r/PCOSloseit

I am struggling to find something sugar free dairy free that tastes good. I used to do a vanilla oat milk creamer but it had so much sugar.

So this is only like the 5 round of labs. Trying metformin, going off metformin, doing keto, losing 20 lbs but then gaining 15 pounds. So I did keep some off. But my labs are not good. High triglycerides in the 300s. High cholesterol. Use to be 500 when o first started with my doctor.

Is GLP1 the only solution? I have a follow up with my doctor in 2 weeks and I will but just want to get some feedback. I do have about 30 pounds I still want to lose. To be healthy. I am in the overweight category but slightly.

Anyone on this long term?

I was diagnosed with PCOS when I was 10-11 years old after having a period for six months straight. I'm 27 now. Doctors were never any help, they told me to stop eating junk (which I wasn't) and threw me on birth control when I was 15 to "bandaid" the problems like so many of us deal with. My family sort of pretended it wasn't a problem and told me I just needed to have more willpower when it came to food. They tossed me onto fad diets, like Jenny Craig when I was 12, again when I was 15, would "incentivize" my weight loss by offering to pay me for every pound I lost, and or buy me new clothes when I lost the weight, that was the extent of their "help".

This of course just made my eating disorder and disordered eating tendencies worse. I grew up with a mother who hated her body and made it well known, she was constantly dieting, starving herself, demonizing certain kinds of foods and prioritizing being as thin as possible, despite already being a very thin woman. She never outwardly told me I was fat or ugly but she never told me I was pretty or that I didn't need to starve myself to lose weight, or that I was beautiful the way I was, so I struggled deeply with self hatred and hating my body already at a very young age.

In my teen years I starved myself, then would binge eat, and continue to restrict, I lost like maybe 10 pounds and gained it all back, the cycle continued and I would actually gain more, despite eating nothing and walking miles a day with my friends. No matter what I did it seemed like the weight wouldn't budge or I'd gain more.

Birth control has helped me manage my cycle the cystic acne that I deal with for the last ten years and I have no real complaints about being on it.

Four years ago, after so many years of hating myself, my body, feeling hopeless and getting no help from anyone, doctors or otherwise, I did a deep dive into research on how to take care of my body and get some control over it. I changed how I ate, how I looked at food, I started counting calories but not obsessively, and I focused on the 80-20 method, 80% clean eating and 20% enjoying my life and still allowing myself to have treats and fun meals on occasion without guilt.

I managed to lose 35 pounds completely naturally with really only changing my diet. I have depression and severe fibromyalgia so I struggle with chronic fatigue, pain and a host of other symptoms on top of that, which make exercise very difficult, so I really focused on the diet piece, and it worked.

However the last 10 month or so, I've been stuck around 225-230 pounds, my current goal is to get to 200, hopefully within this year, but I want to do it as sustainably as possible without restriction or triggering my past eating disordered habits so I know it might take longer.

For the last three years I was eating around 1450-1550 calories per day which I track with the Lose It app, and that was where I lost the weight but then seemed to plateau this past year. Recently I upped my calories to 1750-1850 to do a "metabolic reset" sort of after doing a lot of research and tried that for about three weeks. It felt really nice to not feel so restricted calorie wise and food wise, but I know I can't stay at those calories if I want to lose more weight.

I'm unsure if I should drop down again in calories to kickstart my weight loss again or if there is something else I should do, short of adding in more exercise which can be very difficult and at times impossible for me to do. I am trying to add in some walking and gentle movement on the days I'm physically able but I can't do it consistently.

I'm very alone with this, always have been. So any advice or pointers would be greatly appreciated. I am personally not interested in going on a GLP-1 or any medical weight loss procedures, though I absolutely support those who choose to go that route!

Any advice\pointers would be greatly appreciated, it's so hard. Thanks!

Question: Has anyone found that as IR improves, they need a lower dose of inositol?

Context: I’m currently taking 4g of inositol (split up 2x per day) and 1500mg metformin. I don’t have ANY side effects, and since I started eating low glycemic, weight has fallen off. I’ve lost about 23lb since January, with a goal of only like 5-10 more depending how my body feels when I get there. My 2hr oral Glucose and insulin test showed my insulin as more than double what it should be at the 1hr mark. I have more labs to see if diet has improved this next month.

Prior to diet change, I started inositol (but only 2g) and it brought back my periods. Yay! When I started low GI diet in January, I bumped up to 4g. Now they are “regular” at about 30-35 day cycles, but I’ve been getting mid cycle bleeding. I’m assuming it’s ovulation bleeding. I am not TTC, and on nexplanon (I cannot take estrogen BC as I have a BRCA risk). I’ve never had mid cycle bleeding before, but since I started low GI diet, the last 3 cycles have had it.

I also had a hemorrhagic functional complex cyst land me in the ER a few weeks ago because it was leaking blood into my abdomen. I have a follow up with gyn to monitor to make sure it’s going away.

I’m thinking about reducing inositol to 2 or 3g per day. Has anyone found that as IR improves, they need a lower dose of inositol? I expect my endocrinologist will lower my metformin if my labs support a lower dose, but he is not well versed on inositol (though did say gynos recommend it). I will be speaking with my gyno when I go to the follow up for the cyst (it’ll be my first visit with her, I was previously only seeing pcp and endocrinologist), but this breakthrough bleeding is quite annoying.

Just wondering if anyone’s experienced the need to reduce inositol as symptoms improve! Thank you 💕

I’m a 17-year-old girl, and I just finished my board exams. I haven’t been diagnosed with PCOS yet—just a hormonal imbalance. I’ve never had regular periods since menarche, and my mom refuses to take me to a gynaecologist because she thinks it would be a waste of money. She also doesn’t support me in making healthier choices, and I feel stuck because of academics. I really do want to get better; I just don’t know how to start. I feel like I’m old enough now to take steps on my own. I want to be comfortable in my own skin and feel confident. I’ve been bullied all my life—by family, peers, and others—and before starting college, I really want to improve myself. I feel like if my mom sees some positive changes in me, she might start supporting me, but I’m not sure.