[Justwant2Bhealthy]

That's a good start -- going to the gym and cutting out the junk and fast food meals for lunch, plus making healthier meals for dinner. Do that for a while and see how it goes; then later on, you could refine things a bit more if you need to. Oh, and walk as much as you can: it is free and an ez way to get into better shape ...

[horrorchick]

RMatS....I will be 28 in a couple of weeks. I got really excited a couple of days ago because (I hope this isn't TMI) it looked like I spotted. I believe it was a false alarm because there has been nothing since and I have been off of Provera for 7 days. My Dr. seemed to think things should be a little on the heavy side. Maybe I don' understand how this med is suppose to work. All my lab results came back normal, so if nothing happens in a few days it's back to square 1.

Firecracker...whatever you do, don't put off Dr. appts. It's not worth the worrying of not knowing if you can go and find out whats going on. I put my Dr. appts off and now over a year later I'm scared to death. The infertility issue, other than health reasons, really isn't an issue in my case because future hubby can't have children. Fingers crossed that the meds work. I don't know about you, but being in my 20's and not having a cycle, I don't feel "girly" you know what I mean?

[Mulberry14]

I've had irregular periods for a long time, and then have had stretches where they have been regular both when overweight and when at a healthy weight. This is all more correlated to my stress levels I think and whether I have been exercising. However, the longest no-period stretches were all at my highest weights. I think at a certain point I did get so heavy that it impeded my hormone functioning.

I am also now on birth control (just started), which I'm not terribly happy about, but I needed to get a period and I'm planning on going off of it when I get down to a non-obese weight. So... I don't know.

As for PCOS without cysts on your ovaries, I know it's partly a hormonal disorder, but I'm not sure that they are not completely sure on what the diagnosis requirments if you don't have cysts are. The treatments for PCOS are pretty mundane, so I'm not sure how valuable having a diagnosis is anyhow. As far as I know, the treatments are metformin, which is also used to treat insulin resistance or pre-diabetes and birth control - which you're already on. So, I wouldn't worry too much about getting diagnosed with PCOS, unless you want to get on metformin. And if you do, then perhaps see if you are pre-diabetic.

-Alexa

[Firecracker777]

I feel the same...once I lower my weight I'm gonna try to go off of the birth control. I've been on this since april and with the pills everything has been regular but lately Im starting to spot and even got my period a week early without missing any pills! I was wondering if my weight change had something to do with it coming early even on the pill