carbs for pcos

In order to meet my calorie goal I take whole grains , oats , legumes and vegetables as my major carb content. Due to this my carbs reach approx 200 gms.
So is it that bad to reach so much of carb content while taking whole grains etc?

If it isn't working then yes it seems so. Almost everyone on the thread said that it does seem high for a PCOS women. There were also tips on how to reduce them. I think trying these things would be a good place to start. Just reducing them even to 150 g per day might help. You have to find what works for you and obviously this isn't working.

But don't you think the entire story is about reducing insulin sensitivity so low gi food can also do that . So won't it be right if I have low gi food which makes my carb go upto 200 gms approx and reduce my insulin sensitivity?

Or am I wrong in asking the above question?

You aren't wrong to ask. Questions means you want to learn and quite frankly all of this crap is so complicated! It has taken me 6 years of research to find out what I have.

Low GI foods can only help keep your insulin levels from spiking. But eating too many of those will cause the same effect as eating high gi foods. Low gi is so complicated because of this. Think of it this way:

With low gi foods, you will still get an insulin response though it might be a bit lower than a higher gi food. i.e. and apple will cause a lower spike than a slice of water melon. But it isn't just about these singular instances of insulin spikes. The overall picture is that 200 grams of carbs per day, even if they are all low gi, will still cause a significant amount of insulin in your system. The total amount would be lower with low gi foods than high gi foods but that doesn't mean that it is a low level. I don't know if this makes sense.

It is essentially something like 200 grams per day is lower than 300 grams per day but that doesn't mean that 200 is a low number.

This is a quote from the link that I posted above that is relevant to why insulin in the system is bad for us PCOSers:

"The problem is that making too much testosterone, in turn, makes you insulin resistant. Being insulin resistant makes your body produce too much insulin to try to overcome your body's resistance to insulin (ignoring it, if you will.) When you have high insulin in your bloodstream, since insulin is an anabolic hormone, this makes you produce even more testosterone! Make sense? So the damn testosterone makes your insulin increase which makes you produce more testosterone which.....well you get the picture.

Ironically, fat tissue produces an enzyme which converts androgenizing hormones to two different kinds of estrogen. So you have too much estrogen (estrogen dominance) all the time as well as too much androgenizing hormones. Double whammy.

Progesterone is made by mature follicles (eggs.) With PCOS, your follicles aren't maturing, thus no progesterone for you, thus no menstrating to speak of (or at least irregularly) for you.

All the while, this loop is making you fatter and making it even harder to lose weight. This is why for many people, metformin (the diabetes drug) is very helpful in losing PCOS weight and reducing other symptoms. Because it breaks the cycle. Incidentally, losing weight, PERIOD will lessen the PCOS and as far as I know can render it nearly asymptomatic if you really achieve significant fat loss. And you CAN lose weight without metformin, it just takes discipline and more than likely a low GI diet (but use whatever works- low calorie might also be effective.)"

Does this answer the question better?