The MakeMeThinner Support Forum

[Alisa]

Hi all! Newbie just wating for my first shipment to start the program.
I read a post from another member who said that she has PCOS. I was so excited to see someone else with the same condition here. Are there any others? Does it make the plan any harder?

I am excited and nervous all at the same time about begining the plan. After I placed my order I almost had a panic attack. Like most everyone here, food is my best friend and the thought of not having it sent me straight in to panic mode. My logical mind seys that this is it the abuse has to stop! But the other side is screaming NO Don't Do It.

I have been reading all of the posts for about 2 weeks now and everyone here seams so wonderful!! I feel very lucky to have found you all!

Alisa

[Landylue]

Welcome to the group, Alisa! You are absolutely right about this forum. We are ALL lucky to have found each other. Its a tremendous support system!

No one here is going to tell you, though, giving up a food addiction isn't tough, but it's not impossible. Not at all. After you begin, instead of going to the pantry or the frig for a 'food fix', just dive into this forum and read all the posts you can. It gives you strength and encouragement each time.

Good luck, and keep in touch!

Landylue

[pinkgeek]

Hi Alisa!

I'm the one with PCOS blah! I don't think anyone else here has the problem, at least they have not posted. You and I know that losing weight with PCOS is nearly impossible b/c of the insulin resistance, the hormones that want to hang on to fat, the sugar addiction, on and on it goes. Here's what kicked my butt into gear. I was going thru some MAJOR stress and I was unable to eat or sleep for several months...bye bye 35lbs.....After things settled down and I was able to start eating again (bad stuff of course) I still managed to lose 2 more. But, I started exercising and all that nervous energy during the stress period really had me moving (exercising and cleaning and doing and going). Anyways, after the stress period was over, I decided that the weight loss was awesome and maybe that was just the beginning. So I found this group and lurked for awhile and then made my committment for a month. I'm on week 3 now. I have lost 10 lbs so far....that's extraordinary for my metabolism. I actually think I might see more loss during flo's visit because I will be off the evil birth control pill for a week. I have noticed some other things, too. The skin tags that I just noticed I was getting at around 210lbs seem to be disappearing...is this my imagination? I hope not. I was getting them on my inner thighs and now they seem to be almost gone?!?

The first 3 days of this program are he**! You definitely feel your carb and sugar addiction. Actually days 4-9 were worse for me than 1-3. I felt really deprived and sad and like I was on a leash...can't stray far from those shakes and all that water. But it is worth it! Stick with it! Cry and get angry and hit pillows and chew on pillows and come here and read and post and vent and share. The main thing is, you are not the only one going through this. You aren't experiencing anything that others have not gone through. As I keep repeating, you will just be paying your dues, going through the MF initiation period. Remember how badly you feel during the first 3 days and any time you are tempted to eat, think back that you never want to go through that initiation phase AGAIN! Does your doc have you on any meds like Metformin or are you on the pill to regulate your cycles? I was feeling kinda bleh yesterday about my weight loss and finally emailed a nurse at MF and hopefully will get a reply. I will post the info here for you to read. My email address is public here, so feel free to email me or message me anytime. I hope you do well on the program..Just stick to it. It's the only thing that has worked for me really! Just remember that we might lose slower than the rest here. Good luck and let me know how it goes for you!

[Jeanette]

Hi y'all:

I don't think I have ever posted it, but I have PCOS too. (Ain't it FUN??)

[shineface]

Welcome Alicia---

OK guys, help me with my ignorance here - what exactly (laymen's terms please) is PCOS?

Remember, keep reading and posting and shakin' and slurpin' and drink drink drink all the water and more - it is SO IMPORTANT!!!!!

WE WILL do this together!!!:stroll:

[pinkgeek]

Hey there Jeanette!

I posted a question once before asking if anyone had and I didn't see any takers, so I thought I was the only one. That's not a club I want anyone to belong to. So I didn't mean to leave you out anyhoo...it's just oodles of fun.

