Drew Baird | the PCOS mentor

Comment COACHING if you want results like this, let's have a chat :) Trying to improve your PCOS can feel almost impossible sometimes. Especially when you’re doing everything you’ve been told to do, eating well, exercising, trying supplements, and your body still doesn’t respond. That’s the part no one prepares you for the frustration or the exhaustion. The feeling that maybe your body just won’t change. But here’s the truth. When you stop fighting your hormones and start working with them, everything shifts. One of our coaching clients made a few small, consistent changes. Nothing extreme. Nothing restrictive. And in just 10 weeks, after years of plateauing and yo-yo dieting, her body finally responded. ✅ She’s down 11kg (24lbs). ✅ Her energy is through the roof. ✅ Her facial hair is growing less and less. ✅ And her PCOS belly is finally shrinking. What changed wasn’t willpower. It was direction. She focused on habits that actually support PCOS physiology. 🍳 Eating at least 100g of protein per day 💪 Prioritising strength training 3 to 4 times a week 🍵 Starting her day with green tea and another mid-afternoon 💊 Using L-carnitine, inositol and vitamin D to support insulin sensitivity and energy PCOS doesn’t need more extremes. It needs the right approach, applied consistently. If you’re tired of trying everything on your own and getting nowhere, comment COACHING and I’ll point you in the right direction 💖

I wanted to share this because moments like this actually matter. Not because of the weight loss or the before and after. But because of what it represents for women with PCOS who feel stuck in the middle. Most women I speak to aren’t failing because they don’t care or aren’t trying. They’re exhausted. They’ve been carrying PCOS every single day. Managing food, symptoms, emotions, appointments, and disappointment, usually on their own. And after a while, it starts to feel like maybe this is just how their body is now. What you don’t see in transformation videos is that in-between phase. The frustration of trying things that don’t work. The mental load of doing everything “right” and still not feeling better. The quiet fear that nothing will actually change long term. The shift doesn’t happen because someone suddenly becomes more motivated or disciplined. It happens when they stop trying to hold it all together alone and finally have structure, guidance, and accountability that works with their body instead of against it. That’s why I share stories like this. Not to promise a specific outcome. But to remind you that staying stuck isn’t inevitable. The pattern can change. The cycle can break. But it usually doesn’t happen in isolation. If you’re watching this and thinking, “I wish that could be me,” pause there. That thought tends to show up right before someone realises the real issue isn’t effort, it’s doing this by yourself. Be honest with yourself. Do you know what to do, but struggle to stay consistent without support?

Let’s rate these for PCOS weight loss honestly… 🥣 Cereal 🥗 Salad as a whole meal 🥤 Protein shake 🍔 Burger bowl Most women with PCOS aren’t overeating. They’re under-eating the right foods and then wondering why cravings take over later. Some of these look healthy. One of them actually makes the rest of the day easier. There’s no prize for choosing the hardest option. There is a payoff for choosing the one you can stick to. 👇 Which one surprised you the most? Or comment the one you eat most often and I’ll tell you how to make it work better. #pcos #pcosdiet

Facial and body hair is one of the most emotionally exhausting PCOS symptoms, and it’s rarely talked about in a way that actually reflects how it feels to live with. Not just “ugh, that’s annoying.” But the daily checking in the mirror, planning hair removal around your life, feeling hyper aware if somebody is looking at you. Wondering if other people notice it before you do. For a lot of women with PCOS, no one ever really explains why this happens. You’re usually handed cosmetic fixes: Laser, waxing or shaving tips. And the quiet message underneath it all is to just manage it and accept that this is your normal. What often gets missed is what’s actually driving it. Excess facial and body hair in PCOS is linked to elevated androgens, especially testosterone. And those androgens don’t rise for no reason. They’re often being pushed up by things like insulin resistance, ongoing stress on the body, inflammation, and ovulation not happening regularly. So when the plan only focuses on removing the hair, without addressing what’s fueling it underneath, nothing really changes long term.. The hair grows back, the frustration builds, and your confidence slowly takes another hit. When those deeper drivers are actually accounted for, that’s when things start to feel different. 🍽️ Improving blood sugar & insulin through food. 🏋️ Training in a way that doesn’t constantly spike stress hormones. 🔁 Building consistency instead of swinging between extremes. 💊 Specific and individual supplement plan. That’s when women often notice slower regrowth, finer hair, needing to remove it less often, and a quiet sense of relief they didn’t expect to feel. And if facial or body hair has been one of the things slowly draining you, that doesn’t make you vain or dramatic. It makes you human. Most women were never given a plan that truly accounted for this. Original video: everycl0ud on TT 🤝

