IR/PCOS Codex 3 – The Ideal Weight

In previous posts, I tried to draw women's attention to the severity of IR/PCOS by emphasizing that if they don't pay attention, they might even have to give up the ability to conceive, as untreated IR/PCOS leads to infertility. But this is unfortunately only one of the more serious complications. The other is diabetes, which is indeed a very insidious, extremely serious condition with very unpleasant complications.

Let's skip the unnecessary talk and get started on managing IR/PCOS. Let's start by learning the basics of dieting, because without it, it won't work. Without bringing your body weight to an appropriate level and adhering to the diet, it will never work.

For those of you expecting a diet plan written several days in advance, something you can just download, I have to disappoint you. There won't be one. There's no instant health, you won't get anything handed to you, there's no harvesting without work. Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way. You need to learn the basics, ingredients, nutritional values, insulin indexes, you need to know what slow and fast-absorbing carbohydrates are, just to mention a few things, because, you know, diabetes is already lurking, and you simply have to understand this.

Before we get to the basics of dieting, you need to know your ideal body weight. You need to know what you need to achieve, how much you still need to lose, or possibly gain, for your body to function properly. So, the first step on the path to dieting will be determining your ideal body weight.

The ideal body weight

There will be many more crucial steps, but the starting point is finding the right weight for you. So, not the weight you think is good, but what your body fat percentage tells you. This alone would warrant an entire post on the topic of what constitutes an ideal appearance for the female eye, but on the one hand, there aren't enough characters on earth for that, and on the other hand, there's no need for it, as there are two numbers everyone needs to remember for the functioning of an ideal and healthy female body.

And these two numbers are 18 and 24. Any woman whose body fat percentage goes below 18% or above 24% can develop IR/PCOS at any time. This is one of the reasons why I mentioned in the previous post that while the performance of fitness models is commendable, it is simply not healthy. Nor is that of elite female athletes. Sport is healthy, elite sport is not, so no woman should be surprised if, after several years of competitive sport, she is diagnosed with IR/PCOS with almost no excess weight.

But how is this possible? Some might rightly ask this question now. If we hear everywhere that sport and exercise are healthy, and competitive athletes adhere to strict diets, then why do these women also develop IR/PCOS?

Because body fat percentage is God. It determines the hormonal supply and metabolism of the female body. Just as the estrogen supply of the female body is only produced in appropriate amounts with the correct body fat percentage. Is your estrogen level low or are your testosterone levels too high? Then your body fat percentage has indeed been outside the appropriate range for an extended period.

18 and 24%. Don't go below, don't go above. Don't aim to be a fitness model, and don't be overweight. It's that simple, and I'll elaborate on this for a few thousand more characters. 18 and 24%. These are the two threshold values, but for safety's sake, I'll also include a picture and a table here.

The second picture is the most telling. This picture shows how thin and shapely a woman with 20-21% body fat can appear. Those socialized on Jay Cutler's physique and calling themselves Strong-girls would, of course, instantly label this body as skinny fat, but let's not dwell on that now. These women will eventually come to LifeTILT to read all parts of the IR/PCOS Codex, realizing after years of fitness model peacocking what they've done to their bodies, what they've done to their hormone balance.

Regarding the other 5 women and their corresponding body fat percentages, I'll only mention a few thoughts. For the first two women in the pictures, with their 11-12% and 14-15% body fat values, I hope I don't need to explain much based on what has already been said. Never do this to yourselves, not even for a few weeks. For a woman, even 15% body fat is considered extremely low, and the 11-12% girl should simply be displayed in a museum of the retarded, in the "look, a human can be this stupid and a huge asshole" section.

At 25-26%, the excess is clearly visible, and it's no coincidence that I set 24% as the upper limit. As for the last picture, do I need to write anything more than how pathetic it is?

So, if I had to summarize, I would say that if you want to be a healthy woman, your body fat percentage should be your guide first and foremost. Not how many kilos the scale shows, or how you would please the man you've chosen.

I am aware that this is an alien and unattainable task for most women, and this is precisely where the media's insane responsibility comes in, having created female ideals over the past years and decades that women can only achieve by destroying their bodies. But this is not solely the media's responsibility. The communities of lifestyle platforms are equally responsible for the spread of the fitness model phenomenon, as they blindly follow this trend and support the formation of this false female body image. The surface always shines brightly, but the downsides are never heard, and yet they are part of this lifestyle.

18 and 24%. These two numbers should be your guide, and nothing else. IR/PCOS is a consequence, nothing else. The consequence of the life you lived outside these two numbers.

BMI can be measured online, but for accurate values, I suggest we skip this height/kg ratio nonsense. This BMI measurement can be done in many places, but the easiest way is to visit private clinics every 3-4 months where they do it. It's not a huge amount, 2-3000 forints per session on professional machines. It's a million times more useful than a simple scale, and if there was a lesson to this post, it's definitely that it's not the scale and the number of kilos that matter, but the body fat percentage. I beg you, and I beg you primarily for your own good, to pay attention to your body fat percentage. Especially as someone with IR/PCOS, and when healthy, so you don't have to mandatorily pay attention to it if this condition develops.

And one more thing. Vanity will always defeat rationality, that's a fact. But IR/PCOS also affects the female body, and it's good to be aware of that.