u/ArtNarwhal

Hi all! I've been at odds with my PMOS most of my life.

Between yoga, dance and aerial training I exercise a decent amount without over doing it. I balance yin and restorative yoga and then mix it up with scult and vinyasa. I eat mostly paleo and have for almost a decade - no alcohol - but I drink coffee. 10 years ago paleo helped me lose all my PCOS weight but somehow that stopped working.

I see a very expensive naturalpath and take DIM, Vitex, PQQ+Myo + D-Chiro Insotiol, Calm support, Magnesium and started bio identical progesterone. At it's worst, I was pre-diabetic and on metformin. My biggest complaint is the weight gain and honestly the line backer-esque muscle gain.

I tried Zepbound 2.5 for a couple weeks and was having insomnia, hypoglycemic episodes and racing heart. BUT all of my inflammation went away. It just fell off my body. I'm considering going back on at .5 to see if that helps. I also hear peptides could have a similar reaction?

My most recent fasting insulin reading was 4... which seems crazy considering I used to be pre-diabetic. But I'm also on paleo right now so could that make it lower? I'm just trying to figure out the insulin resistance part but my A1c, insulin and glucose are all in range. The belly fat is just wild right now.

I'm just feeling a little lost and desperate. I'm up 15lbs again despite exercise, supplements and paleo (which is a lot when you're 5'2). Would love and appreciate any thoughts, suggestions, advice you got! Grateful to be in community with you all!

Hi all! Hoping for a little advice here! We purchase a gem of a townhouse winter 2022 in the NELA area of LA (think Eagle Rock/Highland Park area, bordering Pasadena). The Single Family Homes go for around 1.5M on our street for context. In our little 20 unit townhouse community, we have picturesque views of mountains and are walking distance to everything, and are in a good school district. We paid 825k for a 3 bed 3 bath 1500sq ft. With HOA fees, prop taxes and a 6.5% interest rate it amounts to about $5700 a month. I knew that condos take longer to appreciate, but I'm just really feeling the monthly spend on this place vs the appreciation and wondering if it was a mistake. We could prob sell for about $875k (thats what im seeing from other units).

We bought in Nor'Cal in 2016 but sold to move to LA and missed the 2020/2021 low interest rate craze because we were still tentative about staying in LA. I feel like getting out of the housing market killed us so I'm nervous to get out again. But I sorta feel like we're throwing our money away vs renting for less and investing in the stock market. Although, that could just be a short sighted impulse!

One additional thing I'll add is that I'm afraid of getting "stuck" somewhere. We are DINKS who have moved all over for work in the past. Part of me thinks having property here that will take some time to appreciate is good because it gives us roots and a reason to stay put... the other part worries that we could end up staying tied here should the market crash etc.

Afraid to sell and afraid to stay! Your thoughts are so appreciated!

Hoping for a little advice here! We purchase a gem of a townhouse winter 2022 in NELA (think Eagle Rock/Highland Park area). We have picturesque views of mountains, and are walking distance to everything and there are under 20 units here. We paid 825k for a 3 bed 3 bath 1500sq ft. With HOA fees, prop taxes and a 6.5% interest rate it amounts to about $5700 a month. I knew that condos take longer to appreciate, but I'm just really feeling the monthly spend on this place and wondering if it was a mistake. We could prob sell for about $875k (thats what im seeing from other units).

We bought in Nor'Cal in 2016 but sold to move to LA and missed the 2020/2021 low interest rate craze because we were still tentative about staying in LA. I feel like getting out of the housing market killed us so I'm nervous to get out again.

One additional thing I'll add thats more emotional than anything, is I'm afraid of getting "stuck" somewhere. We are DINKS who have moved for work in the past. Part of me thinks having property here that will take some time to appreciate is good because it gives us roots... the other part worries that we could end up staying tied here should the market crash etc and we could miss out on moving for a job opportunity etc.

Your thoughts are so appreciated!

EDIT: we both work from home. So two bedrooms serve as offices. It wasn’t buying too much house, it’s the space we needed and it’s a townhouse not a SFH.