The worst part of my PCOS has been the unexplained weight gain. I would eat healthy, go to the Y, take my walks, walk around the classroom all day....and still gain weight.
During my first marriage I gained 75 pounds in the first three months of the marriage. The dr. said it was just because I was married. I stopped taking the birth control I was on and then stopped gaining weight. I was only able to loose 25 pounds of the weight. The funny part of it was, we had very little food in our apartment. We were lucky to afford one meal a day.
When Jon and I started dating I tried another birth control and gained 20 pounds the first month I was on it. I quickly stopped taking it. That dr. could not explain it either. The one thing we could figure out is that if I had a liquid diet consisting of diet dr pepper I didn't gain weight as fast. I often walked two miles three times a week. I still did not loose any weight.
Now most people gain weight when they are pregnant. When Suszan was born, I weight 20 pounds less than I did pre-pregnancy. With Matt, I was 10 pounds less after c-section. Went to two more drs. and they had no idea what was going on with me. I quickly gained weight after both pregnancies were over, we are not talking a few pounds. After Suszan was born I gained 50 pounds, after Matt was born I gained 75 pounds by the time they were both 5 months old.
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