Ironic that in my last post - which was quite awhile ago - that I mentioned that my metabolism sucked. Turns out that it's an actual medical diagnosis. Sucky Metabolism. Well, that's not the real term for it. But essentially my metabolism is completely and utterly broken. So for those of you wondering "how can she only be eating 1200 calories, working out 2+ hours a day and still not being losing copious amounts of weight???" WELL - the answer is because my body won't let me. It thinks I'm anorexic. Like seriously underweight. Which I'm seriously not. I'm also hypoglycemic and my blood sugar plumets when I eat (like below 50) and my insulin soars. Both of those events send signals to my brain that I'm "starving" and need to eat immediately. So what I thought was a completely lack of self control (WHY am I hungry - I Just ate???!) was actually my body screaming at me to eat. I've learned a lot over the last year about lept
I do crazy stuff. And blog about it here. I mean not SUPER crazy. But definitely not on the bell curve of normal. I'm an overweight middle aged woman who refuses to let either one of those limit her.