tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70989304009750484522024-09-05T07:06:16.429-07:00PCOS often rob many women the whole complete experience of being a womanUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger104125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7098930400975048452.post-29880171665103371442013-01-21T04:18:00.001-08:002013-01-21T04:18:56.828-08:00

I had a terrible year in 2012. Everything had to come to a temporary halt - attempts to lose weight, TTC and of course blogging. Now things are improving, hopefully I am back on my plans again! In the past year, the blog had been untended, and had somehow became a spam target! - Online casinos - "making real money online" - website services - Websites for impotency etc... blah blah blah blah -

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Some of us want to have children, but not able to or have never found the right person to have. Some of us never wanted children. Still, we are childless. Have you ever feel that is something against you? That there is a stigma against childlessness? From my personal experience and what I have read, this is what you might be experiencing, if you are childless: In your late twenties, you are

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Without wanting to go into details when it is all still quite raw,  I would just note here that I ' fell off the cliff' in a big  way. Diet, exercise, ttc plans were completely out of the window. My weight rebounded, that is for sure.  I have no idea how heavy I am now. I am just starting to pick up the pieces, moving on, and feel that managing my weight and trying for a baby

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"A study by America’s Stanford University and Renford University College in Canada recruited 45 undergraduates, none of who were thin and about 60 per cent of them technically overweight or obese."[Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2083348/Positive-shrinking-Writing-things-mean-help-lose-weight.html#ixzz1ijGokTvr] Wow... that is a good reason to keep blogging, keep on

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I begin to feel the effect of lack of carbs... Sugar free cordial drinks had been a life saving elixir for the past few days. I craved for sugary stuff, and at times, I can feel that my mind won't rest until I get a taste of sweetness. This is really unusual as I usually don't really crave for sweet things ( if I have any cravings, it is usually for peanuts!) Today, it seems like I can no

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1.5 kg!!! That is not a lot  (some really irritating people lose 5 pounds in just three days), but it is quite an achievement for me. If you look at all the weight loss posts I have ever made in this blog, you will get what I mean. Let me remind myself that. 0.5 kg a day is just absolutely amazing!!! Too good to be true for a fat woman with PCOS. Quite a lot of it must be water, as I did

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7098930400975048452.post-64984866153549380052011-12-05T09:30:00.000-08:002011-12-19T15:56:13.502-08:00

for a woman who has PCOS is not that easy, especially in this wintry weather. I crave for carbs!!! The good Dr Dukan advised not to count calories, and to eat as much as we wanted, provided we stay within the "list" of permitted protein food. One worry I had was the cost of diet. Proteins are not cheap, especially lean protein like chicken breast and fish.  Feeling the pain from the

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... who loves her carbs badly.  Yes, very very badly! I woke up alright, didn't really feel hungry or anything. I just ran straight to the loo because of the amount of water I had been drinking all day yesterday. Thanks to the agar agar and oat bran, I had no constipation. And then... the challenge. What do I have for breakfast? Being on this diet, I think it effectively means..

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Day 1, I know will be a tough one, despite all the preparation in my Day 0 This is the day where I will make a big change in my lifestyle. How will my body react to this?  I took the day off. I have heard from other women that cutting off carbohydrate = pulling out hair, and screaming at people. NO one would want to see me like this at work! Moreover, the office is full of

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Tomorrow is the day - the big day, the day I start with the Dukan diet.  There are three things that I need to do: 1) clear goal - worked out my "true weight" from the official Dukan website. 2) buy in to the whole idea - that high protein low carb diet work 3) Know the rules of the diet, and plan how to stick to it. My GOAL I have used the calculator available freely at the website to

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Yes, start it! Shown to be successful in producing results. Weight loss even in people who had found like difficult. Pretty reasonable - advocates lean protein. The "Attack" phase, where you can only eat protein last about 5-7 days, after which you can have vegetables again.  The attack phase brings about results quickly, producing and average of 4 - 7 pounds for a 5 days diet! that is

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I am going to take a big big step and try the high protein, low carb diet, favoured by the Dukan Diet. A main difference ( and advantage!) of the Dukan Diet over the very famous Atkins Diet is it emphasis on lean protein. So, it is a low fat, low carb high protein diet. High protein diets are bad for your kidneys and liver, and therefore I have always been very very sceptical about them. There

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Unless you had live in a cave, it is quite difficult to escape "Dukan diet". It first gained prominence as the diet of the Middleton girls ( including the mum, Carole), and responsible for Kate's weight loss and Pippa's bum. A couple of days a go, the British Dietetic Association voted it as the No 1 BAD DIET, and the ever Middleton obsessed Daily Mail wasted no time in splashing it in the

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My skin pores enlarged quite a lot in the past few years, especially after I started to have PCOS. Acne is usually associated with PCOS, but I  noticed that my skin pores, especially those around the T zone enlarged considerably after I have PCOS. Skin become oilier. 

