Dietitian + PCOS

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Has anyone had experience with using Nourish or seeing a dietitian on your own/through another platform for help and guidance managing your PCOS through nutrition, supplementation, and lifestyle changes for weight loss? How has having a dietitian helped or not helped you, like did it keep you accountable and consistent with your efforts, or did it make it harder? I want to know everything, as I am currently signed up on Nourish to see a dietitian for PCOS and weight loss in February, and I will be paying out of pocket, so I want to make it worth it. Thanks in advance!

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How to know when diet alone won't be enough anymore?

I've been losing weight for about a year and a half now - I'm 5'3, and I've gotten from 175 down to 130, which is the lowest weight I've been since high school! I'm within a healthy BMI now, but now, honestly mostly for aesthetic reasons, I would like to keep going. I carry most of my weight right in the front of my stomach, so even now it's still very visible.

Here's the problem I'm facing right now though: I'm severely disabled (chronic fatigue, was almost completely bed-bound for over a year and lost all my muscle in 2023) and building muscle back is extremely difficult for me. I have to be super careful not to injure myself - even stepping the wrong way when I'm walking has, multiple times, caused my hamstrings to tear.

I also just mentally find it a lot easier to do one thing at a time, so I've been focusing on losing fat through diet alone all this time, thinking that I'll lose as much as I can, then slowly build some muscle for a bit, then maybe do one more fat loss period to get to where I want to be.

Right now, to keep losing I have to eat pretty much just 1200 calories a day. Any more, even for a day or two, and I start gaining weight back. It's getting to be extremely tough to stick to, even with taking maintenance breaks sometimes. I'm spending a LOT of time thinking about food, and over the last few weeks I've just been gaining and losing the same 3 pounds over and over. I know it would be easier, eventually, if I did gain some muscle, but for me the line between "pushing my body hard enough to prompt it to actually build muscle" and "injuring myself" is extremely thin, so I'm nervous to start. I already have chronic pain that limits me a fair bit (which has gotten substantially better with weight loss!). And I'm a bit worried about how to find the right amount to eat to build muscle without just regaining a bunch of fat, since I can't just go sicko mode lifting weights lol

How did you guys know when diet alone wasn't going to be enough to get you where you wanted to be? And if anyone here is disabled like me, I'd love any tips for strength training without wrecking my body further.

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is sleep REALLLY important for weight loss? (teen) (eating healthier but gaining weight??)

this is gonna be a long post, so if you don't wanna read the middle and skip to the end (which has my main question) that's completely fine, im grateful if anyone reads it anyway

i’m a teen and recently switched to healthier eating. light breakfast (smoothie or yogurt), half a sandwich for lunch, larger dinner + 1–2 snacks (yogurt, fruit, or a small chocolate truffle). This is very different from how I used to eat (much larger portions in the past + more snacks), but instead of losing weight, i’ve been gaining 😭😭??

in the same time i started eating better, my sleep schedule got REALLY effed up because of studying and extracurriculars. i nap from about 6–7 PM for two hours and then sleep at usually 3:30 AM. i don’t eat after 10 PM or snack late at night, so i dont think its eating at later times thats causing it.

also i usually eat dinner and then nap right after, which i heard is lowk bad for digestion (maybe this is it)?

additionally i get literally like zero exercise im studying in my room all day. asian community core. but this has always been the case so i dont think its me not exercising because i've always been inactive. im rn at a healthy weight (F 125 lbs 5'4) but just wanna lose 5 pounds, however, i care about that less than the fact im eating healthier YET gaining weight.

this might also be relevant but when i talk about gaining weight its that i used to be 120-121 lbs until 2 months ago when then i started my diet change, sleep change, and then gained 5 pounds. to be fair i dropped to 120 because i had samonella last year that caused me to lose 9 pounds, then i maintained 120 for 8 months, then im now at 125.

anyway that's a lot of information for a relatively simple question: are my sleeping habits of napping + 3:30 AM sleep time causing me to gain weight despite me eating healthier? thank you!

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Relationship and weight loss

I have an annoying issue with weight and relationships.

