68.8… It’s my magical number. Its gorgeous, curvy sweeps secretly hold a long held goal of mine. Why? Because I am a funny creature, I covertly hide an ideal inside. Maybe because I am a woman, maybe because I have been exposed to mass media manipulation about what a woman should really look like. Maybe because I am me. I…
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What? But I thought eating less was a GOOD thing? When you are aiming to lose weight, eating less is the most commonly given advice. After all, it makes sense, doesn’t it? Eat less, weigh less? For many women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, weight loss is not this easy or simple. Issues like insulin resistance and hypothyroidism needs to be…
I get tired of women with PCOS being told their weight issues all come down to ‘calories in, calories out’. I know this makes a nice neat comment to frustrate women even more, but it’s really not this simple. I personally spent years feeling bad about myself, trying to work out what I was doing wrong. But we now know…
Losing weight when you have PCOS can be a major struggle. I know I struggled with it for years. And if I ever managed to lose weight, it would soon pile back on in spades. Then I discovered that weight lose is NOT only about calories in, and calories out. This was the only advice I’d ever received. And it…
Stress and PCOS have a common bond… Many women with PCOS experience stress because of their PCOS syndrome, but did you know that stress can also aggravate PCOS, hormones and weight gain, PCOS and infertility, and more? Let’s take a general look at stress and what you can do in managing PCOS signs and symptoms related to stress… Are Stress…
Successful PCOS weight loss absolutely is achievable, I promise. But, I’m not talking the ‘calories in, calories out’ model. This is simply a throw away line used by people who don’t understand PCOS, or really the human body. I’m certainly not saying overindulge each day, but looking at calories is so incredibly simplistic, and inaccurate. I’d counted calories many years…
