Low GI diet for PCOS

[mummyloveslucy]

Hi I have PCOS and have been advised that a low GI diet can help. I have a sweet tooth, so this will be very hard but I'm determined. I've looked at the foods I have at home and none of them are low GI. THe foods they recomend sound awful too.
Is anyone else following this diet and is it really that bad? and has it helped improve your fertility? I want to follow it as a change of lifestyle to improve my health and fertility, not just to loose weight. I'm not sure if I could keep it up forever though.
Also could anyone recommend a good pocket book that tells you which foods are low GI?
Thanks.

There are some great books on Amazon. I'll find and link to them.

Have you been prescribed metformin?

hello

have a look here and Verity and here

there is a book by Colette Harris which I found helpful

honestly it is the way to go and do some exercise too it helps too
I think once you wean yourself off sugar the cravings ease, it is not so bad and has long term benefits for example making you less prone to contracting diabetes, whihc is a real risk for PCOS

good luck

I have this cookbook

pocketbook

It's important that you try and exercise every day too; my consultant suggested at least 10 minutes.

I've lost a lot of weight this way and actually find now that I have lost my sweet tooth. Once you get into it, it is a very easy diet.

as a rule take out all plain sugar high carb stuff pasta bread etc go for the wholemeal varieties try never to eat an un opposed carb for example have apple with plain low fat yoghurt etc
use basmati rice it is has lowest GI of rices
try not to eat processed food often rich in carb and fat

have the odd treat

Thanks everyone, I'll give it a go. I'm already doing more exercise, so that should help.
I'll get the pocket book too.

My consultant mentioned Metformin when I was on Clomid, but as the Clomid worked a few times, she decided not to perscribe it. I wonder if my Doc would perscribe it even though I'm no longer having fertility treatment?

I was prescribed metformin on its own by my GP, she reckoned it would help me not to develop type 2 diabetes. You can always ask! I've got the Collette Harris book and took some of the supplements recommended for a while. Finally got pregnant naturally and am breastfeeding now, but when I am done BFing I will probably ask for metformin again to help me lose weight.

Metformin is fine while breastfeeding. I took it through my pregnancies too; it helps reduce the risk of miscarriage and gestational diabetes.

I've been on it for years.

metformin works for some people and not for others - a big study a few years back showed it had no effect on it's own, but combined with diet and exercise it can help with weight loss/maintenanc, which in turn can have a good effect on fertility.

ooh, cheers, I will ask to go back on it next time I see the GP. I did find it helpful with losing weight, but when I got pregnant the first time they told me to come off of it. I was reluctant as I'd heard about it preventing miscarriage, but listened to them. As it happens I miscarried at 7 weeks anyway, then ran out of metformin and never asked for a repeat prescription. I got pregnant again 3 months later (very pleased as we tried for a year the first time), but had no more metformin to take.

Sounds great, I'll ask my GP.