PCOS Education and Support Group schedule change, next meeting Weds 2/06/13

The PCOS Education and Support Group has been going strong for a year now! Many people have reported a conflict with Tuesday evenings so we are going to change the meetings to the first Weds of the month this year (no January meeting, so the first meeting of 2013 will be on Weds. February 6, 2013). It will continue to be at the same time (6 p.m.) and location (Dr. Lunt & Kvarfordt's office waiting room--515 S 300 E Suite 205 St. George, UT). It is still free but a donations are accepted.

We need to recruit some help with the meetings to keep it going. This is a volunteer organization and a nice community offering that we would like to see continue. If you can donate time to help coordinate speakers, pick up refreshments, help with set up before the meetings or clean up after the meetings, etc. Please let me know. If there are any specific topics or speakers you'd like to hear from this year please email your suggestions to me. I would like to thank everyone who participated in the support group in 2012 and look forward to seeing more of you at the meetings in 2013. Happy New Year!

Thank you Kathy McKean

We would like to thank Kathy for speaking at the support group and sharing such valuable information with us on grief and coping with chronic illness. We had an amazing support group this evening! I really appreciate Jessie and Stacey for helping with refreshments and setting up. Stacy won a $20 Ulta gift card and Erika won a $5 Subway gift card in our free prize drawing.

Thanks,

Lisa Borunda

PCOS Education and Support Group meetings

 

 

November  PCOS Education and Support Group meeting

 

Date: Tuesday, November 6, 2012

 

Place: 515 South 300 East, Suite 205 St. George, Utah

 

Time: 6 p.m.

 

Speaker:  Kathy McKean, RN/Chaplain

 

Topic:  Tools for improving quality of life and coping with chronic illness

 

We will be serving refreshment and have some great prizes for our free prize drawing! Please join us for a fun evening!

 

Please RSVP to: pcossupport@hotmail.com.

 

Our December meeting will be held on Tuesday December 4, 2012. Same time and location as above. Topic: PCOS Basics including how to self administer injection of vitamin B 12. Please RSVP.

October is breast cancer awareness month

Please stop by and say hi and see our cute pink booth at the What Women Want Expo today and tomorrow (October 26-27, 2012).

 



Thanks!
Lisa

October 2nd, 2012 PCOS Education and Support Group meeting

The PCOS Education and Support Group meeting

Date: Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Time: 6-7 p.m.

Place: 515 South 300 East, Suite 205
           St. George, UT 84790

Topic: PCOS Basics (introduction to PCOS, how to self-administer B12 injection). Great group for women newly diagnosed with PCOS, needing a refresher or wanting to be more proactive with PCOS management.

Refreshments served. Please join us!

Please RSVP to: pcossupport@hotmail.com

September is PCOS Awareness month! Thank you all for your support this year with the PCOS Education and Support Group, my book, etc. It has been a dream come true!

Thank you,

Lisa Borunda

September 20th PCOS meeting to be combined with Dr. Foulk's seminar

PCOS Education and Support Group

Dr. Foulk asked me to speak at his free patient education seminar on Thursday September 20th. It was the same evening we planned to have our support group so we decided to combine the meetings so people would not have to choose between them.

Russell A. Foulk, MD is an internationally acclaimed fertility specialist. He will be talking about infertility and asked me to speak about coping with infertility and PCOS. He will also be seeing patients, in St. George, by appointment on Friday September 21st (for an appt call Utah Fertility Center at 801-492-9200).

Date: Thursday, September 20, 2012

Time: 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Location: Bell Tower Courtyard 1386 E 100 S St. George (behind Mountain American Credit Union-River Road)

Refreshments will be served. Please join us for a fun evening!

Please RSVP at pcossupport@hotmail.com

Next PCOS Education and Support Group meeting

The next PCOS Education and Support Group meeting will be held on Thursday, September 20, 2012. We will continue with once monthly meetings for now due to demand (twice monthly meetings were too much for most people and attendance was down). Further details about the meeting (speaker, topic) to be announced as it gets closer.

Other community PCOS education offerings:

Dr. Matthew Peterson, R.E. is offering the 2nd part (of a two part PCOS presentation series), titled "PCOS management-What Works" at DRMC (labor and delivery entrance) on Thursday, August 23, 2012 from 7-8 p.m. No RSVP is needed.

August 7th PCOS Education and Support Group meeting-Laser hair removal

PCOS Education and Support Group meeting
Tuesday, August 7, 2012 at 6 p.m.
515 South 300 East Suite 205
St. George, Utah
Topic: Laser hair removal
by Allie Blazzard, FNP and Gayle Carter, MD from Riverside Medical Arts
Please join us for a fun evening of learning, refreshments and a free prize drawing!
Please RSVP to pcossupport@hotmail.com

July 26th PCOS Education and Support Group meeting

PCOS Education and Support Meeting

Date: July 26, 2012

Time: 6 p.m.

