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A balanced, nutritious, whole food, low-glycaemic diet can have the most positive effect on women with PCOS,⁴ easing their symptoms and reducing the long-term health risks, so here’s the simplest way to get it.

Be sure to give yourself time to adjust to the PCOS diet. If you’re used to eating in a certain way, it will take time to re-educate your taste buds. A whole new diet introduced all at once could also shock your system and trigger fatigue, headaches and stomach upsets. It’s much better to make gradual changes and to train your palate and your digestion slowly. It takes most people about three to four months to adjust to a new eating plan, and that’s what we recommend.

Each of the ten changes will make a huge difference and encourage you to make even more. From our own personal experience and from talking to other women with PCOS, the order in which we have listed our plan makes for the easiest way to start incorporating the stages into your life. Try each change and stick with it for a couple of days or weeks, or however long you need to feel comfortable with it before moving on to the next one.

Think of the changes not as rules but as guidelines for a lifetime of healthy eating that you can use to ensure your body gets all the nutrients it needs to beat your symptoms and boost the quality of your health and your life. The menu planners and meal ideas on pages 96–100 show that making changes doesn’t have to be complicated!