hey Syd G i just realized u r a female~! Damm i was slow~ anyway havent u had any surgery carried out for ur pcos? wat medication r u on? metformin or sulfonylurea type OHA? well i guess ur doctor is smart enuf not to prescribe u sulfonylurea which might otherwise cause u weight gain.. anyway.. be really cautious about ur protein intake thou.. dun go too much over 0.8gr per kg. YES I SAID PER KG! well thats d recomended protein requirement for an insulin resistant.. but i guess we bodybuilders dun go by rules do we? i myself go up to 1.5g per pound per day knowing all the complication of high-protein diet..
anyway wish u luck! all the best in ur quest to 8packs!

I always wear my Female tag what?

No surgery yet - hopefully no surgery needed. When first diagnosed (was bleeding non stop for 5 months - I was severely anemic but I dismissed it as me being 'lazy'), I was given Norcolut (barely works), then tranexamic acid (generic) to stop the bleeding, then Diane35 - which made my weight neither going up nor down eventho I was taking lower carb then anyone else I know. Then I bought my own metformin (self-prescribed Glucophage 500 - dont follow this at home, kids) while on Diane35. Hair stopped falling, acne disappeared, mood not so swingy and had a bit of weight loss for a while but metformin made me tired n friggin sleepy (lack of B12 maybe?).

One day I ditched all my meds and started being serious about this. Lost a couple of kilos in December, had period twice in 30 days (before that it was absent for 3 months due to meds) - right now some of the kgs all back but bf % decreases so am happy. It's a tiring n depressing process but am willing to give it time

Er if I hv to tone down protein then what am I suppose to eat? I'm already toning down carbs (50g-80g/day - 80% of it from pre-workout/post-workout shakes) - I'll sleep after anything carbs (tried oatmeal, went straight to ZzZZZzzz-land). Am I suppose to pile up on fat? Oh imagine how much cheese n mayonnaise I can eat a day

Thanks for the good wishes free_enuf. Appreciate the support

well.. if ur diabetic control is good then u r probably not at too high of risk of neprhopathy by following a high-prot diet.. had any HbA1c done lately? how high is ur bld sugar usually? i mean both fasting and random. anyway pcos IS distressing i can understand...

Last did it in August, due to another blood screen 2 weeks from now. Fasting blood sugar is within "normal" range. Even with very low carb (diet @ those days was even more draconian than the one I'm having now) also 'normal' blood sugar . Nvr had random blood sugar test. Oh ya one of the main reason I stopped taking metformin cause I was having hypoglycemia - felt like drug addict only . I hv textbook pcos - high HDL n LDL n triglycerides too. Another problem area - high uric acid (so I only take 1-2 serving of seafood (besides Salmon) a week). Haiya so many problem

U seem to know lots of things abt this. A budding endo I assume?

nah.. waiting to start my internship tho.. gonna be hell then.. hopefully it doesnt affect my workout routine.. althou i expect only 12-hour free time between 36-hour shifts... my pecs gonna shrink.. hai..

Ah no wonder, a noble man with a noble job

wow...i admire ur determination...u're really doing a good job

so many medical terms i don't understand.
whats wrong with you sydg?

Nothing wrong ler. I hv inherited a common condition - since God didnt send my genes to me with warranty (lets call it 'gene kedekut' since it's so kedekut on letting me burn me sugar), I guess am just going to hv to live with it. It makes me a prime candidate for heart attack n diabetes - on it's way to those diseases it gave me another list of syndromes - it's called Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (pcos). 10% of women hv them - they just didnt realize it cause it's like a mosquito itch underneath ur armpit, not fatal - just annoying.

Pcos comes in a package. The signs were imminent since I reached puberty. I have textbook pcos - in short, I hv ALL the signs I'm supposed to hv :

1) I hv less hair on my head and lose a lot of them on daily basis. Dandruff appears the next day after I've shampooed @_@. I even hv an almost-bald spot on head.
2) Nvr had regular period in my life, when I do it's usually longer (14++) or shorter (4-5) than 7 days
3) Hair growing at weird places (think : around ze nipple )
4) Major depression n mood swings
5) Batallion of acnes on my oily skin
6) Extra teeny tiny skin growing @ my neck (skin tags)
7) Snoring
8) Weight gain - usually around the waist (gahahaha! )

Oh ya it comes with extra gift too - male hormones. In short, I'm turning into a dude
!! I already hv a wide, strong shoulder by default (me to mom when wearing baju kurung - "shoulder pads? huh who needs these damn shoulder pads"), and even so it's easier for me than normal girls to pack on muscles n lift heavy

The underlying condition makes it harder to lose weight. And in order to control it I need to lose weight. A catch 22, similar to the chicken & egg. But I think am doing good so far. A lil slow, but am getting there

u know u scare me when people talk like that.
seems like things get more complicated if we want to get in shape.
and that it is like we're just poisoning ourselves with our normal diet.

