PCOS Messages for August, 2000: Re: ply to the reply for Erin

Re: ply to the reply for Erin

From: Trish (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 8 Aug 2000 15:05:00 -0500 (CDT)

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At Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Erin wrote:

That's great to hear, that your losing !! Eating meat is a big part of low carbing as I understand it. I'm trying to to low carb but I am a Pepsi addict and I hate the diet kind.

I started Met 2 months ago thought that was the answer everybody seemed to be having such good luck the treatment so far I have gained another 10 pounds or so. I'm also taking aldactone, and just started ortho tri-cyclen bcp those at the advice of gyno #3.

If I could get the weight under control I would be so much more comfortable and deal with all the rest easier. The weight has really messed up my back.

Good talking with you Erin >
>I have lost some weight -- 15 lbs!-- since starting aygestin, I think it
>helps curb the body-thinks-its-pregnant cravings that overproduction of
>estrogen gives me, but I only lose weight when I eat meat at least a few
>times a week. It was a coincidence, I wasn't even trying to lose weight
>right then, I was severely anemic again and on prescription iron and I went
>back to eating red meat again. Then I lost the weight. When I reached my
>goal hemoglobin level (11) the dr. told me to cut the meat back out because
>I had developed high cholesterol, and I did and I stopped losing weight.
>Now I've started to eat meat again. And I do get less hungry. It's a
>synergistic thing between the meat eating and the med, I think. I have a
>lot more weight to lose and I hope it works again, I currently am 200 lbs,
>5'3".

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