Friday, 30 December 2011

Mood swings..*

Ughhh I dont want to see you today, get your shit and leave me alone. Matter a fact I do not want to see anyone today screw you all. I hate this place I hate this Life, I hate myself. LEAVE ME ALONE. You got me that kind of wine? WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING? I want you out... Out out out right now.

Mood swings ladies, this is right up my alley. Do to the fact PCOS is caused by hormonal imbalances us women faced with it often live on an emotional rollercoaster! Sometimes we are happy, sometimes we are angry, sometimes we are sad. For me it just depends on the day. It is infact the hormone imbalances that make us ladies crazy. When I am taking my metformin, excercising and low carbing I notice I am usually in a good mood or able to control my mood.

Pcos is said to be connected to mood disorders such as depression, and bipolar. Mood swings, depression, and bipolar are underlying factors of an endocrine disorder. Treatment for these should be included in your treatment for pcos as a whole. Our mood disorders we face are often created by the elevated testosterone, and insulin resistance.

The mood swings, and the depression we face may be caused by our symptoms that affect us physically. Hair loss, Hair growth, or acne will tend to cause low self esteem resulting in depression. When we are depressed we usually perfer not to be bothered, we feel we need isolation so we are moody to people and push them away. The infertility or facing a miscarridge may be very stressful causing us to be moody and depressed however, with medication to fix our hormonal imbalances, or antidepressants we may get through it.

All B vitamins are good for depressive mood states, and spearmint tea is recommended for mood improvement. Two Cups a day. The first thing you should do to try and reduce mood swings, and depression is change your lifestyle. Avoid stress as much as possible, reduce your caffeine intake, excercise regularly, eat more protein, and get a good nights rest. Ontop of this take proper supplements. So ladies here are the ones I take, B12, VitaminD, VitaminE, B complex, Biotin, Calcium, and a Multivitamin.

I dunno about you ladies but to me the changing the lifestyle sounds like a great new years resolution. Me myself I am getting a gym membership first week in Jan to work off this christmas pudge. And eatting well will start back up again tomorrow when I eliminate bread, pasta, corn, potatoes, and rice outta my diet. Good luck ladies...Have a good day today, Not a moody one!! :)

Breakfast..Is important*

For me Breakfast is the most crucial meal of the day! It lets your body know your up it starts up your metabolism, and gives you energy to begin your day the right way. Having trouble losing weight or keeping it off? It may be because you are skipping breakfast. I your body goes longer between times of eatting it requires more energy and this will increase your hungary cause you to eat large quanties. When you are at work at school or just sitting at home do you feel lack of concentration? It is because your body is telling you it needs food. If you are a moody person as is, or have the mood swings involved with PCOS you DO NOT WANT TO SKIP BREAKFAST!! Skipping breakfast may lead to bad moods throughout the day due to the decrease in your serotonin which have a dramatic affect on your emotional wellness. SO ladies what did you get from all this?
DONT SKIP BREAKFAST!!
MAKE TIME!!
GET YOUR MORNING NUTRITION!


Ladies, so we have went of the Low carbing/No carbing and low GI ways of healthy eatting to promote weight loss, and well the truth is you can not skip breakfast in either of those ways.
For me low carbing/no carbing Breakfast was essential. When I knew Id be in a rush I would cook some turkey sasuages the night before and make some hard boiled eggs to bring. But my usual daily breakfast consisted of egg whites scrambled with cheese on them. At the start I would eat Bacon to begin the process because fats dont count and they are low in carbs, but than after a few days I switched to turkey sasuages.To mix it up I would do over easy eggs with chesse on it and still have the meat. The may thing I did not no longer do was use KETCHUP!! which was hard at the start but after awhile eatting healthy tastes real good :) If I wanted veggies I would mix greenpeppers olives, and mushrooms into my scrambled eggs. If you are having trouble feeling full off this or need something more add oatmeal into your diet HIGH on fibre so you would minus that from the carbs. Do not eat the instant Oatmeal if this is the way your going.

After you are able to lose or manage weight adding multigrain or whole wheat bread back into your diet is not a problem. If you check out the low GI foods I posted you will notice whole wheats are mediums on the scale so if you are not eatting too much it will not kill you. I eat whole wheat bread again. The key is NO MORE WHITE!!

Also ladies we are trying to regulate our blood sugar levels to relieve symptoms, and avoid heart disease, or even fainting( happened to me!). We must divide our food intakes over the day so we do not run into issues, and starting with breakfast is the best way.

