I started Metformin in mid March and had been working out six days a week for 2 years and doing WW prior to that with no results. About the same time I started the Met I also started working with a trainer and following the IR diet.
About 3 weeks ago I just wasn't feeling well - I was very fatigued and sluggish, despite eating right and a lot of exercise. I had read (I think on these boards) that you needed to take a B12 supplement with Met, so I started on 250 mcg every day. I just didn't feel like myself and just sort of had a feeling that the Met was starting to work - my body was feeling weird in general.
Two weeks ago my trainer weighed me to figure out my metabolic rate and how many calories I should be eating. I hadn't weighed myself in a long time - when I started the Met, my endo weighed me, but I didn't look at the scale. Then, last week I started to feel really good - not just good, actually, but pretty great. My workouts are going great, my energy level is up, I just feel good in general.
So, today I got on the scale - I've lost 7 lbs in 2 weeks! I think the Met is kicking in! And the truth is, I didn't count my calories at all this weekend and ate and drank everything in site - but I still stuck to my exercise routine and worked out pretty hard.
God, I hope this really is the sign of Met working. I'm trying not to get too optimistic because I've been down this weight loss road before, but I am working really hard and my trainer was thrilled and his enthusiasm can tend to be contagious!
For me, the first sign I knew Met was working was the same thing..how I felt. I felt alive and energetic. I didn't feel like i was in a fog anymore and that i was coherent, as crazy as that sounds. It's definetly a great sign and KUDOS to you for working so hard. I am living proof that met + hard work pays off, and I wish the same for you.
Take Care!
__________________ Christy
33 yrs, 1 precious hubby, 2 miracle kids, At Goal Wt for 4 yrs, Trygly's down 445 pts, Free Androgen down from 20 to 2, 3 half 'thons ran, 2 mtns hiked, 1 crazy run in the Rockies, 4 forest trail races, profiled in 2 magazines...1 woman determined to kick PCOS butt!
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Thank you, Christy. I know how hard you've worked to get where you are now, and I understand that in order to see results I have to do my part and I am happy to do that - I am not expecting miracles! I just want to get the results from exercise and diet that other women have.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I think that everybody thinks I'm crazy when I say that I feel like I'm 10 years younger nowadays. I was telling my mother and my husband how I feel and they just don't get it. My trainer (who is also a good friend) definitely believes me. I've always been an energetic person in general, but I've been overwhelming him at 7:00 am!
I understand that in order to see results I have to do my part and I am happy to do that - I am not expecting miracles! I just want to get the results from exercise and diet that other women have.
I firmly second that!!!! I cannot wait to get started with the metformin! I am so looking forward to this new lease on life. I fel like i m finally in charge of my body. For the first time ever!
Good luck Shirleycat, come over here, I need some of your energy. i wish you the best!
Christyz, you are so helpful and such an inspiration. I hope i can achieve just half of what you have been able to do.
__________________ I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
-Martha Washington
And the days go by....like a strand in the wind
In the web that is my own...I begin again
-Stevie Nicks
So I close my eyes softly
Til I become that part of the wind
That we all long for sometime
-Stevie Nicks
I think the Met is working!! 
i wish you the best! 