These supplement combos are used because they support how you feel, not just your blood tests. When supplements are paired properly, the goal isn’t “fixing” everything overnight. It’s helping your body work a little more smoothly day to day. Here’s what women usually notice when these are used consistently 👇 ✨ Daily support: Used to help with energy, mood, sleep quality, cravings, and that constant “wired but tired” feeling. 🔥 Weight-loss support: Commonly used alongside food and movement to help with appetite control, energy levels, and making fat loss feel less like an uphill battle. 🌿 Skin & facial hair support: Often chosen to support clearer skin over time and help slow down unwanted hair growth, especially when hormones feel out of whack. The biggest benefit? Feeling like your body is finally responding instead of constantly fighting you. Supplements don’t replace food or habits. They just make everything feel more doable. Which one do you struggle with the most right now? 💬 #pcos #pcosawareness

Most women with PCOS don’t fail because they’re eating “bad food.” They fail because they keep choosing the harder option and calling it discipline. 🍞 Cereal feels easy, but you’re hungry again by 10am. 🥣 Oats are better, but some days they still don’t hold you. 🍳 Eggs with toast actually keep you full, steady, and thinking about food less. Same thing at lunch 👇 🥡 Take-away feels convenient, but it drains your energy. 🥤 A protein shake helps in a pinch, but it’s not a real meal. 🌯 A chicken wrap gives you protein, carbs, and something you can actually sustain. And dinner is where this really shows up 🌙 🚫 Skipping feels “good” in the moment. 🥗 A salad feels responsible. 🍔 A proper meal, like a burger bowl, is what stops night cravings and the start-again-tomorrow cycle. PCOS weight loss isn’t about being stricter. It’s about choosing the option that makes the rest of the day easier.

Living with PCOS often feels like you’re putting in more effort than everyone else, but getting less back. You genuinely try 👉 You don’t live on junk 👉 You make an effort most days. Yet your energy still crashes, your weight won’t move, and your cravings feel louder than they should. And over time, it starts to mess with your head 😔 You begin to wonder if you just lack discipline. If maybe your body is different in a way that can’t be fixed. But PCOS isn’t a motivation problem. It’s a hormone problem. Most women with PCOS are dealing with underlying insulin resistance, which means their body reacts differently to everyday foods. Not dramatically overnight, but quietly, in ways that compound over time. That’s why small food swaps matter more than people realise. Not because cereal, juice, or bread are “bad foods.” But because in a PCOS body, some choices make blood sugar and insulin harder to control without you even noticing in the moment. And when insulin is unstable, everything becomes harder. Fat loss slows 👉 Cravings intensify 👉 Energy crashes 👉 Hormones stay stuck. It starts to feel like you’re pushing a boulder uphill every single day. This is why so many women with PCOS don’t fail because they quit. They fail because they’ve been given generic advice for a hormonal condition. They’re trying to solve a biological problem with willpower. And that’s an unfair fight. Real progress with PCOS starts when your plan finally matches your physiology. When your food, training, and structure are built for your body, not a textbook body. That’s when things begin to feel easier instead of harder 🤍 #pcos