Place: 515 South 300 East, Suite 205 St. George, UT

Speaker: Russell Foulk, MD Reproductive Endocrinologist

Topic: PCOS Updates and PCOS related infertility

Please join us for a fun evening of learning, free prize drawing and a light dinner.

We expect this to be a well attended meeting. Please RSVP to pcossupport@hotmail.com

Thanks Jill Valentine, LCSW

We want to thank Jill Valentine, LCSW for sharing her time and expertise about depression and anxiety with us at the education and support group meeting last night. We always enjoy seeing new people at the meetings and have a lot of fun. Congrats to our prize winners! Rebecca won a PCOS notebook and Pam won an Ulta gift card. We are looking forward to having Dr. Russell Foulk, Reproductive Endocrinologist speak at our next meeting on July 26th at 6 p.m.

June PCOS Education and Support Group meeting

PCOS Education and Support Group Meeting

Tuesday, June 5, 2012 at 6 p.m.

515 S 300 E, Suite 205

St. George, UT

Speaker: Jill Valentine, LCSW

Topic: Treatment of depression and anxiety (including role of counseling)

Please join us for this wonderful educational opportunity, friendship and refreshments!

Free Prize drawing

Please RSVP to: pcossupport@hotmail.com

Due to busy summer schedules we will just be holding one meeting in June and July

The next meeting will be on July 26 (Dr. Russell Foulk, Reproductive Endocrinologist)

Come see us at the expo this weekend!

We have a booth at the What Women Want expo this weekend for our clinic (Drs Lunt and Kvarfordt, MD, PC) and PCOS awareness. Katie Gubler, CNM and Lisa Borunda, C-FNP will be around to meet people and answer questions. Katie is the only Certified Nurse Midwife in the St. George, Utah area. She delivers at DRMC's Women's Center. Lisa specializes in women's health and PCOS management. Please stop by and say hi! Location: Dixie Convention Center 1835 S. Convention Center Dr. St. George, UT. Dates: May 18 and 19, 2012. Hours: Friday 10 a.m. to 8 pm. and Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Thank you Christie Benton, RD

We'd like to thank Christie Benton, RD for another wonderful support group presentation! Her presentation on Understanding the PCOS Connection to Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes was very informative! We loved having a few new women at the group tonight. The lucky winners of our free prize drawing were Angie and Autumn. Angie won a PCOS notebook and Autumn won an Ulta gift card. Thanks ladies for a fun evening!

Thank you Dr. Barney!

We want to thank Dr. Barney for speaking at the PCOS Education and Support Group meeting tonight about treatment options for hirsutism and for donating the grand prize! We also want to thank Colby Peterson, PA-C for making the arrangements to have Dr. Barney speak to us. We are looking forward to hearing from Christie Benton, Registered Dietician at our next meeting on May 17th.

Sincerely,

Lisa Borunda

Thank you Anni Curtis, Personal Trainer

We want to thank Anni Curtis, Personal Trainer for sharing her time and expertise (and for donating the prizes for the drawing) with us at the PCOS Education and Support Group meeting tonight. The question was raised about ideal body fat percentage. I looked on ACE Fitness, American Heart Association and American Council on Exercise and they all had a similar chart. Please see the article below for more information. Thank you Jessie, Hillary, Kizzy, Micheal and everyone else who helped with the meeting this evening. We appreciate your time and effort and could not do this without you! We are grateful to Shannon (and any other new members of the Leadership Committee who signed up after I left) and encourage anyone who wants to take a leadership role with the support group to email me at pcossupport@hotmail.com.

Thank You,

Lisa Borunda

Ideal Body Fat Percentage

What is the ideal percentage of body fat? Read this article to know about the range of ideal body fat percentage and its variations in men and women.

There are two types of body fat - essential and storage. Essential fat is necessary for normal body metabolism and consists of fat stored in the heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, intestines, bone marrow, muscles, spleen, and in the central nervous system. The percentage of essential fat is 2-5% for men and 10-13% for women. This difference in the amount for men and women is due to the fact that women need more fat for the process of childbearing and other hormone related functions. Storage fat, on the other hand, consists of fat stored or accumulated in the adipose tissue (loose connective tissue). Adipose tissue is responsible for storing energy in the form of fats and for protecting internal organs of the body. Storage fat percentage is 12% for men and 15% for women.

Ideal Body Fat Percentage

The ideal percentage of body fat, which is considered to be acceptable and safe is 5% for males and 12% for females. However, the proportion varies from one person to another depending upon the body types (endomorphs, mesomorphs and ectomorphs), age, sex, hereditary, lifestyle and eating habits. Men and women, whose body fat percentages are below 3% and 10% respectively, are considered to be unhealthy.

