| Sarah_Jayne |
06-18-2010 05:11 AM |
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Originally Posted by Sly
(Post 17253988)
Sarah, not to pry too much... but in the past you have mentioned a medical condition that makes it difficult for you to maintain or lose weight. Have you found a way around this? Do you feel you have to work extra hard to compensate for that condition?
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It isn't prying..I talk openly about it because if somebody had done so around me at an earlier age I would have found out sooner and been able to focus on what I need to do for my own body.
Yes, I have to work extra hard. I have polycystic ovarian syndrome coupled with insulin resistance (often the two go together). In a lot of people with those conditions it is sort of a cycle where the condition makes it easy to gain and hard to lose weight but then the extra weight makes the conditions worse and so it goes.
My way around it has been to eat to control my insulin. I am not diabetic but since I do have insulin issues I have gone to a more vegetable and wholegrain based diet that provides me with slow burning foods. This keeps my insulin levels stable and keeps me feeling fuller for longer. Plus, it is just healthier anyway.
I very rarely eat anything processed these days because I am be sure that if I do it is packed with sugars that sends my levels crazy and then I get shaky hungry pretty shortly afterwards. I can see how that became an issue as I came through puberty and the ovary issue kicked in (my sister also had ovary issues but in a much more dramatic fashion that saw one of hers removed at six months old..nobody knew to look in my direction sadly) coupled with not eating as healthy as I should have been at that age. I was on every diet you can imagine as a kid and a teenager but the weight moved so slowly I can see why I would feel it wasn't working and stopped the diet.
Once I decided to just make it how I live and figured out the 'rules' for my body the weight came off even if it is much slower that it would come off for other people. I also count calories pretty religiously which is why it becomes frustrating when I have been stalled for this long because I know what I am eating and it *shouldn't* be too much.
I have done a lot of my weight loss with the supervision of a nurse that has special training with PCOS and she thinks that since I stopped birth control at about the same time I started to stall with the weight loss the two are connected and I should just wait for my hormones (which after all PCOS is all about) to work themselves out and eventually things will move again. Hope so but at least nothing has come back on. |
