On the wagon...forever?

I haven't had the space (or time) to mention another BIG find of Dr. Hottie's.  He did a two hour glucose tolerance test to see if I am insulin resistant, which would be an indication of PCOS.  And guess what...the numbers that came back indicated that I am prediabetic.  So, Dr. H. started me on Metformin on May 24th. 

Wow...prediabetes.  Dr. H. said that with weight loss, diet change and exercise sometimes it can be reversed.  But other times, people have to be on Metformin for the rest of their lives.  Yikes.  I immediately started doing as much research as I could in regards to prediabetes and its relationship to infertility.

I know that I am overweight.  I have been struggling with it all my life.  I lost a lot of weight before our wedding in 2007 (I was at 174 pounds), but since then it has slowly come back.  My highest weight has been recently and that was 217 pounds.  I'm almost 5'8", but still....that is WAY too fat to be healthy.  So....with the emergence of my insulin issues and the introduction of the Metformin, I have started a diet.  A Very. Serious. Diet.  I've stopped drinking altogether (which is another post in and of itself because it really, truly sucks ass.)  And I've adopted a modified South Beach diet in regards to what I'm eating.  I'm trying to do low carb, low fat and high protein with little to no sugar.  So far, it seems to be working.  I've been steadily losing weight and I haven't even started exercising yet.  I'll give an update in a week or so on the pounds lost, but I am just a couple of pounds from the 100's!!!!  Crazy.  Really crazy. 

I go back for another GTT on July 6th.  I am keeping my fingers and toes crossed that the weight loss, diet change and Metformin have helped to regulate the insulin and Itchey and I can move forward with an IVF cycle.