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It becomes really difficult for a woman with PCOS to lose weight due to various reasons. We provide you with health tips for a better and healthy life.
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INDEX • Weight Loss Tips For Women With PCOS • Cut Down Your Carb Intake • Increase Fiber Intake. • Avoid Added Sugars And Processed Foods • Proteins • Stay full
Weight Loss Tips For Women With PCOS • Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) can be defined as a condition caused due to imbalanced hormones, irregular periods and formation of follicles (a small collection of fluids) on ovaries and is unable to release eggs regularly. • Over 6-9% of woman has this condition. • Woman, commonly in reproductive are observed with this disorder.
Losing even a small amount of weight with approximately 4-7% can create a huge positive impact on fertility, menstrual cycle, and Insulin resistance and improve hormone levels. • For a woman, it becomes really difficult to lose weight as different disorders related to this condition create hurdles for them. • Here are some health tips for you to lead you towards a healthy life.
1. Cut Down Your Carb Intake • Carb intake of your body creates an impact on our body. • Lowering intake will you manage PCOS as it is linked with insulin levels. • Insulin is important as they help manage blood sugar and storing energy in your body.
Having insulin resistance will stop your cell recognizing the effects of the insulin. • Study says an increase in body fat and weight is associated with high levels of insulin. • The study suggests, obese woman with PCOS and insulin resistance.
A diet with a lower carb, higher fat (40% carbs, 45% fats and 15% protein) can help to lower your insulin level. • GI (glycmic index) is an index used to rank how quickly carbohydrate affects the blood sugar. • A diet with low GI can help a woman with PCOS.
Increase Fiber Intake. • A diet with high fiber intake can help you with weight loss as they keep you full after your meal. • Research says that lower belly fat and total body fat, and insulin resistance is directly connected to high fiber intake (only in women with PCOS). • It is necessary to know about your body. Find out calories required and fibers according to your body an increase in fiber intake accordingly.
Avoid Added Sugars And Processed Foods • Slash down unhealthy foods in your diet. They raise your blood sugar level and are also associated with obesity. • Woman with PCOS is more sensitive than a woman without. • Their sugar level rises more than compared even when the same amount of sugar is consumed.
Real food, which is not processed much create a lesser impact on blood sugar level. • Experts advise avoiding fast food, candies, cakes and cookies as they contain a high amount of added carbs and sugar as they create problems maintaining healthy body weight.
Proteins • Protein makes you feel full after eating and helps to stabilize your blood sugar. • Making you feel full reduces your cravings and manage your calories. • It is advised to lean towards high protein diet with 35-45% of calories from protein. This will help you lose a significant amount of weight.
Increase your protein intake by including food like meat, eggs, seafood and nut. Healthy protein snacks will help you a lot with reducing weight.
Stay full • Lowering calorie intake will create a negative impact on hormones controlling appetite. It will slow down your metabolism. • It may look good for the short term but it will make your body adapt to this change and reduce overall calories it burns which may lead to weight regain.
Appetite increasing hormones are affected because of such restriction. • So it is better to intake whole food and slash down processed food. • By intaking, the same amount of calories from healthy food will work better than cutting down the number of calories.
By PCOS treatment of well planned diet, mindful eating, healthy mind and exercise you will be able shed some weight and lead a healthy life.
