This, I think, is a huge part of the problem regarding perception about PCOS. It's only the fat, ugly, balding, bearded ones who do this.  Those of us who have it and are at a healthy weight who manage and control our symptoms usually are the same ones who aren't overly vocal about it or vocal about it at all IRL. Why? Because I think we have real lives and aren't looking for excuses to just give up and eat ourselves to death. I'm really not trying to speak for anyone other than myself but to me anyway it seems like all females with PCOS we end up getting thrown into the same category as these cookie monsters and thus begins the misconception that all females with PCOS must have eaten their way into it. Ummm... no, no, no, no, no.  Seriously, my mother wanted to buy me all of this PCOS support bracelet, tshirt shit and I told her it would go straight in the garbage if she did. Wait, what? When did they get a PCOS support color ribbon or whatever you call it? This wasn't a thing when I was diagnosed. This wasn't a thing for a good decade after I was diagnosed as far as I am aware.  I don't want to be associated with those butterhuffers. My symptoms started at puberty. I didn't eat myself into it.  I stay away from the PCOS message boards and support sites because they are overrun with posts saying about what you would expect... "Oh my God, finally a reason that I can't lose weight". The vast majority on there are nothing but doom and gloom and self defeatist attitudes.  Hell, you want some good FPH material go find a PCOS  "support" forum on diet. I haven't been to one (for obvious reasons) in years now but I seriously doubt anything would have changed much (other than gotten even worse).