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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AloeSvea" data-source="post: 1914153" data-attributes="member: 150927">Very nice to touch base with you [USER=493185]@DreadCaptRoberts[/USER]. I'm a social creature, and definitely prefer to have someone or someones to share this kind of deprivation with! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />. Great to hear about your BG levels. I guess that it the ultimate 'cheerlead' for me too! And yes indeed. (I am about to go to my thread and write up the halfway mark results, which are going the way I want them to.)I was interested to read about hunger being related to your cycle, and the PCOS. (PCOS, for any readers who don't know what that is, is when the ovaries get hit with an insulin resistance cascade and hormone disruption, the ovaries get covered in cysts when the eggs aren't released but 'ingested', causing degrees of disruption to the reproductive cycle). I too had PCOS off and on, which is how I know insulin resistance was affecting me decades ago, and helped me come up with my SIRD diagnosis. (My longterm GP agrees.)I'm post menopausal now, so that part of my life is in the past. It's weird to think that there will be a time when this part of your life will be over? I got diabetes at that time, which is not unusual apparently, due to the hormone changes increasing vulnerability to all the risk factors and so on. When my womenfriends talk/ed about hot flushes I say I didn't have those to any real degree - but I got REALLY sick! As in the diabetes. PCOS is of course a very high risk factor for type two diabetes. Never fun to be a statistic is it?!Anyway. As I don't have a cycle anymore in that sense, I have not noticed cyclical hunger pangs, or carb cravings relating to the time of the month etc. For me - it's very closely tied to emotions and stress. Like a lot of people I didn't even understand that I ate lots of carbs and sugar to make myself feel better when stressed or distressed. (It worked! I guess.) (If you discount the ah, getting really sick from it.) And supermarkets and general stores pose a big 'craving zone' for sure. Hope you have a way to deal with your cravings? I find I am keeping out of the supermarket, general store, and even open-air markets, to help deal with my eyes lingering on high carb food. And it helps just not to see it all for sure.</blockquote>

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