more on my new diet

Hey misfit!

Sorry it's taken me a few days to get back to you on your questions. As an update, I'm 11 days into the new diet and still have yet to cheat once! I'm pretty proud of myself, especially after a huge going away party with the best looking cupcakes EVER this morning!

As the "being too regular" goes, yes...you're right. To an extent. The nice thing is that I'm pretty sure you will be miserable if you cheat. So it is some nice motivation. So that keeps you to eating lots of fruits and veggies. At first I was nervous that I might get...er, stopped up, if you will! I can't normally eat too much cheese and with this, I eat a ton. That, combined with the fact that I can't really eat any typically fiberous foods (I used to eat Fiber One bars a lot, as well as Mini Wheats and a lot of other fiber-full foods). So...to be frank, I think things are pretty good in the digestive department! I was sure to taper up on pills and usually try to be close to home (or a hotel room, as I was traveling a lot for work recently) when I go up a dose, but really, it's not too bad.

And as for what the diet targets, I obviously don't say it as well as my doctor, so HERE is a link to his site...if you click on the "download PDF" link, you can read a TON of information about it. But the long and short of it seems to be that he suspects some amount of insulin resistance in any patient with PCOS. He said it's rare to even test anymore because he just assumes that we have it to some extent. Because of that, he says that bread, pasta, and all of the other "off limits" things basically turn immediately into glucose in our systems. This (I think) causes an increase in many male hormones and doesn't allow for enough of the female hormones that we need. This doesn't allow our follies to develop like they should, so like I mentioned last time, drugs like Follist.im will, indeed, make the follies bigger but they won't be of the quality that they should be.

So far, I am feeling pretty good about things! I have found a few "tricks" for my own chocolate-and-sweet-obsessed mind. I use some add-in packets for water that make me feel like I'm having a treat, I eat a lot of Trader Joe's organic trail mix with nuts and cranberries, I am loving apples with natural (no artificial sugar added) peanut butter becaus it feels like a sweet treat. Surprisingly, eating out isn't too bad either. We're working on fixing more fish...but that's harder to do when you live in Indiana! If you have any other questions, do not hesitate to ask!