It’s amazing how certain things go hand in hand. Never did I want to admit my weight could be the reason for not having conceived yet. The bitter truth came when I was doing research on fertility and PCOS. I knew that if I wanted to have another child, I had to do something about my weight. Sure bigger women get pregnant, however, they have a harder time, and they have rough pregnancies.
I knew I needed to lose weight, hell I was tipping the scale at 315 pounds. However, I was having a hard time sticking to anything. We decided to start changing how we ate, we removed a lot of those box meals from our diet. We started eating more leaner meats, fish, chicken and turkey. In 2014, I dropped the soda and started drinking mostly water.
I started exercising like crazy, yet when I would go to the doctor I would learn I only gained weight. I was starting to get really depressed. Thyroid issues run in my family both my grandma and mom have issues so I figured I would get it checked again. I mean I only have had it tested 3 different times. It came back as all the other tests, my thyroid seemed fine, my doctor said it took 5 years for them to discover her thyroid was messed up. The tests that were ran did come back I was low on vitamin D and I was insulin resistant.
I was clueless as to what that meant, so I researched and learned it’s where my body stores the sugars in my belly area. This was the reason my belly wasn’t going anywhere when I was working out like crazy, I also learned I probably became insulin resistant due to my weight and also lead me to believe I may have PCOS.
I have never been diagnosed with having PCOS. When I would direct my concerns about some of the symptoms I was having with my doctor, it was suggested I get put back on birth control pills to regulate my cycle. I didn’t want on birth control pills, I took them for over 5 years, and it wasn’t something I wanted to put in my body any longer. My personal opinion birth control pills do more harm to your body then good.
After researching fertility and PCOS I discovered I have a lot of the symptoms for PCOS.
PCOS Symptoms
Anxiety and Depression – My anxiety was so bad, I was taking xanax and seeing a counselor to help me coup. When I would go shopping, I would imagine myself stinking and I would start to have a panic attack in the aisle. My stomach would turn and I would need to rush home before I crapped my pants. Living with anxiety isn’t fun and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
Infrequent, Absent, and/or Irregular Menstrual Periods – I stopped taking birth control pills in 2009, after I stopped taking the pill my periods disappeared. I didn’t start getting them again until the end of 2011, then they were heavy, long, annoying, and very irregular. I would bleed 2 weeks stop 2 weeks and the cycle would begin again.
Infertility – This is due to not ovulating. Until recently, I never paid attention to my cycle, now that I am learning more about my body, I don’t think I have ovulated much in the past 5 years. It always seemed dry down there and often times hurt when my husband and I would be intimate. Again, when mentioned to my doctor it was shrugged off as if it were no big deal.
Weight Gain or Obesity (extra weight around waist) – As I have mentioned in previous posts, I have always had issues with my weight. My most problem area is my waist. If I could have that flab of fat cut off and the doctor sew it back up, I can almost bet I would drop at least 30 pounds if not more.
Hirsutism (abnormal hair growth on face and body) – Ugh these damn hairs! I started growing more hair above my lip, this has got to be the most embarrassing thing, take a picture zoom in and you can see the hairs. I also started to get these black stiff hairs on my chin. It started out with just one or two, then all of a sudden I was pulling black hairs daily. As soon as I pulled one another one grew, it wasn’t until I started to take ConceiveEasy, that those pesky black hairs vanished.
Skin Tags in the Neck and Armpit Area – Yup, I have those to, I have only noticed a few but they’re still there.
Since I have never been diagnosed with PCOS, I have had to do things on my own to attempt to get control over it, so that it doesn’t prevent me from having a second child. I started to take losing weight a bit more serious and in 2014 I lost almost 60 pounds. I also started taking ConceiveEasy. This will help me get my hormones back on track so my husband and I can conceive.
One thing about losing weight whether it be 10 pounds or 60 pounds one tends to walk with more confidence. Once when I went to the store and I seen myself in the door I felt sick, I was disgusted with my weight and I wanted to get in and out fast.
Now when I see my image in the door, I see strength, beauty, and a person who wants to keep going in her weight loss journey. I enter the store with pride grinning from ear to ear because I do look good. I am still just about 250, I need to lose about 80 more pounds to not be considered obese. I am working to achieve that goal by the end of 2015.
I workout daily with weights and on the exercise bike, as long as I continue to push myself, I know I can drop this weight and if my weight and what I believe to be PCOS is what’s preventing me from conceiving, I am confident by eating right, working out and taking ConceiveEasy, my husband and I will welcome our second child into this world either the end of 2015 or 2016. I have faith we will conceive soon.
Do you have PCOS, if so what are somethings you did to conceive?
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