Berberine gets talked about a lot in PCOS spaces. Some women feel better on it almost immediately. Others try it once and feel awful. That gap usually isn’t because berberine “doesn’t work.” It’s because no one explains how to take it properly with PCOS. If insulin resistance is part of your picture, berberine can be a genuinely helpful tool. But dose, timing, and consistency matter more than most people realise. Taking it with meals matters. Starting low matters. Splitting doses matters. Where people run into trouble is taking it on an empty stomach, jumping straight to high doses, or assuming more will work faster. That’s when side effects show up and berberine gets written off too early. Used correctly, it can support appetite control, blood sugar stability, and energy across the day. Used incorrectly, it just feels like another thing that “didn’t work.” If you’ve tried berberine before and weren’t sure whether it was helping or hurting, that’s a sign you didn’t get enough guidance, not that it’s the wrong tool for you. #pcos #berberine

One of the hardest parts about having PCOS isn’t just the symptoms. It’s the constant confusion around food. One week you’re told oats are amazing for hormones.The next week they’re apparently “basically sugar.” So you try to do the right thing, but you end up second-guessing every meal. Sitting there wondering if the banana in your smoothie is secretly the reason nothing is working. Or if the potatoes you had with dinner just “ruined your progress.” That mental load alone is exhausting 😔 And it slowly creates this belief that your body is the problem. That you’re somehow different, broken, or incapable of getting results. But the truth is, PCOS doesn’t respond to food rules. It responds to context. The same food can help one woman and hold back another, depending on her insulin sensitivity, stress levels, sleep, training, and hormones at that point in time. That’s why real life never matches the black-and-white advice online. Take the foods in this post for example 👇 Oats at 6.5/10 isn’t because oats are “bad.” It’s because for some women they stabilise energy beautifully, and for others they quietly trigger cravings if blood sugar isn’t under control yet. Bananas at 6/10 aren’t the enemy either 🍌 They’re just not neutral. They can be helpful in the right meals, and unhelpful when eaten alone. Eggs at 9/10 aren’t popular because they’re trendy. They’re powerful because they support blood sugar control and ovulation hormones in a way most PCOS bodies genuinely benefit from. Dairy at 5/10 isn’t evil 🥛 But for many women it quietly worsens acne, inflammation, or hormonal symptoms, even when everything else looks “perfect.” And potatoes at 7/10 shock people the most 🥔 Not because they’re magic, but because diet culture scared us away from foods that were never the real problem. This is why so many women with PCOS feel like they’ve tried everything and nothing sticks.. Because they’ve been given generic rules instead of a personalised strategy. You don’t need another list of “good” and “bad” foods. You need to understand how your body responds, and have someone adjusting your plan as your hormones change. That’s the difference between constantly starting over and finally building momentum. And that’s exactly what NOVUM is built around. Because PCOS doesn’t improve through information alone. It improves when someone is guiding you, holding you accountable, and making the right changes at the right time. If you’ve been doing everything “right” and still not getting traction, it’s not because you’ve failed. It’s because no one has ever truly personalised this for you 🤍 And that changes everything.

The ‘PCOS body type’ is a real thing. That lower-abdominal weight gain isn’t random. It’s not because you’re lazy, undisciplined, or doing something wrong. What people call a “PCOS belly” is usually the result of insulin resistance, stress hormones, and inflammation pushing fat storage to one very specific place. You can train hard, eat “well”, and still feel like your body refuses to respond. This is where so many women start blaming themselves. Or worse, they start doing more of the things that actually make it harder. ❌ Less food. ❌ More cardio. ❌ More stress. The problem isn’t effort. It’s that no one ever showed you how to work with a PCOS body instead of fighting it. In NOVUM, we don’t just tell you what to eat or how to train. We guide you through stabilising insulin, reducing the stress load on your body, and creating consistency that actually changes how your body responds over time. 📈 Not overnight. 📈 Not perfectly. 📈 But in a way that finally feels sustainable. If you’ve been staring at your stomach thinking, “Why won’t my body shift like everyone else’s?”, this is your reminder that your body isn’t the problem. It just needs the right structure and accountability. Comment BELLY if this is something you’ve struggled with and want real guidance, not another thing to try. #pcos #pcosbelly #pcosproblems