As a matter of fact, the minimum recommended body fat percentage is slightly more than the essential body fat percentage. It is because the body requires some amount of storage fat to be used as a source of energy in times of need. In fact, the recommended body fat percentage varies for people from different fields of work. For example, the American Council on Exercise has categorized ranges of body fats into four types, namely athletes (6-13% for men, 16-20% for women); fitness (14-17% for men, 21-24% for women); acceptable (18-25% for men, 25-31% for women) and obese (25%+ for men, 32%+ for women).

Measurement of Body Fat Percentage

Measurement of body fat percentage helps to determine whether or not a person is at a healthy weight, with respect to his/her body type, size, age and sex. In addition, while losing body weight, it is important to know whether the lost weight comes from the lean body mass (mass of organs, muscle, bone and water) or the fat mass. Another method known as body mass index (BMI) calculation is used to analyze the health risk related to excess body fat. BMI is actually an estimation of body fat, based on a person's height and weight and does not measure the body fat percentage.

However, certain measurement techniques are available for analyzing the total body fat. Some of the commonly used body fat analyzers are:

• BIA (bioelectrical impedance analysis) - A common and affordable procedure used for estimation of body fat percentage. However, the results are not very accurate.
• TOBEC (total body electrical conductivity) - An accurate technique for measuring lean body mass but the equipment is very costly as compared to other procedures.
• CT (computed tomography) - A less common method that is based on radiation.
• Calipers (anthropometry) - A common and affordable tool for measuring the skinfold thickness.
• DEXA (dual energy X-ray absorptiometry) - A bone scan test that is used to measure bone density. Nowadays, it is becoming a very common, reliable and safe tool for measuring body fat percentage.
• NIR (near-infrared interactance) - A simple and fast analytical technique for measuring body fat; but this method is less reliable since errors are observed frequently.
• MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) - A very safe procedure of scanning but of limited use, due to its high cost.
• BOD POD (air displacement) - A less common body fat analyzer, based on underwater weighing.

There are also certain online tools available for calculating body fat. One needs to fill up the age, sex, total body weight, height and other relative data such as hip and waist size, in order to estimate the body fat percentage as such.

By Ningthoujam Sandhyarani
Last Updated: 9/26/2011

April 19, 2012 PCOS Education and Support meeting

The PCOS Education and Support Group Meeting

Thursday April 19, 2012

at 6 p.m.

Location: 515 South 300 East Suite 205

St. George, Utah

Speaker: Anni Curtis, Certified Personal Trainer

Topic: Personal fitness for all fitness levels

A light dinner will be served

Come join us for a wonderful educational opportunity,

free prize drawing and fun!

$3 suggested donation

Please RSVP to: pcossupport@hotmail.com

Thanks Christie Benton, RD

We had a great PCOS education and support group tonight! Christie Benton, RD did a nice job talking about insulin resistance and carbohydrates as they relate to PCOS. We truly appreciate her for sharing her time and expertise! We had our largest group so far this evening! It was great seeing several new faces and seeing people who had learned about the support group from the recent article in The Spectrum (Generating Awareness by Lisa Larson).

April 3rd PCOS Education and Support Group Meeting

The PCOS Education and Support Group Meeting

Tuesday April 3, 2012 at 6 p.m.

515 S. 300 E., Suite 205

St. George, Utah

Speaker: Christie Benton, Registered Dietician

Topic: Simple vs complex carbohydrates

A light dinner will be served

$3 suggested donation

Please come join us for this fun and educational meeting!

Please RSVP to: pcossupport@hotmail.com



Thank you Dr. Larson

We had a great meeting tonight and appreciate Dr. April Larson talking to us about PCOS related skin conditions. It was very fun and informative!

Our next meeting will be on Thursday March 15th (next Thursday) at 6 p.m.. Our topic is PCOS Q&A. We'll have each group participant write down a PCOS related question or questions to pose to the group. There are so many years of experience within this group! If you're experiencig something it's very likely many or all of the other ladies with PCOS have experienced it too and have advice to offer on the subject. A light dinner will be served and we will have a free raffle with fun prizes. Please RSVP to pcossupport@hotmail.com.

Thanks for your participation and making the dream of a wonderful PCOS Education and Support Group become a reality!

Sincerely,

Lisa A. Borunda, FNP-C/PCOS Specialist

March 6, 2012 PCOS Education and Support Group

The PCOS Education and Support Group Meeting

Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 6 p.m.

515 South 300 East, Suite 205

St. George, Utah

Speaker: April A. Larson, M.D., Dermatologist

Topic: PCOS related skin conditions

A light dinner will be served

Please join us for an evening of learning, friendship and fun! 

Free prize drawing

Please RSVP to: pcossupport@hotmail.com by March 5, 2012

no children please

Leadership Committee
We are looking for individuals from the PCOS support group to be members of the Leadership Committee. The committee members will assist with scheduling speakers, preparing a written agenda for each meeting, helping with the support group (set up, take down, refreshments) and welcoming new members to the support group. Contact Lisa if you are interested.