48 hours without super sugar dense snack and my head is killing me
My gynecologist noticed that my insulin is pretty high in comparison to glucose, got 2.47 on HOMA-IR, will go to diabetologist but haven't gotten the appointment yet (insurance covered appointments to specialist in my country take forever). That was my score in December which also was when I was 16 pounds lighter so I imagine that my score is only worse.
I have a huge problem with gaining weight really fast and my cravings are crazy. Intuitive eating based of off my hunger cues leads to me putting on roughly 4 pounds a month.
Got really fed up with that, counted my BMR, ate yesterday at my maintenance - around 1950 kcal. The only exercise I'm doing now are fast walks since I'm also recovering from herniated disc and any attempts to workout more end up with a huge set back, severe back pain and numbness in my limbs.
Anyway, I feel like I'm driven crazy. I ate at maintenance, was so effing hungry last night, woke up super hungry and with a migraine. I've been snappy even since the morning, I just can feel so so horrible and I'm not dramatizing. Feeling like that has always prevented my weight loss cuz if any exam or whatever was approaching I could never let myself keep deficit calories at expense of failing something major in life but ever since I put on considerable amount of weight it has somehow gotten so much worse than ever. I just know it that eating a whole ass chocolate would make all these feelings go away but I won't, I can't do that myself. I am doing part of my menstrual cycle when my cravings are the weakest. Idk how I'm supposed to manage later and it's been literally just 48 hours.
I'm drinking a lot of water, a glass of electrolytes a day. Yesterday I ate 230g of carbs, 80g of proteins and 75g of fat which according to my calorie tracking app should be perfect carbs, a tid bit too little proteins and 12g too much of fat... Which shouldn't be all that major?
Anyway, is this insulin resistance thing? Do I need to wait for that appointment and be put on some meds? Is this sugar addiction and I need to power through first 3 weeks and hope for the best? Anything else?
I'm 26F, 29.7 BMI