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@binarydigit it's so hard. I've always had a body that gets tired fast and ravenously hungry and I only ever gain weight without intervention - even when I'm super active it tends to just slowly gain.

I've reached my limit again and the tiredness is making me a worse mother so I've been bothering the endocrinologist to see whether I can be helped. We're fairly sure I'm somewhat insulin resistant.

Anyway solidarity because it sucks having to monitor intake.

@binarydigit it really is. Basically no one eats their way into high A1Cs or overweightness on purpose.

Either we're all stuck with no time to eat a healthy balanced diet, or all we can access or afford is high carb stuff, or sugar crashes and lows give us the jitters and brain fog and hangriness (it me).

I feel I have no time left to exercise for myself - the exercise I do get is riding kids to school or daycare, running after buses or trains, walking to office - not quite enough probably.

@sarajw Exactly right, no one eats their way into high A1C or obesity on purpose :(

@binarydigit shame so much of the messaging and advice assumes that people do.

Some bodies prefer to store the energy more than others, other bodies almost push it to the muscles.

We all know someone skinny as a rake who eats like a horse and is full of energy all the time - uncontrollable leg jiggles and such. It's totally unsurprising that the other end of the spectrum exists too, people who eat carefully and whose bodies like to pack away the energy.