Marcelle Pick explains why eating less and exercising more doesn't always work: insulin resistance. When cells stop responding to insulin from chronic blood-sugar spikes, stress, and poor sleep, your body produces more insulin, which acts as a fat-storage hormone and blocks fat release. A calorie deficit won't help if insulin stays high.
You're eating less and moving more and the scale won't move. Here's the hormone your doctor probably never checked. If you're doing everything right and still stuck, insulin resistance is the first thing I look at. Here's the short version. Insulin's job is to move sugar out of your blood and into your cells for energy. When your cells stop responding to it from years of blood sugar spikes, stress, poor sleep, or hormonal shifts like perimenopause, your body has to pump out more and more Insulin to do the same job. And insulin has a nickname in my world, the fat storage hormone. High insulin literally tells your body to store fat, especially around the belly, and blocks it from releasing fat for fuel. So you can be eating in a deficit and still not lose weight because your hormones are working against you, not with you. The good news is this is measurable and it's reversible. It's not about eating less, it's about eating in a way that actually lowers your insulin level. If you felt stuck no matter what you've tried, this might be why. Link in the description to book a consult and we'll look at your actual numbers for free.
