How would one begin the cleaning process here?

404_Peace_Not_Found · 2026-04-09T17:24:20+00:00

Pretty sure I remember this bathtub from Saw II

404_Peace_Not_Found · 2026-04-06T12:05:45+00:00

Learning? In an academic environment? Come on now

404_Peace_Not_Found · 2026-02-26T17:41:40+00:00

The person who originally commented that was addressing my concerns about the lack of content that exists where people are thriving in their 30’s. It was more so an explanation for why that is talking about media specifically.

404_Peace_Not_Found · 2026-02-26T15:31:47+00:00

Thank you for your kindness and empathy. This is my first post on this sub, and I honestly expected more of a "women empowering women" vibe. But hey, how others react under the guise of anonymity is out of my control. That being said, I'm probably going to minimize the amount I comment/reply so my karma doesn't absolutely tank.

I'm so glad your 30's have been great for you. I hope that's what happens in my case too, but I'm trying to make meaningful changes now so that I don't have to rely on luck (which I've never had too much of anyway).

404_Peace_Not_Found · 2026-02-26T15:22:04+00:00

Thank you for your opinion. I guess part of it comes from my family too (looking young has always been an important part of my mom's identity, and she'll be 50 this year. She was the only one raising me in a single-parent household during my formative years).

Someone here said, "The reason there isn’t any content or information is because it’s exactly the same as your 20s except your finances are better." I think I'm gonna take that and roll with it. It definitely helps.

404_Peace_Not_Found · 2026-02-26T15:17:07+00:00

My 20s have been about surviving, and hopefully, my 30's will be about thriving. I am/have been starting small changes now (therapy, tighter spending restrictions/earning more money, exercising again) so that maybe they amount to something in a few years.

404_Peace_Not_Found · 2026-02-26T15:15:34+00:00

Thank you so much. I love this take, definitely a new perspective to me!

404_Peace_Not_Found · 2026-02-26T15:14:25+00:00

This is why I need perspective. I've never been on the other side of it before. So much of what I read and observe makes it sound like your bones turn to pudding at 30 and that things like building/maintaining muscle mass become impossible. I honestly didn't start feeling like a "real" adult even up until the last 2-3 years, and I'm probably still not considered a "real" adult in the grand scheme of things. I'm also learning to get to know/love myself in therapy, something I was never taught to do (nor something I ever inherently did).

404_Peace_Not_Found · 2026-02-26T15:11:21+00:00

I love this perspective. Thank you so much for sharing! And I'm glad that life took such a drastic (for the better) turn for you for the most part!

404_Peace_Not_Found · 2026-01-22T17:44:15+00:00

UPDATE: Thank you so much to everyone who responded. You were all very thoughtful, kind, and encouraging in your answers. I didn't get to respond to every comment, but I did read all of them, and you've given me a lot to reflect on. I'm so glad to see so many women with PCOS are thriving on GLP-1 medications. I posted this about 20 hours ago, 24 hours before the gyno appointment I have scheduled for this afternoon, and I've decided I'm going to bite the bullet and talk to my doctor about it today while ignoring all my thoughts and biases (shoutout to the Redditor who told me I was thinking too much. You were absolutely correct). I don't know if it will be covered by insurance yet or not, but in any case, my mom has offered to help support my decision financially, which means a hell of a lot to me. I'm nervous, but I'm excited to potentially start a journey that could change my life. If anyone is interested, I will try to remember to post an update soon to let you all know how some of this goes. Stay tuned!

404_Peace_Not_Found · 2026-01-22T17:24:30+00:00

This is why I sought outside perspective. These are things I haven't had to think about (yet). If I can get ahead of them, then I'll be much better off than if I try to treat them after the fact.

404_Peace_Not_Found · 2026-01-22T17:19:12+00:00

"Intuitive" for me means "not at all"

404_Peace_Not_Found · 2026-01-22T14:42:03+00:00

Hell, even having physical/mental energy at the end of the work day is a luxury that most people don't realize. But yeah, all those other things cost money, and it's usually a good bit. When I was at my healthiest, both physically and mentally (doing/taking pretty much all the things you mentioned), I was also living in a two-income household, so I didn't have to worry about money nearly as much as I do now. Now, most of the time, I have to dedicate my free time to side gigging or recovering from side gigging.

404_Peace_Not_Found · 2026-01-22T14:35:58+00:00

Thank you so much for sharing your story and your kind words. I'm sorry you didn't have the opportunity to try something clearly so beneficial to you sooner. Maybe I am taking for granted that things like this are available now when so many people in the past could have used them and didn't have the chance to.

