PCOS and Weight Loss: Why Traditional Diets Fail

If you have Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), you have probably been told a thousand times to "just eat less and exercise more." And you’ve probably tried. You’ve starved yourself, spent hours on the treadmill, and the scale didn't move an inch. You feel like a failure, and you feel like your body is broken.

I’m here to tell you that your body isn't broken—it is just working with a different set of metabolic rules.

The Insulin Resistance Wall

The "eat less" advice fails because PCOS is fundamentally a hormonal disorder, not a calorie disorder. Most women with PCOS have a severe form of insulin resistance. Their bodies produce too much insulin, which tells the body to store every single calorie as fat and prevents the body from ever burning that fat for fuel.

It’s like your body is a car with the parking brake permanently engaged. You can hit the gas (diet) all you want, but you aren't going anywhere.

The Role of Cortisol

PCOS is also a condition of high stress. When you do high-intensity "boot camp" workouts, you spike your cortisol. For most people, that’s fine. For someone with PCOS, that extra cortisol tells your body there is an "emergency," which triggers even more fat storage around the midsection.

A Hormonal Solution

To lose weight with PCOS, you have to fix the insulin and the hormones first. This is why medications like Metformin or new GLP-1s are so effective for this community. They "disengage the parking brake" so your healthy choices actually work.

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