Maggie Glisson - The Complete Insulin Resistance Diet for PCOS: A No-Stress Meal Plan with Easy Recipes to Stop PCOS Symptoms, Repair Your Metabolism, and Lose Weight Naturally

THE COMPLETE

INSULIN RESISTANCE

DIET FOR PCOS

A No-Stress Meal Plan with Easy Recipes to Stop PCOS Symptoms, Repair Your Metabolism, and Lose Weight Naturally

By Maggie Glisson

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Welcome back! And can I just start by saying thank you so much to all of the readers who are here as a result of my first book, The PCOS Fix ? Writing that book was a labor of love for me and it transformed my life completely by teaching me even more than I thought possible about living with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. It opened me up to a whole new community of people and it really made me look at some long-held beliefs I had about my life in terms of health, happiness, environment, and daily habits. In particular, it revolutionized my relationship with food. Sharing that journey with you all was one of the highlights of my life and that is why I decided that the process would only feel complete by following up with another book - this time particularly focused on the area of diet and food.

After completing my first book on PCOS ( The PCOS Fix ), I was struck by how much of the information surrounding diet, metabolism, and weight I wasnt able to include. It gave me the idea to write a book in which I could look in-depth at practical recipes, as well as some of the medical impacts and health benefits that awareness and change can bring. I am delighted, therefore, to welcome you to my second book - one which I hope will act as a complement to the first book, but which can also be enjoyed on its own.

For anyone that doesnt know me yet, my name is Maggie Glisson and the reason I was inspired to spend so much of my life devoted to helping women such as yourself with PCOS is that, until recently, I was in the exact same position as you probably are now. I had a million questions after my recent diagnosis and not very many answers.

My story began just over five years ago. I was in my early thirties and my partner and I had been trying to get pregnant for around a year. We were not particularly worried at that point, I had only came off the contraceptive pill about a year before and we were aware that it could take around that time for my fertility levels to return. So, the initial trip to the doctor to discuss our baby-making progress was not particularly anxiety-filled. I expected it to be an informal chat around my health and almost the green light with which to continue our baby-making efforts, safe in the knowledge that time was all that was needed to solve this problem.

I certainly did not expect what was to come next.

Instead, what followed was an in-depth, fact-finding mission that involved him asking, at times, uncomfortable questions about my health that I knew had been an issue, but in no way did I think were related to my chances of getting pregnant. But, as he asked question after question and I reflected on my general mental and physical health, a cold feeling crept over my entire body to the point that when he finished speaking, I was sure I almost hadnt heard a word he had said for the last twenty minutes. It was as if it all finally made sense and I had known all along that there must be some connection between these many facets of my life.

As a teenager, it felt like my whole life was governed by two things - my weight and my emotions. With a diet sky-high in sugar and processed food and with years to go before anyone knew much about intolerances and allergies, I was completely ignorant about the effects my lifestyle choices were having on my long-term health. My emotional mood swings and tendency to burst into tears at a moment's notice were put down to just normal stages of puberty. This theory was backed up by the fact that so many of my girlfriends seemed to be going through similar experiences. We were assured by parents, teachers, and each other that this was all just a normal part of growing up and that, as soon as we were older, our bodies would normalize and our emotions would even out.

Fast forward to my mid-twenties and my body had normalized for sure - my new normal was an extra fifteen to twenty-five pounds that I consistently carried, mostly focused around my mid-region. It became so normal I stopped noticing. Every few years I would creep up a dress size and I seemed to jump from one fad diet to another, with not much in the way of results. This was in part due to me not sticking to one diet for long, but whenever I would try to cut out or down on one particular type of food, such as sugary treats or gluten-filled bread, I would be so miserable for the next few days that I would quickly pick it back up again.

Again, most of my girlfriends had the same issues. This was in the days when the internet was really taking hold and social media was becoming much more common in our daily lives. So, I could see that not only were some of the women in my family and social circle prone to weight gain, it was a normal thing for a lot of women in most developed countries! This only added to my confidence that there was nothing particularly wrong with me - weight gain, a stubborn twenty-odd pounds and what seemed like complete immunity to the effects of exercise were just normal parts of being in your twenties. Plus, I had by that point met my husband to be and we were happy - so why worry so much about my weight if there was nothing I could do to change it.

The emotional symptoms were a bit harder to explain away. I had progressed out of the teenage phase of bursting into tears at the drop of a hat, but that strong and instant emotional reaction to situations had been replaced with a slow-growing, ever-present, and sometimes overwhelming feeling of unhappiness and discontent. It grew so steadily over the years of my early twenties that I almost didnt notice it at first. But, by the time I approached my thirties, got married, and started to consider having children, it had taken over my thought processes and mental health so much that I had reached out for professional help.

As a twenty-seven/twenty-eight-year-old woman, I was now refusing to hear that this was just down to my hormones and I would grow out of it. Going into my thirties, I was convinced that my time of growing out of things was surely behind me! Some of the things I tried worked temporarily, some didnt work at all, and others I refused to even try. Again, as with the weight, after a while, I assumed that this was just the way I was. And hey - every normal couple argued and there were times where I was upset over things that I should have been legitimately upset about. I told myself that there was no way this could all be connected to any physical problem, this was all just part of life.