How To Lose Your First 10 lbs With Insulin Resistance

"Feeling tired all the time? Craving sugary snacks? Struggling to lose weight, no matter what you try? If this sounds familiar, you might be dealing with insulin resistance.

Insulin resistance can make it difficult to manage your weight and energy levels. The good news is that with the right approach, you can take control of your health, boost your energy levels, and get the scale moving in the right direction again.

Let’s explore some practical tips and strategies that can help you lose your first 10 pounds, get your energy back, and feel better overall. Let’s get started!

Can I Lose Weight If I'm Insulin Resistant???

Have you recently been told you’re insulin resistant? If so you may be feeling scared and a little confused and overwhelmed.

I know that's how I felt. I had heard of insulin resistance but I had no clue what it was or what this meant for my life now.

My doctor wasn’t much help. She just said losing weight would help…ok, but how? She said well you can eat a little less and add some exercise - like I’d never tried that before….

So I went home wondering…what does this mean for my health? Does this mean I’m gonna be a diabetic soon? Does this mean I’m not ever gonna be able to lose weight?

Weight Loss, Insulin ResistanceKristen DuckettOctober 25, 2024insulin resistance, Weight loss, Blood sugarComment

3 Weight Loss Mistakes

Tell me has this ever happened to you?

You put on a pair of pants and all of a sudden they're tighter than usual...its a little harder to get that zipper up and that button buttoned - then you wonder how you're gonna be able to breathe the rest of the day...

Or stepped on the scale and the number didn't budge or even worse it went up?

I remember that feeling all too well...part of me just wanted to give up and go fuck it eat and the other half wanted to buckle down and get super strict to get the fucking weight off…

What I did know was I didn't want to go up another jeans size ...again!

Are Your Weight Loss Expectations Realistic?

The diet industry has really f@^&ed us up - setting us up for all kinds of unrealistic expectations when it comes to weight loss.

You can't stand in line at the grocery store, watch tv, or scroll through social media without being inundated with all kinds of promises like:

The Perfect Diet??

We all want the perfect diet.

We want someone to tell us exactly what to do, what to eat, how many calories we should have…

We think that’s the way we’ll be able to lose weight.

And you absolutely can lose weight that way. But the trick is being able to keep it off…

Weight Loss, Diet ProblemsKristen DuckettDecember 26, 2022Weight loss, Sustainable Weight Loss, Diets

Is Your Diet Getting In The Way Of Your Weight Loss Progress?

Never once did I consider that the diet could be the problem, or that it wasn’t realistic for me, or even if it was something I WANTED to do for the rest of my life.

Weight Loss, Diet ProblemsKristen DuckettOctober 17, 2022Diet Trauma, Stop Dieting, Diets Don't WorkComment

A Simple Way to Help Get Control Over Hunger and Cravings

Your first meal of the day, no matter what time it happens, does make a difference…especially when it comes to your hunger and cravings the rest of the day.

Hunger & Cravings, Weight LossKristen DuckettOctober 10, 2022Hunger, Cravings, Blood sugarComment

Don't Underestimate The Power Of Small Changes

We tend to discount the small changes that we make because we think: it’s not gonna be good enough, it’s gonna take too long, it’s not gonna make a difference…

How Comfortable Are You With Being Uncomfortable?

That's part of what makes weight loss so hard...you're making changes...changes to your diet...changes to your lifestyle...those are big ones.

That's gonna get uncomfortable sometimes. Your brain is gonna rebel, it's gonna want you to quit to keep you safe.

Why Your Diet May Be Making Weight Loss Harder

I work with a lot of women who, like me, have struggled with their weight for a long time.

And it's not for lack of trying. They are trying, in fact they’re working hard trying to do all the right things, eat healthy, exercise…but yet that damn scale still won’t budge!

More often than not, when we dive in and look at what they’re doing, what their diet looks like and their lifestyle it often turns out they’re eating too few calories

Are You Relying On The Scale To Measure Your Fat Loss?

Does stepping on the scale have the potential to make or break your day? If so, don’t do it (at least not everyday).

It's important to remember that the scale isn’t telling you the full story - it is a tool for measuring progress but it's not the only one - or even the best one.

Is your hunger the problem or the symptom?

What if your hunger and cravings aren’t the problem - what if they're actually the symptom?

When you’re overweight it's easy to think that the fact that you’re hungry all the time is the reason WHY you’re overweight - but what if the reason you’re overweight and the hunger and come from the same place…

Stop Doing This If You Want Lasting Weight Loss

One of the biggest mistakes that I see women make when it comes to weight loss is eating too few calories…somewhere we got this idea into our heads that we need to be eating 1200 calories or less to be able to lose weight. And quite frankly that's bullshit!

1200 calories/day on a regular basis is just too low for most adults (see chart here)

Yes, you can lose weight that way…temporarily…

8 Reasons you might be struggling to lose weight

Discover the 8 top reasons why you may not be losing weight or seeing the results that you hoped for.

Navigating The Holidays Without Going Off The Rails On Your Diet

But it really doesn’t have to be that way you can still enjoy the holidays without having all the wheels fall off.

It just takes slowing down a bit (another challenge this time of year?), a little mindfulness and thinking ahead. But you can still have your favorite treats without feeling like you have to dig yourself out of a hole come January 1st.

Hunger & Cravings, Weight LossKristen DuckettDecember 17, 2021Holidays, Stop Dieting, Sustainable Weight Loss

“It's really hard to lose weight when I’m hungry all the time!”

I know this struggle well, because this was me…

Not only was I hungry all the damn time but I also suffered from reactive hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) - so to avoid that I was told to eat often “to keep my blood sugar level”.

This made it really hard to lose weight…

Hunger & Cravings, Weight LossKristen DuckettDecember 15, 2021Hunger, Cravings, Weight loss, Blood sugar

Is it Really Worth Your Time To Count Calories?

After counting calories for years, well decades really, I guess…<sigh!> the one thing I DID know was that I didn’t wanna do it anymore!

Come to find out all that time I spent trying to do that was really a waste…no wonder it never seemed to work very well...

Weight LossKristen DuckettDecember 4, 2021Calories

The Magic Pill

We all want the magic pill that's gonna give us those quick and easy weight loss results.

But as good as that sounds, those things never really work….

Weight loss takes some effort - plain and simple - most things that are worth it do...

What Is The Best Diet For Weight Loss?

I’m often asked, what is the best diet for weight loss...

I obviously talk a lot about the keto diet but does that necessarily mean that I think everybody needs to be keto? No, I actually don’t think there is any one diet that is right for everyone.

I do think that in today's carb-heavy world that most of us would benefit from lowering our carb intake...but not everyone needs to take it to keto levels to see results.

When trying to find the diet that's right for you, it ultimately comes down to finding the way to eat that doesn’t feel like a diet.

Planning For Success, Weight LossKristen DuckettDecember 3, 2021Weight loss, Diet, Stop Dieting

Any Diet That Starts With Your Being Hungry Is Doomed To Fail

You want to lose weight so you do the usual things to try to make that happen which usually includes things like cutting calories and exercising more….

This might go ok for a little bit... sometimes a few months, other times a few weeks... sometimes you’re lucky if you can make it to noon.