Tuesday, 16th January 2007
Week 2, Day 2 : I-Wanna-Be-Smexy 3-weeks Plan

Stats

Weight - 58.5kg
BF % - 27.1%
Water % - 50.9%
Muscles - 40.5kg


Workouts

5 mins warmup cardio wave

Chest Press
- 3 x 10 15lbs/side dumbbells

Bench Press
- 3 x 7 bar
- 3 x 5 bar + 2.5kg
- 3 x 5 bar + 5kg (25kg PR!!!! )

Inclined Bench Press
- 3 x 5 bar

Dumbbell Triceps Extension
3 x 10 15lbs

Rope Triceps Extension
3 x 12 7.5kg
1 x 5 10kg

Deadlift
1 x 5 40lbs barbell
1 x 5 50lbs barbell
1 x 5 5' Oly bar (13kg) + 10kg
1 x 5 15kg + 13kg
1 x 5 20kg + 13kg (PR !!! ) - One aim completed!!

1 hour endurance cardio jog
- 3 mins 5.5
- 44mins 8.0
- 13 mins 7.0-5.5 (cool down)
(3.85km in 30 mins PR!! , 7.30km in 1 hr , 7km in 56:37)


Meals & Supplements

10:00am
- whey + diluted HL milk

11:00am (my fav i-feel-like-crap-today pre-workout)
- Starbucks tall 'by-the-cup' with 1 sachet Equal
- Sugared Doughnut

2:45pm (post-workout )
- whey + water

3:30pm
- Ikea kiddie meatballs (5 meatballs + 1 boiled potato + cream sauce)

6:45pm
- Grilled salmon - heavens!
- Steamed broccoli & baby carrots
- Sauteed sliced green pepper + shitake mushroom + zucchini + olive oil

10:30pm
- whey + diluted HL milk
- one small banana
- 2 x Milk Thistle capsules


Things
- GREAT workout day today!! Am so happy I took the 2 days rest from cardio!

- Restocked supplements - bought 3 GNC Salmon Oil (180 caps - 6 months supply ), Women's Ultra Mega Multivitamins (90 tablets - 3 month's supply) & Milk Thistle (100 capsules - 2 months supply).

- Bought 3 packs of Salmon bone. It's 12.90/kg . And they're not all 'bones' - just smaller pieces of fillet that they cant sell at 69.90/kg. So cheap

- My parcel has arrived!!! It's suppose to contain 2 bottles of iSatori's Lean System 7, 1 bottle of iSatori's MX-LS7, a pack of Splenda sachets n a netrition.com shaker. Hv to pickup from post office tomorrow. Ahhh am so nervous

This post has been edited by Syd G: Jan 16 2007, 10:26 PM

Syd G's 3-weeks I-Wanna-be-Smexy Plan

Week 2, Day 2 updates

Goals :
- 27% body fat - 27.1%
- maintain 9.0km/h cardio jog for 15 minutes - 9.0km/h for 6 mins, 8.5km/h for 15 mins
- 10 x full pushups - havent work on it yet
- 15 x 50kg full squat @ rack - 5 x 45kg
- 5 x 30kg deadlifts - COMPLETED Jan 16th 2007
- 5 x 30kg bench - 5 x 25kg

congratz on ur progress....
*nervous*...have to weight myself on Thurs...

u all so commited, i wish i have someone like u all as my partner.
i'm such a lazy pig

Wednesday, 17th January 2007
Week 2, Day 3 : I-Wanna-Be-Smexy 3-weeks Plan


Stats

Weight -
BF % -
Water % -
Muscles -


Workouts

1 hour Yoga class

1 hour RPM class


Meals & Supplements

9:45am
- two whole eggs + two egg whites plain omelette

10:15am
- whey + diluted HL milk
- 2 x Milk Thistle capsules
- Multivitamin

11:00 - 1:00pm - Sleep

4:15pm (so-called pre-workout @ mamak somewhere..)
- half plate of white rice
- a piece of fried chicken thigh (resisted the skin )
- mamak-style stir-fried cabbage
- fried sotong

8:00pm
- Starbucks tall 'by-the-cup' with 1 sachet of Equal

8:45pm (post-workout)
- whey + diluted HL milk

10:00pm
- chicken soup

12:00am
- 1/2 tablet Flu meds
- 2 x Panadol


Things
- My meals so crappy today @_@

- Havent pick up my parcel yet. Long story. Will pickup tomorrow

- My FIRST EVER RPM CLASS (inspired by shadowjass ) !! Gosh I need to bring a towel next time. Most of the time I was distracted by pain @ crotch area Am having sniffles n minor sore throat too. Let not this be an impending fever.. ohnoes

This post has been edited by Syd G: Jan 18 2007, 08:23 AM

hey syd your dead life and bench got include the weight of the bar onot?

deadlift? no. thats why i put a + at the end. If you meant my goals, it's WITH the bar. I know it's pretty easy peasy for you guys but I just started this seriously 1 month ago (before that didnt pay much attention on poundage)

And bench is bar + 5kg.. Total 25kg ler takkan 5kg

So highest deadlift is 33kg. Not full effort yet, I knew I could go higher but it was my chest day, my back day is tomorrow

This post has been edited by Syd G: Jan 17 2007, 01:12 PM

lol.. so u using oly bar la.. haha. okay okay.. i thought u oly bar + 30kg

Getting there soon enough

i'm losing to syd G