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The nurse had mentioned to me about starting vitamin D supplement, along with folic acid. According to her, women planning to have a baby should take both vitamin D and folic acid. While the importance of folic acid is undisputed, vitamin D is a new thing to me. Why do pregnant women need to take vitamin D? Studies have shown that a lack of vitamin D may be associated with premature birth.

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I read my previous post " I don't want to be a mum" again. I didn't try when I was younger not because I was just focusing on myself or my career. I was simply not able to - we were struggling with paying the bills. With the cost of going to university getting higher and higher, when will people from working class feel able to have kids on their own? When you come from a working class family,

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7098930400975048452.post-19065331096350964082011-09-26T20:12:00.000-07:002011-10-12T08:56:03.845-07:00

I had a bad week. Someone is pregnant at work, and naturally, everyone asked me when would my turn come. I managed to deflect that artfully with a joke and a laugh. Having had a full week of "pregnant", "baby" .... blah blah blah all over me, I was looking forward to the weekend! Then, mum called.  My cousin gave birth to the cutest little boy and she is about 10 years younger than me

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7098930400975048452.post-75502530480317800962011-07-15T09:03:00.000-07:002011-07-15T09:08:09.089-07:00

I feel happy for her. Like her or hate her, she is a reminder that it is possible. At the age of 37, a lovely girl named Harper Seven. A person who she has always wanted to come into her life. I can imagine the joy and happiness. Perhaps we will start to see her smile? In fact, I noticed that she started to smile in some photos, like the one with her hubby after she was pregnant with this girl.

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7098930400975048452.post-51933803862685908852011-04-03T14:12:00.000-07:002011-04-03T14:14:05.023-07:00

First of all, let me declare - I have nothing against IVF. It is a choice that people make, but it a choice that I always thought will never be mine. I have always preferred adoption. When there are millions and millions of children in the world requiring a better home and love from a family, why should I spend thousands of $$$$ to go through the trauma, just to create my own progeny,

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I did not sleep well last night. I had watched the clip of Miyagi prefecture from a helicopter that was broad casted "live" earlier from NHK. 18 minutes of it - and I watched it twice.  Minamisanriku: 10,000 missing The evening news had broad casted edited versions of it, and I remembered one scene where a person was trying of outrun the waves, and other sections of

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Vitamin B1:  For energy and brains Vitamin B1, is usually not mentioned in the same breath as its cousin, folic acid which is well known for its importance in preventing spina bifida. However, thiamin is a key component in the normal metabolism which converts sugar, and carbohydrate into energy, and not just energy for running around. Our brains depend on glucose metabolism for energy,

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Vitamin A: Friend or foe for TTC, baby and PCOS? Vitamin A is important for the normal development of the baby, and also helps with infection resistance and fat metabolism. However, we have to avoid taking too much vitamin A, especially in the form of  retinol in the early stages of pregnancy because it can increase the risk of birth defects at high doses.   

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I had learned this a long time ago during our biology lessons about vitamins, and have read bits and bobs here and there. Now that it is time to create a new life, I bet a bit of refreshing will do no harm.  Time to make some notes...will start from A to Z, but will just focus on what is relevant to me ( PCOS, TTC) Notes about vitamins... and the likes.  A B1: Vitamin B1 for

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Having a moody day. Thinking about my options and realised many of them are impossible because I have not enough money, again. Feeling quite useless. At this age, to worry so much about money, is entirely my fault. When I was younger, I cried buckets, or rather bathtubs because of money. No money to attend nursery - that is my first memory, begging my mum to allow me to attend nurseries with the

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7098930400975048452.post-32353857777907738332011-03-03T14:36:00.000-08:002011-03-03T14:40:54.205-08:00

I found the original publications in BMJ (link here) about risk of folic acid deficiency for metformin users, and had a sigh of relief.  It is not as bad as it sound in the popular press.  The difference in concentration between people who  take metformin and  those who don't take is only about 5% - still important for us who are trying to conceive to take not, but nothing to

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