Insulin Resistance

If you feel like your body is fighting you, this might be why. So many women tell me the same story….they’re eating better than ever, they’re trying to be consistent and they’re doing what they’ve been told.

Yet still… the scale barely moves, cravings are loud, energy is all over the place, and belly fat will not budge. That’s not a character flaw or you not trying hard enough, It’s usually insulin resistance.

Insulin Is Not the Enemy

Let’s clear something up first, insulin is not bad and It’s not the villain. Insulin is a life-saving hormone that moves fuel from your bloodstream into your cells so you can use it for energy and without insulin, you would not survive.

The problem is not insulin, the problem is insulin resistance. Insulin works like a key, and your cells are the door. When you’re insulin sensitive, the key fits, the door opens and glucose goes in and your body uses fuel the way it’s supposed to.

When you’re insulin resistant, that door is locked. Insulin keeps knocking, but the cells don’t respond so glucose stays in your blood, fat stays stored, inflammation rises, and weight loss becomes incredibly hard.

This isn’t about you not having enough willpower or discipline, it’s literally biology.

How Your Eating Patterns Create Insulin Resistance

This is where your relationship with food matters more than any diet plan. Every time you eat, insulin rises and that’s normal, but when you snack all day, graze, emotionally eat, or live on “just a little bit” of sugar over and over, insulin never gets a chance to come down. It stays elevated and basically your cells get numb to it.

That is called insulin resistance and if you struggle with binge eating, sugar addiction, or using food to cope, this process gets pushed into overdrive. You’re not weak, you’re abducted and your system has been overstimulated for years.

Common Signs of Insulin Resistance

Your body leaves clues long before a doctor calls it diabetes.

Some of the most common signs are:

• Stubborn belly fat

• Skin tags on the neck or underarms

• Darkened patches of skin

• Constant hunger or cravings

• Energy crashes after meals

• Difficulty losing fat

• Rising blood sugar or A1C

These aren’t random annoyances, they are signals that insulin is not working the way it should.

The Good News: This Can Be Reversed

Luckily Insulin resistance is not permanent. Your cells can become sensitive again, your metabolism can heal and it doesn’t require extreme dieting or punishment. It requires giving your body what it actually needs.

1. Move Your Muscles

Your muscles act like glucose sponges. When you use them, they pull sugar out of your blood with less insulin required and that’s a powerful thing.

You don’t need brutal workouts, you just need to walk after meals, strength train consistently and move your body in simple ways. Consistency beats intensity every time.

2. Give Insulin a Break

Insulin is meant to rise and fall, not stay high from morning to night.

That means stop the constant snacking, leave space between meals

and build meals around real animal protein and healthy fats.

This is why structured eating and food sobriety are so effective… because you’re not just changing habits, you’re changing hormones.

3. Protect Your Sleep and Stress

Sadly, this part often gets ignored, but it matters. Poor sleep raises cortisol, cortisol raises blood sugar, blood sugar pushes insulin higher.

Even a few rough nights can make your body more insulin resistant.

If you are exhausted and overwhelmed, your body will hold onto fat no matter how disciplined you try to be.

The Bottom Line

Insulin resistance is not a life sentence and when you unlock that door and let insulin do its job, everything changes. Fat loss becomes easier, cravings get quieter, inflammation drops, energy stabilizes and your body starts working with you instead of against you and all of this is directly tied to how you eat and how often you eat.

Healing your relationship with food is not just emotional work, it is metabolic work.

If you’re tired of fighting your body and ready to understand what’s really going on, you’re in the right place.