Pam, PCOS is polycystic ovarian syndrome. It means you have cysts on your ovaries and includes all sorts of goodies which include, but not limited to, being overweight, having strange cycles and for some of us, none at all, having insulin resistance (pre-cursor to diabetes type II which in turn causes heart problems and another host of goodies if you are overweight which most of us are), having hair grow in places it shouldn't, getting skin tags, possibly developing endimetriosis (sp?). Did I leave anything out girlies? You can do research on it...there are forums out there filled with all kinds of desperate posts about "How do I lose weight? How do I make the symptoms better or lessen?" It's just the best!

MF is going to save our cystic ovaries and our hearts and everything else...I just know it!

[Jeanette]

Nope Ang, you hit it all! The weird thing--since Medifast, my period had been REGULAR without any help from drugs!!

Am I becoming fertile after all this time???? YIKES!!

[pinkgeek]

Is that a good or bad thing for you Jeanette? I know the couple of times I got serious with someone, the whole, I can't have kids convo really turned the guy off. Now that I have found my someone and he was actually more than fine about the kids thing, it would be really weird to end up preggers :> Here's to us being healthy and happy with whatever hand we are dealt

[Jeanette]

Angela:

While it wouldn't be the end of the world, I would rather not have a baby at my age (I'll be 39 on Thursday). But it's really up to God anyway, isn't it?

[Guest]

Hey guys
It is possible to hve children with PCOS. It was a lot harder to get prego but I am blessed with two wonderful children.
So watch out!! Being a loser is one of the things that increases fertility.
Alisa

[Sarya]

Hi! I just joined today. I've also been diagnosed with PCOS, and losing weight sucks! Ok let's be truthful.. there is no losing weight just gaining it. I saw my doctor a couple months ago only to find out that watching what I ate for six months gained me 10 lbs instead of losing any.

I freaked out before and after ordering the medifast. I'm worried it won't work, and I'll get frustrated like so many other times.

So you wrote your post just under a month ago. How has it been going for you?

--S

[Serendipity]

Sarya,

That post was an old post, so you may not get an answer. (2004)

But there are people here using MF that have PCOS. I'm not familiar with it, but I do have one pointer.

At the top of this forum, there is an 800 number. Call that number and tell them you are looking for a health advisor that has experience with PCOS. They will direct you to just the person who can help you with any special needs and concerns you may have.

[ladydiane78]

I also suffer with PCOS and I am currently taking tons of meds for it .

I am starting medifast in the hopes of losing the weight around my tummy and hopefully getting off most if not all of these darned meds.

Hello to all you PCOSers out there Glad Im not alone !!


Diane

[Unca_Tim]

Hi Sarya and welcome to the forum,
Click the seach button here on the forum and do a search on PCOS.

You'll find several posts about it.
Here's one optimistic post in particular:
http://www.makemethinner.com/forum/diet-5077.html

Nicki is still an active member and has lost over 90 lbs to date.
Enjoy the forum....

Here's another:
http://www.makemethinner.com/forum/diet-5067.html

[Tiolazz]

Evening all, I too was diagnosed with PCOS in my younger years. I was married at 18 and 10 months later had an ovarian wedge resection due to the degree of damage that the cysts had done to my ovaries.

They took all of my left, and 3/4 of my right ovary. They didn't wake me up first, ask my permission or anything. Needless to say, upon my waking up they informed me that since I only had 1/4 ovary if I wanted to try to have kids, I better get started. funny thing is, I didn't want to have kids, UNTIL they told me that I couldn't... You can't ever tell me that I CAN'T do something. LOL

Well, we tried everything, schedules, my hubby laying in ice cold baths, changing to boxer shorts, everything to no avail... one year later I was instructed that I need a hysto cause the cysts were again very bad and growing. I was scheduled for a hysto on June 23rd, went for a 2nd opinion with a fertility specialist on June 15th, and guess what.... I was preggers.... Had a baby girl in 79 and then whalah, had a boy in 81....

Moral to the story girls, is don't ever believe for a certainty what the dr's tell you when it comes to your reproductive chances. I proved them wrong twice. Had to have that hysto when I was 25, but had two wonderful kids by then, and proved those buggars wrong.

so hang in there, try to relax and let nature take it's course, if it is meant to be, it will be, if not, then it wont....

just some of this old ladies advise, for what it is worth...

Terri