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Wanted to share for once with someone other than my mom or dad about my PCOS story... I haven't told anyone else (except my roommate)- no friends know- because I'm trying to keep it to myself and then lose a lot of weight by the end of this school year and have them go "WTF?", haha.
It has been really hard though... I'm 20 and was just officially diagnosed in September. For the past year or two it's been REALLY difficult for me to lose weight and exceptionally easy for me to put it on, and over the summer I went off birth control and my period suddenly stopped coming, I was able to gain 8 pounds overnight just from eating 2 slices of pizza, etc.
So I tried Atkins and it was like a miracle: i.e. dropping about 10 lbs in two weeks. Whenever I tried to take a break from it though and have a slice of desert or bowl of cereal I was still gaining 6 or 8 pounds in a single day, so I went off it when school started up and went on Metformin and birth control after I went to see an Endocrinologist and she diagnosed me (I don't know about others here, but it was nice to finally hear that maybe all this tough time wasn't all my fault or something I was just doing wrong...)
That was like another small miracle since I was finally able to count calories and exercise and actually LOSE weight instead of just maintaining.
Now I've kind of hit a wall though and I'm trying Atkins again
... at least for the last 2 weeks of school before Christmas break. I'd really like to break through the 190-pound threshold and get back in to the 180s before x-mas rolls around (along with the pies and cookies that go along with it).
Just wanted to kind of get that out of my system and maybe ask if Atkins is working well for anyone else on Metformin???
If no one responds that's ok, it was basically just a rant for me so I could finally share with someone outside the family, haha. It would be nice to hear about other people's success though.
It has been really hard though... I'm 20 and was just officially diagnosed in September. For the past year or two it's been REALLY difficult for me to lose weight and exceptionally easy for me to put it on, and over the summer I went off birth control and my period suddenly stopped coming, I was able to gain 8 pounds overnight just from eating 2 slices of pizza, etc.
So I tried Atkins and it was like a miracle: i.e. dropping about 10 lbs in two weeks. Whenever I tried to take a break from it though and have a slice of desert or bowl of cereal I was still gaining 6 or 8 pounds in a single day, so I went off it when school started up and went on Metformin and birth control after I went to see an Endocrinologist and she diagnosed me (I don't know about others here, but it was nice to finally hear that maybe all this tough time wasn't all my fault or something I was just doing wrong...)
That was like another small miracle since I was finally able to count calories and exercise and actually LOSE weight instead of just maintaining.
Now I've kind of hit a wall though and I'm trying Atkins again
... at least for the last 2 weeks of school before Christmas break. I'd really like to break through the 190-pound threshold and get back in to the 180s before x-mas rolls around (along with the pies and cookies that go along with it).Just wanted to kind of get that out of my system and maybe ask if Atkins is working well for anyone else on Metformin???
If no one responds that's ok, it was basically just a rant for me so I could finally share with someone outside the family, haha. It would be nice to hear about other people's success though.
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