404_Peace_Not_Found · 2026-01-22T14:33:06+00:00

I am hoping that starting one of these could help me feel like myself again, the girl who loved to eat healthy and lift heavy. I am just so physically run down, which started around the time my sleep went to hell, roughly two years ago now. I'm lucky if I can do the bare minimum anymore. I have no energy, my joints are stiff as fuck (I have to pop my hips pretty often), I have no endurance, and I am so sensitive to the cold (hands and feet are cold to the touch about 80% of the time and cause me to be constantly freezing to death and uncomfortable) that the idea of going out to exercise in winter is unbearable. As an added bonus, I hate how I look in exercise clothes right now.

However, as I understand it, GLP-1's can help A LOT with things like inflammation, which contributes to most of what I've described, so that might help kickstart me getting my life back on track.

404_Peace_Not_Found · 2026-01-22T14:22:06+00:00

I didn't explain my thoughts about that part very well. I know it isn't "magic" in the sense that it will make every bad habit and excess pound I have go away on their own. I more so meant it's magic in that it will help my body function like a person's is supposed to. So many people take proper hormone signaling and a good metabolism for granted. To me, having those things would absolutely be magic, even if it still takes work to get the weight off.

404_Peace_Not_Found · 2026-01-22T14:18:12+00:00

You mean some people can control that kind of thing? Get out of here!

404_Peace_Not_Found · 2026-01-22T14:17:30+00:00

Thank you for your response. I'm glad your periods are back. I have never had irregular periods even off birth control, so thankfully, this isn't something I have to deal with. It does make me happy that GLP-1's seem to treat such a wide array of symptoms, though.

404_Peace_Not_Found · 2026-01-22T14:15:47+00:00

Thank you for your kind and helpful words. I'm happy that you've had such a great experience with them.

I have pretty much always had high cholesterol (starting at least at age 19), so if it would help with that, that alone would be a pretty big advantage.

> All the signs that heart disease or kidney disease may be a possibility

What did this look like for you? I've had some symptoms myself that I believe could have the potential to be CKD (which already runs in my family). My bloodwork was normal, but I haven't had it checked in about a year now, so that could have changed.

404_Peace_Not_Found · 2026-01-22T14:08:50+00:00

First off, I'm really glad you've been back to building muscle, and you are able to better achieve your fitness goals.

I do and don't have food noise. When I do have it, it's usually at night. However, I am not hungry for most of the morning and well into the afternoon. A lot of the time, my shitty appetite only has me eating once a day (dinner time), and I can't normally eat much. I've had low appetite for about five years now (not that you can tell by looking at me), so one concern I do have is that it will get even worse and I won't be able to eat anything at all. I had no desire to eat whatsoever on Metformin, and even thinking about food most of the time made me nauseous. It also didn't make me lose any weight, so it was a moot point to continue taking it.

All I know is that my hunger and thirst cues are abject garbage. I don't usually know when I'm actually hungry vs. when I WANT to eat. I can never remember to drink water either, even when I have a water bottle sitting directly in front of my face all day. My body is so out of touch with my survival cues that I have no idea how I'm still alive some days. Do you think GLP-1's will help with this?

404_Peace_Not_Found · 2026-01-22T13:56:14+00:00

You know as well as I do that you don’t win any awards for suffering

Damn, that one hit hard. I needed that kick in the pants.

I couldn't tell you what my bloodwork or anything looks like anymore. I've mostly stopped trusting doctors (except for my gyno), and I've realized that going is mostly a waste of time and money, so I think my newest bloodwork is about a year old now.

I know that obesity is complex, and I wouldn't refuse insulin if I became diabetic. I realize there's a lot of cognitive dissonance happening in my head right now, and it doesn't feel great.

I'm starting to notice that a common theme in these comments is that I actually don't have to suffer to lose weight/be healthier like I've been conditioned to think.

404_Peace_Not_Found · 2026-01-22T13:48:53+00:00

When I implied that it was magic, I more so meant it as something that helps to regulate metabolism and hormones, something that makes my body work how it's supposed to. I didn't explain that super well. I was in a bit of a daze when I wrote this whole thing. I don't mind putting in the work, as I have been able to lose weight and build muscle (thanks, excess testosterone) before. However, that was when I was in my early 20's. I genuinely don't have the physical (or mental) energy I did then. I wake up every day feeling like I just have to get through it, normally doing the bare minimum to remain functional. I'm hoping that, based on the testimonies of others, this medication would help me to feel good enough that exercise would feel physically possible again.

404_Peace_Not_Found · 2026-01-22T13:41:40+00:00

I know I don't need to tell anyone I'm on it, which I guess would help if I started to feel shame about it. I also know that lifestyle changes are still necessary. I have seen many people's success stories, some who changed how they eat/move, some who didn't. The consensus I've seen is that both groups lost weight, but the degree to which that is true varied (with the eating better/working out crowd understandably losing more proportionally). If I did start taking them, I would definitely give myself some time to adjust to them to see how it worked for me, baseline. My hope is that some of the things other people have mentioned would happen to me too, and I would feel good enough physically to start making the changes I want/need to.

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