Fatigue, Weight Gain, and Chin Hairs, Oh My!
Living life with PCOS. I suffer from almost all of the symptoms I mentioned in the last blog article. It started with developing irregular periods out of the blue when I was 23. Doctors didn't really know yet what PCOS was, so for several years, I either had no periods at all for several months at a time, or a period that was heavy and lasted for a month at a time with not a lot of answers. It wasn't until my husband and I decided to start trying for a baby that I got serious about figuring out what was going on. Long story short, I was finally diagnosed with PCOS, and was just told to lose weight and it would reverse itself. If only it was that easy. I tried for years to lose weight and failed. I know now, that it is extremely hard to lose weight with PCOS. I tried so many different diets and would stick to them religiously and work out. I would never lose weight and sometimes I would even gain weight despite all I did. And I have to tell you, it gets pretty hard to stick with...