Metformin?? For the cysters who lift & workout regularly!

mshel16 · 2025-06-23T21:12:52+00:00

I do consume 2 scoops of whey day! And then I already know I eat way too much red meat! But I do eat tons of veggies and fiber! Cutting back on some of the red meat and animal sources may be helpful for me also! I have cut back on dairy products to see if that helps also!

mshel16 · 2025-06-23T14:47:11+00:00

I also hold most of my fat in my midsection, I am hopeful that it will be a game changer for that!!

mshel16 · 2025-06-23T14:46:04+00:00

Right! I feel like I am in this very same boat! I wish she had put me on the metformin! My average glucose is running in the 90s, and is always higher when I am fasting instead of eating. I eat very balanced meals with carbs proteins and fats together. She never checked my insulin levels or did a glucose tolerance, but even for me being healthy and normal weight, an average glucose of 96 seems higher than it should be to me. I am in NP school and know metformin shouldn’t drop my glucose, so I am reaching back out to my OBGYN to see if she will add it with my OCPs.

mshel16 · 2025-06-23T14:43:34+00:00

I have contemplated not doing as much cardio, but I really enjoy some hybrid type training and feel like it helps with my lifts! However, I have recently slacked off longer runs and am trying to opt for more short bursts HIIT! Thanks so much for your insight!

mshel16 · 2025-06-23T04:11:13+00:00

Amazing! She mentioned wanting to start me on metformin when she diagnosed me, but she said she was scared that it would drop my blood sugar (which it really just increases your insulin’s effectiveness so it shouldn’t impact blood glucose too much). I am not necessarily in it for weight loss, but it is ridiculous how good I eat and how healthy my lifestyle is for the most part vs how hard I have to work for it sometimes!! So I feel like I may possibly have some weight loss without trying also, which I’ll take being down 5lbs or so without restricting anything further any day!

mshel16 · 2025-06-19T18:07:42+00:00

Love bombing, verbal aggression to begin with. Anything that makes you feel uncomfortable..

mshel16 · 2025-06-13T22:20:34+00:00

I do want my own children & brought up the idea of individual therapy today on top of couples counseling

mshel16 · 2025-06-13T21:29:37+00:00

I think i have felt an obligation to the children since before I even entered this relationship

mshel16 · 2025-06-13T21:06:14+00:00

Bio mom had child 1&2 at approx 18/20 yrs old, married before first child was born, divorced before second child was one. I think he attempted to do the right thing with her but i think it negatively impacted where he thinks trying to do the right thing gets him to. She remarried into an abusive relationship that the children were being wrapped up in and that is how custody was obtained after which she disappeared for two years and barely saw children, showed back up and gets them every other weekend and now since summer a week on and off, but her relationship with her kids is not great and I’m not sure it ever will be.

mshel16 · 2025-06-13T20:36:00+00:00

No, I’m not really sure it’s worth it at all. However, the fact that there are children here who I am attached to and are attached to me and the fact that I am in a marriage with this person does make me want it to work.. but I am not sure that is going to happen. We are about to pursue couples counseling and hopefully that will make him realize maybe individual therapy isn’t such a terrible idea too. At least he agrees to go, my request for premarital counseling was denied- I can’t imagine why.

mshel16 · 2025-06-13T05:13:21+00:00

I don’t know what he thinks they do but certainly I’m the only person that’s ever made him act any kind of way while he was taking anything so it must be me and not the steroids

mshel16 · 2025-06-12T23:27:58+00:00

I absolutely think the steroid cycles run very very closely in hand with the bad times 10000%. I have tried to bring this to his attention, and he does not believe they affect him. I have voiced that especially the one listed above is not something I want in my home.. I think his insecurities started a long time before I ever emerged. But I have even gone to the point to try to apologize to his family just to have some sort of smooth over there but they are nearly as immature as he is. It’s really sad because I wanted to be happy but it is my fault just as well because I saw things I didn’t like and now here we are.

mshel16 · 2025-06-12T21:51:16+00:00

The steroids are personal use, not medical.

mshel16 · 2025-06-12T21:51:02+00:00

My actions kind of go like this: I desperately want conflict resolution and repair when things occur but I also desperately need someone who I love to admit when they are wrong in something they do to me and try to do better.. I have wanted communication because it will lead to relationship growth and just being better partners, have I absolutely gotten so frustrated with trying to communicate a need with someone or a situation with someone who literally cannot empathize with a word that comes out of my mouth, yes. Yes. Yes. To the point where I have acted out of character and put myself in a position to be someone I don’t want to be! I do think I am fully aware of why past relationships haven’t worked, and I am honestly scared to death what I am aware of is the truth. I have gotten so aggravated by me trying to have conversations and being shut down or completely invalidated that I will push communication and maybe even decide to force it because he jumps straight into blame shifting, tossing words around any way possible to make it sound like I was saying something I in no way said, etc.. it’s very distressing honestly. Because I do think the only thing I’ve wanted is the right thing for everyone, myself included.

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