Re: PCOS sufferers in their 20s?
From: Renee (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 27 Feb 2002 22:09:40 -0800
This describes me exactly. I don't much pay attention to the weight, but all
my other symptoms are quite noticible to me if I eat anything more than a few
grams of carbs. I'm glad I'm not the only person out there that carb intolerant.
Renee
tera wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Some women with PCOS in order to lose weight need to low carb and some
> of them need to LOW CARB. I was just reading in the Atkins New Diet
> Revolution last night that even he acknowledges the fact that there are
> people out there that are extremely metabolically resistant because of
> insulin resistance. He has a special chapter for them in his book. If
> memory serves me right he describes these people as people who can go on
> a 1000 calorie per day traditional diet and still not lose weight!
>
> Some women with PCOS can get away with eating many more carbs than
> others to lose weight and some, described by Atkins, have to stay around
> 20 carbs per day (induction) to be able to continue to lose and as soon
> as they start adding a few carbs here and there they stop losing and
> even start slowly to gain. I start to lose weight on induction and then
> I plateau and even begin to gain as soon as I hop off induction.
>
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Renee Cordrey, MSPT, MPH, CWS
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