactose intolerance (newly discovered) and increased exercise. I pretended I was Diabetic so as to avoid becoming one. The lose is plateauing for longer each time which can be very frustrating. I only have 60 more to lose so I can have the surgery and balance the hormones being released erraticly in my system. I have started peri-menopause at the age of 33 and take high dose progesterone to force my cycle so I don't develope Endometirosis or Uterine cancer. I'm off the medication that made it all so easy with no appetite and use old fashioned will power. Just trying to shed some of that excess Estrogen ruining my blood sugar balance. Please send your plan my way. I see if it can ad to what I've done. I keep trying to find the PCOS Diet book but its never available up here. Very frustrating. Any help would be great thanks in advance Elizabeth Dee

>At Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Elizabeth wrote:
>I have been a PCOS sufferer since I was 21. I was always very thin 5'8
>and weighed 103 pounds. In two months at the age of 21 I gained 45
>pounds and my periods ceased to exsist. Since that time I have been
>through it all with this disease. Losing hair while gaining facial hair
>(now isn't that a kick in the teeth) weighing at heaviest 238 lbs, being
>told I would never have children. A doctor offering to wedge my
>ovaries...thank the Lord I didn't do that. Four endoscropic procedures,
>heavy periods, etc...
>The blessings are in between this bouts I have managed to have two
>beautiful girls (We have not used birth control in 9 years and have
>never conceived again.) This past year I finally found a vitamin
>program/weight loss that has worked and have now gone from a size 18/20
>to a 10/12. It has taken 8 months to loose 40 lbs and 33 1/2 inches.
>Which while it is slow medically speaking we know it is healthier than a
>super fast weight drop. I have not had any issues with holding my
>weight down and in fact have lost quite a bit more inches than weight.
>The facial hair is still there but at least my hair is not falling out
>anymore and I am trying to walk 5 miles 4-5 days a week so my energy
>level is great.
>If anyone is interested in this program just write back... It really
>has help me. I am going to be 40 in a year & 1/2 and made up my mind I
>was not going to spend the next 20 years feeling unhealthy like I spent
>the last 17 regardless of my disease.
>Elizabeth

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