 A diet that worked for me
Hi, I was just dx'ed with PCOS last week, but it explains so much of my life for the past few years. I started struggling with my weight about 5 years ago... I began to notice I was gaining a few pounds a month very steadily. I tried everything!! Diets, exercise, near starvation (well it felt like it anyway). I had gained 40 lbs and was still going, when I decided to try Nutrisystem. It was kind of my last resort, but it actually worked. I lost about 30 lbs within 3 and a half months (that was 2 years ago), and I have kept it off for the most part. I came off birth control in January, and gained a few pounds, but I got really strict with the diet again and lost it. It's a low GI diet so that's prob why it worked for me... I now know why nothing else did. I have to be very strict with it, but it works. I don't think I could do a no carb diet, and be able to maintain it for a long period of time. I could probably stand to lost another 5-10 pounds (I'm now 5'5'' and 134), but I'm happy where I'm at. I would eventually like to get off the diet (since it's a little pricey) so I was thinking maybe I would try a weight watchers diet, but I'm a little fearful to stop something that works, ya know? I have to say, I still have the acne (maybe it would be worse without the diet IDK). I'm hoping to start on met to take care of that, and get me O'ing again, but as far as the weight issue, I feel this has worked for me. I'm just throwing this out there, because I know how frustrating it can be to diet, exercise, and still see the needle climb higher and higher!
As a side note- this just goes to show you that losing the weight (as most doctor's tell us PCOSers to control the condition) doesn't always work. I am a healthy weight, and I have irregular cycles (this just started but I was on BCP for 5 years), I haven't had AF since July (so I'm obviously not O'ing now), I still have acne, and my cholesterol was high (this was at 155lbs so I am curious to see what it is now, but that's still not heavy enough to be experience high cholesterol at the age of 22 IMO!). | 
