Even while my wife was struggling, we tried to find the light in the bad.
One of the symptoms of PCOS that she battled was unwanted facial hair. I remember that one night, we were watching a very emotional scene in a show. A man had been in a car accident on the way to his wedding and ended up in a coma. His fiance was by his side in the hospital months later, trying to decide whether to pull the plug.
My wife turned to me and said, “If I’m ever in a coma…” I looked at her, expecting her to ask me to either keep her on life support or to not let her suffer.
Instead she said, “…will you pluck my chin hairs?”
That was one of those lighter moments, among so many where she was suffering. Of course, she wasn’t really joking, but it was nice to share a laugh even among the struggle.
Most of the time, though, things were dark. But once I had the research, I saw the possibility to help my wife regain her life.
Once I understood the way that PCOS was affecting her body and her metabolism, I knew that I could help.
It all became clear once I studied the actual mechanisms of PCOS, the way that it changed the body and affected the way it regulated itself.
I learned that women with PCOS have a leptin resistance. In healthy people, leptin is released to tell the brain that we need to stop eating. But in women with PCOS, their brains don’t get the message.
Instead, they stay in, “I need to eat mode.”
That’s why my wife wasn’t able to stop eating, even when she felt like her stomach would burst open. Her brain couldn’t stop telling her to eat.
Then I learned that women with PCOS have lower Vitamin D levels. I already knew that Vitamin D essentially puts a barrier around fat cells to make it harder for the body to store fat.
It made sense then that my wife had gained weight easier than a person with higher Vitamin D levels would.
I also learned that when you have PCOS, your body can’t efficiently use carbs or fats as a fuel source.
It was no wonder that my wife had no energy—her body wasn’t even fueling itself properly.
The more I learned, the more pieces fell into place. I finally understood that we had to approach her nutrition and exercise regimen in a different way. That’s why nothing had worked before. Her body didn’t function the way that everyone else’s body did.
Of course, helping your wife lose weight can be a delicate situation. I never wanted to make her feel uncomfortable or insecure around me—my whole goal was to have her feel good about herself again.
So we hired a coach. In reality, the coach was basically a middleman. I’d go to her and say, “Here’s what you need to try next…” Then she would go work with my wife and do just that.
Within six months, my wife had lost 63 pounds. The light came back into her eyes. She no longer looked at herself in the mirror in disbelief. Her periods returned to normal. She was finally able to function the way that she wanted to function, to be the person and the mom that she wanted to be.
I was just happy to see her happy again. We had an advantage in her battle with PCOS. My background let us make a path to change. But most women don’t have that advantage. Instead, they struggle for years, they try everything, and they hit a wall, over and over again.
I hated watching my wife go through what she did. But being a part of her PCOS journey was one of the best things that ever happened to me. It made me realize that it wasn’t enough for me to train athletes or just be a weight loss coach.
I wanted to bring that same level of impact to other women with PCOS, to show them that they could lose the weight they just had to approach it the right way.
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Ready to help,
John