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this is going to be TMI.. but.
In 2007... I had a period that last 8 months straight. I weighed 266lbs. I was working out with a personal trainer twice per week and on my own 4 times per week.. Each workout session my heart rate monitor would register 900+ calories burned. EVERY TIME. It was my goal...... eating between 1500-1700 calories..
We were staying in the Four Seasons... when I looked down and I swear I thought I was giving birth. I was bleeding down my leg horribly.
Next day I went to a gyno. Gyno told me, "You're eating too much..." I told her my exercise regime and gave her my food journal.. and she told me that I was probably sabotaging myself.. and brought up the words "PCOS"...
I google PCOS and found a support site online... I found a great doc here in Houston..
I get to the doc in Houston.. and find out that I have the testosterone of a dude (hence, my sex drive, competitiveness, and ambition)... I tell him my work out regimen... He has me food journal on his website... we get blood work.. and my free floating testosteron is somewhere in the 700s... a Normal MAN is in the 700s...
We also did the 2 hour glucose test.. first time we did it with the koolaid drink.. second time we did it with a DIET SODA...
We learned that my body floods itself with glucose for virtually any carb or fake sugar.. Even a "diet soda... even splenda... and any kind of white refined carb.
In February of 08. I decided I was going to change it all... From February 08.. to May 08... I had a shake every single morning... with some PCOS blend that had cinnamon and other things that help glucose in it... took my metformin.. got down to about 1300 calories per day.. still with the insane workouts...
I got down to 233. No cellulite. I could run 2-3 miles on the treadmill... larger mid section...
But keeping up a diet of strictly proteins and water was and is hard for me.. I get discouraged that I can't just work out like other people... While taking the meds and supplements for PCOS to lose the weight.. my thyroid fucked up.. one was masking the other...
So yeah it's discouraging that most women can just cut their calories to a certain level.. and lose.. I can't.
There are medical conditions. I could work out circles around most of the dudes on here... obviously not the meat heads.. lol but your average webmaster.. I'm a gym beast. I love to work out.. and most people never guess how much I actually weigh.
So yeah.. There are medical conditions that make it hard.. and I fully believe the PCOS developed as a result of hormones/steroids in food/meats I ate when younger..
I still adore working out.. and wish I could run a lot more at my weight without hurting joints/whatever.. and am considering some form of bariatric surgery in the future... supposedly bypass cures PCOS and insulin resistance issues...
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However.. I do think there should be an extra charge if they genuinely do spill over into the other seat.. even at 266.. I was contained in my own seat... while some women at 266.. would spill over... so I think there needs to be a test...
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