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This affects 10–15 per cent of women in the UK, although many don’t even realize they have the condition. Symptoms include:

• Pelvic or abdominal pain from cysts on the ovaries

• Infertility, difficulty in becoming pregnant

• Recurrent miscarriages

• High blood pressure

• Acne

• Being overweight, rapid weight gain, difficulty in losing weight

• Baldness or excessive body hair

• Irregular periods

New research suggests that PCOS may be linked to raised levels of insulin in the blood, which stimulates the ovaries to produce too much testosterone. We discussed in Chapter 2 how eating high-GL foods causes high levels of insulin. Your body can become resistant to the effects of insulin and need more and more to be produced in order to have the same effect.

Carrying excess weight makes the symptoms of PCOS worse. A weight loss of 10 per cent is effective in improving symptoms.

Many dieticians working with patients suffering from PCOS recommend a low-GL diet to help control the levels of insulin produced by the body and to help with weight loss.

For more information and advice on PCOS visit the charity website www.verity-pcos.org.uk

‘I’ve lost 6lb in two weeks so I’m thrilled. I have PCOS and endometriosis. The PCOS makes losing weight super hard and so the 6lb are even more exciting!

Emma from London

diet freedom online club member

‘Thank you for the amazing things your diet has given me, like my life back! My close friend was diagnosed with PCOS, and when she described it to me I discovered that I had the same symptoms. So I researched diets and, lo and behold, I found the GL Diet. WOW! I’ve now been on it for two weeks and am a new person – I wouldn’t go back if you paid me! I have energy and am no longer dizzy. The strangest change, though, is that my legs aren’t as hairy – so exciting!’

Roma from Scotland

‘I’d been gaining weight steadily since my diagnosis of PCOS. It felt like everything was going wrong at once and I was in a real downward spiral. I knew my diet wasn’t great before, but it wasn’t until I tried the GL Diet that I realized that what I ate could make such a difference. After just a week I had more energy than ever, and friends couldn’t believe how well I looked. I’m finally back in control of my weight, and for the first time in two years I feel I can influence how my PCOS affects me.’

Simone from London