THINGS TO AVOID!
Using condiments
Do not eat toast
Eatting awhile after getting up
Always eatting high fat foods

Things to TRY!!
Eat as soon as possible
Eat a lot because this is your energy
Change things up every so often
Try turkey strips or sasuages
Eat lots of eggs
Buy egg whites
Use cooking oil instead of margerine or butter
Getting up earlier to have time to eat

Ladies, I just had my breakfast are you going to have yours? YOU BET YOUR BLOODY BUTT YOU ARE DONT READ THIS AND SKIP IT..GET REAL! GO BOIL THOSE EGGS, COMMON!!
Your friend Court.

Just a warm thankyou to our Cyster Sandra for requesting this Blog. Thank you.
 

Thursday, 29 December 2011

Vitamin B / and deficiency*

I had something to do today but Im way too tired.. and on top of that I forget what it was I had to do.Maybe if I take a nap I will have more energy and remember. I've slept for 4 hours and still feel weak I am wondering where my family is and why I am in bed I forget everything!  If this sounds like you, you may have a vitamin B deficiency.

Are you getting the right amount of B vitamins? Are you eatting the right things that provid us with vitamin B? Do you know all the vitamin B's that are important to us women with PCOS? Do you eat eggs, beef, or seafood? Do you know the signs of vitamin B deficiency?

B vitamins are important for helping us correct all our symptoms with pcos. I take a multivitamin a b12, and biotin supplments. With weight associated with PCOS vitamins B2,B3,B5,and B6 help us control our weight and shed unwanted pounds. Breaking it down. B2 turns the fats, sugars, and protein we consume into energy. B3 is used for gluscose tolerance and everytime our blood sugars rise this is released. With B3 in our bodies it allows us to keep everything balanced. B5 helps with our weight loss because it controls our fat metabolism and promotes loss of weight. B6 is needed to keep all our hormones balanced.  Now we combine some of the B vitamins such as B6,B2, and B3 and this helps us maintain our thyroid hormones.

Metformin causes us women with PCOS to form vitamin B12 defieciency. This defieciency may cause brain and nervous system damage. The metformin doses we are taking may affect our ability to apsorb vitamin B12. Women with PCOS tend to take higher doses of metformin compared to those with diabetes due to their weight. Vitamin B12 is a water Soluble vitamin and is needed for proper red blood cell formation, and brain functioning. Us women with PCOS are also at a higher risk of devolping heart disease, and guess what? Vitamin B12 deficiency only makes our odds higher at getting heart disease.

Deficiency Signs**
  • Anemia
  • Infertility
  • Chronic Fatigue
  • Memory loss
  • Confusion
  • Tingling in hands or feet
We can get adequate amounts of vitamin B12 from animal foods such as eggs, seafood, beef and diary products. Supplements such as Multivitamins, B12 vitamins, Biotin,B complex supplements, B2, b3, B5, B6 may also be needed and are all easy to find at your local drug store.

Women who are having trouble concieving may need to level out their deficiency before they have luck on their TTCjournies.Also women that are pregnant need more vitamin B12 because it helps the babies brain, and body grow and build.

I myself take biotin another Vitamin B because in many of the womans success stories of hair regrowth this was part of the treatment. Also before taking it I felt like my nails did not grow and since starting the supplement religiously I have nails! My toenails grow too fast now (n) but hey at least  I am experiencing progress. B vitamins allow us to turn things and foods into energy along with Biotin. When you have proper amounts of Biotin in your body your nerve tissues, sweat glands, and bone marrow are all functioning at their best. Biotin is responsible for breaking down the carbrohydrate we eat which also makes it a help in keeping our blood sugar levels in check.

So ladies DO NOT FORGET!! Vitamin B's are crucial to us to help relieve the awful symptoms we are faced with. Do yourself a favour take supplements, and eat those eggs.
Your friend Court.

Monday, 26 December 2011

Low GI

Do you find low carbing/ no carbing too hard to achieve? Do you still want to eat everything around you? If you barely eat are you real tired? Are you deteremined to get that weight off? Do you want to chose a healthy living lifestyle with more choices? Well Maybe.. the choice your looking for is LOW GI dieting.

GI stands for glycemic index. GI shows the effects of carbs on our blood sugar levels. When you are chosing food from the low GI scale you are chosing carbrohydrates that are breaking down much slowly releasing glucose into our bloodstream over a period of time. With this type of diet I have read many success stories of women that overcame PCOS. This diet is more or less the diet to use to avoid picking foods that make your blood glucous levels to surge rapidly( cuzing symptoms, weight gain, mood swings).

