Belinda, first let me just say that losing the weight you have has been a great effort. Shame on your FS for not recognising that! Has your FS given you any pointers for helping you to lose the weight?
I have typed up one of the papers my FS gave me with regards to diet, exercise and weight loss. I'd gained 3kg in the course of TTC once I stopped taking the pill. I managed to lost those 3kg reasonably easily. But I also had a very stubborn 5kg that I had gained a few years back while having to take prednisone for my arthritis. NOTHING I did would make that 5kg budge. Until I started on the programme from my FS. That 5kg is now gone... and appears to be gone for good, I've only gained 1kg so far with the current IVF cycle, and it appears that most people gain more than that.
I'd always known that low carb and low GI were the way to go. But it wasn't until I started the programme from my FS that I really looked in to the amount of carbs I ate regularly and investigated GI stuff more thoroughly. I'm not following the programme any more, but I still follow that way of eating for the majority of the time. Weekend pizza splurges and loads of hot cross buns aren't undoing all that hard work.
I would be happy to send this paper to you, if you want a bit of help in losing that weight. It's still not going to be easy, it will take a lot of work and exercise, and it will take time to get used to the diet changes, but it has worked for me, and it appears to be working for some of the other girls with PCOS too. Let me know, and the file is on its way too you.
Belinda - I'm with BW, losing the weight that you have is a great achievement and your FS should have recognised this.
BW - Good luck with your next blood test (I have been lurking in the LT TTC thread also)
Summer - I'm sorry that you are having such a rough time with the Metformin. I myself have no knowledge of this drug as I have only had dealings with Clomid.
Penny - Congrats on O'ing, now get on with the BDing.
Well, AF arrived today with a vengeance. This is her second visit since I was started on Clomid and they have definitely been more painful.
I am supposed to start on the third cycle of Clomid on CD 5, so I guess I am back on the ride.
Does anybody know how many cycles of Clomid you do before looking at other options?
Well I have my Taekwondo grading tonight and I feel really crampy, so AF couldn't have picked a worse day to arrive (Not that any day is good when TTC)
Hope everybody else is well and good luck to those in the 2ww.
No problems, Gargy. I do need an email address as I had to type it up in a word file. If you email the hotmail address in my profile (msn contact), I'll then email you the file. I don't use msn much, but it makes a good spam trap to keep my real email clean.
ATT, I hope you did ok with your grading. I can't really comment on AF changes from clomid - the one and only time I tried it I had severe anxiety problems as a side effect and ended up having my longest cycle ever - well over 100 days, and that was ended artificially in the end. We're IVFing now, but no doctor would be willing to let me go near it again because of the anxiety issues. If it's making you ovulate, you're certainly a step ahead of me. I think that they generally go with 6 cycles of clomid, so you've still got a way to go. I may just be pulling that number out of the air, though.
BW - Thanks for your advice. I have sent you a PM with my email address. The FS just said to keep up with my gym workouts and Low GI diet.
Doesn't he realise that I would have lost the extra 15kgs if I could have, that I don't keep it on for the fun of it. I put on 9kgs with taking clomid for those 5 months. That's not something I am looking forward to again, plus the extra weight when I fall pregnant again. *sigh* I am seriously thinking of going back to my FS in Bowral (who I was seeing up until I fell pregnant last year) even if it takes me nearly 2hrs to get there.
ATT - I have always been told that I could only take clomid for 6 consecutive cycles. I was reading and article on the POSAA website last night that said that you should only ever take clomid for 12 cycles as it can increase the chance of ovarian cancer - but it didn't go into any further detail.
Thanks everyone for your congratulations on my weight loss. I know in the past I have lost 6.5kgs in one week by radical dieting (and put it back on nearly as fast), but this time I have been just aiming for the 1/2-1kg loss a week through exercise and diet, so I appreciate it more, if that makes sense? I'm not worried about having to lose the weight, it's more the waiting game that never ends.
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