Your PCOS Path

✅ Here’s a meal idea for you ladies! You shouldn’t have tiny portions of anything if your plate is loaded with a colorful array of veggies 🥬🌽🍅. Being hungry and eating itty bitty portions just increases your chances of bingeing on really unhealthy foods late at night🌮🍕🍟. Ask me how I know? 🤦🏾‍♀️

Fill your plate with the 🌈 and make sure you have a little bit of everything…carbs, protein, fat and fiber. I simply boiled and mashed my sweet potato. Sweet potatoes come in several varieties and this is one of my favorites. It’s natural flavor is sweet!

✅ Eating for PCOS doesn’t need to be complicated or overwhelming. It just takes a little bit of planning, creativity and stocking your home with a large variety of fresh foods.

❇️ Healthy & wholesome carbs are LIFE (aka so delicious) when prepared simply.

❇️Delicious healthy fats (like from avocado aka my faaave) will help you feel full and will actually help you lose weight.

❇️Protein from plant and animal sources will help you regulate your blood sugar which is so key since many of us are insulin resistant.

❇️Fiber is crucial. Many of us don’t get enough it in our diet but we absolutely need to. You feel more full and it is what you need to help sweep that gut, lose weight, improve your gut flora and improve insulin resistance.

‼️ I added just one tbsp of barbecue sauce even though I could drink the bottle of this particular brand 😂 (so yum!) because they all have added sugars and we need to be extremely mindful of our “added sugar” intake. I purchase the healthiest version of any processed foods I consume. Read the labels and be sure you understand what ingredients are in the food.
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📚 I read a (PCOS specific) book about 15 or so years ago when I was still trying to figure out how to deal with my PCOS and it actually gave me fruit fear 😱

Thankfully that fear didn’t last too long because the more I learned the difference between the 2tsps of table sugar I added in the tea I religiously drank twice a day (can’t take the Kenyan out) and fructose the more I realized FRUIT is your friend ☺️ So I still drink my Kericho Gold tea sans sugar and enjoy my fruits whenever I want. They’re full of so many key nutrients your body needs to start reversing your symptoms.

I love that this is discussed everywhere you look now but just in case you have fruit fear like I did and you’re scared it will
make your PCOS worse

✅Eat your favorite fruits!
✅Eat them ripe!
✅Pick a pretty bowl or container you enjoy eating out of 😊
..and enjoy every bite!

❓But what about insulin resistance?

Eat a well rounded unprocessed fiber rich diet of protein, fat AND carbs. Your body wants and needs NUTRIENTS to start healing. I don’t count a darn calorie. Get in the kitchen and create your meals & snacks with wholesome ingredients. Feel grateful 🙏🏾 for the abundance of food you have access to and come back here for more ideas if you need them 😊

❓ Do you or did you have fruit fear?

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