What has been created is a low glycemic index scale that ranks foods we eat and enjoy. The foods best for us rank 55 and under on the index. These are the complex carbrohydrates that maintain to keep us fuller for a longer period of time which also helps with weight loss because NO MORE BINGE eatting, You're full! For us women with PCOS they reduce the risk of us developing type 2 dieabetes, and help us shed off the unwanted extra pounds.

Sooo, what are some food your enjoy? Well I enjoy.....
apples                                     GI-36
banana bread                          GI- 47
whole wheat speghetti              GI-37
oranges                                   GI- 43
macaroni                                 GI- 45
tomato                                    GI- 15
tomato soup                            GI- 38
cherries                                   GI- 22


And.. most non starchy veggies have a GI of 15.

Now which foods are cuz surges in our blood sugar levels?
HIGH GI FOOD/ FOODS TO AVOID!
Instant Rice                           GI-91
Baked Potato                        GI-85
Instant Mashed Potatos        GI-83
Bagel                                     GI-72
French Fries                         GI-76
Mashed Potatos                   GI-73
Dougnuts                              GI-75
White bread!!                       GI-79
Watermelon                          GI-72
Honey                                   GI-73

As you can see the low carbing/no carbing one I chose to follow is very much like this both do not recommend white bread, french friends, any form of potatoes and rice. The difference is LOW GI gives you much more of a variety with few limitations. Also with the low carbing/ no carbing you are turning your body into a fat burning machine because your stalkin up on Protein.

Remember ladies there are 3 different rankings food can get LOW GI, MEDIUM GI, AND HIGH GI.
The ones we are really trying to avoid are the HIGH GI foods. Some foods that make the medium list include. Popcorn, Special K, brown rice, Icecream, Oatmeal cookies, whole wheat bread, and sweet potatoes although these are not as good as the LOW GI foods you may still want to put the in your diet.

This healthy life style choice maybe the one for you. It may be good to say I wanna low GI as a new years resolution. Hey you could even have just no carbing days and low GI most of the time. The decision is up to you on which way you want to go about changing your lifestyle.

Now my question to you ladies is..... WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
your friend Court.

**Merry Christmas Ladies**

Here comes Susie snowflake look at her tumbling down. Knock,Knock,Knockin on your window pane to tell you shes in town. If you want to build a snowman i'll help you build one 123, If you want to take a slay ride, the rides on me!! Here come Susie snowflake!


Hey Cysters!! I hope your christmas was good! Mine was amazing:) I hope you all saw lots of family, got gifts you wanted, and got to spend the holidays with those you love.

I will admitt I have been eatting non stop since the 23rd! So much food around this time of year. To me christmas is about the people, and the food. Like I said treat yourself... I think I went a little haywire on that advice but hey it was fun..and well us cysters gotta live a little too!!!

If any of you have something fun to tell about christmas, or just want to brag about some gifts, or you want to shout out to your cysters for christmas too! Leave a comment drop me a line share a laugh. I got a brand new necklace, perfume, Adobe Photoshop, and a GPS!

Hope Santa was good to you. Court

Wednesday, 21 December 2011

Excercise!!

 Work those abs, work those thighs, DO YOU FEEL THE BURN? work those butts, work those calves, work those arms, DO YOU FEEL THE BURN? Make your heart race, go faster, alright now slow it down , CAN YOU FEEL IT? 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, DONT GIVE UP GET IT DONE. do you feel it in your muscles? do they ache? The more you feel it the more its working LADIES! Get off the Couch get out of the house FEEL THE BURN! And whatever you do.. DONT GIVE UP!!

So ladies, I have went over healthy eatting and that form of weight lose but with that I encourage you to incooperate some excercise. Little is better than nothing and than as you go you can build your way up to longer length of time more difficult work outs. How I started was by doing little cardio on the treadmill starting at 15 minutes running some and walking some, and I took it up to 30 minutes of just running. When I started I was aware I had little muscle on my body and muscle helps you lose fat so I did that little bit of cardio than did arm weights, and leg weights, also used some of the ab machines at the gym. But that is where I spent most of my time when beginning to workout was building muscle.

I also checked out YOUTUBE videos for butt and leg excercise because lets face it most of us women do not have the bodies we want with PCOS and I always think my butt is too small. I started doing lounges and they hurt. Walking up the stairs in college I could feel the burn the next day. I chose to watch YOUTUBE excecise videos and Bought two excericse DVD'S. Yes, I bought a dancing one but that is still working out, and it was a lot of fun.

With PCOS ladies really anytype of activity will benefit us. How many of you are prediabetic? Excecise in anyform will help with this also it will help with your insulin resistance.

