We've been doing this long enough and talking to enough women that we see patterns.
1. Some of you understand that PCOS is about lifestyle changes that enhance your fertility, keep you healthy during pregnancy, and help you to live long enough to enjoy your grandchildren.
2. Some of you seem to have the mentality that if you just"eat better", long enough to become pregnant, you can go back to your former ways once you achieve that short term goal. We hope to stretch out your vision and move you into the first group.
3. Some of you seem a little resistant that getting what you want may require change on your part, and look for every reason, every excuse, to turn the problem over to someone else to take care of. (One client actually told me once, she appreciated my advice, but she was just going to pay the doctor to get her the baby and she'd call me if she developed diabetes once that happened.) I think I would feel the same way if someone unloaded something as heavy as infertility on me! I hope over time you come to see we're on your side and want to help you. Actually, the best way to take control of your PCOS is to take control of your lifestyle. It's one proactive thing you can do, on a daily basis, that DOES make a difference.
Did you know that mothers who are diabetic during their pregnancies are more likely to have children with insulin resistance? I'm not saying this to put blame on anyone for their daughter's PCOS, at all…but to make it clear that what you do far past the time you conceive, can have effects for years and years beyond that moment. It's not just about"being good" for a little bit, then going back to what you'd rather be doing.
A study to be published in Diabetes next week reports that how pregnant women eat actually changes their babies' DNA! A mother's low carbohydrate diet in the first three months of pregnancy seems to have the potential to alter the baby's DNA so that it more efficiently stores fat after it's born.
That's pretty profound stuff.
But that's what we're here for. We can help you break the task of changing your food habits, slowly, surely, and permanently. So that you derive the absolute best benefit from the effort.