Fat Amy, or should we now call her skinny Amy? Recently shocked the world with her amazing weight loss transformation.
Rebel Wilson the super-talented actress made millions off of her overweight very relatable character, fat Amy.
What made her decide to change and give up the very profitable look is what I asked myself.
Right before rebel Wilson decided to change her life for the better, she went to see a fertility doctor and then he straight up told her… you are too overweight and if you want to increase your chances of having kids you will have to lose quite a substantial amount of it…
At first Rebel was taken back… which is normal… not cool for anybody to tell you you are overweight…
The fact is something even deeper was at the cause for the doctor’s response.
During testing, the doctor found cysts on rebels ovaries…
Turns out rebel was struggling with a well-known female reproductive condition called polycystic ovarian syndrome PCOS for short.
So in today's Blog, we will be touching on what PCOS is, why it hinders fertility, and how weight loss gets influenced by it…
I will also share what type of diet will help with this and how you can optimally exercise to improve this condition, I might even say… Complete resolve the condition….?
The real question here is what causes these cysts to occur… in short…. androgenic hormones… like testosterone…
When there is an abnormal amount of “male hormones” present the ovaries will not ovulate…
Causing the eggs to lodge into the ovarian wall and eventually become cystic.
This abnormal amount of testosterone can be caused by many factors such as genetics or environmental stress… or even diet… symptoms such as irregular menstrual cycles, acne, and even weight gain are associated with PCOS.
I want to discuss something even bigger that is most often the cause behind PCOS…
Most people believe that PCOS causes insulin resistance and that makes it very difficult to lose weight… and get pregnant but the truth is, it's the other way around….
Insulin resistance comes first… Insulin resistance in short is an impaired ability of the body to respond to insulin which was supposed to open the cellular gate for sugar molecules to enter the cell…
So thus blood-sugar levels rise and the body produces even more insulin to try and decrease the blood sugar again…
This increased amount of insulin in the body eventually finds its way to the ovaries where it stimulates the androgen receptor and thus increase testosterone production…which as mentioned earlier is exactly the main cause of PCOS…
I hope you can see now that PCOS doesn't make you insulin resistant.
An unhealthy lifestyle and diet are what most often makes people insulin resistant and the insulin then negatively influences the ovaries…
By now I'm sure you are thinking… how do I fix this…
Treatment is fairly simple and complicated at the same time…
You can get hormonal stabilizing medications which will help decrease testosterone production and improve the cystic ovarian state…
or you can do what Rebel Wilson did.
and what most medical professionals will tell you to do…
Except those that just want to make money off of selling pills… anyways…
You can focus all your energy on completely reversing insulin resistance…
I've written a whole other Blog on how to go about reversing insulin resistance – be sure to check it out.
In short… there is a way to exercise which will decrease insulin resistance and there are some foods to avoid which will also then help to recover … let's start with exercise…
The goal is to make your body respond to glucose( blood sugar) again…
You see the cells that should take up this glucose moleculeame resistant
We need to stimulate the cells again to want glucose
and we do this by doing exercises that primarily use glucose as fuel…
So cardio exercises use fat as fuel… they won't work as well.
however high intensity interval workouts solely rely on glucose for energy…
3 HITT sessions per week will be more than enough to kickstart the body back into action…
However… that's just how you optimally do it…
If you are very unfit then literally any exercise even walking will already help a lot…
The key is “ if it doesn't challenge you it doesn't change you”
So a light walk that doesn't challenge you will waste your time but a brisk walk that does challenge you will be a great start!
Next let's look at your diet…
Nutrition can be extremely complicated and that’s why professionals like myself spend our entire lives studying it to optimize our client’s results
But the essence of normalising your insulin sensitivity again comes down to a simple principle…
When you eat carbs your body breaks them down into glucose molecules( also known as blood sugar)
and the rise in blood sugar triggers the body to produce insulin…
You can see how when blood sugar rises too much or too often there will be a lot of insulin in the body which will negatively impact the ovaries…
So the solution is to decrease simple carb intake…
The reason I'm saying simple carb is because the more simple the molecular structure of the carb the easier it is to break down in the body meaning the blood-sugar spike is much higher…
What you rather want is a complex carb that takes longer to digest meaning the blood sugar rises slower and stays steady for longer.
And that is it… a few days of optimal workouts and a consistent diet low in simple carbs will make a world change…
Rebel Willson is a great example of how effective this is…
I hope this Blog helped you make sense of PCOS and everything around it and that rebel Wilson success story motivated you to make a change in your own life!