I know how to lose weight, and I know how to keep that weight away, expect when I am in a relationship.

I have been at my ideal weight several times in my life, but I always balloon when I am in relationship.

I have been on my current relationship now 10+ years, the times during this relationship when I have been at ideal weight have been when my partner moved to other city for work and I lived like 2 to 3 years alone in the city we studied at. Other time was when she lived abroad for 6 months. Before this relationship I was fittest between breakups.

Now we have however lived together for 6+ year and I have gained more weight than ever before.

The main issue food obvliouisly. I am super happy to follow strict diet be it intermittent fasting fasting, low carb, regular moderate eating or whatever else I have enjoyed in the past. I even tested full vegan diet for couple of years.

My partner however refuses to meal prep, she doesn't want to eat same food multiple times a day, or multiple days a row. I am also 90s recession child so it is pretty much engraved in to my soul that you eat when food is available and you always clean your plate.

I have tried to suggest that we eat separate meals, but she refuses that idea as she wants to do everything together, I have proposed meal prepping and we have done that for a short while but in the end she can't handle it it it tapers off eventually.

We work remote and currently only consistency is lunch, just a simple salad with chicken and we have been doing that like 6 years which is nice. Evening and weekend meals are however still however an issue.

Also snacks, she likes to buy all kinds of snacks, candy, chocolate whatever and of course when they are lying on the kitchen table I will snack them when I walk past them.

What is frustrating is that she complains about my weight, but then she refuses to support any suggestions I know work for me. She is also a type of person who can eat however much she wants and she doesn't seem to gain any weight, her whole family is like that.

Does anyone have any tips how to make this work? I have tried to talk to her, but she sees everything I suggest too extreme even something simple like calculating calories.

She recently however asked about counting macros, so I think there might be an opening for us to find some solution that works for both of us.

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Might being lazy be better for me?

I (23M) started doing intense cardio for fat loss for some months but I also started eating more along with the program. I didn’t crave snacks or desserts just pure hunger. And I ate like an animal. Anyway, I stopped doing cardio for 2 months or so and I noticed myself losing weight. Now, it could be water or muscle loss rather than fat but my appetite definitely slowed down. Have anyone had similar experiences? Can you tell me more about it? What advice would you give me? And what is your opinion about doing cardio for weight loss?

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(Rant) Fed up of toxic creators pushing insane targets

I've recently started researching diet and exercise again after starting my GLP-1 so the algorithms are pushing all the weight loss content on me again

It's great to see how many people are making solid progress but it's so hard to cut through the noise of all the toxic people just trying to sell their diet courses or product supplements etc

Some examples I've seen on tiktok this week:

"You can lose 20kg in a month through intermittent fasting. DM on whatsapp"

"I lost 70lbs in 40 days, willpower is what's stopping you. 24 day bootcamp available"

I just feel awful for the people might be making genuine progress and see those posts and think they now have to waste money on things that physically aren't possible

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even after hitting my weight loss goal, i still obsess over food.

i started my weight loss journey in april 2025 at 174 lbs. by december, i weighed 130~ lbs. at 5’6, that’s pretty healthy for me. despite losing all this weight, i still feel trapped by food. when i wake up, i think about what i’m going to eat. after i eat a meal, i just think about the snacks that will follow. i often cave but remain unsatisfied.

maybe it’s because of my traumatic past, i don’t know. i spent almost my entire life being chronically ill. i got jaw surgery a month ago, so my sleep apnea is finally gone, but before that i believe it contributed to my depression. i have another chronic illness that negatively affects my hormones and caused me to not feel hunger for nearly a decade. i can feel hunger now that i’m medicated, but it’s not always consistent. i started experiencing food noise in my teens, which was when that chronic illness first manifested, so i think my brain was using food noise to compensate for my lack of hunger cues or something.

i also have autism and ocd, plus i experience depression. maybe the food noise is an ocd thing.

i just so badly want to be free from food. i thought that by the time i got to my goal weight, i’d no longer think about food all the time, but that’s not the case. i feel so trapped.

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