Anyone with PCOS / insulin resistance ?

Welcome2theHellmouth

Anyone here have PCOS/Insulin Resistance? I was recently diagnosed but not given much information other then going low carb. I have been doing low carb and 3 days a week resistance training (not heavy lifting) Just barbell 35 lb barbell and 8 & 10 lbs dumb bells. Gotta start somewhere! I have been stalled for close about 9 months. I lost my initial weight CICO but not super low cal. About 1500-1700 a day. I started upping my calories about 4 months ago and have only lost 3 lbs. clothes are not any bigger either. I have been eating above my BMR. Daily averaging between 1700-1900. (Saturdays SOMETIMES get to 3000 and are not low carb)
My question is everything I have ready about PCOS says I must go low carb AND low cal. Has anyone lost weight doing the eat more way?

heybales

The low cal suggestion is because your body isn't burning what it could.

But sadly, I've also seen that advice to merely overcome the fact the body is stressed out and adapted slower.

So eat low enough - eventually you will lose weight. Body can only slow down so much.

But the stress that you cause along with that will backfire in the long term - almost always. And in the short term the extra stress on body can cause water weight gain, and bad workouts.

What would be better is realizing your body is already under stress from disease and life and who knows what else, and reasonable deficit for you will be even less than otherwise - so it must be slower weight loss to keep clear of the potential negatives.

The low carb in some minds means extreme low carb. The 40/30/30 idea is actually lowish carb - and when you do that for each meal and snack, and eat the carbs after the protein and fat - even less insulin response needed.

Just as normal diet advice has extremes if you keep looking around - so does PCOS advice.

Welcome2theHellmouth

I just now saw this and it sort of answered another post I just posted lol!! Thank you so much for the advice!!