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I found one website that gave a lot of info about PCOS and diet. But it just seems so extreme.
It's a low-fat, low-sugar, low-carb, high-protien diet. (sounds kinda like the adkins diet which I don't believe in...I don't think it's right to eat a bunch of meat as your main source of food). It recommeds protiens and vegetables since PCOS patients can't deal with sugars and carbohydrates.
It talks about staying away from yeast products and when you do eat bread only use rye bread or soda bread(whatever that is)
It mentioned things like only buying organic foods because your body can't handle the extra chemicals.
No processed foods or pre-packanged foods.
Not eating or drinking out of plastic containers since they also introduce more cemicals to your body. No warming food up in the microwave in plastic containers.
about eating 6 small meals a day verses 3 meals.
drinking lemon water to help clean out the toxins in your body.
Those are just some things I could remember.
It just seems hard...because when I cook I'm not only cooking for JUST me or JUST me and my husband. Our home consists of me, my husband my sister, and my kids ages 7, 4.4, 2.5, 2 and newborn. So whatever I make has to be for all of us. How could a family really make it throguh each day with those restriction?
Not to mention we don't have any organic food stores around here...and what organic food they do sell at the supermarket is very pricey compared to the normal stuff.
I'm afraid I'd just be setting myself up for failure if I even tried doing that.
I can see....trying to go for more of a diabetic diet...like trying to buy sugar free stuff (but even that is so much more expensive).
I'm really interested in what the PCOS diet book recommends....since PCOS is somethign I have that will never go away...I HAVE to find a way to live with it...and protect myself from developing diabetes or heart problems etc..
I wish there was a class I could take on the subject....or lists of products to buy or foods to prepare....maybe it wouldn't seem like such a difficult task to undertake.
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