Insulin Resistant?

I am going to be 30 next month, a number that quite honestly overwhelms me.  For as long as I can remember I was always told I was overweight, of course when I look back at my pictures I wasn't, but i believed that I was and turned to the very thing that was the culprit and became an emotional eater.

over the course of the last two years weird things have been happening to me: I developed anxiety, I couldn't lose weight despite all my efforts, my hair started thinning, my face broke out in worse acne than I had in high school, and a couple other things I won't mention in mixed company.

Turned out I have a condition called Insulin Resistance and it's the first step toward developing diabetes.  it's reason I couldn't lose weight, my body doesnt use it's insulin correctly and inject my cells with energy therefore I cannot burn fat and in turn takes the glucose in my blood and turns it to fat.

I have started on the low Gi diet at the beginning of this month and have lost 10 pounds already.  I have been working out fanatically but not in the obsessive way, just in the "lets get my butt in gear" way.

When I realized I had no choice and I can reverse the effects this condition has on me, it's been really easy to look past the cakes, candy, pies, french fries and dr. pepper's and not be tempted to eat them.  I look at them as numbers...calorie intake and then how minutes it will take for me to burn them off on the treadmill. That usually does the trick.

Take care and good luck on your path health.

I'm so happy you are now aware of a potential cause because that is half the battle in trying to solve the problem.  There are many articles on the net regarding insulin resistance.  i am hoping that you can find a way to improve your condition and lose the weight.  Don't give up!