All right, buckle up because this one is a little bit of a long one.

So here we go.

I spent three years doing everything right and gaining weight anyway.

Turns out my thyroid was barely functioning and my cortisol was completely backwards.

Once we fixed that, everything fell into place.

Before pop, I was eating 1 eating 1200 calories a day i was working

out five to six days a week i was drinking all the water i was tracking every bite and i was gaining

weight i was gaining about two to three pounds every month i'd wake up at three a m every night wide

awake heart racing dragged myself out of bed at six and felt like i hadn't slept at all

by 2 p m i'd crash so hard i could barely keep my eyes open at my desk i was puffy bloated my rings

didn't fit and my face looked swollen in every photo i kept thinking what's wrong with me why can't i

just have more discipline went to my doctor who ran labs, told me that everything was normal, you're just getting older.

Try eating less and moving more. But I was already eating less. I was already moving more.

And it was just making everything worse. I felt like I was screaming into a void. Nobody was listening. Nobody understood me.

I genuinely thought this is just who I am. My body's broken.

There's nothing I can do about it. Since working with pop, I found out after we ran some labs

and everything made sense that my free T3 was in the gutter, even though my TSA came back normal.

My cortisol was flatlined in the morning and spiking at night, which is why I was waking

up at 3 a.m.

My progesterone was basically zero, perimenopause that nobody had bothered to check.

My fasting insulin was elevated, which was showing signs of insulin resistance.

I wasn't lazy.

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