I vowed to start the New Year eating healthily and exercising more. I also went to my first pcos weight support group with a dietician three weeks ago who has given me a target of 1-2 lbs weightloss per week. However I started off ok joined bootsdiets and put myself on 1400 calories a day for the first week didn't lose anything. Since then I've been eating hot cross buns, chocolate raisins you name it. Work has been manic and I've been getting home at 7pm some nights later and top it all off they've just announced that they are restructing HR which means I might not have a job soon!
I'm due back at the hospital on the 1 Feb and worried if I've put on how she will react. How have you all motivated yourselves when under stress?
ive been dieting since new year too what keeps me going is the fact that this will help me get pregnant so when i have moments of weakness i just think of that!!
is there a goal you are going for?? ( holiday, birthday, ttc)??
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I think it's difficult to feel motivated when you're under pressure, from life stresses like yr job and also from a dietician yr a bit scared of! remember yr doing this for yourself. I've been going to the gym regularly (about 4 times a week) for a bit now and I feel so much better for it. also I've been trying the gi diet again (if I have a craving I have some fruit or even better, a piece of 70% cocoa chocolate!) I've been under a lot of pressure as it's the final year of my degree but I find it all helps because I know it makes me feel great to know I'm working hard for myself too. good luck, I hope you get yr motivation back soon.
I was under collosal stress a couple of years ago, with a very nasty custody battle going on that the system said should take 10 weeks but took 18 mths. Also I had to be a prosecution witness in 2 court cases of a serial harrasser - I was the victim, in one case - which potentially had media interest as some of the parties involved are well known and my ex was a former soap actor. At that point I was size 20 heading for 22. Until I had kids I was size 8, despite PCOS!
Anyway, in the middle of this with 6 mths to go before the day I found out if I could keep my two youngest and 7 mths before the trial date for the media circus thing, I decided to take my life in hand. And turned it round. I stopped using stress as an excuse to eat badly (and I don't mean that judgementally just saying that's what I was doing, at the time!) I realised I didn't care if I lived or died - or why else would I be that size? So I started Rosemary Conley (just from the books and mags, I'm not a 'joiner') and took up running. And I got back down to a size 12. By the time I was back in court, I was my old self and 1000 times stronger and fitter.
You can take adversity and use it for you, not allow it to rule you. So things get tough - you get damn tougher! That really motivated me. I used to run and imagine the harrasser 's face under every footfall - aggressive but it got me running! (He was also the ex fighting to take my kids off me). He walked off scot free for harrassing me - his defence said he was too mentally ill to understand what he'd done. However he later went to prison for harrassing mrs well connected - who'd had a lot less to put up with than me, but there you go. Life's like that. I won full custody of the kids and he did not even get access. The case I lost was the first - when I was heading to size 22. The good stuff happened when I was back to my old self. Not saying there's a correlation but maybe you do simply present better when you look fitter.
It was one of the hardest periods of my life but I was glad, afterwards, that I stopped reaching for the chocolate and cakes - and instead spent the money on running shoes and a £5.99 diet book! And also found this place and the great support here.
Take the hardship as a gift and run with it, not from it, is all I can say. You canturn things round spectacularly.
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I find it really hard to become motivated too.
The cysters here have all been great at their suggestions too. I will have to think about some of them myself.
The one thing I didn't see was any suggestion of what to expect from your doc. I think since it's the first time you have tried to lose weight, she won't be upset about it as much as about why you didn't.
Of course, each one can be different and maybe she will feel making you feel badly will motivate you to try harder so you will make her happier next time. Who knows how they think.
Personally, I find most physicians that know about PCOS are sympathetic and compassionate about how we have trouble with our health and especially about trying to lose weight.
Don't worry, she shouldn't make you feel bad, but will encourage you some more and maybe give you more ideas to stay on track.
Hope things smooth out for you!
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When i diet the hardest thing is motivation...but if i lose my 3 /4 stone i get £500 from my parents !!!
but its not going well the diet that is
pm if u want or need to talk..
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how about if we start a weekly weigh in again? Like once a week or something?? We could start a new thread each month? Just a thought...... no pressure,
eva
Trying to lose weight can be sooooo frustrating! My Dr. put me on a low GI/high protein diet and I have lost nearly 30 lbs so far. Probably would have been more by now but the holidays were stressful (as they are for most people) and.... But it is definitely the easist diet I've ever been on - and I dare say the healthiest! There are loads of books out on the subject with recipes, etc, and it may be worth speaking to your dr. about if it looks like something you'd be interested in trying. It may not work for everyone, but it really has helped me. With any luck, I can start tapering off the Metformin soon!
And I think the weekly weigh-in is a great idea! Might be just the thing to keep me from slipping again...
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Can't get motivated! 
it is hard, isnt it?? Hope we can all help each other
