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Yes!     Chinese food. Was always my favorite food. I miss going in and devouring the whole buffet single handedly! lol. Otherwise I eat most of what I ate before. I was a healthy eater before, just always ate way too much! I have bread sometimes, I had half a PB&J sammich just the other day. Some things taste better, and others gross, something to do with the surgery changed how some foods tasted for me!

I make my own refried beans at home and love them!  Anyone else making their own?

Wow I thought I had replied here before but I don't see it so here I go:

My name is Kirstin and I am 39 years old.  I have been married for 17 years and I was diagnosed with PCOS before we got married.  I also got my period when I was 9 but it quickly disappeared, only to be brought on with intervention.  I have had two or three surgeries to remove the cycts.  I lost a lot of weight in 98-99 time frame in order to attempt pregnancies.  My period never did normalize, although I lost about 90-100 pounds.  I did get pregnant (via IVF) but had an ectopic and then a miscarriage.  The third try we didn't conceive and by then I was wiped out emotionally so we started the adoption process and now have two beautiful children who are the delight of our lives so my advice to anyone is that kids are so worth everything you have to go through to get them!!!!  Kicker is, now my period is becoming fairly normal compared to what it has been my whole life!  Every six weeks to two months it's coming now which is a far cry from when I could go untold amounts of time without one...

Anyway I wish I had considered surgery before now....  but things are the way they are supposed to be so now here I am.  I just found out today my insurance approval has come through!!!  YIPPEEE!!! So my surgery is supposed to be in April sometime, probably April 27th.

I am excited to be normal sized for the first time in my life.  I want to live a more active lifestyle and give my kids that example instead of the "I'm too tired to do anything" example because I'm carrying so much extra weight around.

One of my goals is to run a half marathon, and also my high school class is turning forty this year so my friend and I are going to go skydiving!!!  I've ALWAYS wanted to but I've ALWAYS been over the maximum weight!!!

It's kind of fun to think about how people will react to this... my husband is from Hawaii and he hasn't told any of them that I'm doing this... and we are planning to go back in January.  It will be very fun to see the reactions we get!!!  (It might be almost as good as when I went back to work on Monday after the weekend with pictures of my son.... no one knew I was adopting (he was a preemie and in the hospital for 17 days so I saved my start of my leave until he was out) and some didn't believe it!  It was GREAT!!!)

I would check with your dermatologist they are coming up with new things all the time.  I have done well with laser treatments so that is the only thing I have tried.

Hi, my name is Rebecca. I am 35 (36 on May 27) and have been battling PCOS since puberty with a diagnosis only last year! 
     I have every symptom imagineable- hair, darkening of skin, big belly, skin tags, IR turned diabetes, high blood pressure- you name it.  I was on BC for most of my life until I got married in 1999.  We immediately began TTC but no luck.  My cycles vary from almost non-existent for months to spotting for weeks.  We tried the chlomid/provera nightmare (for me it was) for countless rounds.  
     I am scheduled for surgery on 3/25/10 and am on Cloud 9!  I am hoping to reverse a lot of my medical issues as I lose weight.

I joined this group because I know that you ladies know what it is like to feel like things are "broken."  I like knowing that I can come to this group with concerns or questions and to share joys and accomplishments!

Rebecca