Hello all! Decided to chime in
I was always the chubby girl and my weight just kept creeping up, creeping up. I never had AF. One day, when I was 13, I woke up in excruciating pain in my lower right abdomen. My parents took me to the ER and they thought it was my appendix at first. The CT scan showed a large ovarian cyst that had torsioned (twisted over on itself cutting off it's own blood supply). So off to the OR I went. The cyst, along with my right ovary and fallopian tube were removed and were actually gangrenous. I was in the hospital for a week on IV antibiotics. That's how I was dx'd.
So, I was discharged and told to follow up with a reproductive endocrinologist. I did, but then, being a teenager, I was totally oppositional and noncompliant with everything.
So, I slipped into a deep depression and continued refusing treatment. All the time my weight kept moving up.
Eventually, I was able to overcome my depression and went off to college. I started seeing the RE again, taking progesterone and getting my AF. Then switched to bcp. I did WW and lost 40 lbs and then got bored/lazy/whatever and stopped doing it. The weight went right back on, plus some more.
So lately, I decided to give it another try. I have a lot more motivation now than I did when I did WW a few years ago, and a lot more support.
Right now I'm -40.5 lbs in 17 weeks. I've lost 26 inches (7/25-10-24) and 2 pants sizes.
I'm on bcp, met XR 1500mg daily, multi-vit, and calcium. For diet, I kinda do my own thing. Basically, I just make better choices, plan my meals if I know I'm going to be going out/eating a big meal later, restrict my calories to about 1500 cals/day, and track my intake on fitday.com. I exercise 4 times a week (running 3 times, yoga/pilates once a week). I do yoga on the tv occasionally too (I'm trying to increase that habit! lol).
- Jess