Inositol is so bloody good for PCOS, and honestly, there’s a reason it gets talked about so much. A lot of PCOS symptoms feel random. The weight that won’t budge. The constant cravings. Energy crashes. Irregular periods. Skin flaring up for no clear reason. It can feel like your body is working against you. For many women with PCOS, all of that is connected. Inositol helps your body use insulin better. And when insulin isn’t doing its job properly, it can make everything harder. Your body stores fat more easily, cravings feel out of control, energy dips, and hormones get messier than they need to be. When insulin starts working more smoothly, things often feel calmer. Appetite feels more manageable. Energy is more steady. Weight loss doesn’t feel like such an uphill battle. Cycles can start to feel more predictable. Not because inositol is “fixing” each symptom one by one, but because it’s helping the body work the way it’s meant to. That’s why so many women notice changes across multiple areas at once. Not overnight. Not magically. But in a way that actually feels sustainable. Inositol isn’t about forcing your body into change. It’s about supporting it so it doesn’t have to fight you all the time. And when that happens, PCOS stops feeling quite so overwhelming.

If you have PCOS and weight loss feels confusing, this is why 👇 Most women with PCOS aren’t failing because they’re lazy or they give up too early. They’re usually doing the right things, just in the wrong order. HIIT when done wrong or too often can be “bad”… it’s not the best place to start. Cereal isn’t “evil”… but it's going to spike your blood sugar & insulin. Coffee isn’t the enemy… When you drink it matters more than people realise. PCOS weight loss isn’t about extremes. It’s about doing the basics properly so your body actually responds. This is the difference between: trying everything and nothing sticks vs doing the right things, consistently, in the right order. And it’s exactly why generic weight loss advice so often fails women with PCOS. I’m curious, Which one surprised you the most? (And if you’ve been doing all the “right” things but still feel stuck, it’s usually not more effort you need, it’s better guidance and support.) #pcos #pcosawareness #pcosjourney

Facial hair is one of the most emotionally draining PCOS symptoms, and it’s barely talked about properly. Not in a “yeah that’s annoying” way. But in the way it actually affects you. Checking your chin in the mirror every morning. Planning hair removal around your life. Feeling embarrassed in bright lighting. Wondering if other people notice it before you do. Most women with PCOS are never told why this happens, let alone how to actually improve it. They’re handed laser referrals, hair removal tips, or told to just manage it cosmetically and accept it as part of PCOS. Here’s the part that gets missed. Facial hair in PCOS is driven by elevated androgens, especially testosterone. And those androgens don’t rise randomly. They’re usually being pushed up by deeper drivers like insulin resistance, chronic stress on the body, inflammation, and disrupted ovulation. So when the plan only focuses on surface-level fixes, nothing really changes long term. The hair keeps coming back. The frustration builds. Confidence slowly erodes. When you actually incorporate androgen management into your plan, everything shifts. Nutrition that supports insulin sensitivity. Training that doesn’t overstimulate stress hormones. Lifestyle structure that helps calm the systems feeding androgen production. Consistency, not extremes. That’s when women start noticing slower regrowth, finer hair, less frequent removal, and eventually a sense of relief that they didn’t think was possible. This isn’t about quick fixes. It’s about finally addressing the reason the symptom exists. If facial hair has been one of the things quietly draining you, it’s not vain, dramatic, or silly. It’s real. And when your plan actually accounts for it, the improvements can genuinely be life changing. #pcos #pcosproblems #pcosfacialhair

NOW OPEN. Starts Monday. This isn’t another plan to save and never follow. Most women who join already know what to eat and what workouts they should be doing. That’s not the problem. The problem is doing it consistently when life gets busy, motivation drops, or PCOS makes progress feel slow. That’s why this challenge exists. For 8 weeks, you’re not figuring this out alone. You’re being guided, checked in on, and coached through the messy middle, not just the first week. We had over 1,200 women on the waitlist, but we’re keeping numbers small so we can actually coach properly. If you’re done starting over and want the next 8 weeks to be different, come join up 🙋‍♂️ #pcosweightloss #pcos