r/PCOS • u/HalfOk2193 • 4h ago

General/Advice Back & Forth

First I hear don’t workout a lot 2-3 days/week is enough. Then I hear 4 days is minimum and to do heavy lifting minimal cardio. Then I hear long light cardio is best and 10k steps with Pilates. Then I hear HIIT is great. Then it’s not. Then I hear past 7k steps is the same as 10k. Then I hear low to medium carb is best. Then I hear it’s the type of carb. Then I hear protein maxing. Then I hear fiber maxing. Then I hear if you have insulin resistance it’s a whole different ball park then other types of PCOS/PMOS.
I’m in college, I’m working, I’m stressed tf out. Idk what to do anymore. I don’t want to weigh every ounce of food I intake, although that is the sure way of doing CICO and I don’t take medication and am strongly against it. Even if you are on it you STILL have to put in the work. But then if you don’t sleep and rest enough it was all for nothing. Idk what I’m doing anymore. Even my doctors don’t know where my fatigue is coming from. All labs are normal except for HDL and LDL which can be reversed from working out and less saturated fats and ofc more veggies, but I’m so worried about losing weight that I keep looking at the number yo-yoing. Then race and age and height all come into play and I’m inconsistent. Like what the fuck. I’m just tired. I don’t wanna do ts anymore. Why me? I want to be healthy, I want to live! But I feel like I can’t with constant fatigue and depression and anxiety. I can’t even relax with my second midterms coming up again. Like I wanna be able to not have to shave my beard as much. I wanna have energy to wear the things I want to wear and style my hair and do my minimal makeup. I wanna go out and meet people. I want to have a s/o. But this all feels so far away from current me.

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u/Ok_Sentence7514 4h ago

man the pcos info overload is real, every week its a new rule and then the opposite next week. i just picked the movement that makes me feel less like garbage and stuck with it, for me its long walks and some light weights when i can be bothered

the fatigue part is the worst when all labs come back "normal" like thanks doc very helpful. my wife has similar thing and her endo finally said sometimes the body just runs on empty with pcos no matter what the numbers show. dont have a fix but youre not crazy for feeling this way

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u/HalfOk2193 4h ago

Thank you☹️❤️‍🩹, that seems to be the only answer. Listen to the body. I’m just so unsure of myself idk what to do anymore. I just don’t like being obese. It’s tiring.