I don’t want to feel ashamed anymore

Shame-one of the most deep-rooted emotions, is really common among women when they have to face problems which involve their physical appearance and their weight. As a result, they can’t accept themselves as they are, they feel “different” and blame themselves. PCOS has a great impact on this mental and…

PCOS? How can you recognize it?

What do you know about PCOS? Have you heard about it but you are not interested? Do you think it is a condition which affects only overweight women and, as it is not life-threatening, you don’t have to bother about it? Some women get very worried, other ones often underestimate…

Proud to be myself

Summer has just come! We long for it all the year and then here we are … afraid of it. We are not ready! Because it is time to undress, to show ourselves, to go out more often, to meet people. We are not fit, we get sad. We are…

When the weight is not the problem

We think (and I speak on my and my colleagues’ behalf) that PCOS is always and only linked to the excess of weight which is believed to cause and sustain it but, sometimes, things are different. It is true: most of the women suffering from PCOS are overweight or obese,…

The importance of losing weight

Yes, it is true: if you suffer from PCOS, you should lose weight (in case you are overweight). I always tell it to my patients. Every time I deal with this matter, I can perceive all the suffering a woman may experience when she speaks about herself, when she can’t…

Self-confidence: do you really know what it is?

It is commonly recognized that positive thought and self-confidence help us to face problems, everyday trouble, and difficulties successfully. What is self-confidence? How can we increase it? Self-confidence is the subjective and long-lasting way we perceive and evaluate ourselves. It is the whole judgement we give our character, our temper,…

Late diagnosis

A lot of stories of the women who suffer from PCOS tell about never-ending roaming from one specialist to another one. Stories which tell about specialists who didn’t understand the medical case properly and, as a consequence, they gave useless or even harmful treatments. They too often focused on their…

I am going to go on a low cal diet, tomorrow

Have you ever made your decision, have you ever wanted something, but … then you haven’t been strong enough to put it into practice? How many times have you decided to go on a diet and then you have put it off? How many times have you told yourself tomorrow…

Take a deep breath

Do you know that breathing well may be a very suitable way to take care of yourself? Yes, the breath”! it is considered to be natural and ordinary, spontaneous, we don’t need to think about that. Yes, it is essential to our life, but it is so natural to be…