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A person can be insulin resistant long before developing Diabetes. Insulin Resistance has classic symptoms, including glucose being converted and deposited as fat around the belly. This belly fat is extremely hard to shed with exercise.

Women with PCOS are also at risk for belly fat and being insulin resistance.

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