To incooperate aerobic excercise into your life style you can swim laps, run on the treadmill, take walks until you are ready to run, use the stair climbing machine( I love this one). Once you get used to excercise it is said for best results do aerobic excercise 5 days a week for 60 minutes. 

Strength training is one of the best tool a girl like us can have for weight loss. Each pound of muscle you have in your body burns 35 calaroies a day,so the more muscle we have the more calories we burn. Due to the fact you need some time for your muscles to build it is only recommended we do strength training like every other day for 30 minutes. You can do squates, lunges, free weights, situps, or pushups.

Interval Training is another way you can maximize your weight loss. This type of training will allow for you to do less cardio when need because you go harder for a short period of time. At the gym around me there are many group activities such as kickboxing, power cycle, yoga, power burn and alot of these leave you feeling exhausted after 30 minutes. They work out almost every muscle in your body, and allow you to meet new people, and have a good time. This type of training breaks it down into intervals so, you go slow, than fast, than slow, than real fast. It is the type of excercising we need it gets our hearts going.

So inorder for us to be on the right track with our PCOS wether it be we are trying to concieve, trying to just lose weight, trying to relieve symptoms, or trying to no longer be predieabetic we need to have some sort of weight loss, and excercise is key. I know it may be hard at the start but with continuous trying your body will get used to it. SO ladies I want one of your newyears resolutions to be excercise and stick to it. If you dont have a gym membership GET ONE!..if you have one Go more than you do OR stay longer...And if your just beginning get a dog so you are forced to go on some sort of walks and trust me you will learn to enjoy them!

Your friend Court.

Sunday, 18 December 2011

Mushrooms..*

When I first saw you I wanted to know what you were! When I saw mommy eatting you I knew I would get to try. I grew up having you on my steak, in batter, stuff, in my yummy soup, on platter trays, plain with butter and salt, on my pizza, and in my pasta. To this day you are still one of my favourite. Mushrooms I want to thank you for always being there in so many different arrangments!
 I love MUSHROOMS! DO YOU? HOW DO YOU EAT YOURS?

DID YOU KNOW?
Mushrooms have been used for thousands of years my the chinese the nativies, and the euroupean. Mushrooms are used for medicine and cooking. They are known are a vegetable or a herb but they are actually fungi. There are 14,000 different types of mushrooms, 3.000 of them are edible, and 700 have known medical properties. So yes ladies this is your warning never go out and pick your own mushrooms because those that are non edible maybe poisonous. 80 to 90 percent of a mushroom is water!

Mushrooms are an excellent source of potassium, which lowers elevated blood pressure, and reduces our risk of stroke or having a heartattack. They contain selenium which is good for our bladder functioning. Also like us when they are in the sunlight they produce the wonderful vitamin D. Mushrooms give us iron, and I dunno about some of you ladies but I was getting my period 3 times a month and taking iron supplements to avoid fatigue, mushrooms may have just been the answer I was looking for. Mushrooms are known to promote immune system health. They help create antiviral and other proteins while the cells are trying to repair and protect us. Like many superfoods mushrooms have antioxidants in them which help fight free radicals in our systems. Free radicals cause oxidation in our bodies ladies, and that is something we dont want.  Mushrooms help get our metabolisms kick started because of all the vitamin B's in this superfood. Vitamin B's are needed to turn our carbs into fuel for us to use which is taken to give us energy. The selenium in mushrooms protects us women from cancer of the bladder.

How do you eat them?
Stuffed
Fried
in pasta, or stirfry
with eggs
on pizza
in stew or soup
raw with dip
battered
on sandwiches
on steak with onions
in salad

Mushrooms can be aten with any meal of the day in a variety of ways, its your choice...which way would you like?

Nutrients & Minerals***
Calcium
Iron
Copper
Zinc
Selenium
Magnesium
Potassium
Vitamin B1
VITAMIN B2
VITAMIN B6
Vitamin D
Folate
Vitamin C
Niacin

Nutrional Facts
per 1 cup mushroom slices
Calories - 44
Fat- 1g
Carbs- 8g
Dietary Fibre- 3g
Sugar- 3g
Protein- 3g
Vitamin D- 38.2 IU
Calcium 9.4MG
Iron- 2.7 Mg

So since mushrooms have always been a favourite of mine.. its your turn to get down with this yummy superfood. Its the holidays I know we should not be eatting battered food but Im going to indulge in a few battered mushrooms with the family they are amazing. Just remember ladies if you are indulging this holiday like me Portion control is needed. :)
Your friend Court.