I am trying something different…… something a little scary, mostly because it costs so blasted much that there is pressure for it to succeed.
My chiropractor offers metabolic testing for $300 or $350 or so. They test your blood and urine for markers that tell them what you are lacking. Then they sell you the supplements that will fix it. The supplements cost way more than I expected and I am still reeling from price shock, but I did it.
They told me several things. For one, I am not eating enough and have depressed my metabolism.
Unfortunately, even if I were eating enough to get my metabolism out of starvation mode, my body couldn’t use it. I cannot metabolize fats. Any fats I eat are stored as fat. I do not properly metabolize protein. It is sent to the wrong place for processing and not used as energy. I do not even process carbohydrates all that well. I am missing nutrients needed to do these things and I cannot get them from my food because I cannot process what I eat. It’s a vicious circle. This makes my low metabolism problem even worse because there is nothing I can do to boost my metabolism. Eating more and better isn’t going to do it and neither is exercise.
The good news is that they can give me (sell me) mass quantities of supplements which will, in the next few months, correct this problem by supplying my body with the nutrients I need to digest my food and get my body functioning like it should.
(I just thought, if my body cannot metabolize the nutrients in my food, how is it going to metabolize the supplements? I will have to ask.)
In a way it makes me feel better, knowing that there really isn’t much I could have been doing to lose weight. It takes away some guilt. It also makes me frustrated with myself that in the past I apparently ate so poorly that this situation developed. Of course, it wasn’t just eating…. stress enters in…
So, I find myself wanting to talk about it…… wanting to write about it. They tell me I will begin to have more energy in about 2 weeks. In a month I will have less joint pain. They tell me I will begin to get up in the morning and want to do something. It has been a long time since I have gotten up in the morning and really felt like doing something. It takes me a long time to wake up usually, and usually I go back to bed a couple of times before I make it to fully awake. If I push through the sleepiness, which I can do if there is something interesting going on, I can only do it for 2 or 3 days, and then I crash. It will be so nice not to have that. I love to sleep; I really do. But I hate never getting anything done.
Anyway, I am supposed to do this supplement regime for 3 months and then be retested and have them readjusted. Hopefully, at that time I won’t need most of them. They tell me most people don’t need to continue them, that I’ll need omega 3 and Vitamin D and I think there was a third one, but that’s all.
Three months. That’s Thanksgiving. I guess we’ll see.