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.

BW