Is This You? It is Definitely Me!

"Do You struggle with Cravings, Low blood sugar or Hypoglycemia? - Do you Skip meals or breakfast? - Do you get Hungry between meals? - Do you eat more than two hours after waking up in the morning? - Are you irritable or moody if meals are delayed? - Do you get sleepy or energized after a meal? - Do you get shaky or lightheaded if you don’t eat every couple of hours? - Do you deal with mid-morning or afternoon slumps? - Do you wake up in the middle of the night and can’t fall back asleep? - Do you drink coffee, soft drinks, or energy drinks to keep you going? - Are you using stimulants such as ephedra, ma huang, guarana, kola, bitter oranges? - Do you regularly eat processed, refined, fast food? - Do you wait more than an hour to eat after a workout? - Are you under lots of stress or adrenal fatigue?"

Oh my goodness! YES! YES! YES! This was SO ME!

I just read an article, Test Your Metabolism, this article describes everything I've struggled with and the reasons why.  

"If you answered “Yes” to more than a couple of these questions I would suspect you’re predominately burning carbs and proteins instead of stored body fats. In essence your body isn’t functioning the way God designed it. You are always going to have a difficult time losing weight and “keeping it off”. There are other possible health challenges too.

A huge misconception about losing weight and revving up your metabolism is to think that all those calories you are burning are coming from the breakdown of stored body fats. That’s not the case. You can burn calories all day long, but if you are burning carbs and proteins you are going to always struggle with fatigue, weight gain, cravings, mood swings and other hormonal imbalances."

This is the best explanation to date as to why I workout for hours and nothing changed.  This validates more than anything the changes my Dr suggested I make. Its added motivation that now the time I spend working out will not be a waste of my time.

A few updates. The pages are not pretty, but as I find links to good articles, recipes, etc... that I don't necessarily feel I need to post I am going to add it to a separate page. You can find the link to this page, Health and Diet Changes on the right-side column under Pages.

I would also enjoy some feedback. Tell me your struggles, what is working for you or not working for you? Ideas are very welcome. Comments are welcome!

Happy New Year!