Posts by ballerinababy250

I defintely empathasize with you! That has been my worst nightmare of a question! I am about the same weight as you, and I am small, only 5'4". Because of health problems, my weight is mostly in my stomach, and I'm just waiting for someone to ask me. I've lost a significant amount of weight lately, and I hope it keeps on truckin...but I know what that feeling is like.

I'm sorry that ignorant people are out there. Maybe they didn't realize what they were saying, or maybe they just didn't think. But, if you want to make changes for yourself, do so. BUT PLEASE don't let what one person says change how you feel about yourself. When I was 17 I didn't even weigh 100 lbs. I got sick and have grown to 265 at the most. I tried to never let my weight, or what anyone else thought they were lookin' at, change my spirit.

If you're a happy girl, be happy now and everyday! Your weight doesn't change your heart, and everyday is yours for the taking. I always thought it would be so sad to "wait" until I lost my weight to feel happy/satisfied, so much time would pass me by! Live every day fully, and love yourself! When you get there, you get there...but remember this -- you are no different on the inside, and you have one life to live...love every part of you--then your own happiness will keep you taking good care of yourself!

Swoolfolk,

I don't have any kids and am single, so i haven't gone the fertility treatment route yet. But...let me say this. I am familiar with people taking Clomid for increasing their fertility in general, and especially with PCOS. I have also heard of people trying the metformin (glucophage) for a period of time before they try the clomid and begin trying to get pregnant.  Glucophage heightens the insulin sensitivity of your cells, making anyone with Insulin Resistance less so, and that helps PCOS-ers immensely. Maybe look into that, too. Glucophage is listing as an antidiabetic agent, but it is not a medicine that lowers your blood sugar like other meds for diabetics do...it only helps your own cells do their job better.  PCOS patients are often highly linked with insulin resistance. :D

I'm really glad that you can relate to this posting thread. It actually semi-choked me up for a sec because I am so happy to have spoken to you all already via this thread. The support offered here is amazing, and I think that if we all put our brains (and hearts) together, we might have the best chance we've ever had at getting past the side effects of PCOS. Don't ya think?  Girls, I'm not a man-hater by any means, but I'm telling you...if one man went through this, and someone questioned his fertility, etc... there would be a world-wide coalition against it! Come on...how much effort and scientific research is put into things like Viagra?! Now, I'm being sarcastic not nasty, here girls...but really, who will carry the PCOS torch?  The doctor that finally diagnosed me pointed that out, never thought toomuch about it until then. But I've read more about PCOS, Metabolic Syndrome, Syndrome X, etc. in Women's World, First, and those grocery line magazines than i've ever heard about on television and in the news.  Hopefully, once they can pick just one name for it all...we'll get somewhere closer to proper diagnosis and treatment.....WOWIE!!! was that a soap box or what ladies!

So glad to have you all around....what a great cheering squad! Here we go girls!

Goodnight all..zzzzzzz

Drea 99,

I love doing the whole foods, low glycemic diet. When I fell off the wagon, fifty pounds flew back on. It's a nice, wholesome, healthy, and Natural way to eat.  I'd be glad to share with you...Give me a couple days to gather my info into a concise little bundle, and I'll send you a message here on calorie count plus email.  Does that sound okay with you?

Glad to see you caught my post online. I'm totally new to posting things, too.  I read Atkins is not good for usPCOS-ers.  I'll try to find my info for you, but here's the deal...something about the strict Atkins diet causing ketosis, which sort of irritates the inside of our blood vessels and makes the lining a bit jagged, which they makes a bigger surface area for plaque and atherosclerosis to form. okay...so I'm a science nerd nurse. I've been a trauma ICU nurse for years, and I need to look into studies and be well read on things all the time...so, I read that in some journal. I'll try and figure it out for you and let you know where I read that.  In plain english and not nerd-speak, we PCOS-ers need to stay away from anything that helps our bodies hold on to cholesterol and all those things that contribute to heart attacks, strokes, etc... I went to a homeopathic nurse practitioner (among anyone else that would help me figure this out) and she said the whole foods, low glycemic diet is the best one. (it mimics South Beach Diet). Not too much fat, just healthy...more nuts and berries.

  That was a lot of typing...phew!

I'll check into that Atkins study deal, and let you know. Do you have any helpful hints? Feel free to email me here.

Goodnight!

Hi Cece! I think I'm fun, and I definitely think that 2008 will be great!! I'm a newbie to calorie count plus, so I'm definitely looking for fun cohorts to get through to the end of the rainbow!! Here's to 2008!