PCOS motivation videos on youtube

There are so many videos from brave PCOS women on Youtube - so many that it shocked me. 
It is a consolation for people like me. Someone else is going through the same journey as me, and they are working as hard as I am. A sign that PCOS is climbing out of the closet?

This lady with PCOS has the kind of body shape I had, before it got worse. That belly! She is brave. good luck to her!

Keep the (fat) flame burning

Losing weight is hard to do, especially if you have insulin resistance. While specific advice are given to physicians to be "gentle" with their targets set for patients with diabetes mellitus, no such gentle words are available for women with PCOS. 

We still get instructions like "lose 5% of your weight, and you might get your menses to return to normal again"  or "many women become pregnant again when they lose justa few percentage of their body weight". Note - the keyword is "just" - small achievable target.  

I can hardly disagree if I did not find it so hard. To be honest, the disparity of how easy this sounds and how hard it actually is puts me off. Sometimes, it sounds like I am being mocked for failing to achieve my target. That is not being encouraging, doc! That sounds sooo patronising. 

And stop telling me about Victoria Beckham or that Mrs Oliver. I can't pop some organic strawberries whenever I want, or get a trainer to come around every morning for a work out and attend yoga classes in the evening. Like most women, I have to eat a lunch, and may get a quick snack at teat time, and then I must wait for the next meal in the evening, after a long battle with the commute or traffic to get home. 

After months of battle, and INTENSE efforts in the past two weight, i weighted myself again this morning. Gosh, still 86kg. What do I do? I just keep on trying, doc. I just keep on trying to lose weight, I know I will be successful, no matter how long it takes.

Getting the whole lot of them to slim with me

I have got lots of support to avoid the cakes.

We may plan some sort of games about the food we eat, and the champion will get a real prize - holiday at a  beach resort. we are chipping in money to get that, and we just got to set a date as teh deadline. The question is, shall we give the prize to the gal who successfully reduce the most number of pounds (unfair, said the skinnier ones), percentage of body weight (unfair, said those gym bunnies) or percentage of fat? (unfair - said those who want to keep their boobs). 

Whatever the outcome or the prize, we are all already benefitting from watching each other's plates and pulling others away from stopping by the corner shop to get some snacks. Tea time is bad time for us PCOS gals (the cravings!!), and instead of generously sharing our cakes and biscuits, we are saying no and sharing our bran flakes. 

The plan is already working!

Constant cake temptation.

The new office is a fearsome place. 

In return for the sky high rents we pay, there is a freeflow of beverages in the office. And for sake of employee benefits (we think it is actually compensation of wayyyyy below market pay), the canteen served yummy food. Too good to be true?? The icing on the cake, is the deserts are FREE.   

After one week of excitement and 2 more kg, I am in a panic state!!! There is a constant source of temptation. I no longer need to have a combination of factors (craving + money + shop nearby)to get cake into my mouth. The cakes are there, calling me everyday, whether I have a craving or not! And I had to resist them! But how do you resist when your colleagues are happying enjoying theirs and moaning with pleasure? 

Argh... i must think of something to get the girls to stop eating their cakes too !