 Don't do Weight Watches!!!!!!
For women with PCOS, Weight Watches is a scam.
I did it for ages and was hungry all the time. The majority of us are fat because we have insulin resistance, and Weight Watches tells us to just keep cutting kilojoules until we are losing weight. But that's rubbish, because that just lowers our metabolism and if we fall off the bandwagon we gain it all back, because it hasn't addressed our actual problem of insulin resistance.
My doctor told me that most women with PCOS will ***NEVER*** keep their weight down while eating carbohydrates.
Why fight against your body?? If you drastically cut down on carbohydrates you can fix the actual problem. Read up on how insulin resistance works. Read about PCOS and Atkins. Lowing your insulin resistance can even lower testosterone, which might be enough to bring back our periods and lose the excess hair.
There are a number of site with threads about PCOS women who have seen great results with low carbs lifestyles. What more, it's FREE (unlike Weight Watches), it WORKS and it can easily become a life long change.
I spent many hundreds of dollars on Weight Watches before I realised that it just didn't work for me. My friends lost weight on it (but later gained it all back with a vengence). I couldn't do it though, no matter how hard I tried. Our body's are not designed for it, but the company doesn't want to tell you that because they want your money. If you fail, they just tell you that it's your fault for not cutting points enough, and it's rediculous. It's their fault for not recognising that PCOS women are unique.
Some places on the internet note that there are side affects of low carb diets, but these can be dealt with. And anyway, we have a medical condition with far more severe side affects if we don't follow a low carb diet.
Recent scientific studies have shown that lowering carb's do NOT increase osteporosis or Heart Disease as was so thought 10 years ago.
But we (women with PCOS) WILL get Heart Disease and Diabetes if we don't lose the weight. And we will only lose it long term by cutting carbs. It's not as hard as I initially thought it would be. And it really does make sence. We just have to eat like our ancestors did: Lots of meat, lots of eggs, lots of fish/chicken, lots of veggies (excluding really starchy ones eg. potatos & carrots). Also eat some nuts and some fruit (but limit it).
You will lose the weight without the hunger.
Also, INTENSE exercise lowers insulin resistance and you should do it 3 times a week for 30 minutes.
Weight watches only works by cutting kilojoules anyway. Instead of spending hundreds you could just buy a book on kilojoule counting. They are only $9 and do the same thing. Plus, all packaged foods in australia list their kilojoule content anyway, so you really only need the book to calculate the kilojoule value of fruits and veggies. HOWEVER: I'm not going to recommend cutting kilojoules just yet. Cut carbs first and if that doesn't work, start exercising.
Since the 1980's the western world has been told to eat a low fat diet to lose weight. Since the 1980's we have had an ever increasing obesity epidemic. We are trying to cut fat by eating more sugar, and Weight Watches only promotes that further. Look at all the crappy snacks they sell. Lamingtons?? Cookies??? WTF??? Who do they think they are helping.
Deal with your actual problem head on. Obesity is just a symptom of insulin resistance. |